Gerhard Svolba
Advisory Pre-Sales Solutions Architect, SAS
Gerhard Svolba, PhD is an Advisory Pre-Sales Solutions Architect at SAS Institute Inc. in Austria, where he specializes in Analytics and customer intelligence. His project experience ranges from conceptual considerations (both business and technical) to data preparation and analytic modeling.
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Applying Data Science: Business Case Studies Using SAS®
By Gerhard Svolba
In eight entertaining and real-world case studies, Svolba combines data science and advanced analytics with business questions, illustrating them with data and SAS code.
- Table of Contents
- Excerpt
- Example Code and Data
- Sample Graphs (.zip)
- Selected Color Graphs (.zip)
- Additional Resources
- 2018 SGF Paper: Getting More Insight into Your Forecast Errors with the GLMSELECT and QUANTSELECT Procedures [PDF]
- Understanding relationships using Monte Carlo simulations and data science methods (This article is German/Deutsch)
- Reviews
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Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS®
By Gerhard Svolba
- Table of Contents
- Excerpt
- Example Code and Data
- Updates
- SGF Paper: DQFA
- Informs: The origin, detection, treatment and consequences of missing values in analytics.
- IT-Briefcase: Is your data ready for analytics?
- Additional Resources
- Reviews
This book focuses on selecting the right data sources and ensuring data quality, relevancy, and completeness. Readers will learn how to use SAS to perform advanced profiling of data quality status and how SAS can help improve data quality.
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Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS®
By Gerhard Svolba
Text addresses such tasks as: 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, and using SAS procedures for scoring.
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Featured Authors
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Robert N. Rodriguez retired from SAS in 2018 after serving as a senior director in research and development. Bob received a PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a research statistician at General Motors Research Laboratories before joining SAS.
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Ron Klimberg, PhD, is a professor at the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA.
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Dr. Sandeep Menon is currently the Vice President and Head of the Statistical Research and Consulting Center at Pfizer Inc. and also holds adjunct faculty positions at Boston University and Tufts University School of Medicine.
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Chau Chan Yip (Derek), is a principal consultant in SAS Hong Kong. He has twenty years of IT system integration and implementation experience. He has participated in several complex and large-scale projects. He leads the SAS AML consulting team in Hong Kong overseeing the delivery and support of over 30 SAS AML sites. Derek designed a tool for analyzing and tuning transaction monitoring scenario thresholds.