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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Josefin Rosén. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are words that evoke a sense of inhumanity, of cold and mechanical functions. In reality, AI is coming closer and closer to reaching human understanding through capabilities like deep learning and natural language processing (NLP). With early chatbots, you had to ask exactly the right question to get the matched right answer. But with rapid advancements in NLP and deep learning, chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more and more sophisticated. For example, Google Assistant, debuted in 2016, has shown remarkable ability in mimicking human speech patterns. This allowed ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: John Maynard. My favorite tech influencers teach, ask questions and share their knowledge freely. They value quality over quantity, and they engage with each other authentically. Image by Gerd Altmann at Pixabay My goals on social media are to learn, engage with the world socially, and to share what I think is cool – sometimes this is about SAS but not always. My goal is to connect with people and have fun. The best tech influencers support these goals. They help me find other people, with curious minds like me, who are on similar journeys - ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Clemens Knobloch. SAS Decision Manager enables you to build and test decisions to use in batch processes, real-time web applications or with SAS ESP. In this blog, I explain how to use Rulesets in an Event Stream Process project. If you are streaming data using SAS ESP and your data stream involves making decisions, you can build Rulesets in SAS Decision Manager and use them in your event stream project. ESP can invoke the code generated by SAS Decision Manager and execute it in its Micro Analytic Service (MAS) engine. To use a Ruleset in Decision ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. Flooding has been in the news the past few days, and that makes me want to analyze some data! I hang out at Jordan Lake (here in central North Carolina) a lot, so I decided to download the data for that lake, and do a graphical analysis. If you're interested in Jordan Lake, or interested in techniques for plotting lake-level data, follow along!... Jordan lake is a source of water, and a source of recreation, for my city (Cary, NC). But more importantly it is also a means to help control flooding for all ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sofia Real. A relação do SAS com o Banco Comercial Português – cujas atividades das operações bancárias se desenvolvem atualmente sob a marca Millennium bcp  – começou em 1995, com 5 utilizadores PC Windows. Hoje, passados 24 anos, continuamos junto do maior banco privado português, com a missão de o ajudar a dar resposta ao novo paradigma e desafios do atual mercado. Recuando à década de 90, vemos que muita coisa mudou e o progresso científico e tecnológico permitiu-nos chegar onde nunca imaginámos. Cloud, IoT, IA, 5G, Blockchain, Digital Twins… são as atuais tendências, com o ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. An analyst was using SAS to analyze some data from an experiment. He noticed that the response variable is always positive (such as volume, size, or weight), but his statistical model predicts some negative responses. He posted the data and asked if it is possible to modify the graph so that only positive responses are displayed. This article shows how you can truncate a surface or a contour plot so that negative values are not displayed. You could do something similar to truncate unreasonably high values in a surface plot. Why does the model ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Nico Büttner. Wie schon gesagt, ich bin Gamer. Ich bin außerdem Freizeit-Spieleentwickler und Angestellter. Es ist also nicht weiter verwunderlich, dass Gamification (ich möchte hier bei der englischen Schreibweise bleiben) ein interessantes Thema für mich ist. Gemeint ist damit die Übertragung von Techniken, die üblicherweise in Spielen eingesetzt werden, auf andere Bereiche, unter anderem auf die Unternehmenswelt, mit dem übergeordneten Ziel, die Umsätze zu erhöhen. Per Definition zielt Gamification darauf ab, das Verhalten von Menschen zu verändern und sie dazu zu bringen, bereitwillig in der erwünschten Art und Weise zu agieren. Ein einfaches Beispiel ist die ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kim Andreaus. We are in the midst of our third Powerful Tools of Caregiver class offering, and I am reminded again of the importance of self care for caregivers. As primary caregivers, it is likely you will experience higher degrees of stress, exhaustion, and are more prone to illness. It is important to make your health a priority, and self-care is key. Self-care can take many forms, but one resource that is not utilized often enough (in my opinion) is Respite Care. Respite Care is when someone else is put in place to cover the needs ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rein Mertens. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers many opportunities for innovation. It already allows us to improve traffic flows, safely manage large crowds of people at events, analyze automated MRI scans for particular diseases and disorders, and check the effectiveness of treatment. However, new privacy legislation – such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – imposes stricter requirements on the processing of personal data by organizations. What will be the impact of this new privacy legislation on AI projects? And how can we use AI to create (social) added value while still protecting the privacy ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Oliver Schabenberger. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a natural evolution of analytics. Over the years, we have seen AI add learning and automation capabilities to the predictive and prescriptive jobs of analytics. We have been building AI systems for decades, but a few things have changed to make today’s AI systems more powerful. The first wave of AI systems were rules-based, deterministic systems. The tasks we automated were routine tasks, like recommending the next movie to watch or next product to buy. We have built expert systems like that for decades, and still do. They are very ... Read More