Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeOctober 1, 2017 0

Getting started with SGPLOT - Part 8 - Horizontal HighLow Plot

On a recent visit to an In-House Users Group meeting at a Pharmaceutical company, I presented a 1/2 day seminar on creating Clinical Graphs using SG Procedures.  Polling the audience for their experience with these procedures indicated that many SAS users are not familiar with these new ways to create graphs. So,

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Banking | Communications | Education | Energy & Utilities | Government | Health Care | Hospitality | Insurance | Life Sciences | Manufacturing | Retail | Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiSeptember 29, 2017 0

Education analytics: The benefits of using data visualization and analytics

For our third installment in this blog post series, let’s continue our journey to learn more from three SAS education customers. Today, we'll hear about the benefits their users and institutions have received by using SAS for data visualization and analytics. In this post, you'll hear from: Linda Sullivan, Assistant Vice President

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Education

Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonSeptember 28, 2017 0

SAS and sports analytics (plotting kayak/SUP race results)

I recently paddled in a boat race, and was wondering how I did compared to all the other paddlers. And being a Graph Guy, I decided I should find a cool way to graph the data ... Here's some background information ... There's a great organization called Bridge II Sports

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Internet of Things

Randy GuardSeptember 28, 2017 0

Bringing intelligence to the Internet of Things

One of the best parts of my job is hearing about all the cool ways people are using data for good. Increasingly, many of these stories are related to the Internet of Things, including: Smart pills that help patients stick to their treatment regimens. These ingestible sensors can monitor patients’

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoSeptember 27, 2017 0

SAS Viya: What’s in it for me? The user.

If you’re in the field of analytics, you’ve undoubtedly heard about SAS Viya. Designed for all analytic professionals, regardless of skills or experience, SAS Viya seamlessly handles big, complex, diverse data. It also supports any programming language, allowing analysts to choose the tool that makes them most productive. Recently a colleague

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 27, 2017 0

Most popular international destination, from each US state

Orbitz recently published a map showing the most popular international travel destination for each of the 50 US states. It was an interesting map ... but of course, me being the Graph Guy, I had to pick it apart and create my own version. Follow along, and explore this interesting

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Travel

Analytics

Miriam AudeloSeptember 26, 2017 0

Pronosticar las demandas de efectivo de los cajeros automáticos

El banco DBS reduce un 80% las salidas de efectivo y  mejora la eficiencia del proceso 33%. El banco tenía más de 4 millones de consumidores en Singapur, lo más importante para ellos era que el cliente tuviera una gran experiencia en el banco, comparado a los demás, dijo David

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Banking

Analytics

Sandra HernandezSeptember 26, 2017 0

Analítica personal: un nuevo nivel de la analítica

Es una realidad. Según IDC el mercado mundial de Big Data Analytics está creciendo a un ritmo de 23,1 % cada año y llegará a casi 50 mil millones de dólares en el 2019. En la región latinoamericana la cultura analítica ya ha permeado de manera importante industrias como la

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Analytics | SAS Events

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunSeptember 26, 2017 0

‘SAS 애널리틱스 익스피리언스 2017 워싱턴’ 데이터 분석의 미래를 그리다

  링컨 기념관과 워싱턴 기념비부터 스미소니언 박물관까지, 워싱턴 DC는 미국의 역사를 관통하는 세계적인 랜드마크인데요. 지난 9월 18일부터 20일, 이 유서 깊은 도시에서 미래 데이터와 분석 혁신에 대한 뜨거운 논의가 펼쳐졌습니다. 바로 전 세계 수천여 명의 분석 전문가, 산업별 리더, 세계적인 석학, 기업 경영진 및 실무진들이 한자리에 모인 'SAS 애널리틱스 익스피리언스(Analytics Experience)

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Leo SadovySeptember 26, 2017 0

Will the IoT live up to the hype?

Will the IoT live up to the hype? Yes. A most resounding YES. In fact, it will exceed the hype, because we don't even know all the IoT possibilities yet. We don’t know what we don’t know, and that lack of imagination limits even our hype. Where we are with

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Suneel GroverSeptember 26, 2017 0

Algorithmic marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis [Part 3]

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog posting series, we discussed: Our current viewpoints on marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis in 2017. The selection criteria of the best measurement approach. Introduced our vision on handling marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis. We would like to conclude this

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Analytics

Sandra HernandezSeptember 26, 2017 0

Experimente sus nuevas posibilidades con analítica

Hacer un acercamiento a ciegas con un cliente, esperar meses para decidir lanzar o no un producto o gastar semanas e incontables horas hombre en levantar estadísticas que permitan identificar potenciales mejoras en productividad son historias selladas y enterradas. El mundo de los negocios se mueve hoy al ritmo de los

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Analytics | Risk Management

Hartmut KömmeSeptember 25, 2017 0

Risikomodellierung: ein Blick unter die Motorhaube

Modelle im Risikomanagement sind essenziell. Sie helfen uns dabei, das Risiko eines Unterfangens auf Basis weniger Einflussgrößen vorherzusagen. Die Kunst der Modellierung besteht nun darin, die wichtigsten Faktoren zu bestimmen und einen komplexen Zusammenhang vereinfacht so abzubilden, dass die Aussagekraft relevant ist. Das heißt, modellbasierte Prognosen sollen möglichst nahe an

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German

Banking

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 25, 2017 0

The 'virtual wall' along the US/Mexican border

Recent news reports indicate that the number of illegal immigrants apprehended along the US/Mexican border has dropped significantly since Trump took office. So, even though Trump hasn't had time to build a physical wall, perhaps there's a virtual wall in place now (built from the change in attitudes)? I've seen

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Government | Travel

Analytics

Anne-Lindsay BeallSeptember 25, 2017 0

How data is helping save the world’s most endangered mammals

When an extremely rare aye-aye lemur named Agatha was born undersized at the Duke Lemur Center earlier this year, there was immediate cause for concern. There are only 23 captive aye-ayes in the US, and the wild population is at “very high risk of extinction” according to the International Union for

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Thomas Bodenmüller-DodekSeptember 25, 2017 0

Blogparade: MyParadise Found – Finden Sie Ihr persönliches Paradies!

Blogparade startet: Vor Kurzem wurde ja bereits der analytisch beste Ort der Welt gefunden und gekürt. Dazu hat SAS aus fast 150.000 Orten in rund 200 Ländern jede Menge Daten gesammelt und mit modernsten Machine-Learning-Verfahren ausgewertet. Rund 100 sogenannte Prädiktoren, also mögliche Einflussgrößen auf „paradiesische“ Verhältnisse, spuckten West Perth aus

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 25, 2017 0

Simulate multivariate normal data in SAS by using PROC SIMNORMAL

My article about Fisher's transformation of the Pearson correlation contained a simulation. The simulation uses the RANDNORMAL function in SAS/IML software to simulate multivariate normal data. If you are a SAS programmer who does not have access to SAS/IML software, you can use the SIMNORMAL procedure in SAS/STAT software to

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert RufSeptember 22, 2017 0

#Schönwetterfahrer – oder was man im Urlaub über Datenvisualisierung lernen kann

Datenvisualisierung – Manchmal braucht man einfach extrinsische Motivationsfaktoren, um andere Wege zu gehen. Die Zweiradreisenden unter uns kennen und schätzen die besondere Art der Fortbewegung (ohne Blechdach) mit all ihren Vor- und Nachteilen. Eine begrenzte Gepäckkapazität, fehlende Klimatisierung, größere Unfallgefahr usw. sind Faktoren, mit denen man dabei leben muss. Was

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Analytics

Sandra HernandezSeptember 22, 2017 0

Analítica, machine learning, inteligencia artificial, computación cognitiva ¿Cuál es cuál?

Las vemos a diario en Twitter, nuestro feed de noticias en Facebook, en foros de LinkedIn o en los principales medios de negocios, tecnología y tendencias que consumimos. Todas son tecnologías capaces de transformar los negocios, la manera en que tomamos decisiones y varias de las más importantes actividades de

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Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Sandra HernandezSeptember 21, 2017 0

Analítica, el factor estrella en la ecuación de transformación del negocio bancario

84412925 - business team investment trading do this deal on a stock exchange. people working in the office. Caminar por la calle y que su celular le dé una notificación de alguna promoción especial de ese almacén que le gusta, que está solo a algunos pasos de usted y en

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Analytics | SAS Events

Anjelica CummingsSeptember 21, 2017 0

How 20 girls turned into 40,000 programmers

Reshma Saujani, of Girls Who Code, doesn’t have the background you’d expect for the person leading an organization whose mission is to inspire, educate and equip young women with computing skills to pursue 21st-century opportunities. She’s not a coder or computer science graduate, and she grew up terrified of math

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Jos van DongenSeptember 21, 2017 0

Dutch Data Science, part 2: Veneficus

The second part of this series takes us to Rotterdam, main port of Europe and the residence of Veneficus, a 10-year young and ambitious boutique analytics firm. They have already scored accolades in the Dutch FD Gazellen Award for fast growing companies. In addition, they also won a ‘Best Employer’

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Analytics

Rainer SterneckerSeptember 21, 2017 0

Data Preparation – das „Stiefkind“ im Datenmanagement?

Datenaufbereitung, Datenintegration, Datenqualität, Datensicherheit – all das hört sich nach Pflichtprogramm für die IT an und ist längst nicht so sexy wie Hype-Themen à la Data Science, Internet of Things oder Artificial Intelligence. Dass Datenmanagement im Businesskontext aber einen mindestens ebenso großen Stellenwert hat – sei es für die Optimierung

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Banking

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Sandra HernandezSeptember 21, 2017 0

Analítica, el factor estrella en la ecuación de transformación del negocio bancario

Caminar por la calle y que su celular le dé una notificación de alguna promoción especial de ese almacén que le gusta, que está solo a algunos pasos de usted y en el que utilizando la tarjeta de crédito de su banco puede comprar a cero interés, no es un

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonSeptember 20, 2017 0

Amusement park attendance (could Wikipedia be wrong?!?)

How do the North American amusement parks compare in popularity? If this question was to come up during a lunch discussion, I bet someone would pull out their smartphone and go to Wikipedia for the answer. But is Wikipedia the definitive answer - how can we tell if Wikipedia is wrong?

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinSeptember 20, 2017 0

Fisher's transformation of the correlation coefficient

Pearson's correlation measures the linear association between two variables. Because the correlation is bounded between [-1, 1], the sampling distribution for highly correlated variables is highly skewed. Even for bivariate normal data, the skewness makes it challenging to estimate confidence intervals for the correlation, to run one-sample hypothesis tests ("Is

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Analytics

Alison BolenSeptember 19, 2017 0

How Cleveland Clinic and Cox Automotive are transforming with analytics

Healthcare, like many industries, is in the midst of a paradigm shift, says Chris Donovan, Executive Director of Enterprise Information Management & Analytics for the Cleveland Clinic. "Historically, healthcare was really about intervention, and about taking care of you when you were sick and getting you better." That type of care

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Health Care

Analytics | Data for Good

Jill GressSeptember 19, 2017 0

Using data for good: It’s a matter of life and death

12 hours: That’s how quickly you can die from sepsis. Oh – you’ve never heard of sepsis?  Not surprising. More Americans have heard of Ebola, a nearly non-existent condition in the U.S., than sepsis – a condition that affects more than 1.6 million Americans every year. Sepsis is the body’s

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Health Care

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Customer Intelligence | Machine Learning

Malcolm LightbodySeptember 19, 2017 0

Algorithmic marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis [Part 2]

In Part 1 of this blog posting series, we discussed our current viewpoints on marketing attribution and conversion journey analysis in 2017. We concluded on a cliffhanger, and would like to return to our question of which attribution measurement method should we ultimately focus on. As with all difficult questions

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Analytics | SAS Events

Randy GuardSeptember 18, 2017 0

Analytics economy = data + analytics + collaboration

Have you heard the term “analytics economy” and wondered what it means? Or maybe you’ve wondered how your organization can use data and analytics to achieve economic gains. Now we have more than just data. We have accessible data, fueled by advances in compute power and connectivity, and interpreted by ever-more powerful

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