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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

How Analytics Is Shaping the World of Sport

Reece CliffordMay 4, 2018 0

How analytics is shaping the world of sport

In the following 2012 season, NBA teams shot an average of 18.4 three-point shots per game, which had risen by four shots per game since the 2001-02 season. Just five years later, this number rose by 8.6 attempts per game, to an average of 27 attempts in 2017. But what caused this increase?

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Data for Good

mom and three kids hiking in woods with backpacks

Saurabh GuptaMay 4, 2018 0

Healthy Nevada Project drives life-changing results

Landmark population health study involving 50,000 northern Nevadans turns to SAS to reveal hidden health insights These are exciting times in health care. Earlier this week I read that the NIH will soon open enrollment for its “All of Us” initiative. The research program aims to compile the genetic and health

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Work & Life at SAS

Allison BonnerApril 30, 2018 0

Embracing all abilities: The ultimate win-win

When you ask Mark Yost about what he does at SAS every day, his eyes light up. Mark’s our Assistant Manager for Food Services at SAS, but he’s so much more than that. He’s a champion for diversity and a leader who empowers his team to be the same. For

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Analytics | Internet of Things | Students & Educators

Randy GohApril 25, 2018 0

IoT use cases on display at new innovation centre

A future of flying cars and Minority Report-styled predictive dashboards may still be some time away, but the possibilities of robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered automation are a reality today. From connected cars to smart homes and offices, we see daily how big data and the Internet of Things (IoT)

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Artificial Intelligence | Students & Educators

Michela GuerraApril 24, 2018 0

Hackathon: It takes heart and brains to be data driven

What if a famous soccer team asks you to predict how many tickets for their next match will be sold to women? Seventy students from Bicocca University of Milan tried to answer this question a couple of weeks ago. They were divided into 19 groups during a hackathon that SAS

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Data Visualization

Rick WicklinApril 23, 2018 0

The 80-20 rule for blogs

You've probably heard about the "80-20 Rule," which describes many natural and manmade phenomena. This rule is sometimes called the "Pareto Principle" because it was discovered by Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) who used it to describe the unequal distribution of wealth. Specifically, in his study, 80% of the wealth was held

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Advanced Analytics

Susan KahlerApril 20, 2018 0

How to build deep learning models with SAS

SAS® supports the creation of deep neural network models. Examples of these models include convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, feedforward neural networks and autoencoder neural networks. Let’s examine in more detail how SAS creates deep learning models using SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning. Deep learning models with

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Programming Tips

Steven SoberApril 18, 2018 0

How to Emulate DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS® Viya™

DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS Viya

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization

Lane WhatleyApril 16, 2018 0

The remarkable results of applied curiosity

The SAS® Global Forum Technology Connection isn’t just an opportunity to show off what SAS has been working on. It’s a chance to meet the people behind SAS® technology, see the results of their relentless curiosity, and understand how the world is transformed by it. Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and

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Programming Tips

Rick WicklinApril 16, 2018 0

Random permutations without duplicates

A colleague and I recently discussed how to generate random permutations without encountering duplicates. Given a set of n items, there are n! permutations My colleague wants to generate k unique permutations at random from among the total of n!. Said differently, he wants to sample without replacement from the

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Analytics | Work & Life at SAS

John SpoonerApril 13, 2018 0

Looking back, looking forward…my first 20 years with analytics

Hard though it is to say (and to believe), I joined SAS 20 years ago this week, on Tuesday 14 April 1998. As a fresh-faced, bright-eyed 23 year old, I worked in the UK training department as a statistics trainer. SAS 6.12 was the latest version of our product, SAS/Assist

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Can artificial intelligence transform the health care sector?

Morten Krogh DanielsenApril 11, 2018 0

Can artificial intelligence transform the health care sector?

New technologies offering new ways to solve complicated and costly problems are entering the health care sector . Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of them. To succeed with AI, you need to think in an analytical manner, to build an analytical organisation and, as a part of that, you need an analytics

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Analytics | Data for Good

Anjelica CummingsApril 9, 2018 0

What can be achieved when passion, curiosity and analytics come together?

SAS has never been able to sit idle and watch from the sidelines as crises ensue. Why? Because we know that good can be made possible if data is put to work. SAS Global Forum opening session spotlighted four real-life examples of how SAS is showing up and improving the

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | SAS Events

Anjelica CummingsApril 9, 2018 0

Watch new discoveries unfold at SAS Global Forum

Bright lights, a packed house, loud music and high energy – these are the elements that come to life every year in the SAS Global Forum opening session. But it’s not just about the entertainment and energy. Each year, the Sunday night opening session sets the stage for conference attendees.

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

I-sah HsiehApril 6, 2018 0

Data can tell stories that transform the world

Data and analytics touch our lives every day. Consider: A call from your bank warning of a suspicious transaction. A well-timed discounted offer for something you need. Most people realize that data and analytics are behind these things, but they remain on the periphery of mainstream conversations. We need to

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Data Management | Internet of Things

Businesswoman ponders data integration challenges

David LoshinApril 2, 2018 0

Data integration challenges for the extended information enterprise

In the extended enterprise, data integration challenges abound. David Loshin explains.

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Machine Learning

Cindy WangMarch 29, 2018 0

Play with classification of Iris data using gradient boosting

Gradient boosting is one of the most widely used machine learning models in practice. See how to use gradient boosting model for classification in SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.

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Data Management

Confident businesswoman considers data lake governance

Kim KalubaMarch 27, 2018 0

Data lake governance – Do you need it?

Kim Kaluba gives examples of the benefits of data governance for data lakes.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Chevell ParkerMarch 21, 2018 0

The many faces of HTML

Generating HTML output might be something that you do daily. After all, HTML is now the default format for Display Manager SAS output, and it is one of the available formats for SAS® Enterprise Guide®. In addition, SAS® Studio generates HTML 5.0 output as a default. The many faces of

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Customer Intelligence

Richard GrackMarch 21, 2018 0

Six factors that determine customer intelligence project success

Having been involved in some capacity in more than 100 Customer Intelligence (CI) sales and implementation cycles, one of the most common questions perspective clients ask me is: “What do we need to do to make this project successful?” Over the years, I have distilled six themes that ultimately determine

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Data Visualization

Rick WicklinMarch 14, 2018 0

Visualize repetition in song lyrics

One of my favorite magazines, Significance, printed an intriguing image of a symmetric matrix that shows repetition in a song's lyrics. The image was created by Colin Morris, who has created many similar images. When I saw these images, I knew that I wanted to duplicate the analysis in SAS!

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Analytics

sports analytics midsize business

Tonia CalvioMarch 7, 2018 0

Sports teams demonstrate analytics workload size does not affect outcome

Most people’s ideas about analytics in sport are probably based on the book and film Moneyball, about Billy Beane, manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team in 2002, and his efforts to find a way to build a winning team without overspending. His analytical approach set the foundation for the

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Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS | SAS Events

Jordan Bakerman

Jordan BakermanMarch 6, 2018 0

Use R to interface with SAS Cloud Analytics Services

The R SWAT package (SAS Wrapper for Analytics Transfer) enables you to upload big data into an in-memory distributed environment to manage data and create predictive models using familiar R syntax. In the SAS Viya Integration with Open Source Languages: R course, you learn the syntax and methodology required to

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Succesful hackathon

Christian Giraud

Christian GiraudFebruary 28, 2018 0

My top 10 elements for a successful hackathon

As a regular hackathon participant, I’m often asked about what I appreciate in a well-run event, and what makes a hackathon successful. I’ve written before about the power of hackathons to be a melting pot of creativity, education and teamwork, whether in general, or in specific sectors like banking. They

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Data Management

Man enjoys smartphone music thanks to data preparation for streaming data

Jim HarrisFebruary 7, 2018 0

Data preparation for streaming data

Jim Harris considers the technical infrastructure challenges of data preparation for streaming data.

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeFebruary 5, 2018 0

Dual Response Axis Bar and Line Overlay - Part 1

A dual response axis chart is useful when the data type for the multiple measures are not compatible. For example, when overlaying measures like "This Year" sales with "Last Year" sales, the format and magnitudes of the two measures (or values for two groups) may be compatible, and it is

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzJanuary 30, 2018 0

Building and visualizing custom polygons in SAS Visual Analytics

Can you use a data visualization tool to display building maps, floor designs and other Esri data? With the recent addition of custom polygon support in SAS Visual Analytics 8.2, customers wondered if this feature can be utilized to render different types of regional overlays. A common request is to

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Customer Intelligence

Aimee RodriguezJanuary 8, 2018 0

A marketer’s guide for real-time analytics

Real-time analytics is, at its most basic, being able to present the right offer at the right time. And it’s the ultimate competitive differentiator in today’s age of highly valued customer experiences. Marketers need to understand why this capability is so important to customers, and how to implement this kind

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Internet of Things

Lonnie MillerJanuary 5, 2018 0

How to monetize connected vehicles with analytics and mobility services

For the last two years, I’ve spent time listening to and brainstorming with automakers, their suppliers and other technology companies about how to monetize connected vehicle data. This involves: Data that’s offloaded from a roving vehicle fleet (cars, trains, semi-trucks, farm tractors, you name it!). Data coming from driving-related mobile apps used

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Government | Manufacturing

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