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Robert AllisonDecember 6, 2017 0

Some people might think it's an urban legend that SAS gives its employees free M&M's. Well, I'm here to tell you it's true! Every Wednesday at the Cary headquarters, a bucket of M&M's shows up in each of the break rooms. I'm only half-kidding in my suspicion that this is

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Manufacturing

Analytics | Data Visualization

Felix LiaoDecember 6, 2017 0

4 reasons to kick start your analytics journey with SAS Visual Analytics

Are you struggling to kick start your organization’s analytics journey, especially when it comes to leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning techniques? If the answer is yes then you’re definitely not alone. Whilst most organisations today recognise the benefit of analytics and data science, many are still struggling to kick

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Analytics

Bias in regression for mean-imputed explanatory variables

Rick WicklinDecember 6, 2017 0

3 problems with mean imputation

In a previous article, I showed how to use SAS to perform mean imputation. However, there are three problems with using mean-imputed variables in statistical analyses: Mean imputation reduces the variance of the imputed variables. Mean imputation shrinks standard errors, which invalidates most hypothesis tests and the calculation of confidence

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Analytics | Data Management | Fraud & Security Intelligence

David KennedyDecember 5, 2017 0

How law enforcement can use analytics to combat the opioid epidemic

A steady drumbeat of news coverage makes one thing clear: Opioid abuse is rising and has reached epidemic levels throughout our country. Overdoses from the diversion and abuse of prescription opioids are one cause of the surge in deaths. Overdoses from heroin and other illicit synthetic opioids (such as heroin,

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Government

Analytics

Cinco novedades en materia regulatoria que vienen para Colombia el próximo año

SAS ColombiaDecember 5, 2017 0

Cinco novedades en materia regulatoria que vienen para Colombia el próximo año

Para nadie es un secreto que los asuntos regulatorios estarán entre los temas que mayor atención demandarán en el sector empresarial en Colombia en 2018, pues con la entrada de nuevos jugadores en industrias clave de la economía, reglamentar su actividad es primordial y las soluciones analíticas y de

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Analytics

Mario Alberto ZamarripaDecember 4, 2017 0

La inteligencia artificial, ya no es ciencia ficción

En los años setenta el género se volvió muy relevante, se estrenaron filmes espectaculares, la televisión tocaba los temas tecnológicos, los programas de radio no se cansaban de reportear todo lo que producía la industria y, sobre todo, las personas comenzaron a expandir su mente. Cintas icónicas de la época

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Analytics

Iván LópezDecember 1, 2017 0

Del club al brexit: inicio de un gobierno digital

El divorcio comercial más hablado (brexit) tiene algunos conflictos de intereses por ambas partes, la Unión Europea trata de conseguir que Irlanda del Norte siga siendo un puerto de libre comercio y los británicos se niegan, no dejarán que su territorio quede fuera de sus manos. Tratar de aperturar esta

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Government

Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

SAS KoreaDecember 1, 2017 0

데이터 분석, 푸에르토리코 허리케인 재해 복구에 힘을 싣다

100년만의 최악의 허리케인, 푸에르토리코를 덮치다 지난 9월 20일, 북대서양과 카리브해 사이에 있는 미국 자치령 푸에르토리코(Puerto Rico)에 초강력 허리케인 마리아(Maria)가 상륙했습니다. 마리아는 시속 185마일(295㎞) 이상의 최고 단계인 5등급 허리케인으로 100년만의 최악의 피해를 남겼습니다. 더욱이 일명 괴물 허리케인이라고 불린 5등급 허리케인 어마(Irma)에 이어 단 2주만에 불어 닥친 재해로 340만 주민들은 엄청난 충격에

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Analytics

Greg HeidrickDecember 1, 2017 0

Fashion students learn about omnichannel merchandising and retail analytics

Until recently state-of-the-art for trade area analytics still meant analyzing historical store sales by location, together with some Nielsen market data to select merchandise assortments and allocation. Contrast that with the upcoming holiday season where retailers know where and how demand is initiated, and use that new understanding to create

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Retail

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Ariadna SolisNovember 30, 2017 0

El marketing en, ¿tiempo real?

Podemos remontarnos hace un poco más de cien años, con un personaje icónico en la historia de la física Albert Einstein, quien realizó la teoría de la relatividad tocando como principal fundamento: el tiempo. ¿Usted se ha preguntado qué es el tiempo? La mayoría contesta que es el transcurso de

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Retail

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 30, 2017 0

Let's analyze Trump's tweets

Since Trump became the US president, many people have noticed that he posts a lot of tweets. While some people choose to analyze and critique the content of those tweets, I was more curious about something a little less controversial - the timing and frequency. Follow along as I dig into

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Communications | Government

Analytics

David PopeNovember 30, 2017 0

Why SAS programmers love SAS, revisited

There are so many reasons why SAS programmers love SAS -- as a matter of fact, I wrote a blog on it back in 2012. I now realize that I could've written a whole series, not just a single post. And with the recent publishing of my first book, Big Data

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Analytics

Georgia MarianiNovember 29, 2017 0

Education Analytics: Why choose SAS as a partner

In this education analytics series of blog posts, we have been on a journey to learn how education customers are turning their data into insights to be a more data-informed and analytical organizations. In my first five posts in the education analytics blog series, we learned how education customers are using SAS,

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 29, 2017 0

When and where have they legalized 'it'?

Whether or not to legalize marijuana is a hotly debated topic these days. And no matter which side of the debate you're on, I think you will be interested in seeing several ways to visualize which states have legalized marijuana, and when ... Their Version Here's the original graph that

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Government | Health Care | Retail | Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 27, 2017 0

What's the most likely location for Amazon's HQ2?

The most highly anticipated business announcement this fall is probably the location for Amazon's second headquarters (dubbed HQ2). Amazon plans to spend $5 billion on their HQ2, and employ about 50,000 people in high-tech jobs. They received 238 proposals before their October 19 deadline, but haven't announced a winner yet.

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Retail

Analytics

Sandra HernandezNovember 27, 2017 0

2018, el año de la economía digital y analítica en Colombia

SAS, la empresa líder en soluciones de analítica y Big Data en el mundo, predice los escenarios en los que se moverán las empresas y los negocios el próximo año. La necesidad de avanzar más decididamente en sus procesos de transformación digital y de experimentar nuevas posibilidades sacándole mayor provecho a su

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Analytics | Internet of Things

GastbeitragNovember 24, 2017 0

Gastbeitrag von Timothy Chou: Keynote Speaker bei "IoT meets Analytics" in Würzburg am 6.12.

Vor zwölf Jahren habe ich in meinem Buch „The End of Software" die Frage diskutiert, ob und inwiefern Software eine Dienstleistung darstellen sollte. Auguren sahen in einem solchen Dienstleistungsgedanken das Ende von Software. Doch heute sind Cloud Services gang und gäbe. Software hat sich als Dienstleistung längst etabliert. Und? Was

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 22, 2017 0

Analysis of Thanksgiving side dish popularity

If you're preparing a big Thanksgiving dinner, then you don't want to leave out the most popular side dish, do you?!? But what is the most popular side dish? ... If you don't already know, then perhaps some data & analytics can help! But before we get started, here's a

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 21, 2017 0

How a data guy cooks a Thanksgiving dinner!

Here in the US, we're preparing to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Therefore this Thursday most families in the US will be having a big turkey dinner. Although I'm a bachelor guy and eat out all the time, I'm actually a pretty good cook - and I'd like to share with

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Retail | Sports & Entertainment

Analytics

Karen PrillwitzNovember 21, 2017 0

Industrie 4.0 – künstliche Intelligenz und maschinelles Lernen ODER Wie aus Enthusiasmus über Ernüchterung tatsächlicher Gewinn entsteht

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), maschinelles Lernen (ML) und Analytics erleben zurzeit einen wahren Boom. Geht es nach den Anbietern, gelangen Produktionsabteilungen mithilfe von Industrie 4.0 und Digitalisierung in ein neues, goldenes Zeitalter, in dem Maschinen „selbstlernend“ für Qualitätsverbesserungen und Kostenreduktion sorgen. Doch anfänglichem Enthusiasmus und ersten positiven Erkenntnissen folgt meist Ernüchterung,

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Manufacturing

Analytics

Suzanne ClaytonNovember 21, 2017 0

Analytics = brilliance

I recently spent two days with an innovative communications customer explaining exactly what SAS analytics can do to help them take their advertising platform to a whole new level. Media meets data resulting in addressable advertising. SAS would essentially be the brain behind all their advertising decisions, helping them ingest

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Communications

Analytics

Dan MitchellNovember 20, 2017 0

Effective retail planning requires precision and finesse

Just last week, Walmart announced that they'll be testing inventory management robots. These robots will cruise store aisles, scanning shelves to identify out-of-stock products and other issues. According Reuters, Walmart is testing these camera-equipped robots in a handful of stores, but plans to expand the test to 50 stores. We

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Retail

Analytics | Programming Tips

Beta-binomial distribution and expected values in SAS

Rick WicklinNovember 20, 2017 0

Simulate data from the beta-binomial distribution in SAS

This article shows how to simulate beta-binomial data in SAS and how to compute the density function (PDF). The beta-binomial distribution is a discrete compound distribution. The "binomial" part of the name means that the discrete random variable X follows a binomial distribution with parameters N (number of trials) and

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonNovember 17, 2017 0

Does your dashboard measure up?

Information Dashboards were the hot topic a few years ago, but the hype seems to have died down lately. A good dashboard is still a very useful way to summarize, analyze, and share data - so I thought I'd re-visit the topic, and try to improve an old dashboard. Did

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Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Data Management | Fraud & Security Intelligence

John StultzNovember 17, 2017 0

US government, analytics researchers step up fight against improper payments

Improper payments continue to plague the federal government, though many actions are in motion to help turn the tide. The Trump Administration’s Building a Better America: A Plan for Fiscal Responsibility, released in July 2017, emphasizes reducing improper payments, currently estimated by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to total

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Government

Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

SAS KoreaNovember 17, 2017 0

데이터 시각화를 이용한 ‘노벨상 수상자’ 관련 흥미로운 인사이트!

노벨상의 유래 매년 10월 초, 전 세계의 이목이 스웨덴과 노르웨이로 쏠립니다. 바로 세계에서 가장 권위 있는 시상식 '노벨상(The Nobel Prize)'이 열리기 때문인데요. 노벨상은 다이너마이트를 발명해 거대 재벌이 된 스웨덴 화학자 알프레드 노벨(Alfred Nobel)의 유언에 따라 그가 남긴 재산으로 노벨 재단을 설립하며 시작됐습니다. 최초의 노벨상은 1901년 물리학, 화학, 생리학 및 의학, 세계

Korean

Analytics

Sandra HernandezNovember 17, 2017 0

¿Cómo subirse a la tendencia de la economía analítica?

La economía analítica es una tendencia que evoluciona los procesos de transformación digital. De hecho, como parte de la agenda de países desarrollados en la que las organizaciones privadas y entidades públicas se diferencian, hace más eficientes sus labores y ayuda a alcanzar nuevos niveles de éxito con una combinación de gestión de

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Analytics

Miriam AudeloNovember 16, 2017 0

¿Conoce a SAS Viya?

Esta es una historia típica en la solución de problemas en las industrias de cualquier giro, con una solución que todos han escuchado, pero no lo aplican por falta de información. Hoy conocerá a SAS VIYA, el complemento perfecto que lo introducirá en un mundo completamente nuevo de analítica para

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Ben WrightNovember 16, 2017 0

Brother, can you spare a Healthcoin?

Blockchain technology and payment integrity in health care Blockchain technology has arrived in the health care space, bringing anticipation of revolutionary change in operational efficiency, data management, security, fraud prevention, disease prevention, and perhaps even in payments. While these are not new goals, I am ever the optimist. As almost

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Health Care

Analytics | Machine Learning

Thomas Bodenmüller-DodekNovember 16, 2017 0

Blogparade (#paradisefound) zum Projekt Paradise Found: Haben Sie Ihr Paradies gefunden?

Kultur- und Freizeitattraktionen, gutes Gastronomieangebot, Sicherheit und Infrastruktur, viel Grün – oder doch ganz einfach niedrige Lebenshaltungskosten? Für jeden definiert sich ein lebenswerter Ort ganz unterschiedlich. Statt Bauchgefühl hier Daten objektiv entscheiden zu lassen – das ist der Ansatz des Projektes „Paradise Found“, bei dem SAS Daten aus fast 150.000

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