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My colleague, Robert Allison, recently published an interesting visualization of the relationship between chess ratings and age. His post was inspired by the article "Age vs Elo — Your battle against time," which was published on the chess.com website. ("Elo" is one of the rating systems in chess.) Robert Allison's
People across the country (and world) are not getting the care they need. There are many data efforts to address that, but I personally believe traditional analytics are short-sighted, too illness-focused, and remarkably negative. We need to take a more holistic approach to data, policy, and health care, including traditional
Como soy una persona afortunada, en ocasiones llego de forma no planificada a algún lugar justo en el momento en el que están a punto de descorchar un buen vino, por conversar acerca de algo que me interesa mucho o en el momento exacto en que regalan algo que me
I am unabashedly a data zealot, but not a data scientist. I believe in the power of data and data analytics, and that the data revolution has started. It will transform all our lives in ways we cannot even imagine. This is one of the things that attracted me to
Elections are in the news again, therefore I have been on the lookout for interesting graphs. I recently found some graphs of the Census Current Population Survey (CPS) Voting and Registration Supplement data, and tried to improve them. Follow along if you're interested in voter data, or creating better graphs!
Better decisions and analytics innovation – fringe benefits of having comprehensive data governance policies.
Hash tables are a very powerful and flexible data structure. Most SAS applications of hash tables focus on just one of their many powerful facilities: table lookup. Hash tables are a fantastic table lookup tool and their use for that should never be diminished. However, hash tables can do so
In machine learning, a feature is another word for an attribute or input, or an independent variable. What is feature engineering? Feature engineering is a process of preparing inputs for machine learning models. The goal of feature engineering is to to improve classification accuracy by considering the limitations of the
Recently I’ve been listening to the BBC Radio Series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy, which was first broadcast in 2016. One of the episodes considers the impact of a simple box (the shipping container) and concludes its invention was a major contributor to the post-war boom in global
We’re bringing the concept of #VideoTag to LinkedIn. What's #VideoTag, you ask? It's an online adaptation of the old schoolyard game. In short, you record a video of yourself, upload it to LinkedIn and tag others to respond. It’s a fun, easy way to spur conversation online by showing your
En sus más de 40 años de historia, SAS ha colaborado con un gran número de empresas de la industria de la hospitalidad. Hoteles, resorts y casinos compiten ferozmente por atraer clientes y ofrecer una experiencia única que no sólo haga su estadía algo excepcional, sino también lograr que regresen,
I peruse many different websites to get my news, and I always keep an eye out for good (or bad) presentations of data. I recently saw a posting on reddit claiming "U.S. GDP is greater than the total of all others combined." This news seemed too good to be true
We’ve known for decades that certain chemicals in our food supply could be damaging to our bodies. With more and more evidence accumulating, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) finally put out an official policy statement pointing out these dangers, especially for infants and children.
The SGPLOT procedure in SAS makes it easy to create graphs that overlay various groups in the data. Many statements support the GROUP= option, which specifies that the graph should overlay group information. For example, you can create side-by-side bar charts and box plots, and you can overlay multiple scatter
나만의 파라다이스를 찾아라! 여름 휴가 계획 모두 세우셨나요? 어디로 갈지 아직 고민 중이시라면! 클릭 몇 번만으로 전 세계에서 나와 가장 잘 맞는 도시를 알려주는 ‘SAS 파라다이스 파운드(SAS Paradise Found)’ 프로젝트를 소개합니다. 사람마다 매력적인 여행지와 거주지를 선택하는 기준은 다르기 마련인데요. SAS 파라다이스 컨피규레이터(Paradise Configurator)는 가족, 문화, 자연, 안전 및 인프라, 생활비, 레스토랑