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Data Management | Students & Educators

Georgia MarianiMay 6, 2016 0

Education shines BIG in Vegas!

Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. At this year’s SAS Global Forum 2016, so many exciting things happened that I have to share some highlights. From the use of analytics in college administration to the teaching of analytics in the classroom, the range of information presented was quite

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Data Management | Internet of Things

factory workers checking data on laptop

Dylan JonesMay 5, 2016 0

IoT: How could your company benefit from real data accuracy?

We had just completed a four-week data quality assessment of an inside plant installation. It wasn't looking good. There were huge gaps in the data, particularly when we cross-referenced systems together. In theory, each system was meant to hold identical information of the plant equipment. But when we consolidated the

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Data Management

Jeff AlfordMay 4, 2016 0

One more ‘giant leap’: Four decades of cardiovascular research data now shareable

In 1969, a human walked on the moon. I remember my parents waking me in the wee hours to watch (albeit bleary eyed) the grainy images on our black and white television as Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. Heady stuff then and now. In another world-altering advancement,

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Data Management | Data Visualization

Mary OsborneMay 4, 2016 0

May the 4th be with you

Most folks who know me, know I'm a bit of a Star Wars geek. I've analyzed the original trilogy scripts and documented my findings in a paper called Star Wars and the Art of Data Science. I'm always looking for excuses to get my hands into Star Wars data, and

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Data Management | Internet of Things

person checking a smart watch

Phil SimonMay 3, 2016 0

How will the IoT affect your data management strategy?

.@philsimon says that it's never too early to think about the IoT and data management.

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Data Management

Carmen GallagherMay 3, 2016 0

Three ways to monetise your data

There’s no such thing as a free app. “What?” I hear you say, “but I download free apps all the time!” So then why do organisations spend considerable time and effort creating free apps? Often their goal is to collect data and turn it into money. Consider this example. There’s

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Sylvie Faucillon

Sylvie FaucillonApril 27, 2016 0

Could text analytics be the cutting-edge technology the oil and gas industry was waiting for?

Small causes can have large effects; or how a discovery in the Barnett Shale can spike some interest in the rest of the world and change the face of the industry. This article is co-written by Sylvie Jacquet-Faucillon, Senior Analytics Presales Consultant, SAS France; and David Dozoul, Senior Adviser

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Energy & Utilities

Data Management

analysts and IT shake hands

Georgia MarianiApril 27, 2016 0

How to partner with IT to build a dashboard for community college administrators

It's a common problem in any industry: getting a large number of similar requests for information. But with limited resources and an already overburdened staff, how do you handle it? At El Paso Community College, analysts from the Institutional Research (IR) team enlisted the help of IT to create a data

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Data Management | Internet of Things

measuring devices on factory floor

David LoshinApril 27, 2016 0

Characteristics of IoT data quality

In my last post we started to look at two different Internet of Things (IoT) paradigms. The first only involved streaming automatically generated data from machines (such as sensor data). The second combined human-generated and machine-generated data, such as social media updates that are automatically augmented with geo-tag data by

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Data Management

Michael Herrmann

Michael HerrmannApril 27, 2016 0

Taking the Man out of Daten-man-agement

These: Zum Daten-MAN-gen braucht man Software. Hat man mehr Daten, nimmt man mehr Software… „Mehr vom selben!“ – jener Kulturtechnik aus der Ecke „viel hilft viel“. Stimmt das so? Man kann dies‘ knifflige Thema von verschiedenen Seiten beleuchten – im Folgenden einige mehr oder minder ernste Ansätze dazu:

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Data Management | Fraud & Security Intelligence

magnifying glass focused in on fraud

Stuart RoseApril 26, 2016 0

10 simple steps to detect more insurance fraud

Over the years I have written many blogs about insurance fraud including those on anti-money laundering, data quality in fraud, anti-fraud technology, life insurance fraud and even ghost broking. It’s clear that insurance fraud comes in many shapes and sizes and as losses continue to grow, detecting and preventing fraud

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Data Management

woman working late in office

Phil SimonApril 25, 2016 0

Data gone awry, Part 2: What to do when your business data deceives you.

.@philsimon on what to do when the data breaks bad.

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Data Management | Internet of Things

Alan LipsonApril 20, 2016 0

Don’t let anything come between you and your customers – except IoT sensors

When something comes between you and your customers – like not having product in-stock or providing offers that aren't relevant to the customer – it causes delays and makes it harder to complete transactions in a satisfying way. But, an inexpensive sensor, beacon or Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag placed

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Data Management | Internet of Things

driver using GPS navigation

David LoshinApril 20, 2016 0

The internet of things and the question of data quality

The concept of the internet of things (IoT) is used broadly to cover any organization of communication devices and methods, messages streaming from the device pool, data collected at a centralized point, and analysis used to exploit the combined data for business value. But this description hides the richness of

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Customer Intelligence | Data Management

Jonathan MoranApril 20, 2016 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Digital discovery and engagement brought into focus

Just last weekend, I was considering buying a new camera lens. I already had a few brands in mind, so I looked online at their websites to learn more about their product information. I was able to conduct a comparison on different brands and lenses to narrow down to a

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Customer Intelligence | Data Management

Brittany BullardApril 18, 2016 0

Structured versus unstructured data in retail

Of course everyone has heard all the hype on big data and how it can help business’ become more successful. But have you thought about the different types of big data? How the different types of data can support different initiatives within your business? Structured versus unstructured data in retail

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Data Management

graphic designers at computer looking at data

Phil SimonApril 18, 2016 0

Data gone awry, Part 1: Will your business data deceive you?

.@philsimon on whether big data and analytics offer true guarantees.

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Customer Intelligence | Data Management

Suneel GroverApril 15, 2016 0

Introduction to SAS for digital personalization and attribution

As promised a couple of weeks ago, I am very happy to share Part 2 of a webcast series highlighting how SAS participates in the space of digital analytics for data-driven marketing with applications for personalization and attribution. Before launching the video, let me set some context for what you are

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Data Management | Internet of Things

motorcycle racer thinks streaming data

Edward PhillipsApril 14, 2016 0

SAS® in the seat? Motorcycle racer goes streaming.

Some people think motorcycle racing is a sport for thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies. So you might be surprised to hear that after many years of racing, I’ve found it to be a contemplative activity more related to precision and prediction than reckless abandon. In motorcycle racing, the driver has

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Data Management

woman working on laptop

Jim HarrisApril 11, 2016 0

Pushing data quality beyond boundaries

Throughout my long career of building and implementing data quality processes, I've consistently been told that data quality could not be implemented within data sources, because doing so would disrupt production systems. Therefore, source data was often copied to a central location – a staging area – where it was cleansed, transformed, unduplicated, restructured

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Data Management | Internet of Things

Marcia Elaine Walker

Marcia Elaine WalkerApril 8, 2016 0

To 🐝ee or not to 🐝ee? What you can learn a🐝out IoT from 🐝ees

🐝uzz, 🐝uzz, 🐝uzz. That was the noise I heard coming from my porch in my rental home in Washington DC. A low 🐝ut persistent humming was sounding an alarm – a hive of carpenter 🐝ees had moved in and they were slowly 🐝ut steadily eating away at the ancient wooden

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Data Management

Hartmut SchrothApril 8, 2016 0

Vorteile eines Standarddatenmodells für Versicherungen

Wie ich bereits hier erläutert habe, nutzen viele Versicherungen seit einigen Jahren ein Standarddatenmodell als Basis für ein Business Analytics Datawarehouse (DWH). Warum ist nun ein Standarddatenmodell für Versicherungen besser geeignet als ein individuelles, auf alle Eigenheiten einer Versicherungsgesellschaft abgestimmtes?

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Data Management

Hartmut SchrothApril 8, 2016 0

Advantages of a standard insurance data model

In my first blog article I explained that many insurance companies have implemented a standard data model as base for their business analytics data warehouse (DWH) solutions. But why should a standard data model be more appropriate than an individual one designed especially for a certain insurance company?

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Data Management

soccer kid and common data quality issues

Matthew MagneApril 7, 2016 0

Can SAS Data Management get you to soccer on time?

A soccer fairy tale Imagine it's Soccer Saturday. You've got 10 kids and 10 loads of laundry – along with buried soccer jerseys – that you need to clean before the games begin. Oh, and you have two hours to do this. Fear not! You are a member of an advanced HOA

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Data Management

doctor with laptop in lab

Joyce Norris-MontanariApril 6, 2016 0

Health insurance, healthcare and pharmaceutical perspective on data quality – Part 2

As I explained in Part 1 of this series, spelling my name wrong does bother me! However, life changes quickly at health insurance, healthcare and pharmaceutical companies. That said, taking unintegrated or cleansed data and propagating it to Hadoop may only help one issue. That would be the issue of getting the data

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Data Management

chicken peeking out of egg

Jim HarrisApril 4, 2016 0

Which comes first, data quality or data analytics?

While it’s obvious that chickens hatch from eggs that were laid by other chickens, what’s less obvious is which came first – the chicken or the egg? This classic conundrum has long puzzled non-scientists and scientists alike. There are almost as many people on Team Chicken as there are on Team

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Customer Intelligence | Data Management

Suneel GroverMarch 31, 2016 0

Introduction to SAS for digital analytics and segmentation

Digital analytics primarily supports functions of customer and prospect marketing. When it comes to the goals of digital analysis, it literally mirrors the mission of modern marketing. But what exactly is today's version of marketing all about? Honestly, we've been talking about this for years. And years. We ALL know

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Data Management

Caroline HermonMarch 31, 2016 0

Treading the murky legal waters of big data

While the growth of big data is an issue that preoccupies both the public and private sector, it’s also high on the UK government’s legislative agenda. All eyes are currently on the authorities, as we wait with bated breath to see what’s next in the quest to manage data escalation.

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