Tag: SAS

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Todd Wright. A long-held belief in the field of analytics is that only 20% of a person’s time is spent analyzing data – the remaining 80% is devoted to preparing data. It's a sobering statistic to say the least. Even more so as the need to get insights from data in real time rises in importance. To fight fraud, understand customers and evolve to using artificial intelligence, organizations can no longer afford to rely on the IT department to handle data preparation as business users sit and wait. Enter self-service data preparation Thus has been the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Javier Alexander Rengifo. Cuando hablamos de convertir datos en inteligencia no solamente estamos haciendo referencia a obtener de ellos conocimiento para tomar las mejores decisiones. También se trata de tener formas de comunicación mucho más efectivas e impactantes a través de capacidades avanzadas de visualización, para lograr que el conocimiento sea realmente usado y aprovechado por todos los usuarios de la organización. Recordemos que la visualización de datos es la presentación de datos en formato gráfico o infografías. Es importante porque permite a los tomadores de decisiones ver la analítica presentada de forma visual, de modo ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kelly LeSage, MS, RDN, LDN. Ghee is a type of clarified butter that’s been used for thousands of years in Indian cooking and Ayurvedic medicine.  Clarified butter simply means that the water and milk proteins have been removed from the butter, by cooking. There are various types of clarified butter. Ghee is cooked a little longer resulting in a nutty-caramel flavor and darker color. It also has very little, or no lactose or casein (depending on how it is made), so it may be better tolerated than regular butter by some. It also has a higher ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Silia Sideri. In my last blog, I talked to Ioannis Tsiliras, Consumer CRM & Channel Management Director at OTE-COSMOTE, about innovation and customer experience. This post continues the conversation and talks more generally about why innovations succeed or fail, and the importance of both timing and chance. Ioannis, why do you think that some innovative ideas fail to gain traction? Ideas are like species. They have to compete, to survive. Success is 50% luck and 50% effort. Sometimes you put all the effort in and the design is right, but timing and circumstances are wrong. It ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  Just how much should you trust your AI systems?  Best practice points to constant review, strong governance, and the willingness to override results that seem illogical. Just how much do you trust your AI?  This is not intended to be the skeptical consumer view about bias or black box outcomes.  It’s intended to see if leaders in actual implementation see AI through proverbial rose colored glasses or whether and how much skepticism they think is warranted. As a source, I love these very professionally done surveys of AI ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Katie Seavey Pegoraro. This guest post was written by Candice Creasman, PhD, owner of Creasman Counseling. The Work/Life Center is so grateful to Candice for sharing her expertise with SAS employees and their families. You can learn more about Candice and Creasman Counseling at the bottom of this page. Should I Stay or Should I Go: The confusion of cutting ties with family  “I don’t want to talk to my mom anymore. Does that make me a terrible person?” I hear some version of this question more and more in my therapy practice. As clients do ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lora D. Delwiche. One great thing about being a SAS programmer is that you never run out of new things to learn. SAS often gives us a variety of methods to produce the same result. One good example of this is the DATA step and PROC SQL, both of which manipulate data. The DATA step is extremely powerful and flexible, but PROC SQL has its advantages too. Until recently, my knowledge of PROC SQL was pretty limited. But for the sixth edition of The Little SAS Book, we decided to move the discussion of PROC SQL ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Claudio Broggio. AI innovations range from unique modelling techniques and computer vision efforts to medical diagnostic tools and self-driving cars. Within that wide range of technology, what should you consider patenting? Which of your discoveries are true intellectual property that necessitate protection? A little thought upfront could help you to know what action to take to protect your most valuable innovations. Intellectual property, machine learning and generative adversarial networks Intellectual property and AI Do not doubt that plenty of people are already protecting their artificial intelligence inventions. Since the 1960s, over 300,000 applications for AI-related patents ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sofia Real. A relação do SAS com a Lusitania Seguros – a 1ª Companhia de Seguros a surgir no mercado segurador com capitais 100% nacionais – data de 2014, aquando da implementação da solução de Firmwide Risk Management, com o projeto de Solvência II. Dois anos mais tarde, foi implementada a Solução de Fraud Framework for Insurance, o SAS Visual Analytics e o SAS Visual Scenario Designer, com o intuito de apoiar a Lusitania na deteção de fraude em sinistros do ramo Automóvel, permitindo um maior acompanhamento destes casos. Em 2019 foram incluídos nesta mesma solução os ramos ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Novel fintech like cryptocurrency and blockchain have disrupted and fundamentally reimagined such previously eminent and staid realities such as the government monopoly on currency-creation. As fintech has risen to prominence, an unlikely mascot has emerged to represent the convenience enabled by novel financial technologies; mobile banking ads have portrayed ballerinas paying for goods while performing- logging into Visa or Chase apps from the wings, or hilariously, paying for goods while doing a “grand jete between two grand pianos,” in one tongue-in-cheek commercial by Chase. They portray a shared sentiment: that we are ... Read More