SAS VoicesBig data knows, even if you don't!May 22, 2013
What does big data know that you don't? It could be a new source of revenue, a budding consumer trend or . . .something sinister! Find out what big da...Read More
The SAS Training PostUsing fast food prices as an index of purchasing powerMay 22, 2013
I recently read an interesting article in The Economist, where they describe "The Big Mac index." This is an index they invented as a lighthearted gu...Read More
JMP BlogThe future of medicineMay 22, 2013
Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to Peter Diamandis speak at the 10th Annual SAS Health Care & Life Sciences Executive Conference. He is...Read More
SAS Users GroupsSAS administrator connections and resourcesMay 22, 2013
A good chunk of the SAS year revolves around SAS Global Forum. Pre-conference, everyone is busy polishing presentations and planning meetings. Post-co...Read More
SAS VoicesHow an NBA team flexed its analytics muscles – and wonMay 22, 2013
Two years ago, Brad Pitt starred in Moneyball, an Academy Award-nominated story about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane bringing the power o...Read More
The DO LoopTiming performance improvements due to vectorizationMay 22, 2013
Last week I discussed a program that had three nested loops that used scalar operations in the innermost loop. I mentioned that this program was no...Read More
JMP BlogTime to move from SPSS to JMPMay 21, 2013
Jason Brinkley, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at East Carolina University, recently recorded a set of videos for JMP titled "Moving from SPS...Read More- SAS VoicesSAS blogger on statistics, big data and simplicityMay 21, 2013
Popular SAS blogger Rick Wicklin was recently interviewed by the Portuguese statistics site, estatisti.co about his new book, his background in ma...Read More 
Value AlleyThe beatings will continue until forecast accuracy improvesMay 21, 2013
Question: What is the maximum level of accuracy with which you can predict the toss of a fair coin? Answer: 50% It does not matter that you’ve ...Read More
Generation SASTeach your students to use SAS to solve problems: SAS workshops for high school teachersMay 20, 2013
SAS is offering summer workshops for high school teachers interested in integrating SAS into their high school programs. Join a growing network of te...Read More
Customer AnalyticsWhy you should be careful with LinkedIn connection requestsMay 20, 2013
Let me begin by saying that I am a huge fan of Linkedin. To folks who do not know LinkedIn, I always describe it as a "serious social network." Wh...Read More
The SAS Training PostBig data and Big Ben are part of Analytics 2013May 20, 2013
We are a month out from Analytics 2013 in London! I am already getting excited about the trip and am starting my list of what to pack (and where to go...Read More
JMP BlogBox & Lucas: Designed experiments for nonlinear modelsMay 20, 2013
All this month, I'm writing about George E.P. Box, as part of the celebration of the International Year of Statistics. Last week, I wrote about Box-Be...Read More
SAS VoicesAnalytics, the ultimate renewable resourceMay 20, 2013
The value of analytics to solve multiple business problems really makes analytics the ultimate reusable business investment, or as they say in the ene...Read More
The SAS DummyExport and download any file from SAS Enterprise GuideMay 20, 2013
Last week I alluded to some very useful applications of the Copy Files task. This is one of them. Using the SAS programming language, you can mani...Read More
SAS Users GroupsPot of gold at the end of each SAS user conferenceMay 20, 2013
Every time you see a rainbow, do you look to see where it begins and where it ends? Legend has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of each rainb...Read More- The DO LoopWays to multiply in the SAS/IML languageMay 20, 2013
For programmers who are learning the SAS/IML language, it is sometimes confusing that there are two kinds of multiplication operators, whereas in th...Read More - The SAS DummySpecial steps for installing the custom tasks that you downloadMay 19, 2013
Recent versions of SAS Enterprise Guide (version 5.1 and later) use Microsoft .NET 4.0, which enforces additional security requirements before runnin...Read More 
Customer AnalyticsThree M's to improve marketing: measure, match and mobileMay 17, 2013
Hello! As a new contributor to this blog, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Dwight Mouton and yes that's a French last name. I'm orginally f...Read More
State and Local ConnectionValue-added myth busting, Part 4: Value-added models cannot measure growth of students who have missing data or are highly mobileMay 17, 2013
Students with missing test scores are often highly mobile students and are more likely to be low-achieving students. It is important to include these ...Read More
SAS Users GroupsWhy is SAS 9.4 a big deal?May 17, 2013
SAS Global Forum 2013 is a couple weeks in the past, but the feedback and anticipation shared by customers as they heard about SAS 9.4 are still fresh...Read More
The Analytic Hospitality Executive“Big Data” Revenue Management May 17, 2013
Back in October, Kelly rather succinctly stated that “Revenue management has always been a “big data” problem.” This is very true. This week, as we ...Read More
Graphically SpeakingReport from PharmaSUG 2013May 16, 2013
The PharmaSUG 2013 conference in Chicago this week was awesome. From the perspective of graphics, there was great interest in using SG Procedures, De...Read More- The SAS DummyAn FTP-style task in SAS Enterprise Guide: user-driven fixesMay 16, 2013
A few months ago I released the Copy Files task for use with SAS Enterprise Guide. The task allows you to transfer any files between your PC and a SA...Read More 
SAS VoicesDiscovering statistics resourcesMay 16, 2013
Get ready statistics lovers. As part of my new role, I’ve been researching and discovering all the resources that SAS has for statistics – and I’m eag...Read More
How the US Olympic Committee leveraged real-time data at London 2012 Games
8320
“Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the Olympic motto. In a Keynote Lunch presentation at SAS Global Forum, Tim Patrick, Director of Enterprise Applications for the United States Olympic Committee, explained how technology, data analysis and visualization are helping fulfill that mission. After a successful showing at the Vancouver games, Patrick and ... Read More
Recent Posts
