Analytics: What’s it all about?

Dr Laurie Miles presentation firstly welcomes the attendees to SAS UK HQ at Wittington House and provides the audience a brief introduction into SAS as an organisation. This includes a short history of the company and an overview of what SAS does. This focuses on predictive analytics; the use of historical data to look for patterns and trend to essentially ‘predict the future’. This is the SAS differentiator – the use of data to not only report the past but gives insight to why things are happening, what will happen in the future and enable organisations to make fact based decisions to ensure the best outcomes.

Speaker Biography
Dr Laurie Miles (BSc, MSc, PhD) is the Head of Technology and Analytics for SAS UK and is the expert and thought leader for SAS UK in the analytics arena providing advice across all industry sectors.

Dr Miles joined SAS in 1996 as a consultant delivering projects to organisations across a variety of industries. He then managed a team supporting retail banks and their use of SAS technology. Dr Miles became responsible for the technical management of HSBC, globally providing advice and guidance to support HSBC’s use of SAS and advanced analytics. He was involved in the development of the SAS real-time fraud management solution through an innovative partnership with HSBC and continued in this role until 2008 when he was asked to form the SAS UK Analytics Practice.

Prior to joining SAS, Laurie was an Actuarial Student at Clay and Partners followed by seven years at BUPA, analysing the claims patterns for some of the UK’s largest organisations.

Laurie holds a BSc in Econometrics, an MSc in Game Theory and a PhD in Number Theory.

Improving Performance Naturally: Sports Science & Medicine Conference for the World’s Leading Sports Scientists and Medical Practitioners in Rowing

The Sports Science & Medicine Conference was held for the first time at the SAS UK & Ireland company headquarters in Marlow. The conference had delegates attend from a variety of Sports Science and Medical disciplines, who travelled from within the UK and around the world – all attracted by an exciting programme which boasts an impressive list of speakers from the leading edge of research and practice. The event was supported by UK Sport and FISA and proved to be a great success.

The conference proceedings will be published online on the BMC Sport Science, Medicine & Rehabilitation website, check here for updates: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcsportsscimedrehabil

Explore our video playlist to look at other talks from our esteemed speakers, see below for the schedule:

Day 1:
• SSM Conference 2015 1.0: Welcome (Jean-Christophe Rolland) – intro by Rosie Mayglothling http://bit.ly/1Fiputj
• SSM Conference 2015 1.1: Injury Prevention and Performance – Are They Mutually Exclusive? What Science Tells Us (Prof. Alison McGregor) – intro by Prof. Jo Hannafin http://bit.ly/1HJ8hPW
• SSM Conference 2015 1.2: Protecting the Clean Athlete, Protecting Health (Dr Richard Budgett OBE) – intro by Prof. Greg Whyte http://bit.ly/1C8eHSp
• SSM Conference 2015 1.3: Current Issues within FISA and the Medicine and Science World (Dr Alain Lacoste) – intro by Dr Tomislav Smoljanovic http://bit.ly/1JPwxld
• SSM Conference 2015 1.6: Altitude: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Prof. Greg Whyte) – intro by Gianni Postiglione http://bit.ly/1MVKGLT
• SSM Conference 2015 1.7: Endurance Sport and Cardio Vascular Health (Prof. Sanjay Sharma) – intro by Prof. Jürgen Steinacker http://bit.ly/1GnB22k
Day 2:
• SSM Conference 2015 2.1: Training in Extreme Hot and Cold (Prof. Mike Tipton) – intro by Dr Ann Redgrave http://bit.ly/1GGBUk8
• SSM Conference 2015 2.2: Rib Stress Fractures (Dr Anders Vinther) – intro by Dr Fiona Wilson http://bit.ly/1IEOjV4
• SSM Conference 2015 2.3: What We Know Makes the Boat Go Faster from 150 Years of Research (Prof. Stephen Seiler) – intro by Prof. Henning Bay Nielsen http://bit.ly/1GnB2zs
• SSM Conference 2015 2.4: Cardiac Case Study (Prof. Henning Bay Nielsen) – intro by Dr Ann Redgrave http://bit.ly/1L9WQ5S
• SSM Conference 2015 2.5: Analytics – What’s It All About? (Dr Laurie Miles) http://bit.ly/1LarSYd

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