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Innovation stories

Inspiration and innovation in action

The SAS Hackathon is all about testing ideas, pushing the limits and challenging the status quo – with the purpose of inventing a novel solution.  

Jakstat

2022 Winner: Overall Global Winner, Asia Region, Public Sector Track

Team Jakstat from StarCore applied SAS and Python to map and optimize COVID financial aid disbursement for the micro-, small and medium-sized businesses that comprise 97% of Jakarta’s economy.

Funka

2022 Winner: EMEA Region, Telecom & Media Track, Computer Vision

To improve web form accessibility, team members from Funka Nu AB used computer vision, optical character recognition, machine learning and test automation to create a solution for website owners to evaluate their form’s accessibility and apply solutions by inputting their site’s URL.

The Chart Chasers!

2022 Winner: Americas Region Health & Life Science Track, Natural Language Processing

Value-based care ties doctors’ paychecks to care efficiency, but doctors are underpaid when mistakes are made in the medical coding process. Team members from InformedHC and Pinnacle Solutions used SAS® Viya® to build an automated system to uncover lost revenue from errors using the International Classification of Diseases codes.

Telenor

2022 Winner: Forecasting

Millions of customers rely on Telenor, the No. 1 telecom in the Nordics, for their mobile and broadband service. SAS Hackathon 2022 winner Team 4-kasting created a solution that more reliably forecasts capacity which improves sustainability and satisfaction.

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Sharing stories ignites creativity and inspires curiosity. From sea rescues to neurodiversity to lung disease, teams tackled some of the most vexing business and humanitarian challenges in the world.  

SAS Hackathon team, Data Hack Freaks, created an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) based dynamic pricing approach that allows insurance providers to adjust pricing based on the changing nature of the risk behavior of their customers.

The SAS Hackathon team, ThinkAndDo, wanted to come up with a solution. Using resources from North Carolina State University, the team developed new soil-optics technology that makes obtaining measurements easier and more efficient and can also help reduce operational and labor costs.

Women are trailblazing new ideas across industries, countries and cultures every day. This International Women’s Day, take a minute to read some innovative SAS Hackathon highlights for this upcoming year and from the past.

BayWatch, a SAS Hackathon team, uses AI to help coastguards to analyze, predict and optimize operations to detect false alarms and allocate people, boats and helicopters at times of maritime emergencies.

SAS Hackathon team Dake IT uses augmented intelligence to build models for disease identification to help radiologists analyze scanned images.

There have been many theories for the causes of autism. SAS Hackathon team Autistic Life Changers is using machine learning to correlate factors and characteristics that appear gradually during childhood in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in support to identify others at risk.
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