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As an American child growing up on a military base in Germany, I learned many important life lessons. One of the most important was about language and communication. I realized at age 12 that, even though I could speak German, I thought in English -- and it led me to

Date and time values are handled differently when programming in DS2. It can process databases and has access to ANSI data types, which have greater precision.

We learned this week of the passing of one of the giants in our field, Tom Wallace. Tom was as gracious and fine a gentleman as you'll meet. Through his writing, teaching, and consulting work -- in frequent collaboration with Bob Stahl -- tens of thousands of industry practitioners have

Ein Gespräch mit Broetje-Automation: Dirk Eickhorst, Leiter Robotik.

Utilities all over the country are facing multiple disruptions, from climate change to distributed energy generation to a growing need to embrace digital transformation. These challenges are more pronounced for midsize public power utilities, which are community-owned, not-for-profit and often more vulnerable to economic challenges than investor-owned utilities. As new

Reinforcement learning can help banks optimise their collections strategies to cope with an explosion in COVID-19-related delinquencies.

Q: 投稿英文期刊時,需要呈現英文的統計報表,但是我的EG出來的表格都是中文字怎麼辦? A: 1. 找到sas底層的sasv9.cfg檔,路徑應該在 Program FilesSASHomeSASFoundation9.4nlszt 資料夾下 2. 修改sasv9.cfg的內容 (修改前建議先複製一份舊的檔案,萬一改錯後還有一個備份可以用,另外若sas server正在run的話,強烈建議先停下server再修改,避免過程出錯) 用記事本開啟sasv9.cfg檔,找到下半部有一段寫「-LOCALE zh-TW」的地方,在它下面換行加一行「-ODSLANGCHG」如下圖所示 3. 重啟sas server 4. 使用EG跑報表時,如果要用中文的報表,則不需作任何調整。但若要變成英文的圖表,則在跑該分析前加上一段sas程式調整圖表要用的語系,並且在跑完之後再加一段sas程式將圖表語系改回原本的繁體中文,細節說明如下: 範例流程: 未加任何程式前生命表的報表如下 若先執行「轉英文圖表」的那一行sas code 則生命表的圖表調整如下(標題再用EG的標題選單改就可以) 「轉英文圖表」的那一行sas code對整個EG專案的所有報表都會起作用,所以如果要改回中文圖表顯示,必須再執行「轉回中文圖表」的那一行sas code

Deloitte, ses partenaires RCI Bank and Services et SAS ont organisé pour la 3e année consécutive le DRiM Game, LE challenge étudiant dédié à la « data science ». Quatre formations de seconde année de master ont travaillé sur une problématique métier de l’industrie bancaire et relevant de la modélisation

March is National Nutrition Month®, an annual campaign created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the organization behind our RDN credentials). This year's theme, Personalize Your Plate, promotes creating nutritious meals to meet individuals' cultural and personal food preferences.

Chemical companies are sitting on data gold mines waiting to be exploited. Yet most of them struggle to capitalize on the full potential and insights of their data. How can you make advanced analytics work for you and gain competitive advantage? For the past couple of years, chemical companies have

This is my Pi Day post for 2021. Every year on March 14th (written 3/14 in the US), geeky mathematicians and their friends celebrate "all things pi-related" because 3.14 is the three-decimal approximation to pi. Most years I write about lower-case pi (π), which is the ratio of a circle's

Son varios los análisis que se han hecho en torno al Índice Global de Competitividad Global 4.0, que dio a conocer el Foro Económico Mundial a finales del año anterior y que muestra los avances que en la materia tuvieron los diferentes países en el atípico 2020. Ciertamente es de

Dans un monde du crédit où la compétition est exacerbée et les pressions sur les marges de plus en plus fortes, les méthodes traditionnellement mises en œuvre montrent leurs limites. Toute la chaîne de traitement de l’octroi de crédit doit se transformer, profondément et rapidement, au travers de l’IA. Le

This is another in my series of blog posts where I take a deep dive into converting customized R graphs into SAS graphs. Today we'll be working on shapefile maps ... And what data will we be using this time? Here's a hint - the picture below is the Aurora

Collaboration in the cloud is definitely the next big thing from my perspective for life sciences organisations.