Category: SAS

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: SAS Blogs. Author: Sundeep Tengur. Ever wondered how great magicians can trick us into believing things that aren’t quite true? From David Copperfield’s flying illusion to one of Penn & Teller’s card tricks, they all have one thing in common: misdirection or the art of deception. Fraudsters, like magicians, are crafty individuals who use a series of techniques to appear as legitimate persons or businesses when in fact they are not. Once they gain access to the coveted goods or services, they bust-out and fall off the radar. “Now you see me. Now you don’t.”   In a fraud context, these ‘disappearing ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. From the early days of probability and statistics, researchers have tried to organize and categorize parametric probability distributions. For example, Pearson (1895, 1901, and 1916) developed a system of seven distributions, which was later called the Pearson system. The main idea behind a "system" of distributions is that for each feasible combination of skewness and kurtosis, there is a member of the system that achieves the combination. A smaller system is the Johnson system (Johnson, 1949), which contains only four distributions: the normal distribution, the lognormal distribution, the SB distribution (which models bounded distributions), ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. Where in your business process can analytics and AI play a contributing role in enhancing your decision making capability?  At the information interpretation stage.  As a framework for understanding where analytic and AI opportunities may arise, the simple diagram below illustrates the relationships between data, information and knowledge, and how you get from one end to the other.  The key is how you come to understand the arrows (the verbs)  that link the three primary concepts (the nouns). Information is organized data.  The same data can be organized differently to yield different information sets ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Janny Morsink. Analytics has huge potential in sport. Teams and organisations around the world are using it to look at performance and help players and coaches alike to understand potential. But could it be used to help improve the accuracy of scoring in target sports like darts and archery? I asked Jaimy van Dijk, who has been involved in a challenge on this very question. What exactly is the challenge, and how did you get involved? Jos van Dongen asked Rik de Ruiter and me to get involved in a project to score darts using a ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Christa Cody. This blog is part of a series on SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning (VDMML). If you're new to SAS VDMML and you want a brief overview of the features available, check out my last blog post! This blog will discuss types of missing data and how to use imputation in SAS VDMML to improve your predictions.  Imputation is an important aspect of data preprocessing that has the potential to make (or break) your model. The goal of imputation is to replace missing values with values that are close to what the missing value ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Iain Stewart. “When you’re delivering so much cyclical activity and hiring thousands of people a year, there’s so much work that needs to happen just to stand still,” says Debbie Adler, HR Director General at the DWP. If the idea of "running to stand still" sounds familiar, that’s because issues like pay freezes, budget cuts and Brexit uncertainty have created serious HR headaches throughout the public sector. Then there’s the added pressure of digitalising services across multiple channels whilst continuing to meet citizens’ expectations, which adds extra complexity. No wonder staff turnover has reached up to ... Read More