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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tiffany Carpenter. Organisations across the globe are caught in the midst of a digital revolution – one that has sent shockwaves rippling through every industry. Business leaders recognise the scale and pace of change: 68 per cent of executives surveyed by Accenture say that they expect their industry to be significantly disrupted by technology in the next three years. As agile startups continue to disrupt the value chains of traditional industries, weathering market change has become part of the ebb and flow of doing business. What’s more, with new regulations mandating industries such as banking and ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kim Andreaus. “Sharon” is overwhelmed by caring for her parents: both of their caregiving needs are increasing, she is weary from lack of sleep and fearful that her own health is in jeopardy.  Her siblings live out of the area and seem unable to help.  In addition to caring for her parents, she has small children and works full time.   She feels stressed, alone, and unsure how to manage all of the caregiving responsibilities. Caregiving presents both rewards and challenges.   Often the responsibilities land on one person’s shoulders either by choice or default (statistically speaking it ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kim Andreaus. Last month I wrote a blog about sibling rivalry in caregiving which began with the following thoughts:  'As we are all well aware, providing caregiving for our parent(s) is complicated and messy.   Siblings can often be both a blessing and a curse in this process, providing much needed relief and support, or perhaps creating additional stress and barriers to important decisions and resources.' I received several very thoughtful responses – some of which followed a fairly consistent pattern of “Ok, thanks for unpacking the concept – now what?”  So I thought I would spend ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kim Andreaus. As we are all well aware, providing caregiving for our parent(s) is complicated and messy.   Siblings can often be both a blessing and a curse in this process, providing much needed relief and support, or perhaps creating additional stress and barriers to important decisions and resources. Why is this the case? When I taught Human Behavior and Development, I would often tell my college students that early life with our siblings was our “relationship school” – this was the environment in which we learned our social interaction skills, practiced conflict resolution, mediation, and setting ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. “They were the best of asteroids, they were the worst of asteroids.” ~ Charles Dickens Armstrong There are good asteroids, and there are bad asteroids. Good asteroids stay in their own neighborhoods and wait for us to come visit them.  Bad asteroids, however, don’t wait for an invitation – they could potentially visit us in our own home, any time. Oh, and bad asteroids are bigger, about 40 times bigger, measuring about 2 km in diameter. They impact the Earth roughly once every 500,000 years with a force of 45,000 megatons. That's about seven ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tobias Witt. A speaker at a recent major tech event quipped that “they will only call it AI until it is useful”. The point was that AI for the sake of AI is pointless, and can even be counter-productive. As soon as someone conceives and develops an actual use case, they name the technology after the problem or value it addressed. In other words, when there are real AI-using solutions, we won’t be talking about "health care AI", we’ll be talking about, for example, cutting hospital-acquired infections by 30%. AI in the Swedish public sector – ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Missy Hannah. With all the excitement around SAS’ new software architecture, SAS Viya, we often get asked the question: What is it and how can it help my company conquer our analytics challenges? Fortunately, learning more about SAS Viya has never been easier. SAS Viya extends the SAS® Platform and provides reliable, scalable, and secure analytics inventory management and governance. It allows for faster processing, access to machine learning, plus support for other languages like Python, R, Java, and Lua. In addition, it has support for on-site, cloud, or hybrid environments. It opens SAS to more ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Anjelica Cummings. Here’s something you should know about Vice President of Sales Marvio Portela: He’s the kind of leader who’s not afraid to admit making a mistake. “I have had more than one life at SAS,” said Marvio, who explained that his first career at SAS began in 2010. “SAS is a place where you can be who you are, but eventually, I made a mistake: I left.” Fortunately for SAS, and for Marvio, that mistake didn’t last long. Two years after his departure, Marvio returned to SAS to lead the Sales team in Brazil. He ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. Heat maps have many uses. You can use a heat map to visualize correlation matrices, to visualize longitudinal data ("lasagna plots"), and to visualize counts in any two-dimensional table. As of SAS 9.4m3, you can create heat maps in SAS by using the HEATMAP and HEATMAPPARM statements in PROC SGPLOT. Prior to SAS 9.4m3, you could create heat maps by using the Graph Template Language (GTL) in Base SAS or the HeatmapCont and HeatmapDisc functions in SAS/IML software. I like to emphasize the difference between a continuous heat map and a discrete heat map ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rainer Sternecker. More and more business applications, including advanced analytics, are moving into the cloud. The advantages are obvious: agility, innovation and cost-efficient high performance. However, many cloud migrations fail to unlock its full potential. To maximize the performance and value of analytics in the cloud, companies need to balance options and find the right approach. Cost savings remain an important argument for moving to the cloud. Companies that choose to do so can save up to a third of the cost of running their data centre and infrastructure. Services such as computing capacity and storage ... Read More