Trouble with user adoption? Find a buddy!

Rachel Alt-Simmons
Rachel Alt-Simmons|December 9, 2010

If you’re like most large organizations, you’ve got a bunch of business intelligence and analytic applications at your fingertips. In my prior organization, a large insurance company, I believe the magic number of tools that the organization had to support was north of 40. No kidding. Now, this is a [...]

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To code or not to code, that is the question...

Rachel Alt-Simmons
Rachel Alt-Simmons|December 6, 2010

A professional acquaintance and an expert in statistics once told me that if you don’t understand how to perform the process of analytics through programming – the creation of the data flow, the transformation of the variables and the development of the statistical procedure – then you had no business [...]

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Data Mining 101 Q&A

Kristine Vick
Kristine Vick|June 21, 2010

My colleagues Tapan Patel, Wayne Thompson & Chris Stephens hosted over 550 live attendees on June 16th for our Data Mining 101 live webinar, part 3 of the Applying Business Analytics Webinar Series. Folks joined from all over North America as well as 32 other countries around the world. Since [...]

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SAS in the class -- on demand

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|August 15, 2007

SAS has a rich heritage in academia, and we know that lots of colleges (and even some high schools) use SAS to teach students statistics and research methods. Now SAS (the company) has made it easier for professors to offer courses that use SAS. This fall, SAS offers the SAS [...]

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Sucking an elephant through a straw

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|August 6, 2007

Before you can analyze data, you have to get to it (or them, if you’re a “data is plural” sort of person). Don’t you sometimes wish you could simply “Google Map” your data topology to see the quickest route to get to it? Sometimes, point-and-click applications make it almost too [...]

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A baby by any other name wouldn't be as trendy

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|June 26, 2007

Naming your child is a big responsibility. For many people, the task involves combing through the Big Book of Baby Names and picking a handful that sound good, and heading into the delivery room with those candidates in mind. (Then again, some folks might just leave it to public opinion.) [...]

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Puzzling presentations

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|April 11, 2007

Okay, you’ve got the leading analytical and business intelligence software at your fingertips: how can you use it to impress your friends and colleagues? Well, for one thing, you can use it to solve your Sudoku puzzle. I’m preparing my presentation for SAS Global Forum: “Extending SAS Enterprise Guide and [...]

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"Listen up kids. This thing is called a 'punch card'."

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|March 26, 2007

I was recently invited to address a group of high school students who are enrolled in a SAS programming course. That’s right — I said high school students. These students are part of the Academy of Information Technology (AOIT) at a local high school. The AOIT is part of the [...]

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A few new voices

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|March 23, 2007

If you’re tired of hearing about me, my magazine and my basement, then you’re in luck. We’ve recruited a handful of contributors who will also start posting here over the next few weeks. To keep up with who’s who, be sure to pay attention to the “posted by” notation at [...]

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