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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinFebruary 20, 2017 0

The distribution of colors for plain M&M candies

Many introductory courses in probability and statistics encourage students to collect and analyze real data. A popular experiment in categorical data analysis is to give students a bag of M&M® candies and ask them to estimate the proportion of colors in the population from the sample data. In some classes,

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Analytics

Mike GillilandFebruary 17, 2017 0

Guest blogger Koen Knapen on Kalman Filtering and Kalman Smoothing

While The BFD normally favors a lighter approach, with a focus on forecasting process (the politics and personalities therein), forecasting news, and forecasting gossip, we sometimes have to get serious. In this guest blogger post from Koen Knapen, Principal Consultant at SAS Belgium, Koen takes us into the netherworlds of

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Analytics | Data for Good | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Rory MacKenzieFebruary 17, 2017 0

Modern investigations: It’s not like the movies

I’ve always loved watching crime series or films – from Homeland and True Detective to Sherlock Holmes. But after years of building software products and solutions designed to help security and law enforcement agencies solve crimes, I've noticed there are several clichés that need to be conquered by technology. No.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 16, 2017 0

Data wrangling - down the rabbit hole, and back again!

Are your friends passing around clever memes (supposedly) featuring something your favorite actor said, or sharing news articles that you think might be "fake news"? If there's even a hint of data analyst in you, then you probably check the actual data, and confirm or disprove the supposed facts yourself. I

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Contacto con gente real, una de las claves para Customer Experience

Gloria CaberoFebruary 14, 2017 0

Un amor de verdad: sin especulaciones ni falsas expectativas

En el día de San Valentín, el amor no siempre toca la puerta. Cuando esto ocurre en una organización del sector retail, resulta devastador: una tienda con mercancía ideal para la jornada —confitería, tarjetas, joyería, ropa y accesorios— que es ignorada por los enamorados. Una indiferencia que, en la industria

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Teri PatsilarasFebruary 14, 2017 0

Visualization Spotlight: Visual Analytics Designer 7.3 Word Cloud

In this post I wanted to shed some light on a visualization you may not be using enough: the Word Cloud. Word association exercises can often be a fun way to pass the time with friends, or it can trigger immediate action – just think of your email inbox and

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Analytics

Gloria CaberoFebruary 13, 2017 0

Cupido en los tiempos de la analítica

El amor, dicen los espíritus sensibles, no se puede colocar bajo un microscopio; dada su naturaleza emocional y profundamente humana, sería imposible examinarlo a partir de parámetros tradicionales. Aunque lo anterior debe ser cierto, la realidad es que el amor genera una gran gama de acciones que terminan por dejar

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 13, 2017 0

Purging inactive voter registrations in North Carolina

After the recent presidential election, I was updating my graphs of the voter registration data and noticed that the number of registered voters decreased after the election. At first I thought that was odd, but then I realized that maybe inactive voters were being purged. I wanted to find out

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Natan MeekersFebruary 13, 2017 0

Boost your analytics: The rise of the citizen data scientist

Are you struggling to hire talented data scientists to glean insights from your corporate data? There’s currently a lack of big data talent hampering corporate analytics and causing nightmares for CIO’s, but I have good news for you: You may already have all the data scientists you need! There are

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerFebruary 9, 2017 0

Visualized: US Currency in circulation, past and present

During my morning commute I heard an interesting news story on NPR's Morning Edition about the merits and risks of the $100 bill. Apparently there are a lot of them in circulation, but no one knows exactly where they are. According to the report, they are seldom used for legitimate

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Fraud Investigator

Stavros StavrinoudakisFebruary 9, 2017 0

A practical guide to tackle auto insurance fraud - Part 6: Fraud Investigator’s Interface

This is the sixth of the seven parts of blog post series “A practical guide to tackle auto insurance fraud”. In the first five articles of the series we drilled down to Data Management and Data Quality as the basis for fraud detection analytics, to Business Rules and Watch lists

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Superforecasting book cover

Mike GillilandFebruary 9, 2017 0

Show your forecasting skills in Good Judgment Open

Good Judgment® Open Ever wondered how good you are at forecasting? As a business forecaster, you can do the usual comparison against a naive model (and hopefully you are beating it!). You might also compare your forecast accuracy to published industry benchmarks -- although I would strongly recommend against this.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 9, 2017 0

Visualizing 100 years of US presidential pardons

A topic that's been in the news a lot lately is the presidential power to grant pardons, commutations, and such. But all the articles I've seen just quoted numeric totals - I haven't seen a graph of the data anywhere! So I set out to find the data and graph

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Analytics | Data for Good

Georgia MarianiFebruary 9, 2017 0

Third-grade reading proficiency is key to reversing the “skills gap”

How important is reading to the skills gap? It's crucial. Through third grade, children are learning to read. After that, they read to learn. That is why reading proficiently by the end of third grade is one of the most reliable predictors of future success for children. Students who develop

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Christian GoßlerFebruary 8, 2017 0

Ein Bolschewik im Internet of Toasters (IoT)

Spitzbart und misstrauische Augen, – als säße mir Lenin gegenüber. Der Vertriebskollege spricht begeistert über das Internet of Things: Von Vision, Disruption und Revolution ist die Rede. Lenin hört mit ablehnend verschränkten Armen zu. Ich denke daran, was der Vertriebskollege im Taxi erzählt hat:

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Analytics

Gloria CaberoFebruary 3, 2017 0

La analítica en el emparrillado

El próximo domingo, si los pronósticos de los expertos se cumplen, disfrutaremos de un juego espectacular: un duelo sin cuartel, entre Halcones de Atlanta y Patriotas de Nueva Inglaterra, para conseguir el mítico trofeo Vince Lombardi. En la National Football League (NFL), los equipos –y sus estructuras de negocio– ya

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Analytics

David PopeFebruary 3, 2017 0

3 attributes of an open and unified analytics environment

Having addressed the adaptability and power of an analytics environment in my last two posts, I thought I'd close out this mini-series of blogs by providing the business and technology implications of three attributes that need to define any truly open and unified analytics environment: Cohesion Business: The platform enables

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Analytics | Data Management

Torsten BeckFebruary 2, 2017 0

Data Preparation und Self-Service für Analytics, ich kann es nicht mehr hören!

„Die IT liefert nicht, der Fachbereich weiß nicht, was er heute oder morgen an Daten haben will“… Beide haben recht, ein Dilemma, das darin endet, dass Selbsthilfe betrieben wird. Der Informationshunger besteht weiterhin, und was nicht geliefert wird, besorgt man sich auf anderem Wege. Da wären: die SAP-Maske, Excel, Datenbank(en),

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

The Business Forecasting Deal Book

Mike GillilandFebruary 1, 2017 0

Automatic forecasting and FVA (Part 2 of 2)

To make it easy to identify non-value adding areas, you can build a simple application using SAS® Visual Analytics software. Such an application lets you point and click your way through the organization’s forecasting hierarchy, and at each point view performance of the Naïve, Manual, Statistical, and Automated forecasts (or

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Management

Miriam AudeloFebruary 1, 2017 0

¿Cómo enfrenta el CIO la Transformación Digital?

Definir las prioridades de negocio y gestionarlas con analítica conduce a un camino exitoso. Ante la transformación digital que viven las organizaciones de las diversas industrias del mercado, el CIO se convierte en ese agente de cambio que habilita el camino hacia la innovación y éxito de la organización. Cuestionarse

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Banking | Communications | Government | Insurance | Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Adele Sweetwood

Adele SweetwoodFebruary 1, 2017 0

Using chat transcripts to understand customer sentiment

Each day, the SAS Customer Contact Center participates in hundreds of interactions with customers, prospective customers, educators, students and the media. While the team responds to inbound calls, web forms, social media requests and emails, the live-chat sessions that occur on the corporate website make up the majority of these

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Analytics

Anita LakhotiaFebruary 1, 2017 0

Analytics-as-a-Service: agiler Ansatz für mehr Flexibilität im Tagesgeschäft

2017 stehen die Themen Big Data und Analytics immer noch ganz oben auf der Agenda. Doch Gott sei Dank ist die Diskussion nun einen Schritt weiter und dreht sich um die geschäftlichen Auswirkungen der Technologie. Wie kann der Einsatz von Analytics-as-a-Service den Umsatz erhöhen, Kosten reduzieren oder einen Wettbewerbsvorteil sichern?

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

The Business Forecasting Deal Book

Mike GillilandJanuary 31, 2017 0

Automatic forecasting and FVA (Part 1 of 2)

To properly evaluate (and improve) forecasting performance, we recommend our customers use a methodology called Forecast Value Added (FVA) analysis. FVA lets you identify forecasting process waste (activities that are failing to improve the forecast, or are even making it worse). The objective is to help the organization generate forecasts

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Gloria CaberoJanuary 31, 2017 0

Dele al cliente lo que necesita: la analítica le dice cómo

A diario, las empresas compiten aguerridamente entre sí para atraer nuevos clientes, conservar los que ya tienen y asegurar su lealtad por mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, no es una tarea fácil, especialmente cuando los consumidores están más conectados e informados que nunca y su entorno es cada vez más competitivo.

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Banking | Communications | Government | Insurance | Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Data for Good

Will JonesJanuary 31, 2017 0

How can data help the most vulnerable victims of human trafficking?

Did you know that January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month in the United States? If not, you may not know that researchers estimate that human trafficking is a global industry with revenues from $51 to $99 billion annually, up from $32 billion just a few years ago. In this case,

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Suneel GroverJanuary 27, 2017 0

Digital intelligence for optimizing customer engagement

Digital intelligence is a trending term in the space of digital marketing analytics that needs to be demystified. Let's begin by defining what a digital marketing analytics platform is: Digital marketing analytics platforms are technology applications used by customer intelligence ninjas to understand and improve consumer experiences. Prospecting, acquiring, and holding on

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Analytics | Data Management

Michael Herrmann

Michael HerrmannJanuary 27, 2017 0

Analytisches Aufspüren versteckter Gefahrenfelder: die EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung

Am 28. Januar war Europäischer Datenschutztag und ab sofort gilt dann verschärftes EU-Recht – so kommt es einem zumindest vor bei Gesprächen mit Datenschutz-Experten, bei ihrem Streben, die neue EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) zu bewältigen. Was ist schutzwürdig? Alles bekannt Personenbezogene, sowieso. Mehr aber noch das Unbekannte.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Students & Educators

Mike GillilandJanuary 26, 2017 0

Guest blogger Len Tashman previews Winter 2017 issue of Foresight

Preview of the Winter 2017 issue of Foresight Foresight begins the new year with our 44th issue since the journal began publishing in 2005, and in this Winter 2017 collection we’re showcasing a broad range of incisive and entertaining pieces. We’re looking at new research on the effectiveness of collaboration

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