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Time for government agencies to embed data and AI into environmental compliance

Dan Childers — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:10:59 +0000

Government employees charged with monitoring environmental compliance face a downpour of information, wading through countless reports and stacks of paperwork to accomplish their mission. To help these dedicated public servants increase productivity, agencies should consider a broader set of tools to control pollution, enforce regulations and improve compliance. Although foundational [...]

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The New Normal of Fraud

Carl Hammersburg — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:00:09 +0000

When we think of something “new”, we tend to picture something clean, shiny, or efficient. The new normal of fraud only checks one of those boxes, and unfortunately, that’s “efficient.” Today, scams and cyber attacks are persistent, and part of a larger ecosystem of phishing and hacking attacks by both [...]

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Innovative higher education analytics projects and influential tech leaders honored by EdScoop

Brock Matthews — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:41:42 +0000

Higher Education has been slow to adopt analytics in comparison to the commercial sector, but those institutions that have embraced a culture of analytics have seen significant and tangible results. Higher Education analytics can help in nearly every corner of academia including enrollment and retention, student success, academic research and [...]

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Data provides hope: Honoring Recovery Month

Josh Morgan — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:35:05 +0000

September honors Recovery Month, emphasizing hope for recovery in behavioral health, especially from substance use disorders (SUD). A key motto of Recovery Month is that Recovery Happens, helping people know that even at rock bottom, things can improve. We all need that hope at various points in our lives. Often, [...]

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Smart City Heidelberg: SAS Hackathon complements city's digital transformation journey

Thomas Keil — Tue, 24 May 2022 13:42:07 +0000

The city of Heidelberg, Germany is known for its romantic cityscape, which attracts tourists from all over the world. It also has the youngest population in Germany, thanks largely to the many students at one of Europe's oldest and largest universities. Perhaps less well known is that Heidelberg is twinned [...]

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LA County's Whole Person Care analytics program offers crucial flexibility

Josh Morgan — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:09:20 +0000

When Los Angeles County invested in Whole Person Care (WPC) it could not have known just how important the system’s flexibility would be. Anyone who has had an interface with health care delivery, policy, oversight and management know things change quickly. As data becomes a priority, expectations of the use [...]

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Exciting possibilities with text mining for consumer protection

Fernanda Molina — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:46:36 +0000

It is increasingly possible to use text analytics to explore different types of data. When a news story this summer caught my eye, I decided to see if I could use SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA) and SAS Visual Analytics (VA) on customer complaints to provide information that might be [...]

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Four technology tips for government leaders preparing for flood disasters

Tyson Echentile — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:38:06 +0000

“What’s our plan if we get hit by a big flood?” While this question may be plenty familiar to emergency management professionals, city administrators, legislators, and other leaders in coastal regions that are known for their exposure to potentially disastrous weather events, these days it’s being asked in some unexpected [...]

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Six takeaways from working on Madrid’s digital transformation efforts

Afshin Almassi — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:00:28 +0000

During lockdowns across Europe and beyond, we all moved our lives online. We worked remotely and had meetings via Teams or Zoom. We also socialised and shopped online. For many people, this was familiar territory. For others, it opened up a whole new world—and highlighted significant problems with the ‘old [...]

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Modern infrastructure must include analytics

Lee Ann Dietz — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:15:39 +0000

Throughout its history, the United States has invested in infrastructure that leverages new technologies and helps society and its economy thrive. With the advent of trains in the early 1800s, four of the country’s five transcontinental railroads were built with assistance from the federal government. When cars replaced horses and [...]

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