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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Hwa TruongMarch 31, 2017 0

How to make sense of the Madness in March

March Madness is in full swing. And the success of the Dance Card formula powered by SAS -- along with stories about teams like the New York Mets, the Boston Bruins, the Orlando Magic and more, all using analytics -- demonstrates how sports and analytics are becoming more and more

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonMarch 31, 2017 0

How about a free eBook on data visualization using SAS!

If you're into data visualization, here's something that might interest you - a free eBook showing several ways to use SAS to visually analyze your data. (Did I mention it's FREE?!?!) We've picked juicy chapters from several books and upcoming books (and a few other sources), to show you what

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Analytics | Internet of Things

SAS KoreaMarch 31, 2017 0

품질, 제조업의 미래에 해답을 제시하다

제조 업체들은 정치, 경제, 재무, 경쟁사 등 다양한 당면 과제 속에서 비즈니스를 운영하고 있습니다. 앞으로의 제조 환경도 글로벌 경제 위기 때만큼이나 불확실해 보이는데요. 그렇지만 제조업의 성장 기회는 분명 있을 것입니다. 최근 제조 산업에는 ‘인더스트리 4.0’이라는 새로운 시대의 막이 오르고 있습니다. 새 시대에는 자동화, 대규모 데이터, 분석이 사물인터넷(IoT), 클라우드 컴퓨팅과 융합하고, 가상 및

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Manufacturing

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunMarch 31, 2017 0

Walmart가 분석을 활용하는 4가지 방법

온라인 활동부터 오프라인 구매 및 소셜 노출에 이르기까지 Walmart는 전 세계 어느 리테일러보다 광범위한 고객 네트워크를 자랑합니다. 글로벌 고객 인사이트 분석 부문 수석 이사인 다니엘 소프(Daniel Thorpe)에 따르면 회사의 주간 소셜 노출만 30만 건에 달한다고 합니다. 소프는 분석 팀을 이끌면서 고객 스스로 생산하는 행동 데이터를 기반으로 고객에 대한 전반적인 이해를

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Retail

Analytics | Data Management

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunMarch 31, 2017 0

SAS, 포레스터 리서치 ‘엔터프라이즈 인사이트 플랫폼 스위트’ 부문 단독 리더

‘포레스터 웨이브: 2016년 4분기 엔터프라이즈 인사이트 플랫폼 스위트’ 보고서에서 단독 리더로 선정 전략∙최신 오퍼링∙시장 입지 평가 항목에서 높은 점수 획득 ··· 기업의 의사 결정 시점에 인사이트 적용을 지원하는 차별화된 리더로서 확고한 입지 개방형∙클라우드 기반 분석 아키텍처 ‘SAS 바이야(SAS Viya)’, 보다 현대적이고 단순화된 아키텍처로 높이 평가 2017년 1월 23일, 서울 세계적인

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Analytics

La analítica, ¿preparada para el crecimiento de la información?

Sandra HernandezMarch 30, 2017 0

La analítica, ¿preparada para el crecimiento de la información?

Corría el año 1949 cuando el británico George Orwell publicó su famosa obra 1984, en donde la recopilación y manipulación de información era las claves para ejercer una vigilancia masiva de los individuos. Una novela futurista en la que muchos vieron semejanzas con el mundo real. Ciencia ficción aparte, lo

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Analytics

Steve BennettMarch 30, 2017 0

U.S. Marshals Service use analytics to save more than $200 million

The U.S. Marshals Service is the federal agency known for bringing wanted fugitives to justice. Often, the Marshals Service gets attention for these arrests, but once the publicity has died down they face a basic challenge --- where to put the individuals in their custody. The agency uses data to

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Government

Analytics

Mike GillilandMarch 29, 2017 0

Guest blogger Len Tashman previews Spring 2017 issue of Foresight

Preview of the Spring 2017 Issue of Foresight Since our first issue in 2005, Foresight has strived to serve up articles that unite the scholarship of our field’s academic researchers with the perspectives of experienced organizational practitioners, all the time emphasizing lessons learned—and sometimes those lessons are learned the hard

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzMarch 28, 2017 0

How to design a meteorite infographic using NASA data and SAS

How many meteorites have hit the earth in the last 4,000 years? Where have they landed? And which ones were the biggest? Can we show all of this information - and more in an intuitive data visualization? It turns out NASA provides public data about recorded meteorite impacts on earth all the

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Programming Tips

Phil WeissMarch 27, 2017 0

Using the Robust Analytics Environment of SAS Viya

I have been using the SAS Viya environment for just over six months now and I absolutely love it. As a long-time SAS coder and data scientist I’m thrilled with the speed and greater accuracy I’m getting out of a lot of the same statistical techniques I once used in

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 27, 2017 0

Let's analyze 32 years of basketball tournament data!

Here in the US, it's the nationwide men's college basketball tournament season! Therefore let's use some data from the previous years' tournaments to sharpen our analytics & visualization skills... But before we get started, I must mention (brag?) that my alma mater, NC State University, won this tournament in 1983.

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Visualization

Georgia MarianiMarch 27, 2017 0

Data visualization helps University of Louisville achieve its 2020 strategic plan

When senior leaders at the University of Louisville (UofL) approached Vice Provost Bob Goldstein in early April 2016 with a request for a fully functioning data visualization platform by start of the 2016 fall semester—just four months away—he did not panic. Instead, Goldstein, along with Becky Patterson, Executive Director of

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Education

Analytics | Work & Life at SAS

Elizabeth BautistaMarch 24, 2017 0

Con analítica de SAS, DIRECTV ‘enciende’ más televidentes en Colombia

I. Perfil del Cliente DIRECTV es el sistema de televisión satelital líder en el mundo. Inició operaciones en Colombia en el 2006 y año tras año ha crecido su participación en el mercado de televisión por suscripción ofreciendo la mejor experiencia de entretenimiento. En la actualidad se ha consolidado como

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Communications

Analytics | Data Management

David PopeMarch 24, 2017 0

Don't let data issues delay analytics

In a recent presentation, Jill Dyche, VP of SAS Best Practices gave two great quotes: "Map strategy to data" and "strategy drives analytics drives data." In other words, don't wait for your data to be perfect before you invest in analytics. Don't get me wrong -- I fully understand and

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Analytics

Sandra HernandezMarch 23, 2017 0

Cómo recorrer el camino hacia la transformación y no perderse en el intento

Hablar sobre qué es #BigData en el mundo empresarial, dicho por los mismos expertos, ya no es una novedad. El concepto, al igual que su finalidad, ha ido evolucionando a tal punto que las organizaciones coinciden en que ya no se trata de tener información almacenada sin más, sino de

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonMarch 23, 2017 0

Bringing the heat! - Creating heat maps with proc sgplot ...

If you're a fan of SAS' ODS Graphics, you probably know that it does pretty much everything except geographical maps. But it's flexible enough that you can "fake it 'till you make it"! This example describes how to fake a geographical (choropleth) heat map using Proc SGplot polygons. In my

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Government | Health Care

Analytics

Ashley BinderMarch 22, 2017 0

Make an accurate prediction without watching a single basketball game

The second round of the 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament was an interesting one. Eight-seeded Wisconsin took out the reigning champion Wildcats, despite pundit predictions that Villanova could go all the way again. South Carolina, 24-10 in the SEC during the regular season, upset perennial favorite Duke by seven points.

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data Management

Gianluca MenconiMarch 22, 2017 0

Does age matter? A question of analytics maturity

Does age matter? Perhaps not, but maturity certainly does. The level of analytics maturity, in particular, makes a big difference to the options open to companies, and the strategies that they can adopt to get best value from analytics. A model of analytics maturity I like Thomas Davenport’s model of

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Analytics

Antonio AutorinoMarch 21, 2017 0

Win-win model is the key to digital transformation of companies

Innovation and transformation of established companies needs to be through a collaborative model. Done right, it can be profitable for all players. I have always thought that human evolution and development is one of the most interesting and challenging processes in the world, especially in terms of innovation and investing.

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Colin BristowMarch 21, 2017 0

Anti-money laundering requirements: Are the stakes increasing?

Part 504 of the US Department of Financial Services Superintendent’s Regulations seems to significantly up the requirements for firms to conduct ongoing review and continuously improve their approach to anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring. But is it really very different from the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force's broader suggestions to introduce

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Banking

Analytics | Internet of Things

Tim ClarkMarch 20, 2017 0

Achieving a quality-connected enterprise

Quality in every thought, every action, every outcome You might think differentiating on the quality of your products is a no-brainer – who wouldn’t seek to make every product incredibly high quality? Yet experience shows us that many manufacturers only capture data from the production line. While this approach creates

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Manufacturing

Analytics | Internet of Things | SAS Events

Emanuela SfercoMarch 17, 2017 0

A SAS Forum Milan l'inimmaginabile è già a portata di mano

Il contesto che stiamo vivendo oggi è rappresentato perfettamente dalle parole di Moshe Vardi, professore di Computer Science alla University of Texas e esperto mondiale di robotica. Secondo Vardi, i progressi della scienza robotica e dell’intelligenza artificiale produrranno cambiamenti così drastici e repentini nel nostro modo di vivere e di fare business

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Steven SoberMarch 17, 2017 0

Collaborative distributed data management with open source

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles to help current SAS programmers add SAS Viya to their analytics skillset. In this post, Advisory Solutions Architect Steven Sober explores how to accomplish distributed data management using SAS Viya. Read additional posts in the series. In my last article I

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Tomasz RydzewskiMarch 17, 2017 0

SAS Visual Analytics - jak wykorzystać potęgę analityki?

Obecnie większość firm, operujących na danych, korzysta z mniej lub bardziej zaawansowanej analityki. Ten trend przestaje być przywilejem wielkich korporacji, a staje się standardem dla wszystkich, także małych i średnich firm. I tak jak potrzeba korzystania z analityki rozprzestrzenia się wśród firm, tak dzieje się to także wewnątrz organizacji, zwiększając

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Steven SoberMarch 16, 2017 0

Collaborative distributed data management using SAS Viya

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles to help current SAS programmers add SAS Viya to their analytics skillset. In this post, Advisory Solutions Architect Steven Sober explores how to accomplish distributed data management using SAS Viya. Read additional posts in the series. This article in the SAS

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Analytics | SAS Events

Sandra HernandezMarch 16, 2017 0

El Big Data no es tan listo como parece

Mucho hemos oído del #BigData y su enorme potencial para mejorar las actividades humanas en general y de los negocios en particular. Pero, ¿no nos estaremos obsesionando con almacenar la mayor cantidad de información posible sin pensar realmente en cómo vamos a usarla y para qué? Aquí es donde entra

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonMarch 16, 2017 0

Using SAS to track UFOs on Mars!

When we send spacecraft from Earth to Mars, do the Martians consider them to be UFOs? I might not be able to answer that question definitively ... but I do have some really cool graphs showing the data for all those missions to Mars! You might remember a previous blog

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Government | Life Sciences | Travel

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Peter SnellingMarch 16, 2017 0

Why our future prosperity demands smart borders

There have been some rather hysterical headlines in the UK recently about immigration. Eyebrow-raising statements alluding to the Home Office (the government department responsible for immigration) losing thousands of asylum seekers illustrate that efforts to trace them are placing huge pressure on resources. This, and the more outward looking post-Brexit

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Government

Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

March 15, 2017 0

Cómo la Analítica Combate el Fraude Fiscal

El fraude en materia fiscal es bastante común, y los defraudadores son cada vez más sofisticados y automatizados que nunca. Con el fin de detectar oportunamente el fraude y proteger los ingresos, las agencias tributarias necesitan utilizar y aprovechar la analítica predictiva más avanzada. Actualmente las agencias tributarias, aquellos organismos

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Government

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