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Patrick HallAugust 11, 2015 0

Machine learning is moving into the mainstream. Once the sole purview of academic researchers and advanced technology firms, machine learning is now being is used by many companies in more traditional industry verticals. Machine learning uses mathematical (not necessarily statistical) models to learn about data. In this context, learning about

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Patrick HallAugust 7, 2015 0

SAS on GitHub

Right now I’m crossing the Pacific toward Australia and New Zealand for the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (a.k.a. KDD), a Data Science Melbourne MeetUp, and the SAS Users of New Zealand conference. New Zealand is the birthplace of open source R. So this trip

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Analytics | Machine Learning

David PopeJuly 22, 2015 0

Machine learning in action today

What's that productivity related quote by Charles Dickens? "My advice is never do tomorrow what you can do today." For years, machine learning has been written about and discussed widely with a focus on the benefits it will bring in the near future. But guess what? The future for machine learning

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Machine Learning

Matthew StainerJune 26, 2015 0

Why I’m not worried by double negatives?

Double negatives seem to be everywhere, I have noticed them a lot in music recently. Since Pink Floyd sang "We don't need no education", to Rihanna's "I wasn’t looking for nobody when you looked my way". My own favourite song with a double negative is "I can't get no sleep" - Faithless. This

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Kenneth SanfordJune 5, 2015 0

Is machine learning trending with economists?

I am noticing a trend. At the ASSA meetings in January (where economics, sociology and finance academics and practitioners gather to discuss their research) I was surprised to see how much “machine learning” was trending with economists. The session “Machine Learning Methods in Economics and Econometrics,” with papers by Susan

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Machine Learning

Teresa JadeMay 6, 2015 0

Behind the scenes in natural language processing: Overcoming key challenges of rule-based systems

Today’s natural language processing (NLP) systems can do some amazing things, including enabling the transformation of unstructured data into structured numerical and/or categorical data. Why is this important? Because once the key information has been identified or a key pattern modeled, the newly created, structured data can be used in

Machine Learning

Annelies TjetjepApril 14, 2015 0

Science fact: “Model Factory” means getting the basics right.

I press a button, a miracle machine churns through all the calculations in the world and the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything[1] is produced as a single number. Oh hang on, that’s 42. Alright, for our microcosm, let’s stick to the answer to my

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Internet of Things | Machine Learning

Leo SadovyMarch 10, 2015 0

Relationship status - Connected; Analytics for Agency

“When it comes to the Internet of Things, the future clearly belongs to the Things”. I made this brash statement in a previous post (“Cloud encounters of the Fifth Kind”) referring to machine-to-machine (M2M) being the fastest growing component of non-human traffic on the Web. I say “brash” because that

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Manufacturing

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Phil WeissDecember 15, 2014 0

Don’t be fooled: there’s really only two basic types of distributed processing

Every time I pick up a new article about analytics, I am always disappointed by the fact that I cannot find any specifics mentioned about back-end processing. It is no secret that every vendor wishes they had the latest and greatest parallel processing capabilities, but the truth is that many

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Machine Learning

Fiona McNeillNovember 12, 2014 0

The prescription for unstructured data analysis is now legible

My Mum could have been a doctor – most can’t read her handwriting. It’s only because I’ve been trained to read it, I can. The analysis of unstructured data is similar. Text analysts can be quickly overwhelmed to learn that you have to manually develop a training corpus. Reading a

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Polly Mitchell-GuthrieAugust 29, 2014 0

Building a $1 billion machine learning model

At the KDD conference this week I heard a great invited presentation called How to Create a $1 billion Model in 20 days: Predictive Modeling in the Real World – A Sprint Case Study. It was presented by Tracey de Poalo from Sprint and former Kaggle President and well known

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Polly Mitchell-GuthrieAugust 22, 2014 0

Looking backwards, looking forwards: SAS, data mining, and machine learning

Looking forward, ten of my SAS colleagues and I are heading to New York City this weekend for KDD 2014: Data Science for the Social Good, which runs August 24-27. This event’s full name is the 20th Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Jared DeanMarch 21, 2014 0

March Madness and Predictive Modeling

In my region of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) one of the most anticipated times of the year has arrived— the NCAA basketball tournament. This is a great time of year for me, because I get to combine several of my passions. For those who don’t live among crazed college

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