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Artificial Intelligence | Data Management

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Marinela ProfiJuly 19, 2024 0

The one constant in our AI future? Data

With all the technology changes coming in the next five years, what should organizations invest in first? The innovations keep coming and so do the 3 a.m. night sweats for decision makers. “How will we catch up when technology seems to change overnight, nearly every night?” It’s a surprisingly common

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJuly 11, 2024 0

How to work with emojis in SAS

Emojis are showing up in our data. Here's what you need to know when working with emojis in your SAS code.

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Analytics

Alison BolenJuly 10, 2024 0

Growing up quantum in an AI world

Bill Wisotsky’s interest in quantum mechanics began in graduate school more than 20 years ago. For Wisotsky, a Principal Technical Architect at SAS, it was one of those ideas that takes root in your mind and doesn’t let go. As Wisotsky’s career progressed from studying behavioral neuroscience and teaching statistics

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Artificial Intelligence

Udo SglavoJuly 9, 2024 0

Fork in the road: Where does human-out-of-the-loop AI lead?

In the ever-expanding universe of AI, one concept has been steadily gaining ground: Human-out-of-the-loop AI. This term encapsulates a profound shift in how we interact with technology, prompting us to reconsider the boundaries between human and machine intelligence. But what does it entail? And what implications does it hold for

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Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Mary OsborneJuly 9, 2024 0

Natural language processing techniques that improve data quality with LLMs

Adding linguistic techniques in SAS NLP with LLMs not only help address quality issues in text data, but since they can incorporate subject matter expertise, they give organizations a tremendous amount of control over their corpora.

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Albert QianJuly 8, 2024 0

SAS Decision Builder in Microsoft Fabric: Helping you translate insights into action

SAS Decision Builder is a decision intelligence solution, which means that it uses machine learning and automation to augment human decision-making for better and faster insights that drive tactical and strategic business decisions. It’s a cousin to business intelligence and the next step after data engineering and model training, completing the analytics lifecycle to help achieve business goals.

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Learn SAS | Machine Learning

Rick WicklinJuly 8, 2024 0

On the reproducibility of responses by AI assistants

As announced and demonstrated at SAS Innovate 2024, SAS plans to include a generative AI assistant called SAS Viya Copilot in the forthcoming SAS Viya Workbench. You can submit a text prompt (by putting it in a comment string) and the Copilot will generate SAS code for you. My colleagues

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SAS Events

Olivia OjedaJuly 3, 2024 0

WIA spotlight: Women's voices in AI

This summer, the buzzword on everyone's lips is generative AI. From tech conferences and industry panels to mainstream media and casual conversations, AI has taken center stage, driving innovation and sparking debates about its impact on our future. One of the most exciting developments in AI is the growing impact

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Advanced Analytics

Becky GraebeJuly 2, 2024 0

US Space Force and industry leaders discuss a 'whole new frontier’ for AI and machine learning

US Space Force, US Space Command and industry pros explore how new technologies can be a force multiplier in space operations. Spoiler alert: The sky is not the limit. More than 300 US military, government civilian and industry professionals landed at SAS world headquarters June 25-26 for Cognitive Space Operations

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Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things | SAS Events

Caslee SimsJune 27, 2024 0

What do you get when you fuse GenAI with IoT?

GenAI's creative and analytical capabilities, integrated with IoT devices' connectivity and data insights, could lead to remarkable advancements. The market could become a mega-value creator, potentially exceeding $4.5 trillion by 2030. Discussions around this convergence were the focal point of a panel during the 2024 IoT Slam held at SAS

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Analytics

Jonathan MoranJune 27, 2024 0

3 reasons why marketers need SAS® for customer analytics

Customer analytics is becoming imperative for organizations that desire to create and provide personalized and satisfying customer experiences. To understand and anticipate customer needs, preferences and behaviors in a fast-moving marketplace, organizations must make sense of unstructured data, apply industry-specific data and analytics techniques, and optimize every customer-level decision and

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

David CarrickJune 26, 2024 0

From 9 cows to AI: the power of customer-led innovation

In modern business, innovation is not just a competitive advantage – it’s essential. Our Resiliency Rules study found that innovation is one of the five key elements needed for businesses in the modern landscape. But how do you drive innovation? By listening to your customers. At SAS, innovation is

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Fraud & Security Intelligence

Stu BradleyJune 24, 2024 0

Onboarding resilience in a fraudulent world: The power of decisioning

In financial services, the onboarding journey takes on heightened significance. It’s not just about welcoming new customers—it’s about safeguarding their information, validating identity, mitigating risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, and making a great first impression. To achieve these goals, modernizing the decisioning process is crucial. In fact, decisioning lies at the

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJune 24, 2024 0

Teaching an AI assistant to read and write SAS IML vectors

One of the most exciting features of SAS Viya Workbench is that the code editor includes a generative AI component called SAS Viya Copilot. This feature was announced and demonstrated at SAS Innovate 2024. With the Copilot, you can specify a text prompt that generates SAS code. For example, you

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SAS Events

Lilia Rodriguez

Lilia RodriguezJune 20, 2024 0

Educators share their experiences from SAS Innovate

Good educators are more than a source of knowledge; they inspire, innovate and continuously adapt to provide their students with the best learning experiences. They embrace new technologies, foster critical thinking and prepare students for future challenges. Recognizing their importance, SAS recently honored educators at SAS Innovate 2024. This year’s

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Artificial Intelligence | Risk Management

Kristi BoydJune 19, 2024 0

Understanding AI governance

AI governance is an all-encompassing strategy that establishes oversight, ensures compliance and develops consistent operations and infrastructure within an organization. It also fosters a human-centric culture. This strategy includes specific governance domains such as data governance and model governance, necessary for a unified AI approach. Why AI governance matters The

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Analytics

Kayt LeonardJune 18, 2024 0

Two sides of the same coin: GenAI and AI

“Generative AI is essentially just a subcategory of AI; it’s not that new algorithms have been invented.” Marinela Profi, AI Product Strategy Lead at SAS, says it up front and directly in her most recent podcast interview. “It takes a variety of data points, code, images and then, based on

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Artificial Intelligence | Marketing

Becky GraebeJune 11, 2024 0

SAS CMO Jenn Chase joins panel to discuss GenAI integration in marketing

SAS CMO Jennifer Chase and a panel of chief marketing officers offer insights on how they’re weaving AI into the business at American Marketing Association event Recent Salesforce research highlights a fact that didn’t seem to surprise the full-house audience at an American Marketing Association Annual CMO panel at SAS

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Artificial Intelligence

Danielle BatesJune 6, 2024 0

Banking on GenAI: Wells Fargo leads a conversation on AI innovation

A recent SAS survey revealed that 80% of business leaders are anxious about GenAI's data privacy and security implications Owing to these and other concerns, Wells Fargo Chief Data Officer Brian Gibbons and an esteemed panel of AI experts, hosted by Wells Fargo Technology Banking, addressed an audience of the

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Caslee SimsJune 4, 2024 0

8 impactful quotes from SAS leaders at theCUBE

Step into the vibrant, insightful platform that is theCUBE, where industry leaders don’t just talk tech; they unpack AI’s impact on our world. Eight quotes aren’t enough to describe all the knowledge shared by SAS leaders during theCUBE’s session at SAS Innovate 2024. But this blog post would go on

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Bill AbbateMay 24, 2024 0

These students are creating apps for our daily lives with SAS®

Remember when the popular catchphrase, “We have an app for that,” was the new big thing? You might not if you’re as young as the NC State University students who recently participated in the 11th annual SAS-NC State Design Project, but back when we could still count 21st-century years in

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMay 22, 2024 0

Create filled density plots in SAS

A SAS programmer wanted to visualize density estimate for some univariate data. The data had several groups, so he wanted to create a panel of density estimate, which you can easily do by using PROC SGPANEL in SAS. However, the programmer's boss wanted to see filled density estimates, such as

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Ellen Joyner-Roberson, CFE

Ellen Joyner-Roberson, CFEMay 21, 2024 0

3 ways generative AI can assist in criminal investigations

Across the world, investigators and law enforcement officers are tackling a rapidly evolving and expanding workload fueled by an increase in complex modern-day crimes. As technology alters the type and methodology of the crime itself – the evasion of tax payments, theft of public funds, erroneous disbursement of benefits, gaming

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SAS Events

Ginny InmanMay 17, 2024 0

Bringing the Innovation Hub home

Imagine stuffing a 500,000-square-foot event space into a 5,000-square-foot hallway. That was the crazy idea I had when I checked out the Innovation Hub. The Innovation Hub was the center of the action at SAS Innovate in Las Vegas. Attendees saw demos of the hottest new SAS solutions, met the technical

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Analytics

Vrushali Sawant

Vrushali SawantMay 16, 2024 0

5 ethical questions to consider before making AI-driven decisions

So now you're ready to make decisions with your models. You’ve asked many questions along the way and should now understand what’s all at play. But how can you ensure these decisions are trustworthy and ethical? Transparency is crucial. Sharing the reasoning behind our choices in relationships, whether at home

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Customer Intelligence

Lisa LoftisMay 15, 2024 0

Is your CDP living up to its promise?

Has your organization invested in a customer data platform (CDP) only to find that it's not living up to its promise? You're not alone. In fact, Digiday reports that only 10% of marketers who have a CDP believe it’s fit for purpose while an even smaller amount (1%) feel certain

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Analytics | Curiosity

John CareyMay 13, 2024 0

How SAS channel leaders make a difference for partners and customers

SAS and our vibrant partner network collaborate to help our customers address their toughest challenges with the power of data and AI. With partners around the globe and across industries, the SAS® Partner Program combines cutting-edge SAS software with our partners’ expertise and industry knowledge to meet customers’ unique business

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Artificial Intelligence

John GottulaMay 13, 2024 0

3 strategies for effective data anonymization for governments

The ancients’ practice of publicizing set-in-stone personal records would run anathema to modern data privacy laws. These days, in lieu of using contemporary personally identifiable records, I anonymized a 4,000-year-old tax record from ancient Babylon to describe three principles for effective data anonymization at scale: Embracing rare attributes: values and

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Udo SglavoMay 9, 2024 0

AI: A ‘new digital species’?

I've been fortunate to work on advanced analytics, machine learning and AI for more than 25 years. It’s more than a job. It’s my passion. So naturally, I was very interested in tuning into Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s TED talk, What is an AI anyway? From my perspective, Mustafa

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Analytics

Caslee SimsMay 7, 2024 0

Exploring generative AI's impact on ethics, data privacy and collaboration

Generative AI (GenAI) is booming. It’s not just a trend; it’s produced a seismic shift in how we approach innovation and technology. SAS Innovate 2024 has moved on from Las Vegas and is now on tour across the world. If you want a recap of what happened in Vegas or

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