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The article "Fisher's transformation of the correlation coefficient" featured a Monte Carlo simulation that generated sample correlations from bivariate normal data. The simulation used three steps: Simulate B samples of size N from a bivariate normal distribution with correlation ρ. Use PROC CORR to compute the sample correlation matrix for

2017年11月にリリース予定の「SAS Visual Analytics 8.2」に搭載予定の新機能概要をご紹介します。 【SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 新機能概要】 サードパーティ・ビジュアライゼーション D3.jsやC3、あるいはGoogleチャートの機能を活用し、VAに標準装備のチャートタイプでは表現できない、より柔軟で洗練されたチャートを描画し、レポートに組み込むことが可能です。 新規追加ビジュアライゼーション バブルチェンジプロット、平行座標プロット、スケジュールチャート、など、新たに9種類のチャートオブジェクトが追加されます。 オブジェクト間の自動リンク&フィルタ設定 レポート内の全てのオブジェクトを自動的に連係させることで、効果的でインタラクティブなレポートを簡単に作成可能です。その際、一方向のフィルタなのか双方向のフィルタなのかを指定することができます。 レポート自動保存&復元 作成中のレポートは定期的に自動保存されます。これによって、仮に保存し忘れてログオフしたとしても、再ログオン時に前の状態を復元することができます。 カスタム領域塗りつぶし VA7.4と同様に、地図上にカスタムで指定した領域を塗りつぶして描画することが可能です。 地図機能拡張 Esri地図データとの連係機能が拡張され、デモグラフィック情報の活用が可能になります。例えば地図上に表示されている自店舗群を選択し、周辺住民の平均年収や年齢などの情報を把握でき、より効果的なロケーションアナリティクスが可能になります。

Nearly two years ago, we launched the Bright Data blog platform to serve the Central East Europe region of SAS. It was designed to enable us to discuss and share ideas with customers in the region, around issues such as analytics, customer intelligence, risk and data management. And, indeed, Bright

SAS 9.4 Maintenance 5 includes new support for reading and writing GZIP files directly. GZIP files, usually found with a .gz file extension, are a different format than ZIP files. Although both are forms of compressed files, a GZIP file is usually a compressed copy of a single file, whereas

This post provides a general macro that enables you to easily display special characters (Unicode) in axis table columns.

My new SAS Press book “An Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics” (written in collaboration with Tricia Aanderud and Rob Collum) covers all of the different aspects of SAS® Visual Analytics, including how to develop reports, load data, and handle administration. Below is an example of the types of tips that you can find

Every day 91 Americans die from opioid abuse, every nine seconds a student drops out of high school and every 47 seconds a child is confirmed to be abused or neglected. These are sobering statistics that show the challenge our government leaders face to help those in need. While there

I sit here fascinated, watching a world population clock. According to the US Census, a baby is born and a person dies every 7 and 12 seconds, respectively, in the United States. In 1950 our world had about 2.5 billion people; currently our population is over 7.3 billion. Estimates predict

Uno de nuestros firmes pensamientos es que el activo más valioso de las empresas son sus datos y el buen uso de ellos es el que pueden llevar a las compañías a una real transformación digital del negocio. A pesar de esto la consultora Gartner comenta que los líderes aún tienen una

Correlations between variables are typically displayed in a matrix. Because the correlation matrix is determined by the order of the variables, it is difficult to find the largest and smallest correlations, which is why analysts sometimes use colors to visualize the correlation matrix. Another visualization option is the pairwise correlation

SAS 9.4 maintenance release 5 was released on Sept 19, 2017. This release includes many new items including integration with SAS Viya and SAS Studio, a web application for SAS development. Also Included with this release are some cool new features in the graphics domain, some of which were requested

The latest post in our Equity in Education series focuses on the achievement gap. National achievement data show that our public education systems work well for students with means. And not so well for disadvantaged students. Racial achievement gaps are found in the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), also

Stretches ankles, legs, hips, hamstrings, shoulders and spine; opens chest, engages and strengthens abdominals, spine and back Triangle (Sanskrit: Trikonasana) Begin in Mountain with feet hip distance. Step left foot back with front heel to back arch alignment. Root the back edge of your left foot into the ground/floor/mat. Torso

After a few tough years in the trenches, analytics leaders in utilities are emerging and making a difference as their utilities vie to stay relevant in the ever-changing energy landscape. At the core of this emergence are leaders that are embracing open analytics platforms and pushing analytics to the edge.

El precio que paga una empresa que se transforma digitalmente no sólo implica "asumir el costo cultural" de una visión disruptiva que modifica la operación del negocio. De hecho, es una suma real y que se refleja en las inversiones que realizan las organizaciones. Según datos de un estudio global , este año,