Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Jenine Milum creates a report

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 18, 2012

At SAS Global Forum, one of the most difficult areas for me to show to you are the poster presentations. This year, I asked Steve Polilli, a colleague who is great with a Flipcam, to video a few for me. I picked out three that I will use in the [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - High schoolers analyzing high schoolers

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 11, 2012

Part of what captivated me about this paper and poster presentation were the presenters – these guys are high school kids using SAS to do a visual analysis of Internet use by high schoolers. The idea was so compelling that Anna Brown and Inside SAS Global Forum went to talk [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - A trend, fraud sniffer

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 4, 2012

Jenn Sykes (you probably remember her from this great sentiment analysis post last year about American Idol), presented Predicting Electoral Outcomes with SAS® Sentiment Analysis and SAS® Forecast Studio at SAS Global Forum 2012. In addition to predicting elections, Sykes tells Anna Brown from Inside SAS Global Forum, that there is a lot of unstructured data [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - One step ahead of fraudsters

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|April 27, 2012

As always, SAS Global Forum holds a wealth of inspiration. The conversations that I have with you guys while I’m there almost always start with, “I just heard/saw/read the coolest thing. I can’t wait to get home and get started using this!” For those of you who missed this year’s [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - A chapter from the book

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|April 13, 2012

Today, I have truly taken a chapter from the book – perhaps in more ways than one. I happened to notice that Art Carpenter’s most recent book is titled, “Carpenter’s Guide to Innovative SAS Techniques.” Of course, you know that linking innovation and SAS are going to be a trigger [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - ROI-focused marketing, predictive analytics

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|April 6, 2012

A small, North American marketing firm (a division of a much larger international firm that provides data-driven, multichannel marketing solutions) provides its clients with ”effective one-to-one marketing and ROI-focused strategies by applying advanced predictive analytics.” tags: ci, crm, Friday’s Innovation Inspiration, predictive analytics

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Get a real job

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|March 30, 2012

There may be some of you who don’t remember this song, but in high school and early college it was one of my favorites. “Get a haircut and get a real job,” by George Thorogood and the Destroyers, really spoke to the rebel in me. Most of my rebellious days are behind [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Cutting steps with DATA step

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|March 23, 2012

I think this DATA step Post-It author may be a bit like my mother. When I was a child, my mother was always coaching me on two things: being independent and being efficient. I believe those are the two traits she considered most admirable in a person. It’s little wonder [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Tracking competitive zeal

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|March 16, 2012

You can keep track of and report anything with SAS, even motivation – or the lack thereof. This team has developed a portal to analyze and report their ride data. It could just as easily be used for groups who want to work together to lose a few pounds, train [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - SAS/Graph®'s secret message

Robert Allison
Robert Allison|March 9, 2012

Sometimes, I pick something fun to do with SAS/GRAPH so that I can learn and experiment with some of the more obscure functionality that I’m wanting to master. This is one of those situations. This fun graph allowed me to experiment with crosshatch patterns in maps, overlapping map areas and creating ‘holes’ in maps. [...]

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