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Which character variables have the highest frequency count? You can easily determine this using a variety of procedures that calculate frequency count. For example, the FREQ Procedure or the MEANS Procedure. This blog post illustrates this process through two examples.
"First, be calm, be calm, be calm. Anger can cloud your ability to communicate with your teen and communication is going to be critical in addressing the problem. So if you are really angry or really emotional, it is not the moment to try to talk about it. Wait a
La Cuarta Revolución Industrial, el Internet de las Cosas y la Inteligencia Artificial son conceptos que hacen parte de la transformación digital, y tienen el poder de cambiar los modelos de negocios de una organización. Para que esta era ayude a que las empresas sigan el ritmo de las demandas
In a previous posting, SAS Customer Intelligence 360 was highlighted in the context of delivering relevant product, service, and content recommendations using automated machine learning within digital experiences. Shifting gears, SAS recognizes there are different user segments for our platform. This post will focus on building custom analytical recommendation models
This is the third blog post in a series on IFRS 17 implementation and what insurers need to consider. This one discusses questions about architecture and the importance of a systems approach to provide end-to-end coverage. Getting the architecture right for IFRS 17 implementation will need strong collaboration between different
See how to sample unstructured (text) data using SAS Viya and CAS actions. This post includes complete code to cluster the text documents via k-means, and treats the cluster memberships as strata for analysis.
This article shows how to implement balanced bootstrap sampling in SAS. The basic bootstrap samples with replacement from the original data (N observations) to obtain B new samples. This is called "uniform" resampling because each observation has a uniform probability of 1/N of being selected at each step of the
Open communication between school and home is essential to student learning. Traditionally, a parent-teacher conference is scheduled between report cards to provide parents with updates on their child’s progress. But the focus and the work is on the parents and the teacher. How do we shift the focus to the
SAS batch jobs can generate many log files that accumulate over time. In this post, we present a SAS program that cleans up old log files on your system.
In the new era of online visual communication, when you have to be fast and clear, emojis are getting a strong relevance as the main language that allows us to communicate with anyone globally. Customers know it and brands too. Collecting and analyzing data on emojis give companies useful insights
The Base SAS DATA step has been a powerful tool for many years for SAS programmers. But as data sets grow and programmers work with massively parallel processing (MPP) computing environments such as Teradata, Hadoop or the SAS High-Performance Analytics grid, the data step remains stubbornly single-threaded. Welcome DS2 –
Like hiking without GPS directions, Jim Harris says businesses that don't use streaming data analytics will be lost in a crowd of competitors.
What’s the key to progressing your career? If you ask Manish Desai, a Sr. Director of Consulting, SAS Asia Pacific, based in India, it’s conquering the fear of failure and embracing opportunity – with a great mentor by your side. I sat down with Manish to hear more about his
Der neue International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS 17) stellt Versicherer vor Veränderungen, wie sie die Branche selten zuvor erlebt hat. Die Vorgaben sollen die Transparenz im Finanzberichtswesen verbessern und außerdem eine Grundlage für die Vergleichbarkeit mit anderen Branchen schaffen. Analysten und andere Branchenspezialisten haben diese Vergleichbarkeit schon seit langer Zeit
My colleague Robert Allison recently blogged about using the diameter of Texas as a unit of measurement. The largest distance across Texas is about 801 miles, so Robert wanted to find the set of all points such that the distance from the point to Texas is less than or equal