Last week Robert Allison showed how to download NBA data into SAS and create graphs such as the location where Stephen Curry took shots in the 2015-16 season to date. The graph at left shows the kind of graphs that Robert created. I've reversed the colors from Robert's version, so
The new book Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions contains a large section of recent articles on forecasting performance evaluation and reporting. Among the contributing authors is Rob Hyndman, Professor of Statistics at Monash University in Australia. To anyone needing an introduction, Hyndman's credentials include: Editor-in-chief of International Journal of
As the big data era continues to evolve, Hadoop remains the workhorse for distributed computing environments. MapReduce has been the dominant workload in Hadoop, but Spark -- due to its superior in-memory performance -- is seeing rapid acceptance and growing adoption. As the Hadoop ecosystem matures, users need the flexibility to use either traditional MapReduce
Im diesem Gastbeitrag von Accantec geht es um den Datenschutz im Big Data Umfeld. Accantec präsentiert sich auf dem diesjährigen SAS Forum in Bonn (28. April) mit einem eigenen Stand. Lassen wir ab jetzt Gero Hentschel von Accantec sprechen. Big Data ist längst keine Modeerscheinung mehr, sondern in vielen Unternehmen mittlerweile
Es increíble ver cómo cada vez más organizaciones se dan cuenta de la necesidad de optimizar su atención a cliente y subir este servicio a lista de factores que representan ventaja competitiva. Sabiendo esto, un importante número de empresas han recurrido al uso de inteligencia artificial y realidad virtual. Recientes
Many of us here at SAS are hustling to prepare for SAS Global Forum set to begin April 18 in Las Vegas. This year’s agenda is shaping up to be a “can’t-miss” event. Monday, before SAS Global Forum begins, there are two SAS Certification testing events. Then after the conference
In an upcoming paper for SAS Global Forum, several of us from the SAS Text Analytics team explore shifting the context of our underlying representation from documents to the sentences that are within the documents. We then look at how this shift can allow us to answer new text mining
Big-Data-Definitionen und -Herleitungen à la drei, vier oder noch mehr „V”s gibt es zur Genüge, alle wohldurchdacht und stimmig. Ihnen allen gemein ist aber die generelle Einordnung des Themas als Zukunftsinitiative. Übertrieben gesagt: weg vom Rechenschieber hin zur künstlichen Intelligenz, die alles perfekt entscheidet und aus dem Nichts heraus neue
In my last post, Expert tips for first-time attendees of SAS Global Forum 2016, I asked members of the SAS Global Users Group Executive Board what advice they had for users attending SAS Global Forum for the first time. In this post, they share tips for returning attendees. Each year,
Today, I'd like to introduce a new author! Welcome Amy Rockwell to the SAS Life Blog team! Amy shares her passion for the great outdoors with SAS Employees through the RFC's Outdoor Adventure programs. In addition to finding Amy on the trails and teaching and working out at the RFC, she enjoys spending time with
At a recent TDWI conference, I was strolling the exhibition floor when I noticed an interesting phenomenon. A surprising percentage of the exhibiting vendors fell into one of two product categories. One group was selling cloud-based or hosted data warehousing and/or analytics services. The other group was selling data integration products. Of
Liz Maria Muller Junior ist aktiv im Netz unterwegs, dort vernetzt und meinungsbildend. Ihre Meinungen schätzen ihre „Follower“; das hat „ihr Data Scientist“ schon rausgefunden und ihr das Attribut „Influencer“ verpasst. Nach vielem Abmühen in seiner neuen Hadoop-Sandbox macht das ihren Data Scientist ein bisschen stolz: Eine wertvolle Neukundin wäre
There are several ways to simulate multinomial data in SAS. In the SAS/IML matrix language, you can use the RANDMULTINOMIAL function to generate samples from the multinomial distribution. If you don't have a SAS/IML license, I have previously written about how to use the SAS DATA step or PROC SURVEYSELECT
Nothing works today without an efficient data management – also in insurance business. A standard data model can be an important component of it. This article explains why. “Make or Buy”? This question has been raised very often by insurance companies planning to introduce a consistent data structure – a
If you are a Caregiver, there is likely going to be a point at which you feel you aren't doing enough, you aren't doing it well, or a combination of the two. So it's not really a question of "Do you feel Caregiver Guilt?" but "When do you feel Caregiver
Streaming analytics is a red hot topic in many industries. As the Internet of Things continues to grow, the ability to process and analyze data from new sources like sensors, mobile phones, and web clickstreams will set you apart from your competition. Event stream processing is a popular way to
In my SAS Press book Business Statistics Made Easy in SAS® I place a strong focus on the skill of extrapolating analytics/statistical outcomes to key business implications (similar techniques can be used to link statistics to other key societal outcomes). Unfortunately, business analytics often stops short of defining the impact
Si entre las preguntas que se plantea en su gestión están ¿cómo mejorar la presentación de mis reportes?, ¿cómo puedo comunicar a la organización información clave de una forma clara, sencilla y oportuna? Entonces le interesará saber cómo la Visualización Analítica ayuda a las organizaciones en el mejor entendimiento y
Math lovers, do you know what day it is? It's Pi Day, which we celebrate every year on March 14 because the date 3-14 matches the first three digits of pi, 3.14. This year, I'm celebrating with poetry, combining my love of math with my love of language. Word Spy explains that a pi-ku is
People have always been fascinated by sports statistics, and with the recent popularity of fantasy sports there is an increased demand for custom analyses of the sports data. With those folks in mind, I have created a simple example that SAS programmers can use as a starting point for analyzing NBA
In the past, we've always protected our data to create an integrated environment for reporting and analytics. And we tried to protect people from themselves when using and accessing data, which sometimes could have been considered a bottleneck in the process. We instituted guidelines and procedures around: Certification of the data
Wenn es einen Begriff gibt, der in den letzten Jahren die IT-Branche außergewöhnlich geprägt hat, dann lautet dieser bestimmt „Big Data“. Kaum jemand konnte sich den unzähligen Beiträgen entziehen, das Thema war und ist in aller Munde. Auch ich selbst durfte das eine oder andere Mal von den berühmten Big-Data-„V“s erzählen.
Today is March 14th, which is annually celebrated as Pi Day. Today's date, written as 3/14/16, represents the best five-digit approximation of pi. On Pi Day, many people blog about how to approximate pi. This article uses a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate pi, in spite of the fact that
I was answering questions about SAS in a forum the other day, and it struck me how much easier it is to help folks if they can provide a snippet of data to go along with their program when asking others to help troubleshoot. This makes it easy to run
Being able to access information about your operating system from within SAS can be incredibly useful. For example, if you have a directory that contains an unknown number of CSV files that you would like to read into SAS, you certainly would not want to have to write an IMPORT
Administration einer SAS Umgebung: Wir holen das Beste aus Ihrer SAS Umgebung heraus – das ist unser Motto. Sie stehen vor einem umfangreichen SAS Metadaten Security Review? Einer SAS Migration oder einem Umzug auf eine neue Infrastruktur? Sie schieben die längst notwendigen Aktivitäten immer wieder vor sich her, weil Sie
En posteos anteriores hemos platicado acerca de la importancia de la seguridad digital, de cómo cada vez más personas sufren robos de identidades por mal manejo de bases de datos de ciertos sectores, sin embargo mucho del problema recae no en las empresas tal cual sino en la tecnología ocupada. Un
Este 2016 a pesar de lo pronosticado, nos sorprende con un crecimiento positivo en la industria automotriz, manteniendo un ritmo de crecimiento récord en el mes de febrero, colocando en el mercado 109,624 unidades. De acuerdo a la AMDA (Asociación Mexicana de Distribuidores de Automotores) las ventas aumentaron un 13.6%
How many of us have used the phrases… It’s a piece of cake Anyone can do it It’s as easy as ABC I could do it with my eyes shut When it comes to business intelligence it should be “easy peasy” but for many organization it can still be a
The importance of data analytics in the UK public sector and wider society was in the spotlight earlier this year, following a report from Policy Exchange. It called for elected mayors to set up an Office of Data Analytics. If enacted, these teams of experts will have one central aim:
