Imagine this scenario: You have been told to create a sumptuous five-course meal. You have been set up in a well-stocked gourmet kitchen, and yet you have no cookbooks, no recipe cards and limited culinary expertise.

Now, take that scenario, change the specifics a bit, and you have an apt description of what it can be like to try to serve up an effective predictive analytics process in an organization. Your coffers are well-stocked with data of all kinds, and you know the desired outcome: to take all of that information and use it to make better, more informed business decisions. But you don’t know the steps you have to take – the recipe, if you will – to get from point A to
point Z.

Does this sound familiar? If so, please join us for this valuable Webcast series designed to walk you through all the steps needed to put predictive analytics to work in your organization.

Why should you invest your time?
Do you have a business problem that requires everything from accessing data to implementing a predictive model? Are you responsible for everything in between? Are you wondering where to start?

Tune in and get valuable guidance from our top-notch consultants.

What will we cover?
Everything – from defining the business problem to solving the business problem!

Key takeaways
We’ll give you clear answers to these important questions:

• What are the best data structures to support a variety of analytical business objectives?
• What are the key steps in preparing my data for predictive modeling?
• What are the best practices for developing predictive models? And the nuances for selecting one technique over another?
• How do I go about selecting the best model and learn techniques for interpreting the model results?
• What are the steps in implementing a predictive model?

We hope you’ll join us!

Questions? Contact Buffie Silva at Buffie.Silva@sas.com or (919) 531-0345.