Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tom Wriggins. Beneath the cute exterior hides a fraudster with Value-Based Payments on his mind. And cheese. Definitely cheese. Photo by Ricky Kharawala on Unsplash Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Value-Based Payments (VBP), health care’s new magic, “silver bullet” that will solve all our fraud problems. Last month, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release entitled, “HHS Proposes Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Reforms to Support Value-Based and Coordinated Care“ that announced changes to how the Physician Self-Referral Law (the “Stark Law”) and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute should be interpreted. The changes, ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andre De Vries. 19 November, 2019 | Andre de Vries 5 Reasons Why You Should Join the Tableau #DataDev Hackathons The final Tableau 2019 hackathon which took place on the 12th of November at the Tableau Conference was the last session organised by the Tableau Developer team in 2019. There were a total of eight hackathons this year in six different cities. I participated in two of them – London and Las Vegas. I really enjoyed taking part, and in this blog post I want to highlight a few reasons why you should join these ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hadley Wickham. [This article was first published on RStudio Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. I’m very excited to announce that Allison Horst is RStudio’s inaugural artist-in-residence. Allison is one of my favourite artists in the R community. Over the next year, she’s going to be working with us to create even more awesome artwork. Here’s a little about Allison in her own words. — Hadley Hello ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Two Hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Pharmacology, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods admmDensestSubmatrix v0.1.0: Implements a method to identify the densest sub-matrix in a given or sampled binary matrix ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Saunak Chandra. By Mitesh Shah, Sr. Cloud Product Manager at Denodo TechnologiesBy Saunak Chandra, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSOrganizations of all sizes are facing an increasingly complex data landscape. Data now resides in multiple on-premises systems and across cloud environments, and applications need to consume data regardless of its location. The growing numbers and volumes of data sources are increasingly difficult to manage, and enterprises are grappling with emerging business requirements such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), cloud integration, and more. The need for greater agility and faster time-to-market is clear, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jeanne (Hyunjin) Byun. 앞으로 10년 뒤 어떤 브랜드가 살아남고 성장을 지속할까요? SAS와 글로벌 시장조사기관 퓨처럼 리서치(Futurum Research)는 애널리틱스 익스피리언스 2019에서 ‘2030년 고객 경험의 미래(Experience 2030: The Future of Customer Experience)’ 설문조사 보고서를 발표했습니다. 다니엘 뉴먼(Daniel Newman) 퓨처럼리서치 수석분석가는 더 많은 권한을 갖게 된 소비자가 새롭게 등장하는 기술을 활용하고 마케팅 활동에 많은 영향력을 행사하고 있는 오늘날, 기업이 현 시점에서 운영 모델을 새롭게 재창조하는 방법을 주제로 기조연설을 진행했습니다. 이번 설문 조사 결과, 2030년 무렵에는 소비자들이 새로운 기술을 보다 많이 수용할 것으로 나타났습니다. 응답자의 80%는 드론 또는 자율 주행 차량이 제품을 배송할 것으로 예상했다. 응답자의 81%는 챗봇과 상담하게 될 ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jeanne (Hyunjin) Byun. 지난 10월 21일부터 23일까지 이탈리아 밀라노에서 열린 'SAS 애널리틱스 익스피리언스 2019(SAS Analytics Experience 2019)'에서는 SAS의 머신러닝, 컴퓨터 비전, 자연어처리 등 AI 기술을 기반으로 기업들이 어떻게 실제(real) 가치를 실현할 수 있는지 보여주는 다양한 사례들이 소개되었습니다. 특히 행사 둘째 날에는 짐 굿나잇 SAS CEO, 올리버 샤벤버거 SAS 수석부회장 겸 최고운영책임자(COO) & 최고기술책임자(CTO)의 기조연설과 함께 딥 러닝, 클라우드 및 오픈소스 통합 등에 초점을 맞춘 breakout 세션들이 진행됐습니다. 셋째 날 역시 분석 업계에 새로운 화두를 던지는 흥미로운 오피니언 리더들의 기조연설이 이어졌는데요. 데이터 분석의 통합적인 운영과 비즈니스 성공 사례를 넘어 신경경제학, 스페셜올림픽 등 SAS가 다양한 글로벌 오피니언 리더들과 ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Mark Beccue. This is the first installment of a series on AI ethics. As we near the end of 2019, artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to steadily permeate our world. While promoters wax on about how AI is helping to track and save snow leopards, accurately predict high risk patients for atrial fibrillation (A-fib), and seamlessly solve customer service issues, there is concern about how the use of AI technology can be controlled. In Tractica’s view, the primary ethical issues for AI fall into four categories: Privacy: Managing the use and ownership of personal data ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Just a reminder, we recently notified you on several Amazon GameLift feature updates including the ability to create GameLift fleets backed by Amazon Linux 2, and the ability to run game servers on the next generation C5, M5, and R5 instances. To learn more about CloudFormation support, check out the documentation ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Until now, you could generate personalized recommendations through Amazon Personalize for individual users in real time. Amazon Personalize now supports batch recommendations, which lets you generate personalized recommendations for a large number of users, or similar items for a large number of items, in one go, and then use them in batch processes, such as sending emails or notifications. To use batch recommendations, simply create a batch inference job through the AWS console or the API, and provide a file (via S3) with a list of users or items for whom you want to generate recommendations. Amazon ... Read More