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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Danielle Pavliv. At SAS, we have a multidimensional culture that blends our different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives from employees all over the world. As the Diversity and Inclusion Manager, I’ve had open conversations with employees regarding the value that neurodiversity brings to the creative process and to our organization. Angela with her partner, Stacey. But I’m not the expert here, because I myself do not identify as autistic. That’s why, when it comes to conversations about neurodiversity and what it means to be autistic, it’s important to hear firsthand about the experiences and perspectives of actually autistic ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. Did you recently lock in a mortgage rate of 3.5-5%, or perhaps even lower? How do today's rates compare to rates in the past? Let's dig a little deeper into this topic, with some graphs! But before we get started, here's a picture to get you into the mood for for this topic. This is a picture of my realtor friend Angie (on the right), after selling another house in our hot Raleigh, NC market. The buyers look pretty happy - is it because mortgage rates are so low, or because Angie is their ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rebecca Allen. The journey of life rarely follows the expected path.  Last year around this time I experienced the most devastating loss I will likely ever experience in my life; the loss of our only daughter, Mamie.  The grieving process is new to me, as is the earth-shattering devastation of unfulfilled hopes, dreams, shoulds, woulds and coulds.  I typically opt for the well-supported, research-based approach to tackle difficulty, and I have come up empty handed on all fronts. I am fortunate to have the support of my husband, family, friends, and a network of professionals interested ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rodolfo Cantù. Articolo tradotto e integrato dal post originale di Laurent Colombant In una recente survey della società di consulenza PWC è stato stimato che le frodi nei processi di procurement erano il secondo crimine economico più denunciato a livello mondiale. Si tratta di un termine ampio, che comprende di tutto, dalla manipolazione delle offerte alla collusione tra fornitori, dalla doppia fatturazione alle truffe sui rimborsi spese. In poche parole, però, è quello che succede quando i dipendenti o la rete di fornitori manipolano i registri contabili a loro vantaggio: a esserne colpite sono attività di ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. I think every course in exploratory data analysis should begin by studying Anscombe's quartet. Anscombe's quartet is a set of four data sets (N=11) that have nearly identical descriptive statistics but different graphical properties. They are a great reminder of why you should graph your data. You can read about Anscombe's quartet on Wikipedia, or check out a quick visual summary by my colleague Robert Allison. Anscombe's first two examples are shown below: The Wikipedia article states, "It is not known how Anscombe created his data sets." Really? Creating different data sets that have ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Suzanne Morgen. This blog post is based on the Code Snippets tutorial video in the free SAS® Viya® Enablement course from SAS Education. Keep reading to learn more about code snippets or check out the video to follow along with the tutorial in real-time. Has there ever been a block of code that you use so infrequently that you always seem to forget the options that you need? Conversely, has there ever been a block of code that you use so frequently that you grow tired of typing it all the time? Code snippets can greatly ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Christian Engel. If a bank gets in touch with a software company and wants to know how it could use artificial intelligence (AI), that means two things. First, the bank is willing to consider AI, and second, that it really does not know much about the subject. Banks want AI, and they have the necessary budget. However, they do not necessarily know what they actually want to do. This is the big question that is currently exercising the banking industry: We know AI can help us, but how?  I think the answer may be simpler than ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rodrigo Arias. ¿Cuál es el futuro de la televisión de paga en un mercado donde los servicios de streaming ganan terreno a gran velocidad? Al responder, hay quienes están convencidos de que conservará su reinado por mucho tiempo más; otros auguran un franco declive en el mediano plazo. De acuerdo con firmas de análisis, se prevé que al menos en México y América Latina, el mercado de las compañías proveedoras de servicio por cable tendrá un crecimiento moderado. Se calcula que para el 2023, México acaparará una tercera parte del negocio con un 28.9% -el de ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: John Balla. Ante el riesgo de simplificar en exceso, considero que la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) es lo que se vuelve posible después que se ha adoptado totalmente el uso de la analítica y es posible tener mayor audacia sobre cómo utilizarlo para tomar mejores decisiones. Sus modelos mejoran, sus predicciones son más precisas, sus resultados son más sólidos y, sobre todo, la confianza crece en las decisiones que se toman con los modelos analíticos que ha creado. Y la construcción de modelos rara vez es una vez hecho. Es iterativo como cualquier otro proceso científico o ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. In the past, I created some graphs about our record low unemployment rate (US unemployment, and state-level unemployment), but does low unemployment also mean there are jobs available? Let's have a look at the data!... Existing Graphs I knew I couldn't be the only one interested in this kind of data, and therefore I turned to the Internet to see what might already be out there. And I found this really cool graph that Leonard Kiefer had posted on twitter (he's the Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac, and he's always posting interesting graphs ... Read More