Predictive Modeling with SAS Enterprise Miner

Predictive Modeling with SAS Enterprise Miner

Author: Kattamuri S. Sarma

Publisher: SAS Institute

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 163526040X

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« Written for business analysts, data scientists, statisticians, students, predictive modelers, and data miners, this comprehensive text provides examples that will strengthen your understanding of the essential concepts and methods of predictive modeling. »--


Business Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner

Business Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner

Author: Olivia Parr-Rud

Publisher: SAS Institute

Published: 2014-10

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1629593273

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This tutorial for data analysts new to SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner provides valuable experience using powerful statistical software to complete the kinds of business analytics common to most industries. This beginnner's guide with clear, illustrated, step-by-step instructions will lead you through examples based on business case studies. You will formulate the business objective, manage the data, and perform analyses that you can use to optimize marketing, risk, and customer relationship management, as well as business processes and human resources. Topics include descriptive analysis, predictive modeling and analytics, customer segmentation, market analysis, share-of-wallet analysis, penetration analysis, and business intelligence. --


Applying Predictive Analytics

Applying Predictive Analytics

Author: Richard V. McCarthy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 3030140385

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This textbook presents a practical approach to predictive analytics for classroom learning. It focuses on using analytics to solve business problems and compares several different modeling techniques, all explained from examples using the SAS Enterprise Miner software. The authors demystify complex algorithms to show how they can be utilized and explained within the context of enhancing business opportunities. Each chapter includes an opening vignette that provides real-life example of how business analytics have been used in various aspects of organizations to solve issue or improve their results. A running case provides an example of a how to build and analyze a complex analytics model and utilize it to predict future outcomes.


Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS

Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS

Author: Gerhard Svolba

Publisher: SAS Institute

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1612902278

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Analytics offers many capabilities and options to measure and improve data quality, and SAS is perfectly suited to these tasks. Gerhard Svolba's Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS focuses on selecting the right data sources and ensuring data quantity, relevancy, and completeness. The book is made up of three parts. The first part, which is conceptual, defines data quality and contains text, definitions, explanations, and examples. The second part shows how the data quality status can be profiled and the ways that data quality can be improved with analytical methods. The final part details the consequences of poor data quality for predictive modeling and time series forecasting. With this book you will learn how you can use SAS to perform advanced profiling of data quality status and how SAS can help improve your data quality. This book is part of the SAS Press program.


Decision Trees for Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner

Decision Trees for Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner

Author: Barry De Ville

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-03

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781642953138

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Decision Trees for Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner is the most comprehensive treatment of decision tree theory, use, and applications available in one easy-to-access place. This book illustrates the application and operation of decision trees in business intelligence, data mining, business analytics, prediction, and knowledge discovery. It explains in detail the use of decision trees as a data mining technique and how this technique complements and supplements data mining approaches such as regression, as well as other business intelligence applications that incorporate tabular reports, OLAP, or multidimensional cubes. An expanded and enhanced release of Decision Trees for Business Intelligence and Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner, this book adds up-to-date treatments of boosting and high-performance forest approaches and rule induction. There is a dedicated section on the most recent findings related to bias reduction in variable selection. It provides an exhaustive treatment of the end-to-end process of decision tree construction and the respective considerations and algorithms, and it includes discussions of key issues in decision tree practice. Analysts who have an introductory understanding of data mining and who are looking for a more advanced, in-depth look at the theory and methods of a decision tree approach to business intelligence and data mining will benefit from this book.


Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

Author: Daniel T. Larose

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 827

ISBN-13: 1118868676

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Learn methods of data analysis and their application to real-world data sets This updated second edition serves as an introduction to data mining methods and models, including association rules, clustering, neural networks, logistic regression, and multivariate analysis. The authors apply a unified “white box” approach to data mining methods and models. This approach is designed to walk readers through the operations and nuances of the various methods, using small data sets, so readers can gain an insight into the inner workings of the method under review. Chapters provide readers with hands-on analysis problems, representing an opportunity for readers to apply their newly-acquired data mining expertise to solving real problems using large, real-world data sets. Data Mining and Predictive Analytics: Offers comprehensive coverage of association rules, clustering, neural networks, logistic regression, multivariate analysis, and R statistical programming language Features over 750 chapter exercises, allowing readers to assess their understanding of the new material Provides a detailed case study that brings together the lessons learned in the book Includes access to the companion website, www.dataminingconsultant, with exclusive password-protected instructor content Data Mining and Predictive Analytics will appeal to computer science and statistic students, as well as students in MBA programs, and chief executives.


Predictive Analytics, Data Mining and Big Data

Predictive Analytics, Data Mining and Big Data

Author: S. Finlay

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1137379286

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This in-depth guide provides managers with a solid understanding of data and data trends, the opportunities that it can offer to businesses, and the dangers of these technologies. Written in an accessible style, Steven Finlay provides a contextual roadmap for developing solutions that deliver benefits to organizations.


Text Mining and Analysis

Text Mining and Analysis

Author: Dr. Goutam Chakraborty

Publisher: SAS Institute

Published: 2014-11-22

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1612907873

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Big data: It's unstructured, it's coming at you fast, and there's lots of it. In fact, the majority of big data is text-oriented, thanks to the proliferation of online sources such as blogs, emails, and social media. However, having big data means little if you can't leverage it with analytics. Now you can explore the large volumes of unstructured text data that your organization has collected with Text Mining and Analysis: Practical Methods, Examples, and Case Studies Using SAS. This hands-on guide to text analytics using SAS provides detailed, step-by-step instructions and explanations on how to mine your text data for valuable insight. Through its comprehensive approach, you'll learn not just how to analyze your data, but how to collect, cleanse, organize, categorize, explore, and interpret it as well. Text Mining and Analysis also features an extensive set of case studies, so you can see examples of how the applications work with real-world data from a variety of industries. Text analytics enables you to gain insights about your customers' behaviors and sentiments. Leverage your organization's text data, and use those insights for making better business decisions with Text Mining and Analysis. This book is part of the SAS Press program.


Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS

Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS

Author: Gerhard Svolba

Publisher: SAS Institute

Published: 2006-11-27

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1629597902

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Written for anyone involved in the data preparation process for analytics, Gerhard Svolba's Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS offers practical advice in the form of SAS coding tips and tricks, and provides the reader with a conceptual background on data structures and considerations from a business point of view. The tasks addressed include viewing analytic data preparation in the context of its business environment, identifying the specifics of predictive modeling for data mart creation, understanding the concepts and considerations of data preparation for time series analysis, using various SAS procedures and SAS Enterprise Miner for scoring, creating meaningful derived variables for all data mart types, using powerful SAS macros to make changes among the various data mart structures, and more!