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Work & Life at SAS

Alyssa GrubeApril 11, 2022 0

Cindy's big idea: how upcycling could help ease the affordable housing crisis

When most of us see an abandoned mobile home, we see just that: an abandoned mobile home. But when Cindy Turner, Sr. Communications Specialist, sees an abandoned mobile home, she sees something different: opportunity. Cindy’s Big Idea  “I kept seeing more and more about the lack of affordable housing in

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Learn SAS | Students & Educators

Alex CoopMarch 21, 2022 0

Hooked on data science: gamification drives engagement among students and trainees

While studying business intelligence as an undergraduate student at business school HEC Montreal, Camille Duchesne encountered Cortex, an analytics simulation that pits participants against each other to develop the most accurate models for a particular task. In this case, the simulation supports a fictional charity by predicting which subjects from

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMarch 21, 2022 0

Five constants every statistical programmer should know

Statistical programmers need to access numerical constants that help us to write robust and accurate programs. Specifically, it is necessary to know when it is safe to perform numerical operations such as raising a number to a power without exceeding the largest number that is representable in finite-precision arithmetic. This

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerMarch 17, 2022 0

Programming the Wordle game in SAS

One approach to creating the Wordle game in the SAS programming language. Ready to play?

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Analytics

Liz MoranMarch 2, 2022 0

SAS, Duke partnership creating future health care analysis "unicorns"

Creating population health experts with strong analytical skills can make a significant impact in advancing health goals. That's why Duke University’s Department of Population Health Sciences (DPHS) master’s program is partnering with SAS to equip students with the skills they need to not only implement patient-level decisions and system-level change

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Management

Lindsay HartMarch 1, 2022 0

"Hack the Case" competition challenges students to solve real business analytics problems

"Exhausting, but exhilarating," said participants in Hack the Case – a unique, 10-day competition hosted by Ivey Business School, SAS, Deloitte and Scotiabank, with the assistance of the Centre for Advanced Computing, Queen’s University. Students from Ivey Business School’s Master of Science (MSc) in Management, Business Analytics start with a

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Data Management | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

SAS JediFebruary 11, 2022 0

Jedi SAS tricks: resizing, renaming and reformatting your data

SAS' Mark Jordan shows you how to modify data using PROC SQL, PROC DATASETS and SAS macros.

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Caslee SimsFebruary 11, 2022 0

3 tips to optimize your sports league schedule

Sports leagues face a difficult task in creating a fair game schedule for their teams. Scheduling dates for sporting events is one of the first things that can go wrong in a season. By using optimization strategies, leagues can maximize their potential and fans can reap the benefits. Sports fans

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Sports & Entertainment

Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinFebruary 9, 2022 0

Billiards on a heart-shaped table

For some reason, SAS programmers like to express their love by writing SAS programs. Since Valentine's Day is next week, I thought I would add another SAS graphic to the collection of ways to use SAS to express your love. Last week, I showed how to use vector operation and

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Analytics | Cloud | Data Management

Jim HarrisFebruary 7, 2022 0

How containers have moved us to next-gen virtualization

With containers, you can build once, run anywhere – no worries about underlying dependencies.

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Analytics | Data for Good | Students & Educators

Alyssa FarrellFebruary 4, 2022 0

Addressing health inequities and closing the cancer care gap with data and technology

Inequities in cancer care cause specific populations in the U.S. and worldwide to bear a more significant burden of disease than the general population, based upon barriers. These barriers to prevention and care have long existed but were undeniably exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. February 4 marks World Cancer Day, which

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Work & Life at SAS

Alison BolenFebruary 4, 2022 0

Advice from cancer patients and survivors for World Cancer Day

Talking to others about our health isn’t always easy, especially when it comes to cancer. However, many cancer survivors take comfort in sharing their stories and hearing the stories of others. “Every cancer story is unique, just like every cancer is unique” says Elizabeth Creech, Digital Marketing Manager at SAS.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Nicole BallFebruary 1, 2022 0

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks… or can you?

When we moved out to the country with our two dogs, our oldest dog Todd suddenly decided he liked to howl…. And he would do so every time we left the house. Maybe it was the country air? Maybe it was a time-lapse gene? Maybe he just wanted to learn

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Analytics | Data for Good

Caslee SimsJanuary 13, 2022 0

Revisiting your favorite SAS content from 2021

From COVID-19 vaccines, climate change, supply chain issues and everything in between, 2021 set forth a wealth of thought-provoking ideas and data-related topics for us to share with you on this blog. Last year, SAS announced more groundbreaking partnerships and expanded upon its corporate responsibility efforts to help solve some

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Data Management | Risk Management

Alex CoopJanuary 10, 2022 0

Mergers and acquisitions: coming together with data and analytics

Mergers and acquisitions are difficult to pull off, but they can impress when the right strategy is applied. And analyzing your data almost always helps with the right strategy. In the first eight months of 2021, publicly announced M&A activities were valued at more than $3.6 trillion globally and $1.8

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Cloud | Machine Learning

Charlie ChaseJanuary 10, 2022 0

Can demand planning save your supply chain? Find out with this free trial

The past 20 months of disruptions caused by COVID-19 have been a wake-up call for retailers and consumer goods companies. Unpredictable market trends have caused havoc with categories, brands and products making it harder to predict supply requirements. All of these changes have given rise to the need for consumption

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Manufacturing | Retail

Fraud & Security Intelligence

Insurance Fraud

Zuzanna Karolak

Zuzanna KarolakDecember 13, 2021 0

The pandemic drives fraud in the insurance sector

The pandemic has definitely left its mark on the scale of the fraud we’re witnessing in the insurance industry. The key reason behind this is the economic recession. Whenever we observed a decline in a country’s GDP, an increase in fraud rates followed. When GDP fell by an average of

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Data Visualization

Nancy RauschDecember 13, 2021 0

Is it really better to give than to receive? Data science says yes

Active gratitude is the feeling you get when a stranger does something nice for you without expecting anything in return. While both are beneficial for our health, there is a statistically significant, positive correlation between active gratitude and pro-sociality (r = 0.374), that is not present with passive gratitude. In other words, random acts of kindness trigger other random acts of kindness to other people, which is both good for us and good for society.

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Analytics

Alex CoopDecember 10, 2021 0

The future of AI from 5 influential figures

There is no shortage of challenges associated with the deployment of AI: a lack of access to infrastructure, a lack of skills, and new legislation meant to enforce the responsible use of this evolving technology. But the most consequential questions facing us are innately human. Namely, ensuring human agency, safety

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Fraud & Security Intelligence | Risk Management

Alex CoopDecember 9, 2021 0

Scammers are relentless – but experts say data is your best friend

The threat of fraud is ever-present and growing. Organizations lose around 5% of their annual revenues to fraud, and many of them don't take sufficient proactive measures. It's notable that only 56% of organizations conduct investigations of even their worst incidents. That statistic is based on the 2020 ACFE Report

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Advanced Analytics | Internet of Things

Nick JohnsonDecember 2, 2021 0

4 ways to make better, faster decisions with enterprise decision management from SAS Viya on Azure

SAS and Microsoft empower you to make better, faster decisions with unique enterprise decision management.

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Banking | Insurance | Retail

Analytics

Burak BaskinDecember 1, 2021 0

Applying analytics to reduce violence against women: Lessons from VioGén

Around the world, violence against women is a huge problem. It has personal, social and economic costs. One study in Europe, for example, estimated that the cost of violence against women runs into hundreds of billions of euros each year. Law enforcement agencies are key to reducing and preventing violence

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Analytics

Melody Schopp, PhD

Melody Schopp, PhDDecember 1, 2021 0

Using data to understand the pandemic’s impact on individual K-12 learners

Whatever you choose to call it – learning loss, learning disruption, or unfinished learning – there is widespread agreement among educators, parents, and other caregivers focused on the needs of K-12 learners that COVID-19-related disruptions had a serious impact on their education. But dig a little deeper and the story

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Analytics

Ines RiestraNovember 9, 2021 0

Data science for public safety: Preventing gender-based violence

Analytics offers huge potential to transform raw data into operational intelligence. It provides new insights into old or new problems. This is crucial in business – but it is even more important for tackling big societal issues, such as domestic violence or human trafficking. I recently had the opportunity to

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Analytics | Data for Good

Caslee SimsNovember 9, 2021 0

Can evidence-based policing change the narrative about public safety?

Multiple burglaries were reported over a three-week span in a specific area of Delaware. Delaware State Police used their institutional knowledge augmented by analytics and were able to bust the burglary ring after matching surveillance footage and public records to an address and photo description. In the past, the only option

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things

Caslee SimsOctober 27, 2021 0

How wearable technology has improved access to health care

The convergence of digitalization, AI and machine learning that has been integrated into wearable devices has become a boon for many industries, particularly health care. When Fitbit launched its first wearable device in 2009, it clipped on a user’s clothing and utilized an internal motion detector to track the wearer’s

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonOctober 22, 2021 0

How to (mis)label a map

This blog post is mostly just a bunch of fun maps ... maps that are labeled (or mislabeled) in various ways, using fun/interesting data. I focus on the 'fun' part, but if you're not careful you might also learn a little about the various ways to add labels to maps

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Analytics | SAS Events

Alison BolenOctober 19, 2021 0

SAS Championship 2021, in photos

Every year, the SAS Championship brings a week of sports, leadership and literacy activities to the Raleigh area. Take a minute to enjoy this photo album from the week, and visit the SAS Championship online or on Twitter to learn more about the tournament, the winners and the fundraisers.

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Advanced Analytics

Bahar BillerOctober 18, 2021 0

How SAS developed a digital twin of a supply chain

SAS' Bahar Biller, an operations researcher, details how to develop a supply chain digital twin.

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Ginny InmanOctober 13, 2021 0

How SAS is saving the sweet potato

Have you ever thought of a sweet potato as ugly? These tuberous, root vegetables are a holiday staple, but the sweet potato industry prefers a certain size, shape and weight for them to make it to your grocery store. Many farmers even leave the potatoes deemed “ugly” in the fields,

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