Hammer time with high school students

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|April 12, 2011

This morning I delivered a talk to visiting high school students at the SAS campus. The topic: using SAS to analyze Twitter content. Being teenagers, high school students are well familiar with Twitter. But this batch of students was also very familiar with SAS, as they all have taken SAS [...]

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Setting the stage for SAS Global Forum

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|March 17, 2011

SAS Global Forum 2011 just over two weeks away. The R&D and product management teams are preparing the demos to show on stage during the highly-visible opening sessions. A tremendous amount of work goes into planning the program. It’s great to see what they come up with. When it comes [...]

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Demystifying how text analytics can detect cyberbullying

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|October 22, 2010

Facebook now uses technology to help detect instances of cyberbullying before it gets out of hand. I heard this report on CNN last week, and the Facebook spokesman described their detection techniques as “background technology that I can’t really talk about.” We don’t know for certain what techniques Facebook employs [...]

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