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Where is solar and wind power generated in the US? Let's visualize this data on a map... I recently saw the following map on the metricmaps.org website. It caught my attention because it looks like North Carolina has a lot of solar power plants, whereas our neighboring states have very few.
Ante los vertiginosos avances tecnológicos que el mundo ha vivido en las últimas décadas, y sobre todo en los últimos años, la perspectiva y el rumbo de los negocios ha cambiado de manera significativa, pues han surgido herramientas y formas de tomar decisiones que han revolucionado el mundo empresarial. A
Da immer mehr unserer Kunden erwägen, ihre Daten in die Cloud auszulagern, möchten wir uns hier mit einigen der wichtigsten Fragen im Zusammenhang mit dem Datenschutz auseinandersetzen.
W poprzednich wpisach dowiedzieliśmy się czym jest Customer Journey, dlaczego jest tak istotne i od czego zacząć tworzenie mapy ścieżki klienta. W tym wpisie skupimy się natomiast na tym jak istotna jest znajomość danych, którymi operujemy oraz preferencje i potrzeby naszych odbiorców. DOBRA RADA #2: Dbaj o znajomość potrzeb klienta
If your enterprise is working with Hadoop, MongoDB or other nontraditional databases, then you need to evaluate your data strategy. A data strategy must adapt to current data trends based on business requirements. So am I still the clean-up woman? The answer is YES! I still work on the quality of the data.
I recently returned from my annual family beach vacation. It’s my family and my husband’s family, so around 35 or 40 of us in all. As you can imagine, there is a lot of beach time, huge dinners, and a lot of drinking.
El Congreso Panamericano de Riesgo de Lavado de Activos y Financiación del Terrorismo, organizado en Cartagena por la Asociación Bancaria de Colombia -Asobancaria, tuvo este año dos hechos especiales: el análisis de los retos que en esta materia tienen las instituciones financieras colombianas y la presencia de SAS. Durante el
When I think of the Western Users of SAS Software conference, I think of my first event in 1994. I was just starting to learn SAS and wanted to meet others in my region who were also excited about the software. Meeting and discussing SAS topics face to face at the
Announcing New Book by Charlie Chase: Next-Generation Demand Management My colleague Charlie Chase has just published his latest book, Next-Generation Demand Management. It is available August 29, and can be pre-ordered now on amazon.com. It will also be available for purchase at the SAS Bookstore, along with Charlie's other books:
I ran across a map recently that seemed to show a lot of US states are primarily coal-powered. The map was a little difficult to read, so I decided to give it a SAS makeover ... Before we get started, here's a picture my friend David took of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power
There are many ways to use a heat map. For big data sets, heat maps provide a substitute for scatter plots. Heat maps can also be used to enhance small tables. Several of my colleagues (Sanjay Matange, Pratik Phadke, Rick Wicklin, Chris Hemedinger, and probably others) have posted about using
The demand for data preparation solutions is at an all-time high, and it's primarily driven by the demand for self-service analytics. Ten years ago, if you were a business leader that wanted to get more in-depth information on a particular KPI, you would typically issue a reporting request to IT
If a retailer degrades a loyalty card down to the level of a discount card, it shouldn’t expect higher revenues and customer loyalty. And it certainly can’t expect to know them any better. The floodgates of loyalty cards have opened as of late. Ten years ago I had just one
Letztens ist mir das Buch des Naturwissenschaftlers und Comedians Vince Ebert in die Hände gefallen. Es war anfangs sehr lustig und unterhaltsam, bis zu dem Kapitel, in dem es um das Thema Big Data ging. Danach führe die Analyse großer Datenmengen dank des Phänomens „Zufall“ zum Big Fail. Im Folgenden möchte
SAS formats are flexible, dynamic, and have many uses. For example, you can use formats to count missing values and to change the order of a categorical variable in a table or plot. Did you know that you can also use SAS formats to recode a variable or to bin