Day one of SAS' Analytics 2011 conference is in the books and wow, what a great opening day. As I mentioned in my post from yesterday, Anaytics 2011 is SAS' analytics conference and covers all areas of analytics, including forecasting, data mining, visualization, text mining, and optimization. When I took the stage this morning (with
Hello everyone. My name is Jerry Oglesby and I’m the Sr. Director of SAS’ Global Academic and Certification Program and the co-chair of SAS’ 14th annual analytics conference, Analytics 2011. For those of you joining us in Orlando starting today (Monday), we’ve put together an impressive program for you and
The Analytics Conference is coming up soon (October 24-25, Orlando)! To refresh your memory, the Analytics Conference Series is a merger of three annual educational conferences: the data mining conference, the business forecasting conference and the analytics conference held in Europe. Today I'd like to highlight a popular past and
Happy New Year!! This is a good time to think about what was going on here in SAS Education one year ago, and to introduce you to a big project that I'm really excited to "take public." In January 2010 (as well as throughout 2009), we kept getting cries for
At the M2010 Data Mining Conference, Dick DeVeaux gave a keynote speech about the Seven Deadly Sins of Data Mining. In this video, he gives us a little more insight into these common data mining mistakes and offers some advice.
In this video, M2010 Data Mining Conference keynote speaker, Dr. Simon Sheather compares classification trees and logistic regression and discusses situations in which logistic regression is expected to outperform classification trees and vice versa. In 2001, Dr. Sheather was named an honorary fellow of the American Statistical Association. Since 2006,
It’s not easy to justify time away from the job, but what if you could realize the benefits of attending the world’s premier Data Mining conference and also take on the challenge of a SAS certification exam at the same time? Many M2010 Data Mining Conference attendees found out yesterday
Our M2010 Data Mining Conference keynote speaker, Dick De Veaux from Williams College just finished his entertaining and informative presentation. He thoughtfully noted that our location (Las Vegas) is very appropriate for the subject of his presentation. Are you guilty of any of these data mining sins? Luckily, Dick also
M2010 Data Minining Conference session speaker David Gumpert-Hersh from Wescom Credit Union explains a new approach for examining FICO score data that reveals risks not exposed by scorecarding.
The M2010 Data Mining Conference kicks off today in Las Vegas. Tune into this blog and our YouTube playlist for live updates.
