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Analytics | SAS Events

Jan-Ole RomannJuly 10, 2017 0

SAS Forum 2017: Analytische Aufbruchsstimmung

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

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Analytics | SAS Events

Sandra Hernandez

Sandra HernandezJuly 8, 2017 0

Experience your New Possible: la tendencia que dominó en la 3ª Convención Latinoamericana de Analítica de SAS

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

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Analytics

Mike GillilandJuly 7, 2017 0

2017 SAS/IIF forecasting research grants

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

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Analytics | Data Management | Machine Learning

Andreas BecksJuly 7, 2017 0

Paradies gesucht? Die Daten haben West Perth gefunden

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

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Jennifer BellJuly 7, 2017 0

Equity in education: Rural teaching opened my eyes to district disparities

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

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Education | Government

Analytics

Georgia MarianiJuly 7, 2017 0

Meet student enrollment goals by optimizing your financial aid strategy

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

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Connected technologies

Norm MarksJuly 6, 2017 0

Are you getting the most out of consumer IoT data?

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

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Analytics | Machine Learning

Joanna GolaJuly 5, 2017 0

10 Commandments of Applied Econometrics or how not to sin when working with real data – Part 5

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

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Analytics | Data Management

Iván LópezJuly 5, 2017 0

Retos de integración de datos en las pequeñas y medianas empresas

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,

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Analytics | Data Management

businesswoman prepared to explain why you should modernize your data management

Helmut PlinkeJuly 5, 2017 0

Need faster analytics? Modernize your data management platform.

Helmut Plinke explains why modernizing your data management is essential to supporting your analytics platform.

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 5, 2017 0

Test for the equality of two proportions in SAS

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

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Jeanne (Hyunjin) ByunJuly 4, 2017 0

대덕전자, ‘빅데이터 시각화’를 통해 제조 품질 극대화

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.

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Analytics

David SmithJuly 3, 2017 0

Powerful storytelling for tech

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

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence | SAS Events

Sandra Hernandez

Sandra HernandezJuly 3, 2017 0

Cómo combatir los fraudes financieros en tiempos de la banca móvil

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

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

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Oliver Schabenberger

Oliver SchabenbergerJune 30, 2017 0

Artificial intelligence: Separating the reality from the hype

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

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJune 29, 2017 0

Colors represent different things, in different cultures

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.

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Communications | Education | Travel

Analytics | SAS Events

David PopeJune 29, 2017 0

SAS is an analytical platform, not just a language

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has read and contributed to threads on the internet about all the different languages used for data mining. But one aspect that's been left out of most of these comparisons is that SAS is more than a 4th generation programming language (4GL).

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Naohiro Takemura (竹村尚大)June 27, 2017 0

SAS Univeristy Edition の更新方法 (2017年7月版)

学術研究、教育、および自己学習の目的に無償で利用できる SAS University Edition は、毎年7月末にライセンスの期限が切れます。ライセンス期限の2ヶ月ほど前から、SAS University Edition Information Center にライセンス失効のお知らせと更新の案内が表示されますが、SAS University Edition のインストール時期によって必要な作業が異なりますので、以下に紹介します。まずは、仮想マシンのSAS University Edition を起動し、表示されたURLから SAS University Edition Information Center にアクセスします。仮想マシンの起動後のウインドウで、URLが記載されている場所は下の画像を参考にしてください。（クリックすると画像が拡大されます。） SAS University Edition Information Center のデザインは、SAS Univeristy Edition のインストールの時期によって異なります。2016年12月以前にインストールした場合は、下の画面が表示されます。こちらが表示された場合は、下記URLにアクセスし、新たにダウンロードした SAS University Edition を、仮想マシンに再登録する必要があります。こちらが表示された場合は、左下の「お知らせ」にある「ダウンロード」ボタンから更新作業を行います。これ以降、ブラウザに表示される指示に従ってください。もし、うまく更新できない場合は、ブラウザのCookieを削除してからもう一度更新作業を行ってください。それでも更新できない場合は、上記URLから新たに SAS University Edition をダウンロードし、仮想マシンに再登録してください。更新作業が完了すると、下の画像のように、SAS University Edition Information Center の「お知らせ」部分に、「SAS University Edition

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Analytics | Data for Good

101st Airborne "Easy" Company foxholes outside of Foy, Belgium

Steve BennettJune 26, 2017 0

The analytics of evil

The role of analytics in combating terrorism Earlier this spring, I found myself walking through a quiet and peaceful grove of spruce trees south of the small hamlet of Foy outside of Bastogne, Belgium. On travel in Europe, I happened to have some extra time before heading to London. I

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Analytics

Peter SnellingJune 26, 2017 0

Supporting the vision of a more global post-Brexit Britain

The new government’s vision of Brexit is to make the UK a more international, more outward looking nation. One whose future success and status in on the world stage will be dictated by the ability to attract investment and finance, and to drive trade with existing and new partners. Yet

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

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

Machine Learning

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 Jańczuk

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

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Analytics

Paula Henderson

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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Analytics | Internet of Things | SAS Events

Sandra Hernandez

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

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Analytics | Risk Management

Luis Barrientos

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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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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