PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO INTERACTIVE

DATA DISCOVERY & PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS

WAYNE THOMPSON, CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST
TAPAN PATEL, PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER
JANUARY 2016

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APPROACHABLE ANALYTICS

Approachable Analytics
Unlimited Data
Embrace the potential of using all or
relevant data
Speed to Insights
Try things fast, prototype & refine, &
ask different questions
Democratized Analytics
Empower more people (e.g. citizen
data scientist, business analysts)

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APPROACHABLE Barriers to the adoption of analytics

ANALYTICS

Scarcity of analytical skills

The need to grow analytical talent from within

Tools that arent right for the job

Learning curve to create, share and collaborate

Disjointed, inefficient workflow

How can you fail fast & learn to refine quickly

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APPROACHABLE BI AND ANALYTICS CONTINUUM

ANALYTICS
Descriptive
What is
happening?
Report/Monitor
Results

Predictive
What will
happen?
Identify
Outcomes

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Diagnostic
Why did it
happen?
Understand the
context

APPROACHABLE INTERACTIVE DATA DISCOVERY AND ANALYTICS

ANALYTICS

Data exploration and discovery

Distribution and summary statistics
Post-model visualization and reporting

Build prediction and classification models

Refine candidate models
Compare models and generate score code

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APPROACHABLE
IN-MEMORY ANALYTICS
ANALYTICS

ERP

HADOOP or DW

SCM

SAS LASR ANALYTIC

SERVER

SAS IN-MEMORY

APPLICATIONS

Visual Analytics

CRM

SAS IN-MEMORY
Images

SAS IN-MEMORY

Visual Statistics

Audio
and Video

SAS IN-MEMORY
Machine
Logs

SAS IN-MEMORY
Text

f
Web and
Social

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In-memory
Statistics

WEB CLIENTS

SAS VISUAL
STATISTICS

EXPLORE DATA AND MODELING RESULTS

Discover relationships between variables and augment

model building process

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Derive models directly from correlation matrices, scatter

plots, box plots and heat maps

Understand individual variables level of influence for

all models
Explore results from the modeling process

SAS VISUAL
STATISTICS

MODELING TECHNIQUES

Predictive Techniques

Linear Regression
Logistic Regression
Generalized Linear Model
Classification Trees

Descriptive Techniques

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Clustering

Group-By Processing

PRODUCT DEMONSTRATION

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DIRECTPAY

BUSINESS ISSUE

Determine what debt to buy and how to best collect it

Estimates of potential debt portfolios for purchase were
time-consuming
Understand customer behavior to accelerate payments
and increase revenue

SOLUTION

SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics

RESULTS

Complete view of its customers and can make

individualized decisions for the debt-collection process.
Manage risks at debtor and client level in order to be
profitable.
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BANKING

KEY BENEFITS

End-to-end capabilities
Smart data discovery, interactive reporting & analytics

Built-in interactive analytics

Explore data and generate models in a common environment

Scalability & governance

Small to large users, data, workloads, etc.

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FREE

Interactive Demo
Trial

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