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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. If your work environment is like ours here at SAS, you're seeing more of your data and applications move to the cloud. It's not yet a complete replacement for having local files on your desktop machine, but with cloud storage and apps -- like Microsoft OneDrive -- I can now access my work documents from any browser and any device, including my smartphone. I can update now my spreadsheets while waiting in the dentist office. Oh joy. For those of us who use SAS to read and create Microsoft Excel documents, cloud-based files can ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Melanie Carey. How have healthcare providers and governmental agencies predicted the fast-changing, potentially exponential increase in the need for medical services and equipment through the various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic? Mathematical techniques that attempt to model and understand the likely spread of the disease have been instrumental. The SEIR model is a compartment model that uses a mathematical and statistical approach to model the spread of an infectious disease within a population. It divides the population into four compartments: Susceptible: those who are susceptible to becoming infected. Exposed: those who have been exposed to an ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. During this ongoing and unfortunate COVID-19 crisis, all of us are trying to remain safe by staying home, applying social distancing and wearing masks. The current limitations on our daily lives are very necessary for our health. But activities we have taken for granted in the past, such as eating out at a restaurant, going to the movies, shopping in a mall or having a drink with your friends are now restricted. All these activities are what freedom allows us to do and we have realized the value of these freedoms only after they are gone. In ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Carlos Pinheiro. The current state of policy enforcement during an infectious disease pandemic is mostly reactive. Public health officials track changes in active cases, identify hot-spots and enforce containment policies primarily based on geographic proximity. By combining telecommunications data -- which we turn into mobility information -- with public health data of positive cases, we can use network analytics to better understand the spread of COVID-19 and make more proactive decisions on social containment policies. Data required for this application includes aggregated physical subscriber movements over time, provided by telecommunications companies, and confirmed cases by place ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Ashley Bailey, MS, RDN, LDN. Planning balanced meals that everyone in the house will eat, grocery shopping, cooking mostly from scratch, teasing through the latest superfoods and fad diets…it’s all overwhelming. We get it! For starters, there is no perfect meal or snack. Don’t try to aim for perfection- it’s a recipe for disaster! Everyone’s nutritional needs, taste preferences, budgets and schedules are unique and continually change. Instead of focusing on building the perfect…well everything…when it comes to meals and snacks, put your time and energy into making small swaps here and there to incorporate more ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. The iml action in SAS Viya (introduced in Viya 3.5) provides a set of general programming tools that you can use to implement a custom parallel algorithm. This makes the iml action different than other Viya actions, which use distributed computations to solve specific problems in statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. By using the iml action, you can use programming statements to define the problem you want to solve. One of the simplest ways to run a parallel program is to use the MAPREDUCE function in the iml action, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jihye Yoo. 질병 확산을 억제하고 경제적 영향을 최소화하기 위해서는 인구가 어떻게 이동하는지 분석하고, 지역 내 접촉자를 추적하여 적절한 의사결정을 해야 합니다. 이번 SGF 시리즈에서는 인구 이동 분석과 접촉자 추적 등 SAS 분석 기술이 어떻게 팬데믹 극복을 위한 의사결정을 지원하는지에 대한 SAS 짐굿나잇 회장과 스티브 베넷 글로벌 정부기관 프랙티스 부문 이사의 세션을 소개합니다. 필리핀 최대 통신사 글로브 텔레콤(Globe Telecom)과 함께 이번 팬데믹에서 코로나 대응을 어떻게 지원하고 있는지 데모도 함께 소개해 드립니다. 대규모 인구 이동과 질병 확산 이해 대규모 인구의 이동성을 이해하면 세가지 인사이트를 얻을 수 있습니다. 첫째, 적절한 곳에 적절한 집합 제한 정책을 실행하고, 그 효과를 측정할 ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. Following is editor-in-chief Len Tashman's preview of the Summer 2020 issue of Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Preview of Foresight (Summer 2020) The Summer 2020 issue of Foresight—number 58 in this, our fifteenth anniversary year—addresses fundamental issues related to (a) the criteria for choosing among forecasting methods,(b) the presentation of metrics measuring forecast accuracy,(c) the practical relevance of forecasting competitions, and, through several articles, (d) the potential for improved technology, especially through AI, to reduce errors in decision making by augmenting and automating decision processes. On these issues, we welcome the perspectives ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Andrés Mauricio Torres. Desde hace tiempo, la tecnología se ha venido uniendo al deporte. Lo ha hecho con el fin de mejorar el desempeño de los jugadores y más recientemente con el propósito de impactar la experiencia de los aficionados. Es por eso que ya es muy normal ver tecnologías como: Sistemas de Ojo de Halcón en el tenis, procesamiento de datos y big data en tiempo real en automovilismo, captura en tiempo real de relación peso/potencia y cadencia en las grandes carreras de ciclismo, el VAR en el fútbol y más recientemente las competencias virtuales ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Héctor Cobo. Virtual SAS Global Forum 2020-06-04 at 9.29.15 AM Por primera vez en su historia, el evento insignia de nuestra compañía, SAS Global Forum 2020, se realizó bajo un formato virtual y con un alcance sin precedentes: más de 14,000 personas de todas las regiones del planeta siguieron su desarrollo y escucharon de primera mano cómo la analítica ha ayudado a combatir los embates del COVID-19, y cómo apoyó a las organizaciones para que siguieran operando y dar continuidad a su negocio, así como acelerar su transformación digital y la migración a la nube. “La ... Read More