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Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good

Lane WhatleyOctober 1, 2018 0

What can you learn from an AI art installation?

The solar farm at SAS world headquarters is a treasure trove of data. Jessica Peter, Senior User Experience Designer at SAS, had an idea about using that treasure in an art installation to show how data can tell a story. Her idea became a reality when she and others at SAS

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Customer Intelligence

Ashutosh KumarSeptember 26, 2018 0

Why customer journey design matters (and having analytics at its heart matters, too)

Marketing has changed and continues to change. Some of this is because of technology, but mostly it is the result of evolving customer expectations. Isolated customer interactions, however good, do not create a great customer experience. As isolated events, in fact, they may have a low level of influence on

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Analytics | Internet of Things

commute accelerometer

Chris HemedingerSeptember 26, 2018 0

Using your smartphone accelerometer to build a safe driving profile

How to extract driving patterns by using smartphone sensors -- especially the accelerometer. With accelerometer readings in hand, you can use spectral analysis and other techniques to decompose events, and machine learning to match differentiate from patterns of risky drivers.

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Artificial Intelligence | SAS Events

Anjelica CummingsSeptember 19, 2018 0

What could you create if nothing were impossible?

Referred to as the instigator of innovation, Mick Ebeling works to expand the human possibilities of technology through his company, Not Impossible Labs, whose mission is to change the world through technology and story. Powered by a team of thinkers, doers, creators and hackers, Not Impossible Labs works on inspirational

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinSeptember 19, 2018 0

Shuffling smackdown: Overhand shuffle versus riffle shuffle

Every day I’m shufflin'. Shufflin', shufflin'. -- "Party Rock Anthem," LMFAO The most popular way to mix a deck of cards is the riffle shuffle, which separates the deck into two pieces and interleaves the cards from each piece. Besides being popular with card players, the riffle shuffle is

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Advanced Analytics | Data for Good | Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerSeptember 18, 2018 0

Using machine learning to improve tumor biopsies

How can you use analytics to design better biopsies and improve outcomes? This high school student has some ideas, and she presented them at Analytics Experience 2018.

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Data Management

Joyce Norris-MontanariSeptember 6, 2018 0

Streaming data – How fast is fast?

Before grabbing that streaming data so quickly, Joyce Norris-Montanari says you should ask a few questions.

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Tiffany Carpenter

Tiffany CarpenterSeptember 5, 2018 0

Why your marketing attribution approach probably needs an overhaul

Back in the early 1900s, Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker supposedly said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” Wanamaker’s dilemma was that although he knew that traditional advertising of the time – newspapers, billboards, posters and the like – resulted

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Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerAugust 28, 2018 0

Manage the current directory within your SAS program

Using relative file paths in your SAS programs? Use the new DLGCDIR function to manage your SAS working directory -- even in SAS Enterprise Guide or SAS Studio -- to ensure your programs are working the way they ought to.

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Data Management

Coworkers discuss data lake management

Jim HarrisAugust 24, 2018 0

Data lake management for analytics

Jim Harris warns against allowing your data lake to become a poorly managed and ungoverned data dumping ground.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 23, 2018 0

Marginal model plots

Marginal model plots display the marginal relationship between the response and each predictor. You can use a SAS autocall macro, %Marginal, to display marginal model plots.

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzAugust 22, 2018 0

Pointillistic art with SAS® Visual Analytics

As a fun side project I recently looked into alternative visualization techniques in order to use computers to create art. An interesting approach is pointillism, which, according to Wikipedia is a "technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image." This

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Analytics

Alison BolenAugust 17, 2018 0

4 inspiring videos from Analytics Experience keynote speakers

Get ready to have your mind blown. Whether or not you plan to attend Analytics Experience in San Diego on September 17, you'll be inspired by the speakers we have lined up to keynote the event. There's an inventor. A data scientist. A world class athlete. And a photographer. They've

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Analytics

David PopeAugust 6, 2018 0

12 real-world examples of smart grid analytics

Looking for use cases for analytics to derive value at an electrical utility? We have identified over 125 ways you can use analytics to improve the business processes at an electric utility. I recently posted a series of blog posts discussing four different use cases. Now I'd like to share

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Energy & Utilities

Learn SAS | Machine Learning

Susan KahlerAugust 1, 2018 0

Top three video resources for machine learning newbies

Several weeks ago, I wrote about practical advice from a Chief Data Scientist in my blog “From Aristotle to Pi: Practical advice from a chief data scientist.” Now I want to offer my advice as a newbie trying to navigate through machine learning concepts and how to code them. Over

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Analytics | Data Management

Woman prepares a meal

Todd WrightAugust 1, 2018 0

Data preparation without analytics: Just well-mixed data

If you need more than just well-mixed data, take a look at data preparation from SAS.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerJuly 20, 2018 0

SAS code golf: find the max digit in a string of digits

"Code golf" is a fun programming pastime that challenges you to solve a problem with the least amount of code possible. Like regular golf, the goal is to use fewest code "strokes" to hit the mark. Here's a recent challenge that was posted to me via Twitter. @cjdinger @SASJedi got

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Donut chart of cluster samples

Emily GaoJuly 18, 2018 0

How to sample textual data with SAS

See how to sample unstructured (text) data using SAS Viya and CAS actions. This post includes complete code to cluster the text documents via k-means, and treats the cluster memberships as strata for analysis.

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Analytics

Federico Alberto PozziJuly 16, 2018 0

The role of emojis in sentiment analysis

In the new era of online visual communication, when you have to be fast and clear, emojis are getting a strong relevance as the main language that allows us to communicate with anyone globally. Customers know it and brands too. Collecting and analyzing data on emojis give companies useful insights

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Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJuly 11, 2018 0

The probability that two random chords of a circle intersect

In a previous article, I showed how to find the intersection (if it exists) between two line segments in the plane. There are some fun problems in probability theory that involve intersections of line segments. One is "What is the probability that two randomly chosen chords of a circle intersect?"

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Bas BelfiJuly 10, 2018 0

France or Belgium - analysis of the semifinalists

With a couple of big games coming up tonight and tomorrow, we teamed up with our partner SciSports to analyse the strengths of the remaining four teams. Here is an analysis of the French and Belgian teams. SciSports is a Dutch company providing data analysis and intelligence to the football industry. Their

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Internet of Things

Lee Ann DietzJune 26, 2018 0

Living in a model smart city in Cary, NC

I have lived in the Town of Cary for more than twenty years; two of my three children were born at the local WakeMed Cary Hospital. I’m a big fan of my city, or town as it prefers to be called – even though the population is over 160,000. That’s

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Steve MellgrenJune 21, 2018 0

The world is on the move: Exploring migration with network analysis

More than 3.5 percent of the world’s population is on the move, considered international migrants. That’s more than 250 million people living in a country different than their country of birth or nationality. To put that another way, if all migrants lived in a single country, their population would be

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Excel named range

Chris HemedingerJune 21, 2018 0

How to use SAS to read a range of cells from Excel

I've said it before: spreadsheets are not databases. However, many of us use spreadsheets as if they were databases, and then we struggle when the spreadsheet layout does not support database-style rigor of predictable rows, columns, and variable types -- the basic elements we need for analytics and reporting. If

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Mary OsborneJune 15, 2018 0

4 ways to visualize climate changes in the oceans and the Arctic

Many things in nature can be seen as chain reactions. When one action occurs, others follow suit. For example, atmospheric greenhouse gas levels are increasing, which leads to a warming of the oceans. As the oceans warm, weather and climate patterns across the globe are impacted because the amount of

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Yue QiJune 7, 2018 0

Recurrent neural networks: An essential tool for machine learning

Sequence models, especially recurrent neural network (RNN) and similar variants, have gained tremendous popularity over the last few years because of their unparalleled ability to handle unstructured sequential data. The reason these models are called “recurrent” is that they work with data that occurs in a sequence, such as text

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Data Visualization

Rick WicklinMay 23, 2018 0

A butterfly plot for comparing distributions

This article shows how to construct a butterfly plot in SAS. A butterfly plot (also called a butterfly chart) is a comparative bar chart or histogram that displays the distribution of a variable for two subpopulations. A butterfly plot for the cholesterol readings of 5,057 patients in a medical study

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Customer Intelligence

Suneel GroverMay 17, 2018 0

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Location analytics meets digital intelligence

When data meets geography, use cases revolve around mapping and spatial analytics. But what happens when you combine digital analytics and powerful visualization for customer location analysis? Leveraging data collection mechanisms, SAS 360 Discover captures first-party behavioral information across the entire digital customer experience with a brand’s websites and mobile

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Data for Good | SAS Events | Students & Educators

Trent SmithMay 11, 2018 0

Students showcase power of open data to help government

Open data is critical to research, particularly at universities. The many university students that attend SAS Global Forum bring an energy and vitality to the conference that is unmistakable. They’re everywhere…in sessions, social activities, out on the town and, of course, the academic events. This year, 150 of them graced

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Education | Government

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