Union Pacific recently announced that, for the second year in a row, it has been the top-performing railroad in employee safety. Furthermore, 2016 was the safest year in their 154 year history. While the railroad has undertaken a decade-long pursuit…
Companies use forecasting methods to plan for future demand using time series data. Often, these time series can be represented in a hierarchy. For example, products can be broken down to different levels of sales data. Figure 1 shows an…
First Analytics will presenting to entrepreneurs who are members of the mHUB manufacturing innovation center in Chicago. The topic is, "Building Machine Learning into Your Product ." The event is open to the public, so if you have the opportunity…
Technology landscapes like these are "eye charts". While meant to classify vendors and technologies, when viewed from a distance they convey the message that selecting technologies is a daunting and overwhelming exercise. Matt Turck from Firstmark Capital recently updated his Big…
When we advise our clients on SAS Analytics Platform Modernization, we are usually talking about the platform more than the analytics. That is, N-tier architectures, distributed computing, or even SAS Viya. It Is easy to forget that SAS Institute also…
We will be an exhibitor at IoT World 2017 in Santa Clara for the second year in a row! Please stop by and say hello, and we can discuss some of your ideas on how to leverage data from sensors,…
Through our analytics platform services we help our clients "modernize" their use of SAS. Many analytics shops still operate under the individual desktop instance model. See the benefits of evolving into a server or grid (distributed) environment as depicted in…
We are a sponsor of SAS Global Forum once again this year. Please stop by and say hello. Our booth will be in the lower Quad, directly across from the Analytics demo stations.
Yes, everybody’s talking about analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). A recent Gartner hype cycle places the “Internet of Things” squarely at the top of the so-called “peak of inflated expectations.” Nearby, just a little down the slope on either side,…
First Analytics team member Matt Yancey shows some nifty visualizations of the weather of every day of his life: The Weather of My Life