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Light lengthens the day and allows us more time to learn, socialize, contemplate and create. Exploring NASA nighttime satellite images shows how illumination patterns have changed over time. Increases and decreases in illumination show the effects of human civilization on earth. From population collapse and destruction in war zones to economic
Logs. They can be an administrator’s best friend or a thorn in their side. Thankfully, the chances of that happening with your SAS Viya 3.3 deployment is greatly reduced due to the automatic log management in SAS Viya, which archives log files every day.
The SURVEYSELECT procedure in SAS 9.4M5 supports the OUTRANDOM option, which causes the selected items in a simple random sample to be randomly permuted after they are selected. This article describes several statistical tasks that benefit from this option, including simulating card games, randomly permuting observations in a DATA step,
You've probably seen in the news that a volcano erupted in Guatemala recently. But do you really know much about this volcano, or even where it's located? Hopefully this blog post will get you up to speed on your volcanology! Pictures of a recent volcano erupting in Hawaii show slow-moving
Cuando los beneficios para el negocio están bien fundamentados y cuentan con su aprobación, es momento de pasar la estafeta al área de TI, que se encargará de validar que existan las condiciones y recursos tecnológicos suficientes que soporten los requerimientos de negocio. Entonces, ¿qué opina su CIO/CTO? ¿Cuál es
SAS코리아와 행정안전부가 함께하는 <제 16회 SAS 분석 챔피언십> 공모전 접수가 시작됐습니다. 2002년부터 매해 진행되어온 SAS 분석 챔피언십은 정교한 분석 주제, 고품질의 데이터, 전문 심사 과정을 통해 차세대 데이터 사이언티스트를 양성해온 국내 대표 빅데이터 분석 공모전입니다. 행정안전부가 후원하고 한국데이터마이닝학회의 자문으로 진행되는 이번 공모전은 ‘대형사고는 이유 없이 일어나지 않는다’라는 주제로 대학생과 대학원생들의 빅데이터
Everything's big in Texas - at least that's what they say! Therefore let's have a bit of graphical fun, and use Texas as a unit of measure (let's call it a 'tex'). More on that later - but first, here's a picture of my friend Jennifer posing beside a rather
Números recordes para aquele é o maior evento de advanced analytics em Portugal: 1.400 inscritos no SAS Fórum Portugal 2018. Durante um dia especialistas debateram tendências, partilharam experiências e fizeram antevisões do futuro. Com a convicção de que as analíticas vieram para ficar. Estarão em todo o lado, todos terão
GDPR requires more than a simple privacy policy update. David Loshin outlines changes needed in the data management environment.
Years ago, I wrote an article about how to create a Top 10 table and bar chart. The program can be trivially modified to create a "Top N" table and plot, such as Top 5, Top 20, or even Top 100. Not long after the article was written, the developer
For software users and SAS administrators, the question of how to streamline their approach into the easiest to use system that most effectively completes the task at hand. At SAS Global Forum 2018, the topic of a “Big Red Button” for the SAS Platform was an idea that got audience members excited. Here's a review of that talk.
With talk of tariffs in the news lately, I'm sure everyone is curious about possible ways to bypass them. One possible loophole is using the foreign-trade zones (FTZs) in the US. What are FTZs, and where are they located? Read along and find out!... The Foreign-Trade Zone act was passed in
Called out as two common IT threads in my previous blog post, how do artificial intelligence and automation connect with another prominent movement, the Internet of Things (IoT)? First, consider these predictions from IDC on IoT. By 2020, At least 45 percent of IoT-created data will be stored, processed, analyzed
El próximo 21 de junio, el mismo día del Solsticio de Verano (el más largo de todo el año en el Hemisferio Norte) y en el que dos de los equipos latinoamericanos en el Mundial: Perú y Argentina, se jugarán gran parte de su suerte en el torneo al enfrentar
You will not find an object in SAS Visual Analytics named Dynamic Text. Instead, you will find a Text object that allows you to insert dynamically driven data items. By using the Text object’s dynamic capabilities you can build custom report titles, object titles, emphasize measures and even supply the last modified time of the data source in your SAS Visual Analytics Report. In this post, I will outline the ways how you can leverage Dynamic Text in a SAS Visual Analytics Report.