Text mining: Understand what your customers are saying

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 1, 2013

According to research, less than half of an organization's data is structured data; nearly 80 percent is unstructured data that may come from social media, customer letters, web pages, invoices and freeform survey answers. Getting the information you need from that data can be a quick and automated experience or it can be long and painful. Alberta Parks is opting for quick and automated. Read More »

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Watch Now: Best Practices in Democratized Analytics

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|May 1, 2013

Justin Choy from SAS presents an overview of best practices for providing data to clients and users while also maintaining analytic integrity of models and processes. Read More »

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Watch Now: The Power of Hash Tables

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|May 1, 2013

Learn how to leverage the power of hash tables for sentiment analysis with David J. Corliss from Magnify Analytic Solutions. Read More »

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Watch Now: Selecting the Best Players for the Indian Premier Cricket League

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|May 1, 2013

Imagine using software to build the perfect sports team. That’s exactly what an Indian cricket league did using SAS® Enterprise MinerTM! Pankush Kalgotra tells us how he used predictive modeling to select the best players for the Indian Premier Cricket League on the SAS Global Forum livestream:

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Watch Now: Using Text Mining to Analyze Country Music Lyrics

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|May 1, 2013

American country songs are known for topics such as  mama, trucks, trains, heartbreaks and drinking. How many of these topics are included in the top country songs over the past 25 years? Deovrat Kakde of Kavi Associates used SAS Text Miner to find out! He shares some of his more interesting findings with Anna Brown on the SAS Global Forum livestream:

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Watch Now: Use a SAS® Stored Process

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|May 1, 2013

Tricia Aanderud from And Data and Angela Hall from SAS share the advantages of SAS® Stored Processes with the SAS Global Forum! In this discussion, you will learn tips and tricks for using stored processes within SAS BI clients. Watch their presentation, "Stop Your "Wine"ing:  Use a Stored Process", now on Livestream:

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Watch Now: Finding Gold in Your Data

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|April 30, 2013

What is data mining and how do you find those golden chunks of information that transform your business? David Dickey from NC State University gives examples of how tools such as SAS® Enterprise Miner™ can help in his presentation "Finding the Gold in Your Data: An Overview of Data Mining" at the SAS Global Forum. Watch it now via Livestream:

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Watch now: 2013 SAS Global Forum Faculty and Student Scholars

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|April 30, 2013

Fify students are presenting papers at SAS Global Forum 2013. Many of these students are SAS Global Forum Scholar winners and from the SAS Student Ambassador Program. Students Aude L. Pujula, David Isaias Maradiaga Pineda, Elizabeth Leslie and Mantosh Kumar Sarkar talk about how they use SAS and why it is important for other students to learn SAS:

In addition to student scholarships, SAS Global Forum also awards ten outstanding faculty members. Rebecca Ottesen, winner from California Polytechnic State University, talks about the importance of student and faculty attending SAS Global Forum:

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Watch Now: Data Mining in Forecasting Problems

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|April 30, 2013

Timothy Rey from The Dow Chemical Company describes how to get the most value from your data using mining techniques specific to data collected over time. Read More »

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Closing the distance using SAS® Enterprise BI

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|April 29, 2013

Managers, boards of directors, executives - everyone needs up-to-date information for decision making. And today that often means they need it in real-time. James Beaver and Tobin Scroggins from Farm Bureau Bank give their users the option of emailed reports for this real-time or near real-time information, or the users can access the dashboard to create personalized reports. Read More »

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