The Text Frontier - Text mining, voice mining and unstructured data analysis

Things have been mighty busy here at SAS lately. Please accept our apology for the infrequent blog postings. The good news is that there have been some really interesting customer engagements going on that required our full attention. I just returned from working an exhibit with INFORMS in San Diego, where we had so many people ask about text analytics we ran out of handouts. Its the buzz on social media and the idea of mining the words and text we use in those communications that seems to catching on - Big Time! What was traditionally an optimization operations research event, has expanded into all sorts of analytics with NLP and Text Analytics being cited in a dozen different sessions.

Now - for the subject line of this blog entry........ I am delighted to announce that we are expanding our Text Analytics team. We are looking for someone to perform pragmatic product management duties along with our existing Text Miner R&D experts, the Teragram Employees, and our Text Analytic consulting and sales engineers. Text Analytics has grown to encompass much more that the SAS Text Miner product which was originally launched as an "add on" piece to our Enterprise Miner offering. Today Text Analytics includes more than predictive modeling so we are opening up new positions for experts -- thus the open position of Product Manager for SAS Text Analytics.
If you have Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related quantitative discipline and 5 years of experience in product management, consulting, or a related function in the software industry we welcome your application. Expertise in the application of text analytics methodologies is required so I encourage those of you reading this blog to help spread the word to those who run one or more of the text analytics software packages now on the market.

The instructions on how to apply are provided by our Human Relations department here
the job number for the TEXT ANALYTICS position is - 09001816.
This position is located at SAS Headquarters Cary, NC near the RDU airport.

I invite you to browse all our jobs as posted on the main sas web page which you can find by selecting CAREERS on the top horizonal menu bar, and then clicking on professional opportunities. You will see that we are also seeking experienced consultants for our Advanced Analytics Lab. So those of you familiar with our SAS software may wish to apply to those jobs also. Its exciting our these technologies and the people who run them are now IN DEMAND

Meanwhile we on the SAS team are having fun enhancing Text Miner to make the next release of version 4.2 available early December 2009. This will be the release with many Teragram capabilities weaved inside the Text Miner product. More on that topic in a future blog.

Thanks for reading and
...... Thanks for carrying the message out to your boss and your clients that Yes indeed , "Text Analytic Technologies are ready TODAY to be applied and make impacts in our world".