Tag: SAS

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. Last year I published a series of blogs posts about how to create a calibration plot in SAS. A calibration plot is a way to assess the goodness of fit for a logistic model. It is a diagnostic graph that enables you to qualitatively compare a model's predicted probability of an event to the empirical probability. I am happy to report that in SAS/STAT 15.1 (SAS 9.4M6), you can create a calibration plot automatically by using the PLOTS=CALIBRATION option on the PROC LOGISTIC statement. Calibration plots for a model of a binary response To ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Karen Prillwitz. “We have a data lake. Nowadays, who needs a data warehouse too? That’s totally antiquated. It’s an obsolete model.” I often hear this kind of sentiment in my consulting work with clients. Dynamic analytics and digitisation teams face what they see as antiquated systems that are in urgent need of an overhaul. Unfortunately, this often leads to confrontations with the guardians of the previous systems. Views and working methods collide, and so do those involved. Conflict, lack of respect and contempt are much more prevalent than anyone is prepared to admit. In some businesses, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kim Andreaus. As you may know, Work/Life is holding a relationship series this month, so I thought it would be a good idea to spend some time discussing the notion of balancing your caregiving relationship with your relationship with your spouse/significant other.  Even the most steadfast of relationships can be tested by the many demands of caregiving.   A marriage survey conducted by Caring.com found that 80% of respondents said that caregiving put a strain on their relationship or marriage.  According to the survey, three factors in particular put caregivers at risk for marital strain: Holding down ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. I have written several blog posts about longevity, and here is another one related to that topic. Cardiovascular disease (cvd) is one of the more common causes of death, and I was wondering how those numbers have changed over time. Are fewer people dying from cvd, or are more people dying from cvd? Am I even asking the right question?!? I remember seeing some interesting headlines 15+ years ago, showing that the number of males dying from cvd was decreasing, and had actually become lower then the number of females dying from cvd. After ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Charlie Chase. When it comes to forecasting new product launches, executives say that it's a frustrating, almost futile, effort. The reason? Minimal data, limited analytic capabilities and a general uncertainty surrounding a new product launch. Not to mention the ever-changing marketplace. Nevertheless, companies cannot disregard the need for a new product forecast (NPF), or neglect developing an NPF process. This is especially true during the commercialization stage. New product forecasts drive a variety of multi-functional decisions during pre-launch preparation and product launch, including manufacturing decisions on raw materials procurement, manufacturing schedules, finished goods inventory and planning ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Molly Farrow. Black History Month provides educators with the opportunity to explore the rich heritage of African civilizations in greater depth. Curriculum Pathways has extensive resources that cover the breadth of African history, culture, and geography. The West African kingdoms of Ghana and Mali are celebrated for their wealth and prominence in the 11th to 14th centuries. Sundiata Keita established the kingdom of Mali after the fall of Ghana in the late 1200s. The famous king Mansa Musa brought Islam to Mali in the early 1300s and reportedly shared African gold throughout the Muslim world. Ghana established a famous gold-salt ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Thomas Rohrmann. Heute ist alles Daten. Ein Data-Hype jagt den nächsten. Die Empfehlung für weitere Produkte bei einer Online-Bestellung, die Auswertung von Wearables zur Fitnessoptimierung, das Anzeigen der besten Fahrroute – all das basiert auf zuvor gesammelten Informationen und Systemen, die dem Anwender Handlungsoptionen aufzeigen. Schon damals schien es ganz normal, dem Computer Fragen zu stellen und Antworten zu bekommen. Sensortechnologie und das Internet of Things (IoT) erzeugen Big Data in n-ter Potenz. Gartner hat rund 20 Milliarden vernetzte Geräte bis 2020 vorhergesagt. Und künstliche Intelligenz, oder AI, sorgt dafür, dass wir diese Riesenmengen an Daten ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Frédéric Labat. So you want to achieve business outcomes, and very likely data and analytics can help. But how? You know what you want to achieve, but you are not experts in data and analytics. We are experts of data and analytics, but we don’t know what you want to achieve. How can we solve this? The truth is out there The only reason anyone ever buys software is to achieve a business outcome. Which one? We don’t know. But our customers do. A few years ago, before I joined SAS, I was demonstrating some software ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tiffany Carpenter. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has caught everyone's attention in recent years, mainly because of its disrupting nature which gives it enormous potential with countless applications. Among the many possibilities that AI promises, customer experience (CX) is an area that offers immense opportunity for organisations to differentiate. Welcome to the experience economy Consumers today have more choice than ever before. They’re more empowered, and they have much higher expectations of the organisations that they do business with.  Welcome to the experience economy where the biggest differentiator for success is no longer about having the best product ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: John Maynard. Data-driven is a buzzword again. It feels new and shiny but has been around for years. Yet, people still ask what it means to be data-driven. If you wonder why it’s important to be data-driven, you might ask your bookie. Yes, I said your bookie. In thinking about when I first realized the power of data analysis in decision making, it took me awhile to arrive at the bookie. I searched through my memory for its origin. It wasn’t using analytics to fight healthcare fraud, the balanced scorecard for government, or studying Business Operations ... Read More