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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SAS User Feedback Award Winner: Pete Lund

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 16, 2012

Annette Harris spends several minutes during this video extolling many of the high-performance virtues of Pete Lund, Information Systems Manager, Looking Glass Analytics. One thing she didn’t mention (it was mentioned to me later) is that Pete is a long-time member of SAS-L. Do you know how many other SAS [...]

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A QUEST to learn SAS …

Michelle Homes
Michelle Homes|May 15, 2012

As a SAS fan, in a number of roles over the past 15+ years (programmer, statistician, data warehouse developer, business analyst, consultant, trainer, partner), I am also the Queensland Users Exploring SAS Technology (QUEST) chairperson, and I feel very privileged to be able to contribute to the wider SAS community [...]

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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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How the Orlando Magic relies on SAS Analytics

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 9, 2012

So, when you go to the game, do you buy a hot dog, a beer and a banner before the first quarter? Do you buy them all from the same vendor? Do you go back during the half? Does the score impact how much money you spend on concessions? All [...]

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Sentiment analysis: Mining the hearts and minds

Iain Brown
Iain Brown|May 4, 2012

It is becoming more and more apparent that social media is a gold mine of unstructured data that is just waiting to be analysed so that the nuggets can be extracted. At SAS Global Forum, I was particularly impressed with the diversified use of sentiment analysis and the exploration that [...]

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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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Social network analysis finds fraud in telecommunications networks

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 3, 2012

According to Carlos André Reis Pinheiro, social networks in communications are easy to understand and detect, so Oi Telecommunications chose that route first when trying to detect fraud. Community detection for fraud proved to be somewhat different. It is a progressive search, from looking at the entire network to looking [...]

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Congratulations Best Contributed Papers at SAS Global Forum

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 2, 2012

Congratulations to all of you who presented at SAS Global Forum. It takes a lot of hard work to put together the research, write a paper and presentation, and then stand on stage and present to a crowd of people you have never met. You are amazing. From all of [...]

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Searching for crimes using social media analytics

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 2, 2012

If you have ever searched social media – Twitter, the blogsphere, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest – for your favorite topic (I’m guessing it’s baby penguins or monster truck racing), then you know that it can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Imagine how law enforcement officers feel: They [...]

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