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Is it time to add SAS to the list of "romance" languages?*. It's no secret that there are enthusiastic SAS programmers who love the SAS language. So it only makes sense that sometimes, these programmers will "nerd out" and express their adoration for fellow humans by using the code that
Amazon recently announced the 20 finalists in their search for a location to house their new 2nd headquarters (nicknamed 'hq2'). They showed a map on their web page, but I wanted to create my own map, with a few improvements ... Here's their official map. It's not terrible, but it
SAS/IML 14.3 (SAS 9.4M5) introduced a new syntax for creating lists and for assigning and extracting item in a list. Lists (introduced in SAS/IML 14.2) are data structures that are convenient for holding heterogeneous data. A single list can hold character matrices, numeric matrices, scalar values, and other lists, as
The SAS/GRAPH® Annotate Facility is often viewed as a mysterious programming abyss that many SAS users do not wish to dive into, in part because of some not-so-obvious pitfalls that they might experience when using it. I view annotation as a frequently misunderstood and needlessly feared but powerful tool that
This post provides examples of DRAW statement syntax and links to the documentation.
La inteligencia artificial (IA) es un avance tecnológico que sigue creciendo y que se perfila como una metodología para agilizar todo tipo de procesos, ayudando a la recopilación y el reconocimiento de datos y a la predicción de comportamientos hasta convertirse en una solución a necesidades inmediatas. Por eso se
With all the talk about Bitcoin in the news lately, I decided it was time I created a Bitcoin graph! Follow along as I track down the data, create a graph, and then polish up that graph to make it shine. But before we get started, here's a little example
Durante 2017 en Colombia las industrias experimentaron la transformación de los negocios a partir de los nuevos modelos para tomar decisiones más inteligentes y del aprovechamiento de cada micromomento de relación con los clientes. Lo que viene para este 2018, es la consolidación de esos procesos a través de la
여전히 많은 금융 기관들이 국제회계기준(IFRS; International Financial Reporting Standard) 9를 준수하기 위해 애쓰는 가운데, 2021년부터 시행될 새로운 규정인 IFRS 17에 대한 부담이 보험 업계 전반에 긴 그림자를 드리우고 있습니다. 이미 IFRS 9의 새로운 보고 기준은 은행과 금융 기관에 전혀 새로운 차원의 거버넌스와 통제를 요구하고 있으며, 각 기관은 이를 지원하기 위해 IT
음악 추천부터 대출 심사, 직원 평가, 암 진단까지 현대 사회는 인공지능(AI)과 머신러닝 기반의 애플리케이션에 둘러싸여 있습니다. 기계가 사람을 대신해 내린 의사결정에 점점 더 많은 영향을 받고 있는데요. 일상적인 것부터 사람의 목숨이 걸린 중대한 의사결정에 이르기까지 우리는 머신러닝 모델에 수많은 질문을 던집니다. 이때 질문에 대한 답변은 ‘예측 모델’이 결정합니다. 생소하고 어려운 개념인데요. 데이터
One of the most exciting features from the newest release of Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning on SAS Viya is the ability to perform Market Basket Analysis on large amounts of transactional data. Market Basket Analysis allows companies to analyze large transactional files to identify significant relationships between items.
Have you ever played the lottery? Have you ever heard people bragging about all the money they've won? Does it make you want to play? ... We've had an Education Lottery here in North Carolina for over 10 years, but I still didn't really know much about it - therefore I
Wherever there is uncertainty there has got to be judgment, and wherever there is judgment there is an opportunity for human fallibility. Donald Redelmeirer, physician-researcher Recently, I read a fascinating book titled The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Mind by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton & Company, 2017). Lewis
@philsimon chimes in on a massive opportunity for organizations that process the data of EU residents.
Money magazine (Jan/Feb 2018) contains an article about how much it costs to give birth in the US. The costs, which are based on insurance data, include prenatal care and hospital delivery but exclude infant care. The data are compiled for each state (including Washington, DC) and by type of