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One directive is worth more than a thousand graphs

Delivering visual insights from unstructured data is just half the work. The most crucial part of any successful analytics story comes after the data has been crunched. Sometimes, we tend to forget...

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Baloise leverages analytics to power its decision making process with Anabel

Baloise Insurance is unlocking the full potential of its data with the Analytics for Belgium (Anabel)-project. The insurance company was faced with a large amount of valuable but of unstructured and...

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Daikin improves margins using analytics powered supply chain forecasting

Microsoft Excel has its limits, and Daikin had run into them managing their complex supply chain. Limited room for consolidation and an error prone workflow prompted the company to look for a better...

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A practical guide to database management

Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence: the possibilities are endless and more and more companies and organizations are putting them to use. However: one key condition to start using advanced...

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SAS Academy for Data Science nominated for Computable Awards

ICT magazine Computable has nominated SAS and Procam for the 2018 Dutch Computable Awards, for the category of ICT trainer of the year. 
The SAS Academy for Data Science is one of the ten courses...

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From AI to IA: an anatomy of the digital brain

AI is generally acknowledged as a contributor to and a creator of added value. But some view AI as a possible liability to organizations, to ourselves and even to mankind in general. As an AI...

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Privacy: the main obstacle between healthcare and AI

Artificial Intelligence and data analytics could fundamentally change the way we handle illness, but only if we can first solve the privacy issue hindering the convergence of both.

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Autonomous cars: a continuous sequence of lightning-fast processing and decisions

One of the eye-catchers during the and& event in Leuven last month was the self-driving car that took many visitors for a short ride in the city center. The experience was frightening to some,...

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A graph on water shortage says more than a thousand words

It’s one thing to tell people about the millions of people around the world who barely have enough clean water to survive. It’s another thing to show them. That’s why SAS has joined forces with...

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Philippe Van Impe

Philippe Van Impe

“Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower scholars and professionals to apply data sciences to address humanity’s grand challenges.” There you go, Philippe Van Impe in a nutshell. Quoting his mission statement to describe Philippe is quite a lot easier than trying to sum up his professional activities: founder of the European Data Innovation Hub, founding partner of the Brussels Data Science Community, ‘social entrepreneur’ and ‘startup coach’. You see, Philippe is a tough professional to capture in such a short bio!

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Frédéric Thys

Frédéric Thys

A mix of business curiosity, technical skills and the urge to write stories that matter…that is what drives Frédéric to blog about. His favorite topic? People Analytics! Or to showcase the value of analytics when unveiling unsuspected connections behind complex human systems and behaviors.
Buckle up for some clear, ready-to-use insights in how analytics measure the human attributes of consumers and employees to predict the success or failure of a venture, and to model and optimize teams and companies. Because business is about people, about making people happy and comfortable. And to be successful in business we need time and analytics to know how to make this happen.

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Mathias Coopmans

Mathias Coopmans

Mathias Coopmans combines business curiosity with technical skills, a powerful combo many professionals can only dream about. Passionate about big data and business analytics, Mathias helps companies across South-West Europe create value from Hadoop - the open-source data storage and distributed processing platform – integrating it into their business, both on the technical side and at the strategic level. Analytics and Big Data put to work, the best of both worlds!

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Jill Dyché

Jill Dyché

Jill Dyché — frank, funny, and full of great stories — has been thinking, writing, and speaking about business-IT alignment for over two decades. Jill has lived in far-flung locales including Paris, London, and Sydney, lecturing at industry conferences, tech events, and leading business schools, and blogging on the topic of why
orporate technologies are — or, at least should be — businessdriven. She lives in Los Angeles, where she samples fringe Cabernets, rescues shelter dogs, and writes the occasional haiku.

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Michel Philippens

Michel Philippens

Michel is passionate about everything related to big data analytics, and how you can use these to make smarter business decisions. With a Master in Sociology and Statistics he first worked as a research assistent at the KU Leuven, but Michel soon joined SAS as a Senior Consultant. Today he has 15 years of valuable experience, truly seeing the world of analytics change. His key philosophy: analytics don't belong in a lab test environment, they are part of everyday life.

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Ivy Vanderheyden

Ivy Vanderheyden

"When people are passionate about what they do, they will achieve great things” I strongly believe this to be true. The world of analytics is such a fascinating industry. Every day I discover new applications and problems we can solve through the use of analytics. As Marketing Director at SAS it is my job to bring these stories to life and inspire people to do great things with data. In my blogs I want to fascinate you with a mixture of two of my favorite topics: analytics and marketing.

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