For SAS Training, it's two # 1's this week!

This morning, FORTUNE Magazine announced their 100 best places to work in America. For the second year in a row, SAS came in at #1! As you can imagine, we’re all pretty excited around here. But, you might be thinking, “So what? Why do I care?” Our Senior Vice President [...]

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How To Make Data Preparation Easier: Shake the Trees

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.   tags: conference, data mining, m2010

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Statistical Analysis for Better Tasting Wine

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, [...]

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Advice from a SAS Certified Professional, Moments After Passing the Exam

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 [...]

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What Exactly Does SAS In-Database Really Mean?

Editor’s note: David Pope is a SAS Solutions Architect and is helping to support SAS at the M2010 Data Mining Conference working in the SAS/Teradata partner booth, highlighting our partnership and how SAS and Teradata work together. The Teradata booth has drawn quite a lot of traffic and interest in [...]

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Data Mining and How To Avoid Them

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 [...]

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A Counter-intuitive Approach to FICO Scorecarding

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.   tags: conference, data mining, m2010

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Wish You Were Here!

The M2010 Data Mining Conference kicks off today in Las Vegas. Tune into this blog and our YouTube playlist for live updates. tags: conference, data mining, m2010, statistical training

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Game-changing Analytics

The M2010 Data Mining Conference team has arrived in Las Vegas and we’re getting ready to host the 750+ analysts, statisticians and database managers who will be ascending upon Sin City this weekend for our 13th annual conference. tags: conference, data analysis, data mining, m2010

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Two webinars, two M2010 keynote speakers, free learning

I know that many of you will be traveling to Las Vegas in a couple of months to attend the annual Data Mining Conference. But, for those of you who won’t be attending, or for those who would love a sneak-peek beforehand, I’d like to share with you two upcoming [...]

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