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SAS Global Forum
Largest annual SAS user conference
Biggest this year – over 6,000 people
Papers, Demos, Quad, Hands-on-workshops
Up to 34 sessions concurrently
Generally want to attend 5 or 6 at same time
Theme – “Analytics in Action”
SAS Viya
Good solid progress over a range over areas
Most R&D effort on Viya
For◦ Newer visual tools
◦ Traditional SAS coding
Still complementary strategy at this stage◦ SAS 9.4 + SAS Viya
SAS Viya – Visual Tools
Visual Analytics Visual Statistics Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning Visual Investigator Visual Text Analytics Visual Forecasting …
Data Management◦ A start – more over next 2 years◦ DI Studio capability still some time off
SAS Viya – Traditional SAS coding
Bring over SAS programs◦ Run basically as-is
◦ Use “SAS Programming Run-time environment” – SPRE
◦ Full SAS 9.4 equivalent programming environment
◦ Runs as single thread
Update to use CAS (Cloud Analytics Services)◦ New Viya in-memory processing engine
◦ Parallel processing
SAS Viya User Interfaces – SAS and others
SAS Studio
Enterprise Guide◦ Through SAS 9.4 at present
◦ Will be native in future
Jupyter Notebook
SASPy – python package
SWAT – for Python and R to access SAS
Jupyter Notebook – with SAS kernel
SAS EG lives on!
New version due out mid-year (8.1)
Fresh and modern new look and capability
Flexible window management – floating, multi-screen
Can run code without Process Flow
Plan is for EG and SAS Studio to have ◦ Same capability
◦ Same look-and-feel
Good paper – “Celebrity makeover: …”
SAS Visual Analytics
Flagship product – lots of development
Latest release 8.31 (or 8.3 + September 2018 release)
8.4 mid-year
7.5 version coming for SAS 9.4◦ Moved to HTML5
◦ Look-and-feel of Viya VA 8
Good update paper – “A quick tour of VA 8.3”
SAS Visual Analytics – 8.3 highlights
User Interface◦ Precision Grid◦ Cell graphs◦ Container navigation
Re-use◦ Object templates◦ Common filters◦ Data views
Data & Analytics◦ Automated analysis◦ Data join◦ Geo analysis
Precision Grid
Cell graphs
Automated analysis – new object
VA– Data driven content object
Add third-party JavaScript based visualisations◦ D3.js, C3.js, GoogleCharts, Dimple etc
◦ Interactions with standard VA objects, e.g. filtering
Use own JavaScript logic◦ E.g. update operational system
Data driven content
A fast changing world
4th Industrial Revolution - now◦ Major changes in technology and connectivity
◦ Fusing physical, digital and biological worlds
◦ AI, big data analytics, robotics
3rd Industrial Revolution – 1970’s onwards◦ Introduction of computing
How will AI and automation affect work?
Doom and Gloom!
800 million jobs replaced by 2030!!
40% of all jobs replaced by AI!!
“The Future of Jobs 2018” ReportWorld Economic Forum, September, 2018
By 2022 75 million jobs replaced by AI and automation But 133 million new roles created Net additional 58 million jobs
Therefore lots of change in available work
AI will add $15 trillion to global GDP by 2030◦ PWC Report
“65% of children in school will have jobs that don’t yet exist”
AI at SAS Global Forum
Most high-profile topic
Many papers and demos
Two aspects◦ AI and society generally
◦ Using AI in practice
See Technology Connection video for examples
AI and society generally
Acknowledgement of huge changes underway
General feeling of positive impact◦ AI to augment humans
◦ Automation of repetitive tasks
AI and SAS
One of the hottest topics around at present
Definition of AI changing and not agreed
Key aspect is predictive analytics◦ Especially machine learning
◦ SAS been providing predictive analytics for over 40 years!
◦ Many other companies now jumping on the bandwagon
SAS ongoing AI development
Embedding AI into SAS products, e.g.◦ Smarter data management
◦ Automated visualisations and narratives
Enabling users to better use AI◦ Newer techniques
◦ Interacting with other systems to use AI capability
◦ Making AI capability more accessible – for “citizen data scientist”
◦ Previewed automated AI analytics capability
