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Lately we've been hearing a lot about "record low unemployment" in the news. Being a data guy, I wanted to see it for myself. Follow along as I create some custom unemployment graphs from the official data for California and New York (two of our most populous states). Or, if
En el año 1832 se publicó en un periódico de la ciudad de Ilmenau (Alemania) un pequeño aviso en una publicación que decía “El Agente Viajero: Qué debe hacer para recibir pedidos y asegurar resultados exitosos en sus negocios – Palabras de un Repartidor”. Este pequeño manual, que traía algunos
Importing about 4,400 messages worth of data into SAS Visual Text Analytics to exploring it and create an information extraction model.
Most people buy carrots, beets, turnips and radishes to eat the roots of these vegetables, but they often come with the tops still attached. Loaded with B vitamins, vitamin K, potassium and fiber, it is a shame to throw the greens in the trash. So, what should you do with
One of the strengths of the SAS/IML language is its flexibility. Recently, a SAS programmer asked how to generalize a program in a previous article. The original program solved one optimization problem. The reader said that she wants to solve this type of problem 300 times, each time using a
I’m Tahseen (better known as Tazz around the SAS Africa offices) and I am a recent intern-turned-permanent SAS employee in the Customer Advisory Academy! My interest in the field of analytics coupled with the attractive internship opportunity brought me to SAS, and I’m so glad it did! The internship was
This series of videos spotlights a very powerful API that lets you use Python while also having access to the power of SAS Deep Learning.
"Take care of yourself!" Sound like something you hear often? This instruction may conjure up fixed ideals of what "taking care" means: getting to the gym, making smoothies, meditating, or getting more sleep. But gym memberships aren’t for everyone, not everyone has a blender, and we may not be able
"Senior managers adore their dashboards. Are they really capable of understanding what they indicate? I have my doubts!"
"Artificial intelligence? Creates jobs? I admit it is far more usual to hear apocalyptic predictions that AI will destroy jobs. Is that true?"
In this blog, I use data from the U. S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) reports for the years 2013-2017 to accomplish these objectives: 1) To determine what are the main themes in TIP reports, and 2) to show how to work with ASTORE code to deploy models using SAS Viya 3.4 Visual Text Analytics 8.4.
The SAS Global Forum 2020 call for content is open until Sept. 30, 2019. Are you thinking of submitting a paper? If so, we have a few tips adapted from The Global English Style Guide that will help your paper shine. By following Global English guidelines, your writing will be
"Once an attack is discovered, the average #cybercrime victim in the UK spends 14.8 hours dealing with the aftermath. These are worrying facts."
College graduates are eager to switch the tassel from student to professional, but a career for young professionals today requires more than a place to use their skills and pay the bills. Pauline Ashcraft, a Senior Associate Business Operations Specialist for SAS, knows what it means to find a career
Although I do not typically blog about undocumented SAS options, I'll make an exception this time. For many years, I have known that the CONTENTS and COMPARE procedures support the BRIEF and SHORT options, but I always forget which option goes with which procedure. For the record, here are the