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Expect to lose time if you don't include a data steward in your project until you're reviewing the data model.
Recently, I worked on a cybersecurity project that entailed processing a staggering number of raw text files about web traffic. Millions of rows had to be read and parsed to extract variable values. The problem was complicated by the varying records composition. Each external raw file was a collection of
Todd Wright says questions from the C-suite morph as the complex data and analytics landscape evolves.
Brush up on the latest news around data privacy. Todd Wright shares his top 10 picks.
Jim Harris discusses a key role of the data engineer – protecting sensitive personal data.
Guest blogger Khari Villela says data lakes are not a cure-all – they're just one part of a comprehensive, strategic architecture.
My New Year's resolution: “Unclutter your life” and I hope this post will help you do the same. Here I share with you a data preparation approach and SAS coding technique that will significantly simplify, unclutter and streamline your SAS programming life by using data templates. Dictionary.com defines template as
David Loshin examines various aspects of data governance that are essential for regulatory compliance.
Joyce Norris-Montanari discusses data engineers in the second of her two-part series.
Encouraging data sharing can sometimes feel like refereeing kids on Christmas morning. “Mom said you have to SHARE!” my sister bawled, grabbing at the Game Boy in my hand as I held the toy just out of her reach. I had just gotten it as a Christmas present and had
Phil Simon raises two key questions to ask in his second post on data literacy.
K(o)ennen Sie schon „DevOps“? Machen Sie SAS? Dann lohnt sich eventuell ein frischer Blick auf die Kombination! Denn immer mehr Unternehmen probieren, ihren produktiven Betrieb auch in die Hände der Software-Entwickler zu legen (2 von 3 laut Jenkins) – speziell in der Analyse, insbesondere beim agilen Modellieren und dem Veredeln
By now you’ve seen the headlines and the hype proclaiming data as the new oil. The well-meaning intent of these proclamations is to cast data in the role of primary economic driver for the 21st century, just as oil was for the 20th century. As analogies go, it’s not too
The data revolution is causing disruption everywhere. Even governments are feeling the effects. While the public sector may be less prepared for the impending changes, government has good reasons to embrace the data revolution. First, governments have been collecting data for years. They have lots of data. This supports programs,
Todd Wright shares results of a SAS survey about consumers' data privacy concerns.
Phil Simon chimes in on the increasingly important topic of data literacy.
Data scientists need good skills in communication, data mining, data wrangling and more. Joyce Norris-Montanari explains.
Jim Harris says data stewards are essential to analytics, providing life cycle management for data across the enterprise.
As analíticas vão ser imprescindíveis no futuro. Está é a opinião generalizada da maioria dos gestores. No entanto um estudo levado a cabo pelo SAS sobre Plataforma Analítica - “Here and Now: the need for an analytics platform”, revelou que apenas 35% está efectivamente com projectos de implementação ao nível
Data management gets lost in the enthusiasm around Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Not surprising, when it's an algorithm that decides what search results to show you, guides the self-driving cars on the roads, and powers the anti-fraud bots that monitor every credit card transaction we make. Charles
Finanzdienstleister haben aktuell massive Herausforderungen beim Management ihrer Daten: Der Kostendruck zwingt einerseits zu einem hocheffizienten Betrieb („run“). Zugleich wandeln sich andererseits die Prozesse im Business, Stichwort Digitalisierung („change“). Die drückenden Regeln der Aufsicht scheinen sich nicht vereinen zu lassen mit dem Anspruch der Kunden, flexibel, fix und doch datensparsam
Reconsider conventional assumptions about data governance – three suggestions for chief data officers.
Joyce Norris-Montanari cites five things she considers essential to data management for analytics.
보험 업계는 변화에 느리다는 평을 받는 보수적인 산업이지만 지난 5년간 엄청난 변화와 혁신을 경험하고 있습니다. 보험사들은 고객과 유통 관계에서 혁신을 모색하며 디지털 이니셔티브에 많은 투자를 하고 있는데요. 이와 함께 데이터 분석, 인공지능 등의 정보기술(IT)을 활용해 기존 보험 산업을 혁신하는 인슈어테크(insurtech)가 디지털 기회를 활용할 수 있는 보험 업계의 새로운 분야로 떠오르고
Phil Simon chimes in with some tips on how to set these folks loose.
Los avances tecnológicos, las expectativas de los clientes y las regulaciones que redefinen el mercado, han sido puntos clave para que el sector de los seguros se enfoque en el crecimiento de sus ventas, su rentabilidad y la lealtad y el cuidado de sus clientes. ¿Qué ha pasado entonces? las
Who says technical people can't have fun!?! Similar to Throwback Thursday / #TBT (when people post one of their old/nostalgic photos on social media), I like the tradition of Fun Friday when I use a fun data topic to test our software - a test can be just as rigorous using
I've worked at SAS for over 27 years and have often been asked: What does SAS do? or Why should I choose SAS? It all boils down to one question: Why SAS? While there are many approaches to answering this question, I recently came up with three short, yet powerful,
Jim Harris says people still play a pivotal role in data-driven decision making.
How do you deploy your model so that business processes can make use of it? This post explores how SAS Viya applications can directly add models to a model repository, and specifically focuses on how to deploy them with SAS Model Manager to Hadoop.
