Category: Business Intelligence

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot.  “Would you like fries with that?”If you’ve ever ordered a sandwich at a fast food restaurant, then you’ve likely heard these words, but have you stopped to consider why fast food chains train their employees to ask this question? It’s because of what’s called “market basket analysis,” a technique based on the theory that if you buy a certain group of items, you are more (or less) likely to buy another group of items. Market basket analysis is the key to cross-selling. It works by looking for combinations of items that occur frequently in transactions ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. All customers are not equal – there are some your business just can’t afford to lose. Do you know who they are and what is required to retain them? With predictive analytics powered by Actian Avalanche, you can do just that.Companies have been using statistical modeling, data correlation and behavioral forecasting for many years to profile customers. Unfortunately, traditional capabilities have been limited by the amount and types of data they have been able to include in the analysis, leading to incomplete and inconclusive results. With Actian Avalanche, you can increase the accuracy of your ... Read More

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: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 17 April, 2019 | Ravi Mistry Digging into Unions in Tableau A question we had internally recently was whether Tableau’s union function was by position or by field name. The ability to Union data together was brand new in Tableau Desktop 9.3 A union is where you would add additional rows by effectively putting two data tables on top of one another. Tableau’s help guide has a nice way of visualising this. The best way to find out how Tableau was doing this by default was to test it using our good friend and ... 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: Featured Blog Posts - AnalyticBridge. Author: Elise Devaux. Graph are meant to be seen The third layer of graph technology that we discuss in this article is the front-end layer, the graph visualization one. The visualization of information has been the support of many types of analysis, including Social Network Analysis. For decades, visual representations have helped researchers, analysts and enterprises derive insights from their data. Visualization tools represent an important bridge between graph data and analysts. It helps surface information and insights leading to the understanding of a situation, or the solving of a problem. While it’s easy to ... Read More