The British spy agency GCHQ recently posted a grid-shading puzzle that the director sent out in his Christmas cards this year. The puzzle, shown here, is known as a nonogram and by various other names, including Paint by Numbers and FigurePic: Each cell is to be colored black or white,
Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie wachen auf und Weihnachten ist verschwunden, mitsamt aller Weihnachtsgeschichten. Niemand hat je davon gehört, noch gibt es irgendwelche Beweise über die Existenz von geschmückten Tannenbäumen, duftenden Plätzchen oder Ochs und Esel in der Krippe. Jemand hat Weihnachten radikal abgeschafft und aus unseren Köpfen eliminiert. Tief
Hey Folks, This is Ed, and I have some sad news to share. A few months ago, Willie started to lose his appetite. We took him to the vet, and he was diagnosed with cancer. Unfortunately, the cancer had progressed beyond treatment. So, we brought him home and spoiled him
Macroeconometrics is not dead: (and I wish I had paid better attention in my time series course): I wrote this on the way to see one of our manufacturing clients in Austin, Texas, anticipating a discussion how to use vector autoregressive models in process control. It is a typical use
Bis Weihnachten ist es nun gar nicht mehr so weit. Die Vorfreude beim Christkind steigt mit jedem Tag, gleichzeitig aber auch die Arbeit. Die Wünsche aller Kinder haben die Engel eigentlich bereits gelistet und seit der Trendanalyse vom Samstag kennen sie auch ein paar Geschenke, von dem sie jedem Kind
The most recent development environment for SAS programmers is SAS Studio, which is a browser-based application. The free SAS University Edition, which includes SAS/IML software, also uses SAS Studio as a development environment. SAS Studio has a special mode for programmers who use interactive procedures such as PROC IML. (Recall
Heute wird rekapituliert. Heute nimmt sich das Christkind die Zeit, um Revue passieren zu lassen, was gut und was schlecht gelaufen ist. Es wird herausfinden, was sich gelohnt hat zu lernen und was es lieber wieder vergessen möchte. Auch die Engel werden befragt. Heute werden die vergangenen 12 Tage betrachtet
Das Christkind kann sich nun bald bei SAS als Data Scientist bewerben. Was dem Christkind gestern noch als unlösbar erschien, ist für es jetzt ein Klacks. Beispiel: Die richtigen Geschenke für Kinder zu finden, die sich nichts wünschen … Da es das nun drauf hat, kann es an die Verfeinerung
In conjunction with the International Institute of Forecasters and the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University, the 2016 Foresight Practitioner conference will be held in Raleigh, NC (October 5-6, 2016) with the theme of: Worst Practices in Forecasting: Today's Mistakes to Tomorrow's Breakthroughs This is the first
Imagine trying to make the right decision for a child in protective custody if your information was limited only to what was reported to your department about a single incident. Without additional information about the child’s home environment, health and education, criminal background of adults in the child’s life, and
“Give us 50K in bitcoin or you'll never access any of your data again.” Cybercriminals have many ways to hijack your data, and ransom schemes like the one above are just one trick of many. These “geeks gone wrong” are a real threat to customers and brands, and everyone knows
Continuing your education can be daunting. Just thinking about all of that time that could be spent relaxing and you have to carve out two hours to study…really! Trust me when I say, I feel your pain. BUT, you will reap the rewards ten-fold, I promise. Check out these top
Recently I toured a manufacturing plant floor for a company that builds construction materials related to energy. I find a number issues people face in production of which the most common are around asset efficiency, product quality, and safety. This manufacturer like most had similar concerns on all those areas
Heute spricht das Christkind mit dem Nikolaus über die kleine Simone Pf. und den kleinen Steffen G. Beide, Simone und auch Steffen, wünschen sich nämlich nichts mehr. Das wundert das Christkind sehr. Und es vermutet, dass der liebe Nikolaus die beiden verschreckt hat mit seiner Rutendrohung! Doch auch dafür gibt
"Why forecasting is important" gets searched over 100 times monthly on Google. Search results include plenty of rah-rah articles touting the obvious benefits of an "accurate forecast," but are of little help in the real life business world where high levels of forecast accuracy are usually not achieved. This is
Data, números, conocimiento. Es indudable que en un mundo cada vez más conectado el conocimiento es el rey y la data su poder. Pero, ¿es suficiente con tener acceso a la información o también se requiere su buena administración? Esta respuesta es simple: de nada sirve almacenar millones de bits
Modernization. It’s a hot topic for organizations in all types of industries that are looking for ways to streamline hardware and software footprints while gaining control and insights from the data deluge. In the data integration space, this means we have to look beyond a traditional ETL approach to one
Wer es von Ihnen, liebe Leser, bis hierhin geschafft hat, herzlichen Glückwunsch! Und auch vielen Dank an die Engel, denn die rackern sich gerade ganz schön ab. Während wir uns innerlich auf den 24. Dezember vorbereiten und gemütlicher werden, drehen die Engel nochmals richtig auf. Heute überführt ein Algorithmus ein
In traveling and speaking at SAS events in South America this summer -- at SAS Forum Chile in Santiago and at events in Buenos Aries, Argentina and Lima, Peru -- I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with local customers and learn about their progressive organizational approaches. In talking with these
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the 2015 EyeforTravel Connected Traveller Conference. Based on the spelling of the word “traveller” which my American version of MS Word continuously wants to autocorrect, you can correctly assume the conference was hosted in London. During the conference, one phrase
Time. It flies. It does so whether or not you’re having fun or otherwise putting it to good use. To know where it flies, you’d need to watch. But most of us can’t make the time to watch. How we use time is important since it’s the one resource we
Saturday Night Live has been on television for about as long as most of us have been old enough to stay up and watch it (since 1975). Therefore, when I saw that Rolling Stone had ranked all the cast members throughout the show's history, I knew this was going to
When clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, the year won’t be the only thing that starts anew around here - January is right around the corner and the SAS Users Group support program starts fresh on January 1st 2016 as well. Auld Lang Syne Even if you were registered
With all the holiday treats and fixins’, it’s nice to find some healthy options in the mix. These two recipes are as much fun to make as they are to eat. Create them with your children, grandchildren or significant other and enjoy eating them without guilt. Either recipe will make
Das Christkind, unser Analytics-Fuchs, ist auch irgendwie ein Pedant. Das Christkind, unser Pedant, ist auch irgendwie ein Chef mit all seinen Allüren. Heute wird nämlich eingeteilt, strammgestanden und dann gearbeitet. Dass dies den Engeln nicht gefällt, ist klar. Doch wenn der Chef spricht, beugen sich sogar Engel. Unsere Engelsprotagonisten von
Recently Sanjay Matange blogged about how to color the bars of a histogram according to a gradient color ramp. Using the fact that bar charts and histograms look similar, he showed how to use PROC SGPLOT in SAS to plot a bar chart in which each bar is colored according
#GivingTuesday has been gaining popularity as people worldwide find ways to give back, after giving thanks. On December 1, 2015, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world came together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give. SAS is proud that we were once again able
Langsam könnte man meinen, das Christkind sei der verbeamtete Chef des statistischen Himmelsamtes. Heute geht es an die Analyse von Zeitreihen zur Vorhersage (Forecasting) der Wunschzettelmassen. Die Kindergesellschaft ist eine Konsum- und Wegwerfgesellschaft. Das merkt das Christkind nicht erst seit 15 Jahren! Da wird gewünscht und ausgepackt was das Zeug
I've seen a number of articles and webinars recently that discuss data integration as a cloud-based service. So I thought it was worth exploring what this really means in the context of big data – specifically when the objective is to exploit many sources of streaming data for analytics. My initial reaction
"Where do you go to get help with SAS?" It's a question I've asked users more times than I can remember. Some will tell me they take a SAS class or call SAS Technical Support, but the most common answer is "colleagues." There's no doubt fellow users are a great resource, but if you're only relying on colleagues at your
