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The CEO's favorite visual analytics features

By Alison Bolen on SAS Voices February 22, 2013

"What do you do when you first get a data set that's a billion rows long?" asks SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. "You want to play around with it." At dozens of SAS events over the last year, audience attendees have watched Goodnight do just that, quickly grabbing 1.15 billion records, selecting variables and building data visualizations on the fly.

I've seen the demo a few times myself and wondered what he likes best about showcasing SAS Visual Analytics on stage. Goodnight answers that question here:

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Alison Bolen
Editor of Blogs and Social Content

Alison Bolen is an editor at SAS, where she writes and edits content about analytics and emerging topics. Since starting at SAS in 1999, Alison has edited print publications, Web sites, e-newsletters, customer success stories and blogs. She has a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from Ohio University and a master’s degree in technical writing from North Carolina State University.

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