Find out how analytics, from data mining to cognitive computing, is changing the way we do business
최근 양귀비 불법 재배와 연예인 마약 사건이 잇달아 발생하면서 국내에서는 멀게 느껴졌던 마약 범죄에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있습니다. 실제 관세청은 올해 상반기 마약 밀수가 전년 대비 2.6배 증가했으며, 밀수된 마약의 종류까지 다양해졌다고 발표했는데요. 국가는 이처럼 급증하는 마약 밀수를 차단하기 위해 조사 인력과 장비를 확충하고, 검색 기법을 적극 개발하겠다고 밝혔습니다. 이미
St. Louis Union Station welcomed its first passenger train on Sept. 2, 1894 at 1:45 pm and became one of the largest and busiest passenger rail terminals in the world. Back in those days, the North American railroads widely used a system called Timetable and Train Order Operation to establish
El ecosistema actual de marketing es más complejo que nunca, por lo tanto es imposible gestionarlo sirviéndose únicamente de la intuición. Los clientes son más exigentes y siempre están cambiando entre un creciente número de canales, la competencia sigue aumentando, los presupuestos se desploman y las decisiones tienen que tomarse
In the digital world where billions of customers are making trillions of visits on a multi-channel marketing environment, big data has drawn researchers’ attention all over the world. Customers leave behind a huge trail of data volumes in digital channels. It is becoming an extremely difficult task finding the right
In May, the New York Times published an article “The Little Known Statistician Who Taught Us to Measure Teachers” which profiled the life of Dr. Bill Sanders. The author reflected on Dr. Sanders’ life and work improving education for all students. For those of us in education, Dr. Sanders’ work
Editor-in-Chief Len Tashman's Preview The forecasting field is surely cross-disciplinary, as exemplified by the diverse membership of the International Institute of Forecasters (the publisher of this journal), but it is also multidimensional, as can be clearly seen in this Summer 2017 issue. The articles you’ll read here encompass sales and
Wo können Sie Ihr Können mit dem von anderen Experten vergleichen? Und in der Data Science Community über den Tellerrand blicken? Oder einfach ungezwungen programmieren - wie zu Studienzeiten - weil es Spaß macht? Zum Beispiel bei einem Hackathon. Mit Fabian Buchert, selbst Data Scientist, sprach ich über seine Erfahrungen beim
Phil Simon chimes in on the immediacy of enterprise data.
For the past several years, efforts have been under way to recruit more women into the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. I recently saw an interesting graph showing the percentage of bachelor's degrees conferred to women in the US, and I wondered if I could tweak that graph
Artificial intelligence promises to transform society on the scale of the industrial, technical, and digital revolutions before it. Machines that can sense, reason and act will accelerate solutions to large-scale problems in myriad of fields, including science, finance, medicine and education, augmenting human capability and helping us to go further,
Carbon Dioxide ... CO2. Humans breathe out 2.3 pounds of it per day. It's also produced when we burn organic materials & fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas). Plants use it for photosynthesis, which in turn produces oxygen. It is also a greenhouse gas, which many claim
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, many SAS customers who've been using our analytics capabilities for years or even decades are asking: What can we do with AI? What exactly is AI from a software perspective? How can we infuse cognitive computing into our customer interactions and on the customer
Contrario a lo que se podría pensar, el dinero público es finito. Y cuando los recursos y los presupuestos son limitados, se debe asegurar que éstos se destinen a los servicios que requieren los ciudadanos. De ahí que sea sumamente importante prevenir el fraude, los errores y el abuso que
In SAS Viya 3.2, SAS Visual Data Builder provides a mechanism for performing simple, self-service data preparation tasks for SAS Visual Analytics or other applications. SAS Visual Data Builder is NOT an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) or data quality tool. You may still need one of those tools to
Die (technologische) Veränderung kommt… und sie kommt schnell. Digitalisierung ist nicht mehr nur „in aller Munde“, sondern inzwischen in den Unternehmen angekommen. Das zeigte das SAS Forum Deutschland 2017, das am 29. Juni im World Conference Center in Bonn stattfand und das rund 1.200 Teilnehmer besuchten und etwa ebenso viele
La 3ª Convención Latinoamericana de Analítica de SAS se convirtió en el lugar en el que confluyeron las mejores historias de transformación basada en analítica. La gran conclusión de este evento, realizado en Bogotá y que contó con la participación de más de 300 C-Levels y expertos, es que los
For the fifteenth year, the International Institute of Forecasters, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce research grants for how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The award for the 2017-2018 year will be two $5,000 grants, in Business Applications and Methodology. Criteria for the award of
Wollten Sie schon immer mal an einem Ort leben, wo es kostenlosen öffentlichen Nahverkehr gibt, die höchste Dichte an Self-Made-Millionären herrscht, wo jedem Einwohner umgerechnet ca. fünf Golfplätze an Grünflächen zur Verfügung stehen oder es 84.274,6 km Fußgängerwege gibt? Willkommen in West Perth! Zumindest analytisch gesehen ist der kleine Stadtteil
Two of my colleagues have shared their experiences as a statistic and a child who could have been left behind. I too have my own story that helped drive my passion. All of us define equity in different ways. Equity is a concept that is hard to define, and we
For colleges and universities, awarding financial aid today requires sophisticated analysis. When higher education leaders ask, “How can we use financial aid to help meet our institutional goals?” they need to consider many scenarios to balance strategic enrollment goals, student need, and institutional finances in order to optimize yield and
In an IoT world, everything is connected. But what does it mean to be connected? Does it mean being plugged in to your phone, car, home, TV, favorite apps and retailers? Does it mean knowing what’s happening all around you? And having the “things” you’re connected to acting as recommender
In the fourth post of the 10 Commandments of Applied Econometrics series we discussed the issues of keeping the solutions sensibly simple and applying model validation. Today, I will present another commandment related to data mining techniques. Use data mining reasonably. In the econometric community, data mining is a controversial and highly emotional
Los usuarios empresariales dependen de la disponibilidad de los datos, que estos sean confiables y que estén fácilmente disponibles cuando se necesita. Sin embargo, con datos dispersos en sistemas dispares y volúmenes de datos que aumentan rápidamente, la integración de estos no es una tarea fácil. Ante tal escenario,
Helmut Plinke explains why modernizing your data management is essential to supporting your analytics platform.
A SAS customer asked how to use SAS to conduct a Z test for the equality of two proportions. He was directed to the SAS Usage Note "Testing the equality of two or more proportions from independent samples." The note says to "specify the CHISQ option in the TABLES statement
최근 금융, 통신, 자동차, 공공, 리테일, 교육 등 모든 산업을 관통하고 있는 한 단어가 있습니다. 바로 4차 산업혁명인데요. 빅데이터, 사물인터넷(IoT), 인공지능(머신러닝), 로봇 등 첨단 ICT 기술의 융합으로 완성되는 4차 산업혁명은 미래 산업의 필수 성장 동력으로 자리잡았습니다. 그 중에서도 특히 제조업은 이른바 ‘인더스트리 4.0’의 촉발과 함께 그 새로운 혁명의 시작을 알렸는데요.
When I arrived for a training course with the name, "Powerful storytelling for tech," I was surprised to discover that most of the attendees worked in sales, rather than the marketing and communications crowd I'd been expecting. They were all there to learn how best to engage prospects – how
Los servicios financieros se mueven hoy al ritmo de los clientes, es decir, van a todas partes, están siempre conectados y se enfrentan a los desafíos de un mundo sin fronteras. Como también sucede en otras industrias, las entidades financieras se benefician de los nuevos escenarios móviles pero saben que
We live in exciting times. Our relationships with machines, objects and things are quickly changing. Since mankind lived in caves, we have pushed our will into passive tools with our hands and our voices. Our mice and our keyboards do exactly as we tell them to, and devices like the
Choosing great colors for a graph is sometimes the most difficult part. And here is yet another thing you need to worry about ... sometimes colors represent different things in different cultures! In this blog post, I improve a graphic to help you get a grasp on those color-to-culture relationships.
