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Jason Xin
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Pre-sales Analytics Solution Architect

Jason Xin has been an analytics practitioner for more than 15 years, with concentrations in financial services and life sciences. He covers predictive analytics, statistics, forecasting, optimization, machine learning and data management, both exquisite and heavy-duty. Xin focuses his work on creating designs and finding paths to each customer’s unique analytics needs. He is also passionate about solving problems, building a wide knowledge base for customers and providing incremental value through online engagement.

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Partitioning in Hadoop, sorting in SAS--same results, different methods

SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop is a single interactive programming environment for analytics on Hadoop that  integrates analytical data preparation, exploration, modeling and deployment. It’s principle components are the IMSTAT procedure (PROC IMSTAT) and the SAS LASR Analytic Engine (or SASIOLA engine for input-output with LASR). Within the SAS In-Memory Statistics