Four more tips about hash tables
Now is your chance to learn even more about SAS hash tables with four additional articles on the subject.
Tag: Author Spotlight
Three of My Favorite Programming Tips
I often get asked for programming tips. Here, I share three of my favorite tips for beginners. Tip #1: COUNTC and CATS Functions Together The CATS function concatenates all of its arguments after it strips leading and trailing blanks. The COUNTC function counts characters. Together, they can let you operate
Three Proc SQL Tips from Bestselling Author Kirk Paul Lafler
SAS Press author Kirk Paul Lafler's favorite tips using PROC SQL.
Speeding Up Your Analytics with Machine Learning (Part 2)
This blog post introduces the use of deep learning to train a deep neural network to further improve performance; and hybrid architectures.
Speeding Up Your Analytics with Machine Learning (Part 1)
Hybrid computers that marry CPUs and devices like GPUs and FPGAs are the fastest computers, but they are hard to program. This post explains how deep learning (DL) greatly simplifies programming hybrid computers.
So what’s the big data?
There’s a lot of excitement right now around the book, Big Data, Data Mining, and Machine Learning: Value Creation for Business Leaders and Practitioners by Jared Dean, SAS Senior Director of Research and Development. At SAS, Dean is responsible for the development of the company’s worldwide data mining solutions. His
SAS Press editor-in-chief on running and writing
I just celebrated my 5th anniversary of starting to run. I would have said that I just celebrated my 5th anniversary of being a runner, but I’m not sure I qualify as a “runner,” yet. I do run and I participate in a few races here and there, mostly for
5 Places to Hang Out with SAS Authors
They’re smart, technically savvy, and accessible. Yes, I am biased but SAS Press authors are a uniquely gifted brain trust for SAS and JMP users. Besides getting to know them from their white papers, books, or author pages—you can interact with them in a variety of places. Here’s a quick
5 Ways to Join SAS Authors on sasCommunity.org!
Did you know that several major contributors on the collaborative online community for SAS® users worldwide are SAS Press authors? In fact, sasCommunity.org, created by SAS users for SAS users, includes authors Art Carpenter, Don Henderson, Kirk Lafler, Michael Raithel, Howard Schreier and Charlie Shipp on the current advisory board.
Every day Gerhard Svolba writes the book
Gerhard Svolba, author of Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS, is working on his second book for SAS Press and this time around he’s also writing about his experience—writing the book. I’m really enjoying his weekly blog The Creation of the Book: Data Quality for Analytics. Gerhard, who resides in