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This post is from SAS Author Sanjay Matange. It's part of our SAS Author Tips series. Do you have a complex multi-cell graph created in ODS Graphics Designer that you’d like to reuse with different data? Ideally, you’d like to change the data without having to change the plots in each cell. The
Ach, dieses ewige Big-Data-Gerede … alles nur Marketing, oder ist da vielleicht doch etwas dran? Brauche ich das als Absolvent auf Jobsuche? Und wenn ja, wo wird denn so etwas angeboten? Blickt da jemand überhaupt noch durch? Klar, ich! Es sind spannende Zeiten, denn es ist nicht mehr zu leugnen:
Every where you turn today, you run into analytics. If you talk about big data, you will talk about analytics, if you talk about the internet of things (IoT), you will talk about analytics, if you talk about automation ... well, you get the picture. When used properly, analytics has always
From national security agencies, law enforcement organizations looking to terrorism and criminal activities, internal security, audit and compliance departments, to hospitals and public health organizations guarding against disease outbreaks, there are many common needs and constant challenges, e.g.: Detect an event of interest in the early stages. Investigate suspicious events
My high school basketball coach started preparing us for the tournaments in the season’s first practice. He talked about the “long haul” of tournament basketball, and geared our strategies toward a successful run at the end of the season. I thought about the “long haul” when considering my brackets for
The real questions revolve around approaches to ESP system implementations, predictive models and quality of information being streamed, says David Loshin.
It is time for Pi Day, 2017! Every year on March 14th (written 3/14 in the US), geeky mathematicians and their friends celebrate "all things pi-related" because 3.14 is the three-decimal approximation to pi. This year I use SAS software to show an amazing fact: you can find your birthday
For many years, we’ve been saying that to do advanced analytics well, you must have good quality, clean and standardised data. And now we’re fast approaching the deadline for businesses to be compliant with the GDPR regulations (with fines for noncompliance up to four per cent of revenue). SAS’ capabilities
Ensemble models have been used extensively in credit scoring applications and other areas because they are considered to be more stable and, more importantly, predict better than single classifiers (see Lessmann et al., 2015). They are also known to reduce model bias and variance (Myoung - Jong et al., 2006;
Once again, SAS is sponsoring the North Carolina Scholastic Chess Championship. The 43 year-old event is at the Raleigh Convention Center this weekend, March 11-12th. SAS sponsors this event because of the STEM education benefits of youth chess. Hundreds of players have been preparing and studying. A few even practiced
I recently needed to solve a fun programming problem. I challenge other SAS programmers to solve it, too! The problem is easy to state: Given a long sequence of digits, can you write a program to count how many times a particular subsequence occurs? For example, if I give you
Das IoT Forum von SAS, das am 21. Februar 2017 in München stattfand, war eine rundum gelungene Veranstaltung. Die „Ideenwerkstatt“ als Event-Location auf dem Fabrikgelände der alten Pfanni-Werke hätte die Brücke zum „Internet of Things (IoT)“ nicht besser bilden können. Die Agenda war mit vielen spannenden Themen besetzt, die von
This is the 4th installment of the Getting Started series. The audience is the user who is new to the SG Procedures. Experienced users may also find some useful nuggets of information here. Series plots are frequently used to visualize a numeric response on the y-axis by another numeric variable on
“Un uomo può considerarsi veramente soddisfatto solo quando sa di aver servito appieno il suo padrone” (cit. Mr. Stevens, “Quel che resta del giorno” di Kazuo Ishiguro) Parecchi anni fa, ai tempi dei miei studi universitari, mi occupavo di teatro. Un giorno, nel ripetere un esercizio legato all’interpretazione di un
Unlike some other UK Government departments, the Home Office has done well out of the recent spending review. Overall police spending has been protected – following the debacle of the earlier calculation errors – to protect against emerging crime threats and to train more firearms officers. Counter-terrorism has received a