A big part of "winning" these days (be it sports or a business) is performing analytics better than your competition. This is demonstrated in awe-inspiring fashion in the book (and movie) "Moneyball." And on that topic, I'd like to show you a few ways SAS can be used to analyze sports data
In the course of my job, I get to have a lot of conversations with authors about their books. One of the aspects of those conversations I enjoy most is learning about their areas of expertise and knowledge—that could be certain SAS software or programming techniques, particular fields of analytics,
Well Analytics 2011 is officially a wrap. (OK, that’s not completely true, we still have 3 days of post-conference training left to deliver to around 300 attendees.) Now that we’ve reached the end of the event, I can say the conference was a tremendous success in so many ways. Most
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
Dear Miss SAS Answers, I am having a tough time developing SAS code to determine volatility ( i.e.: the moving standard deviation using GARCH approach). I need a conditional volatility measure of exchange rate from past 40 years. I have data from the past 50 years, and I would like to determine volatility using
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
Contributed by Mike Gilliland, Product Marketing Manager Having a job in business forecasting is sort of like being in county lockup – only without the benefit of cuddly bunkmates and weekly delousing. Most of those in the job want out, and those who remain in the field possess psychological maladies
We're live from F2010, SAS' premier business forecasting conference. Professionals from dozens of industries are gathering at our headquarters in Cary to discuss the latest technologies and methodologies around forecasting. We caught up with authors Mike Gilliland and Charles Chase as they discussed their forecasting books with us. Enjoy their
Larry LaRusso is the Editor of SAS Training Report. His editorial letter from the May issue was so good, I thought I would share it with you. Enjoy! If you had to choose the Simon Cowell of the mid-1900s, you'd be hard-pressed to pick someone more qualified than James Rae
