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Jim Harris says the GDPR may cause seismic changes in how people think of privacy and personal data.
Kim Kaluba explains why good customer data management starts with trusted, comprehensive data quality.
The NHS is one of the UK’s most beloved institutions, but it’s also in need of some new thinking. This is especially true when it comes to technology. The first major wave of investment in artificial intelligence (AI) has seen entire industries transformed by the speed and capabilities of machine
GDPR requires more than a simple privacy policy update. David Loshin outlines changes needed in the data management environment.
Seguramente ha escuchado la siguiente afirmación: “Los datos son el alma de su organización”. Y realmente tiene sentido tanto para usted y muchos de sus colegas que están a cargo de tomar las decisiones en cuanto al rumbo que tomará el negocio y cómo dirigir mejor los productos y servicios
The deadline is looming. The new regulation will be a trial by fire for interactions with customers, colleagues and regulatory authorities. Are you ready for this? And what has your company done to prepare? At SAS, we wanted to get a feel for where people are, so we conducted a
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, comes into force on 25 May 2018. It has been a topic of considerable interest recently, and particularly its likely effect on individual sectors or business areas such as marketing and sales. Software manufacturers and consulting companies have been developing and launching solutions
In this first of two posts, Phil Simon chimes in on the prospect of data protection regulation in the US.
Model deployment is a crucial part of the model life cycle. Having developed and validated your model, you need to be able to put it to work. This “putting to work” stage is called deployment, and it is far from trivial. At this stage, the model ceases to be “training”
SAS Viya is our latest extension of the SAS Platform and interoperable with SAS® 9.4. There were a number of SAS Viya presentations at SAS Global Forum 2018. In this series, we will review several of the most interesting talks. This post reviews Hadley Christoffels’ talk, A Need For Speed: Loading Data via the Cloud.
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has received a lot of press over the last few years. Organisations have been discussing how to implement it, and it has often, if not routinely, been viewed as a challenge and a requirement, a box that needs to be ticked before everyone can
Don't be a data hoarder. Jim Harris shares guidelines for a data retention strategy.
Im Gastbeitrag beschreibt Metacoda, wie die SAS Platform datenschutzkonform betrieben werden kann, und welche Tools dabei helfen. Sobald Unternehmen Kunden aus der Europäischen Union bedienen und deren persönliche Daten verarbeiten, muss zukünftig die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung, kurz DSGVO, eingehalten werden. Das sagt Ihnen nichts? Diese Grafik gibt einen ersten Überblick über die neue
Joyce Norris-Montanari shares insights and tips about data security and privacy.
You may never have heard of it, but the small, West Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge is the UK’s best place to live. Whenever a value judgement like this is made it’s easy to dismiss it as subjective. Surely the UK’s ‘best’ place is down to preference and will be
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect on 25 May 2018 pertains not only to organizations located within the EU; it applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location. Here are four selected SAS tools for GDPR that allow you to protect personal data in SAS reports by suppressing counts in small demographic group reports.
Remember the military computer Joshua from the 1983 Matthew Broderick movie WarGames? Joshua learned how to “play a game” by competing against other computers, got confused about reality, and nearly started WWIII. As depicted in that movie, Joshua isn’t all that different from Google’s DeepMind, which became a superhuman chess
Der Stichtag zur DSGVO naht: Die neue Grundverordnung wird zum harten Prüfstein beim Umgang mit Ihren Kunden, Kollegen und der Aufsichtsbehörde. Sind Sie genügend vorbereitet? Und wie hat Ihr Unternehmen das angestellt? Wir von SAS haben mal nachgefragt und die Ergebnisse in einer neuen Studie veröffentlicht. Kurz: Weniger als die
Todd Wright says data governance is more relevant than ever – especially in light of the GDPR.
David Loshin says entity resolution isn't a bandage to fix errors – it should be part of your data strategy.
In seinem Gastbeitrag stellt Metacoda sechs nützliche kostenfreie Tools zur Metadatenanalyse vor. SAS Platform-Administratoren, die mit der SAS Management Console arbeiten, kennen die potenziellen Hürden beim Thema Metadatenanalyse und beim Zugriff auf Coding-Benutzeroberflächen. Aber diesen Herausforderungen ist nun dank Metacoda beizukommen – mit sechs kostenfreien Tools. 1. Metadata Explorer
In case you still haven’t noticed, the GDPR is approaching as sure as spring. Despite the anticipation, most organisations are quite comfortably waiting for the day to arrive. The consultant-forecasted GDPR panic never arrived, at least not in the way that we in the industry were expecting. I regularly meet
Jim Harris asks: Do you retain and maintain data, or do you have a data retention strategy?
Die am 25. Mai 2018 zur Anwendung kommende Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO), oder auch GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation genannt), ist in der letzten Zeit in aller Munde gewesen. Besonders deren Auswirkungen auf einzelne Branchen oder auf spezielle Unternehmensbereiche wie Marketing und Vertrieb wurden vielfältig diskutiert. Parallel haben Softwarehersteller und Beratungsunternehmen erste
The release of SAS Viya 3.3 has brought some nice data quality features. In addition to the visual applications like Data Studio or Data Explorer that are part of the Data Preparation offering, one can leverage data quality capabilities from a programming perspective. Here is an overview of SAS Data Quality 3.3 programming capabilities.
Phil Simon discusses some of the analytics considerations with record-level security.
Joyce Norris-Montanari lists personal data considerations related to GDPR compliance.
Being the Graph Guy, I wanted to know about all the "data visualization" presentations at the upcoming SAS Global Forum 2018 conference. I tried going through the official interface to search for such sessions, but it was difficult (impossible?) to know that I had found them all. Therefore I created
Analytically speaking, West Perth is paradise. We know that thanks to the Paradise Found project and my colleague Andreas Becks’ blog posts on the topic. One thing is clear: Without machine learning and analytics, we never would have found this Australian boomtown neighbourhood among 5 million data points collected on
In the extended enterprise, data integration challenges abound. David Loshin explains.
