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How many times a day do you search (or “Google”) how to do something with a product, the best ways to perform “X,” or for help with a problem? Chances are it’s a lot, and when you do, you likely land on a forum where your peers have posted answers
The Data Visualization Charting 101 seriesexplores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. My grandmother often used the saying “as the crow flies” when giving directions, referring to a straight line being the shortest distance between two points. When
The Data Visualization Charting 101 series explores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. Have so much data that your head is spinning? If you have a lot of data that needs to be visualized, a scatter plot, aka
The Data Visualization Charting 101 series explores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. What comes to mind when you hear the word bubbles? I think of the fact that it’s getting warmer outside and prime time for my
Statistics, statisticians, and data are all the rage in 2013 as we celebrate the International Year of Statistics! Statisticians are often busy crunching numbers and modeling data, but we were lucky to enough to have Tyler Smith of National University and Jennifer Waller of Georgia Regents University chat with us
What retailer doesn’t want to treat customers with a personal touch? SAS Advisory Solutions Architect Frank Nuata shows how SAS Visual Analytics can help a retailer drilldown to the information it needs to give the customer experience it wants. Oh, and it’s also available on your mobile device, easy to
The Data Visualization Charting 101 series explores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. The most delicious of all charts is the pie chart. I recall a recent TV show where a character made a bar chart of his favorite
Many companies are using Hadoop to manage big data – Macys.com is one example. In the video below Kerem Tomak, Macys.com Vice President of Marketing Analytics, talks about the tangible benefits of using SAS/ACCESS Interface to Hadoop, including the speed and efficiency to see insights from mountains of data. You
"Nobody knows analytics the way SAS does," said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight in my recent interview with him. He also explained the significance of being able to visualize and explore "big data." With visual analytics, you can cruise a billion records and just do graphs and plots one after the
I attended the Predictive Analytics World conference in NYC this week and found Kaggle, a platform that hosts data prediction competitions, fascinating. It accepts the broadest range of data mining, forecasting and bioinformatics problems and conducts worldwide competitions that invite not only true data scientists but also electrical engineers, statisticians,
