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Frederic ThysJune 23, 2017 0

AI in wonderland

To demonstrate the power of text mining and the insights it can uncover, I used SAS Text Mining technologies to extract the underlying key topics of the children's classic Alice in Wonderland. I want to show you what Alice in Wonderland can tell us about both human intelligence and artificial

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Analytics | Machine Learning | Risk Management

Carsten KrahJune 23, 2017 0

Machine Learning allein reicht nicht, der menschliche Verstand ist weiterhin gefragt

Science-Fiction-Autoren sind seit Langem fasziniert von der Vorstellung, dass Roboter die Weltherrschaft übernehmen könnten. Und sie überlegen, was man tun könnte, um die Welt vor dieser Machtübernahme zu bewahren. Doch diese Vorstellung geht weit an der Realität vorbei. Tatsächlich wissen wir heute: Maschinen – und Machine Learning – funktionieren am

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Analytics | Machine Learning

Dariusz JańczukJune 23, 2017 0

Automatyzacja detekcji oszustw na portalach ogłoszeniowych

Lawinowy wzrost popularności handlu w internecie zmienił nawyki zakupowe bardzo wielu osób. Ogromna ilość sprzedawców oraz różnorodność oferowanych produktów i usług umożliwia zdobycie niemalże wszystkiego. Dzięki globalnemu zasięgowi jesteśmy w stanie zamówić produkt z drugiego końca świata i mieć go u siebie w przeciągu kilku dni lub tygodni. Sprzedawcy natomiast

Polish

Analytics

Paula HendersonJune 23, 2017 0

SAS analytics for governments book empowers leaders to use data for good

A new book from SAS guides public sector leaders in the use of data to address a wide range of state and local government challenges. Each chapter deals with critical issues facing our country, including the opioid epidemic, child abuse, spiraling health care costs, prison overcrowding, education reform, rampant fraud and the

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Government

Analytics | Internet of Things | SAS Events

Sandra HernandezJune 23, 2017 0

La analítica del Internet de las Cosas

La primera vez que alguien se refirió al Internet de las Cosas fue en 1999 y se trató del emprendedor Kevin Ashton, uno de los fundadores del centro Auto-ID en el MIT, quien lo acotó durante una presentación sobre la posibilidad de vincular objetos a través de la identificación por

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Analytics

Ariadna Zárate DelgadoJune 23, 2017 0

Big Data para la protección de los pacientes más pequeños

La vida de un infante es frágil y cuelga de un delgado hilo. Desde los recién nacidos prematuros hasta los bebés con meses de edad que luchan con problemas médicos, las unidades de cuidados intensivos neonatales (UCIN) tienen que estar preparadas para todo. Es por eso que los médicos, las

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Health Care | Hospitality

Analytics | Data Management

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunJune 23, 2017 0

데이터 프로파일링, 빅데이터를 이해하는 쉬운 방법

여러분은 ‘프로파일링(profiling)’하면 뭐가 제일 먼저 생각나나요? 아마 많은 분들이 범인을 추적하는 범죄 프로파일러(profiler)를 떠올릴 것 같은데요. 맞습니다. 프로파일링은 범죄 현장과 증거를 분석해 용의자의 범행 수법은 물론 성별, 나이, 습관, 성격, 직업 등을 추론하고 범인을 찾아내는 범죄 수사 기법 중 하나인데요. 최근 범죄 심리학을 다룬 드라마와 영화가 큰 인기를 끌며 대중에

Korean

Analytics | Risk Management

Luis BarrientosJune 22, 2017 0

Modelos de Riesgo, impacto en los negocios

La industria financiera, ha desarrollado una alta dependencia en la analítica predictiva para alcanzar los objetivos de negocio y cumplir con temas regulatorios y de mejores prácticas. Este modelado toca virtualmente a cada área que tiene poder de decisión y monitoreo en la Entidad, desde el perfil de cliente objetivo,

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJune 22, 2017 0

A map of country code top-level domains (ccTLD)

Here in the US, we typically use top level domains such as .com, .gov, and .org. I guess we were one of the first countries to start using web domains in a big way, and therefore we kind of got squatter's rights. As other countries started using the web, they

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Communications

Analytics

Elie MikhaelJune 20, 2017 0

HR analytics: improving hiring, retention and engagement

Reading quite a lot of the press and commentary about analytics, you could be forgiven for thinking that these techniques were only usable for customer-facing work. Improving sales and marketing? Yes, you want analytics, using Big Data about your customers. But there are plenty of internal and operational issues where

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Analytics

Ariadna Zárate DelgadoJune 20, 2017 0

Una visión mejorada da a Nestlé la ventaja competitiva

A todos nos gusta ver nuestros productos favoritos con descuento, pero para que las organizaciones ejecuten una promoción, tienen que hacer mucho más que simplemente bajar los precios. Los costos reducidos llevan a un aumento de la demanda y a menos que esta se planifique con precisión, los fabricantes pueden

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Analytics | Internet of Things | SAS Events

Sandra HernandezJune 20, 2017 0

Transformación y economía digital, la disrupción empresarial de la que todos están hablando

Big Data y la economía digital son transversales a prácticamente cualquier actividad en la vida, desde una acción profesional que involucre un equipo de trabajo hasta ámbitos de la vida privada como el estado de salud, los movimientos financieros y las relaciones de pareja. No existen límites para la constante

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Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiJune 20, 2017 0

6 examples of data management, reporting and analytics in higher education

Today in higher education, savvy users expect to have the information they need to make data-informed decisions at their fingertips. As such, leaders in institutional research (IR) are under pressure to provide these users with accurate data, reports and analyses. IR has been tasked with transforming data and reports in

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Education

Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJune 20, 2017 0

Tabs -vs- Spaces: Which coders make more money?

There have been several polarizing topics throughout history, such as religion & political affiliation. And for software developers there's one more biggie ... tabs -vs- spaces! Which group is right? Perhaps the opinion of the better programmers should have more weight(?) Is there a metric we can use to determine whether

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Analytics

Peter SnellingJune 19, 2017 0

Why our future prosperity demands smart borders

Following the UK General Election result where no political party secured a clear majority ahead of the Brexit negotiations, it’s fair to say there’s lots of uncertainty facing the UK government right now. This, and the more outward looking post-Brexit era we're facing, are just two reasons why I believe

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Government

Analytics

Rick WicklinJune 19, 2017 0

How to find a feasible point for a constrained optimization in SAS

Most numerical optimization routines require that the user provides an initial guess for the solution. I have previously described a method for choosing an initial guess for an optimization, which works well for low-dimensional optimization problems. Recently a SAS programmer asked how to find an initial guess when there are

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Analytics

two politicians walking in government building

Trent SmithJune 16, 2017 0

How analytics and open source can improve government agility

It has been almost a year since then-U.S. CIO Tony Scott introduced the federal open source policy that called for agencies to share federally-developed software source code. The policy, more than anything, aimed to make agencies more agile. Instead of redeveloping the same programs the open source policy would allow

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Government

Analytics | SAS Events

Sandra HernandezJune 16, 2017 0

Tecnologías emergentes en la era de la inteligencia artificial

El aumento de la penetración de la inteligencia artificial en el mundo de los negocios, de forma transversal a las diferentes industrias, ha permitido a las empresas entender y ejecutar prácticas más acertadas en su acercamiento y relación con el cliente al tiempo que optimiza los flujos de trabajo entre

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJune 15, 2017 0

Map: Median age by country

If countries have a similar median age, does that mean they are also similar in other ways? My best guess at an answer is - probably. Perhaps if we plot the data on a map, we'll be able to see the answer more clearly. I first started thinking about this

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Government | Health Care

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Mike F. SmithJune 15, 2017 0

Utility analytics in 2017: Aligning data and analytics with business strategy

Regulations, corporate drivers, leadership and market influences have combined to produce a patchwork of uneven progress on initiatives such as distributed generation, customer choice, asset optimization and the industrial Internet of Things. These initiatives all rely on analytics to gain the most return on investment. To better understand organizational readiness

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Energy & Utilities

Analytics

Sandra HernandezJune 14, 2017 0

Experimente las nuevas posibilidades: Precisión al ver con claridad

Ya no se trata de imaginar cosas. Cada día las empresas enfrentan miles de desafíos. Desde decisiones de negocio hasta procesos operativos, pasando por la manera de relacionarse con sus clientes o de preparar los informes de cumplimientos regulatorios o cuidarse de los ataques o fraudes. No son escenarios que

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Analytics

Miriam AudeloJune 14, 2017 0

SAS Visual Investigator, aliado estratégico para el sector Gobierno

El fraude y los delitos financieros cuestan a los gobiernos millones de dólares al año. Las agencias gubernamentales tienen que buscar más allá de los enfoques tradicionales para combatir estos crímenes cada vez más complejos y comunes. En este sentido y en beneficio de las entidades gubernamentales, la tecnología analítica

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Government

Analytics

Brittany BullardJune 14, 2017 0

Retail – more alive than ever

There's been a lot of talk in the media lately about the death of retail. Every week, it seems like another retailer announces the closing of stores, acquisitions or even going out of business. Many relate it to the growing competitive landscape with the convenience of online shopping and lure

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Retail

Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJune 14, 2017 0

Two ways to compute maximum likelihood estimates in SAS

In a previous article, I showed two ways to define a log-likelihood function in SAS. This article shows two ways to compute maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) in SAS: the nonlinear optimization subroutines in SAS/IML and the NLMIXED procedure in SAS/STAT. To illustrate these methods, I will use the same data

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Analytics | SAS Administrators

Mary Kathryn QueenJune 13, 2017 0

The Self-Service Import in SAS Viya 3.2

In SAS Viya 3.2, the Self-Service Import provides a mechanism for a user to import (copy) data into the SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) environment. The data is copied as a .sashdat file into the selected CAS Library location when it is imported. Self-Service Import data can only be imported into

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunJune 13, 2017 0

kt wiz, ‘고객 경험 분석’으로 승리의 마법을 걸다! The Magic of Victory

지난 3월 31일 막을 올린 ‘2017 KBO 프로야구 정규시즌’이 어느새 중반부를 넘어섰습니다. 개막 두 달 만인 5월 30일 최소 경기 수 기준 역대 다섯 번째로 누적 관중 300만명을 넘어서며 식지 않는 인기를 과시하고 있는데요! 이처럼 수많은 관중들의 마음을 얻기 위해 그라운드 위 선수들의 치열한 경기 외에도 야구장 곳곳에서 다양한 시도들이

Korean

Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data for Good

SAS KoreaJune 12, 2017 0

빅데이터 분석으로 그리는 사람과 동물이 상생하는 미래

‘세계 야생 동물의 날(World Wildlife Day)’에 대해 들어보셨나요? 지난 2013년, 국제 자연 보호 연맹(IUCN) 산하 ‘멸종위기에 처한 야생동식물종의 국제거래에 관한 협약(CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna)’의 170여개 체약국은 3월 3일을 멸종 위기에 처한 야생 동물·식물에 대한 관심과 대책을 촉구하는 기념일로 지정했습니다. 이에 따라

Korean

Analytics | Programming Tips

Log-likelihood function for the binomial distribution

Rick WicklinJune 12, 2017 0

Two simple ways to construct a log-likelihood function in SAS

Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a powerful statistical technique that uses optimization techniques to fit parametric models. The technique finds the parameters that are "most likely" to have produced the observed data. SAS provides many tools for nonlinear optimization, so often the hardest part of maximum likelihood is writing down

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Analytics

Mike GillilandJune 9, 2017 0

FVA Analysis Tutorial at Analytics Experience 2017

Registration is now open for the SAS Analytics Experience 2017, being held September 18-20, in Washington, DC. (The Analytics Experience moves to Amsterdam, October 16-18 -- details on that event to follow.) For anyone interested in FVA analysis, Chip Wells and I will be delivering a half-day pre-conference training session

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Analytics

Adrián MontesJune 8, 2017 0

SAS Visual Analytics, un entorno único en SAS Viya

Ahora más que nunca, las personas quieren explorar los datos de su organización y utilizar la analítica, incluso si no poseen habilidades analíticas avanzadas. Al mismo tiempo, el personal de TI tiene más dificultades para satisfacer las constantes demandas de acceso y preparación de datos, además de gestionar las solicitudes

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