Expanding a good thing: SAS Users Groups LinkedIn Group

Michael Smith
Michael Smith|May 21, 2012

In August 2011, we expanded the scope of the SAS Global Forum blog and rebranded it as the SAS Users Group blog.   Our goal was to create one vibrant and dynamic spot for content related to SAS users groups and SAS user presentations.   The result has been terrific!  Many new [...]

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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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So long from SAS Global Forum 2012

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 17, 2012

Here is the last video from the last day at SAS Global Forum 2012. This one is great! Make sure you stay in there long enough to watch the outtakes: they are so funny!       tags: Inside SAS Global Forum, SAS Global Forum

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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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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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How to be a SAS mentor

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 8, 2012

Stanley Fogleman says that SAS can be hard to learn on your own – not because it is a difficult language – but because of the various business requirements. In fact, even college students entering the workforce are often ill-prepared in some ways. That’s why Fogleman believes that a SAS mentoring program [...]

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SAS has amped up mobile

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 7, 2012

SAS already has some cool mobile Business Intelligence apps. Now, Scott McQuiggan tells Anna Brown, in this Inside SAS Global Forum interview, that you can view the really cool high-performance analytics reports that you’ve created on your desktop – right from your mobile device. Check this out!! tags: high-performance analytics, [...]

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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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