Benford’s Law, Part 2
In a prior blog post we showed Benford's Law in action at Lowe's. There we indicated that a popular use of Benford's Law is to flag potentially suspect expense reports for a closer look. So we decided to try it…
How to Slice It: Using Optimal Reconciliation for Hierarchical and Grouped Forecasts
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…
More from SAS Global Forum: New SAS/STAT Tools
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…
Visualization: The Weather of My Life
First Analytics team member Matt Yancey shows some nifty visualizations of the weather of every day of his life: The Weather of My Life