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Analytics | Data for Good

Melody Schopp, PhD

Melody Schopp, PhDAugust 16, 2022 0

SAS, Hunt Institute partner to help states alleviate learning loss effects of COVID-19

The following blog was co-written by SAS' Melody Schopp, PhD and Javaid Siddiqi, PhD, President & CEO, The Hunt Institute. In March 2020, when nearly all schools closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most school leaders would never have anticipated the speed or length of school closures, nor the magnitude

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Analytics | SAS Events

Olivia OjedaAugust 15, 2022 0

Explore the summer with Women in Analytics

SAS has been busy this summer and so has Women in Analytics (WIA). Read through this list to learn something new, discover upcoming events and see what WIA has been up to! Batting Lab With the recent opening of the SAS Batting Lab, kids are learning how to improve

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinAugust 15, 2022 0

Tukey's ladder of variable transformations

John Tukey was an influential statistician who proposed many statistical concepts. In the 1960s and 70s, he was fundamental in the discovery and exposition of robust statistical methods, and he was an ardent proponent of exploratory data analysis (EDA). In his 1977 book, Exploratory Data Analysis, he discussed a small

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Analytics | Cloud | SAS Events

Shadi ShahinAugust 10, 2022 0

Your analytics, your way

Maybe you’re a SAS®9 programmer in the insurance industry who stores her analytics projects in a local desktop folder, or in a Git library. Or maybe you’re a data scientist who specializes in aviation forecasting and loves the no-code environment of SAS® Viya®. Or maybe you’re a Python devotee at

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Machine Learning

Prathiba Krishna

Prathiba KrishnaAugust 10, 2022 0

Interpretability vs. explainability: The black box of machine learning

It’s hard to get through a day in analytics now without hearing the words interpretability and explainability. These terms have become important in a world where machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) models are becoming more ubiquitous. However, what do the two terms mean—and more importantly, why do they matter?

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Analytics | Data Management | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Ashley BeckAugust 9, 2022 0

How the police use analytics to disrupt fraud and scams

See how analytics helps the police battle increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes and scams.

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Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good | Learn SAS

Reggie Townsend

Reggie TownsendAugust 8, 2022 0

Next generation of responsible AI innovators tackle real-world challenges with AI4ALL and SAS

As head of the SAS Data Ethics Practice, I spend a lot of time contemplating the social implications of AI. Considering its benefits like augmenting medical decisions and pitfalls, making decisions based on biased data results in dire consequences for patients. Such implications have the potential to impact society in a variety

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Dwijendra Dwivedi

Dwijendra DwivediAugust 8, 2022 0

7 common pitfalls to avoid when creating business value from AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is causing a digital transformation that is changing businesses’ operations. It is likely to bring a sea change compared to the Industrial Revolution. Many challenges with AI are technical, but most failures occur because of poor strategy and execution. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinAugust 8, 2022 0

Means and medians as minimizers of a loss function

On Twitter, I saw a tweet from @DataSciFact that read, "The sum of (x_i - x)^2 over a set of data points x_i is minimized when x is the sample mean." I (@RickWicklin) immediately tweeted out a reply: "And the sum of |x_i - x| is minimized by the sample

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Fraud & Security Intelligence

Insurance fraud costs an estimated £3 billion per year – but only around a third of that is detected.

Daniel DerhamAugust 2, 2022 0

Fraudsters share more intelligence than insurers!

Anyone in the insurance industry knows that fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated and their crimes more difficult to identify. Insurance fraud in the UK costs an estimated £3 billion per year – but only around a third of that is detected. Whilst opportunistic fraud poses a problem to the industry and

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Analytics | SAS Events | Students & Educators

Alex CoopAugust 2, 2022 0

Canadian post-grads tease policy recommendations from data during National Policy Challenge

To help burgeoning data researchers apply data analysis skills across policy sectors in economic, health and social science-informed areas of study, they need both policy and data industry experts to help them develop these critical skills before they graduate. The National Policy Challenge was developed with this goal in mind.

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Government | Health Care

Analytics

Alexey VodilinAugust 1, 2022 0

5 pillars for a successful DataOps strategy

Over the years, technologies for data access, data transformation, building machine learning models and decisioning have proven their value and become a must-have for a data-driven organization. These technologies belong to the data processing layer, everything that resides in the blue lower semi-circle in the diagram. What DataOps adds, in

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Jessica CurtisJuly 29, 2022 0

How to cultivate trust in analytical models and improve forecast adoption

Often the biggest challenge when implementing a successful forecasting process has nothing to do with the analytics. Forecast adoption – incorporating forecasts into decision-making – is just as high a hurdle to overcome as the models themselves. Forecasting is more than analytical models Developing a forecasting process typically begins with

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AgTech | Life Sciences | Manufacturing | Retail

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Augusta ZhangJuly 27, 2022 0

Long lines got you down? AI can help.

Queuing up to wait for services is a nearly universal experience. We routinely arrange ourselves in single file lines at the bank, at retail stores, and at the fast-food drive-through. Since the COVID pandemic hit, we've increasingly waited in lines to ensure our health – lining up to be seen

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Health Care | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Cloud

Tapan PatelJuly 25, 2022 0

2 years in: SAS and Microsoft partnership continues making waves

In June 2020, we announced our strategic partnership with Microsoft to help our joint customers address their most critical analytical challenges with SAS® Viya® on Azure. In honor of two years together, we’re highlighting some of our biggest milestones, favorite stories and impressive results. Better Together In June 2020, we announced our

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Bahar BillerJuly 20, 2022 0

Digital twin development: Why simulations are critical

SAS' Bahar Biller reveals how simulations enable KPI generation, risk quantification, risk management and more.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Cloud | Data Management | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Charlie ChaseJuly 19, 2022 0

How life science and health care supply chains can adapt to disruption

Robert Handfield, PhD, is a distinguished professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University and Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative. In an episode of the Health Pulse Podcast, Handfield gave his views regarding the challenges health care and life science companies have encountered over the past two years

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Health Care | Life Sciences | Manufacturing

Analytics

Zeynep SalmanJuly 13, 2022 0

5 steps to build agile and resilient collections

High unemployment rates of the post-pandemic era in many recovering regions and increasing inflation rates are signaling an economic recession. With the pressure of increasing energy prices on consumer cash flow and households in many advanced economies facing a cost of living crisis, collections managers know it’s time to transform

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Glyn TownsendJuly 13, 2022 0

Smart cities: Which parts of the UK are the most AI-ready?

AI has, for many years, been the stuff of fantasy. From the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the dystopian futures depicted in films such as Metropolis, the Matrix and Minority Report, the idea of intelligent machines has been capturing the imagination of writers for centuries. Our ability to store

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Education | Energy & Utilities | Government | Health Care

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Christian Hardahl

Christian HardahlJuly 5, 2022 0

Delivering the future: how biomarkers and analytics in maternity care save lives

Becoming a parent is one of the most exciting things in life. Unfortunately, sometimes pregnancy complications occur, remaining a serious challenge, that is not often talked about. Ahead are interviews with leading researchers in Dublin aimed to understand the impact of data and analytics on maternal health. According to the

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Advanced Analytics

Ji ShenJune 30, 2022 0

The SAS Batting Lab: The model powering the analysis

SAS research statistician Ji Shen reveals how to train a machine to be a batting coach.

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Visualization | Marketing

Charlie ChaseJune 30, 2022 0

How CDP technologies offer sales and marketing teams powerful insights

In today's environment, data is exceedingly important but also increasingly harder to get and manage. A reliable customer data platform (CDP) can provide significant value to retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Customer data platforms are used to consolidate and integrate customer and consumer data into a single data source. CDP

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AgTech | Manufacturing | Retail

Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Soundarya Palanisamy

Soundarya PalanisamyJune 24, 2022 0

Decentralizing clinical trials: how COVID-19 has changed drug development

The COVID-19 pandemic brought an enormous urgency to the life sciences sector. Companies vied for suitable treatments and in less than a year, COVID-19 vaccines were developed. This demonstrated clearly that the sector could move at speed when necessary. Though vaccines were supported by regulators, inefficiencies in vaccine and drug development were exposed.

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Analytics | Data for Good

Cindy TurnerJune 22, 2022 0

Care about climate change? Learn these 12 carbon terms.

See how these 12 carbon terms are starting to define our future.

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good

Emily JohnsonJune 20, 2022 0

The power of AI and analytics to combat deforestation

Rainforests are a vital part of the climate and life on our planet. Rainforests are known as ‘the lungs of the Earth’ because they produce 20% of the world’s oxygen. Because of this, conservation efforts are more important than ever. By combining the power of AI and analytics technologies with

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AgTech | Life Sciences

Analytics | SAS Events

Becky GraebeJune 14, 2022 0

Changing financial services, communities across the Arab world

When The Arab Academy for Management, Banking & Financial Sciences (AAMBFS) began looking for a business partner to help prepare a new generation of students for the increasing role analytics plays in the finance and business sectors, they took a very non-academic approach. Unlike traditional university programs focused on a

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Banking | Education | Retail

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Caslee SimsJune 13, 2022 0

Taking a swing at data literacy: an inside look at The SAS Batting Lab

The SAS Batting Lab is a six-week program designed to help improve kids’ understanding of data while also helping them improve their baseball and softball swings. Using analytics in an interactive, AI-powered batting cage, kids can compare their swings to batting stars. During the program, the participants also became more

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Cloud

Olivia OjedaJune 9, 2022 0

Extra! Extra! Read all about how SAS is leading in analytics!

SAS has been extending technological boundaries for many years. Whether in analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) or cloud, it excels in innovating what these technologies can do on a day-to-day basis. Recently, SAS released some of its most exciting announcements, sharing what is to come over the next couple of years.

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Alex CoopJune 8, 2022 0

Executives quiz supply chain expert about analytics challenges

Retail expert Charlie Chase recently participated in a private unplugged discussion about disruption challenges with retail executives hosted by the Retail Council of Canada. All quotes have been edited for maximum clarity, and participants have been de-identified. The last two years have created a major disruption for retailers and consumer

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Ali DixonJune 6, 2022 0

Introducing Analytics Pro Advanced Programming: The power of SAS on your desktop

SAS Analytics Pro Advanced Programming offers key statistical capabilities in a docker container. The product bundles selected executables from SAS Viya to create the container, which eases or streamlines the setup required for fixes and updates to the software.

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