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Paula Henderson

Paula HendersonDecember 9, 2022 0

3 ways to overcome leadership challenges in health care

What are the hallmarks of leadership? I have often asked myself this throughout my career journey as a technology leader. I place a high value on empathy, collaboration, passion and curiosity. In the health care industry that we all rely on, transformational leadership is a must. Few things about our

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinDecember 7, 2022 0

Art in SAS: Christmas wrapping paper

For Christmas 2021, I wrote an article about palettes of Christmas colors, chiefly shades of red, green, silver, and gold. One of my readers joked that she would like to use my custom palette to design her own Christmas wrapping paper! I remembered her jest when I saw some artwork

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinNovember 30, 2022 0

Ladders: A probabilistic card trick

A probabilistic card trick is a trick that succeeds with high probability and does not require any skill from the person performing the trick. I have seen a certain trick mentioned several times on social media. I call it "ladders" or the "ladders game" because it reminds me of the

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Data for Good | Work & Life at SAS

Evan MarkfieldNovember 22, 2022 0

Data for good volunteer helps bring 'Sweeter Dreams'

Jason Colón was hoping to work on a data for good project – any data for good project, really – offered through SAS’ analytic volunteer program. He had no idea the one he would be asked to do would hit so close to home for him. The organization – which

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Programming Tips | Work & Life at SAS

Joseph CastleNovember 4, 2022 0

Building an open source software community

Joseph Castle offers some important considerations that will help you when building and working in an OSS community.

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Advanced Analytics

Xi JiangNovember 1, 2022 0

Risk driver analysis for complex supply chains

SAS' Bahar Biller and Xi Jiang use the example of a semiconductor manufacturing plant to illustrate the role of sensitivity analysis in assessing supply chain risk.

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinOctober 24, 2022 0

Implement binary logistic regression from first principles

I recently gave a presentation about the SAS/IML matrix language in which I emphasized that a matrix language enables you to write complex analyses by using only a few lines of code. In the presentation, I used least squares regression as an example. One participant asked how many additional lines

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Work & Life at SAS

Alyssa GrubeOctober 20, 2022 0

Researching a company? Start with these 10 questions.

It’s tried-and-true, sage advice – there’s no substitute for preparation. Before an interview, career fair or other engagement with a company you’re interested in, it’s important to do your digging. After all, interviews are a two-way street: you have to be a good fit for the company you’re interviewing with,

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinOctober 19, 2022 0

On solving rank-deficient systems of equations in SAS

Recently, I needed to write a program that can provide a solution to a regression-type problem, even when the data are degenerate. Mathematically, the problem is an overdetermined linear system of equations X*b = y, where X is an n x p design matrix and y is an n x 1 vector. For most

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SAS Events

Caslee SimsOctober 18, 2022 0

2022 SAS Championship and HBCU Invitational, in photos

For 22 years, SAS Championship week – full of golf and community events - has provided countless memories for fans and attendees young and old. Golfing legends have walked the fairways of Prestonwood Country Club each year, battling for one of the largest purses on the PGA Tour Champions. PGA tour

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Sports & Entertainment

Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Federica Citterio

Federica CitterioSeptember 30, 2022 0

How advancements in automated computer vision are keeping us safe

Using SAS Viya in combination with open-source capabilities, we were able to develop an automated solution for logo detection that does not require any manual data labeling.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 26, 2022 0

Display correlations in a list format

The correlations between p variables are usually displayed by using a symmetric p x p matrix of correlations. However, sometimes you might prefer to see the correlations listed in "long form" as a three-column table, as shown to the right. In this table, each row shows a pair of variables and the

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Analytics | Learn SAS | SAS Events

Diana MarisSeptember 14, 2022 0

Intelligent Decisioning: Ensuring fairness in analytically-driven decision making

Attend this session during the SAS Explore event on Sept 27-29 or view the recording at your convenience. We will showcase the use of SAS Intelligent Decisioning, SAS Model Manager, and SAS Visual Analytics on the SAS Viya platform for a solution that helps mitigate inequitable credit decisions.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 14, 2022 0

Base 26: A mapping from integers to strings

I recently showed how to represent positive integers in any base and gave examples of base 2 (binary), base 8 (octal), and base 16 (hexadecimal). One fun application is that you can use base 26 to associate a positive integer to every string of English characters. This article shows how

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

Falko SchulzSeptember 7, 2022 0

Analyzing demographics and patterns-of-life using SAS Visual Analytics

The IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge provides a great opportunity to validate our software against real-world scenarios using complex data sets. Not only do we learn from these projects, but we also send feedback to our development teams to further improve product capabilities for customers.

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Banking | Government

Analytics

Hidden Insights - What are the odds - will your child have the same name as their classmates?

Harry SnartSeptember 6, 2022 0

What are the odds: Will your child have the same name as their classmates?

Many parents when naming their children, want to choose a name that they like, but that isn’t so popular that everywhere they go they hear it being called. But even for the most popular girls’ and boys’ names, how likely is it that there will be children with the same

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Analytics | Data Management | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Ellen Joyner-Roberson, CFE

Ellen Joyner-Roberson, CFEAugust 31, 2022 0

5 technology considerations for law enforcement

Having the right data analytics platform can help law enforcement solve crimes faster.

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Melody Schopp, PhD

Melody Schopp, PhDAugust 29, 2022 0

Accelerating learning recovery with analytics

A line in the sand was drawn in March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools closed and all education-related stories focused on learning loss and other related events that happened after that date. As the discussion shifts to learning recovery, there is still a significant amount of

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinAugust 29, 2022 0

Order the bars in a bar chart with PROC SGPLOT

A SAS programmer was trying to understand how PROC SGPLOT orders categories and segments in a stacked bar chart. As with all problems, it is often useful to start with a simpler version of the problem. After you understand the simpler situation, you can apply that understanding to the more

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Liz MoranAugust 19, 2022 0

Industry is responsible for career readiness, too

During the past decade, the public has grown increasingly skeptical of the value of a post-secondary degree. Rising tuition costs and job opportunities in the labor market have only exacerbated enrollment and financial challenges for higher education. In many US cities, wages for new hires have gone up across the

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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

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 of its impact on students and educators. As state departments of education and local school districts continue to take measures

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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 | 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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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

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