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Teacher salaries have been a hotly debated issue in our state for the past few years. In this blog post, I examine a graph that recently appeared in our local news, point out some deficiencies, and create an alternate graph. But before we get started, here's a picture of my

Most companies are battling with master data challenges whether they realise it or not. When you're consolidating financials from multiple billing systems, you're doing MDM. When you're migrating legacy systems to a new target environment, you're doing MDM. When you're trying to perform root-cause analysis across multiple systems for a

It’s that time of year (hooray!) that we all begin preparing for our summer vacations. Soon you’re headed to the coast to soak up the summer sun and spend your days salty with a cold beverage in hand. Or, maybe you’re off to escape the heat and bask in the

Kunde: Ah, Sie zeigen uns in dieser Demo so ein Glossar. Ach, jaja, nett, das haben wir schon! Ich: Oh, und benutzen Sie persönlich das in Ihrem Unternehmen oft? Kunde: Nee, das ist veraltet. Da schaut keiner rein, weil das pflegt ja keiner richtig… Oder doch? Hm.

Analytics, statistics, operations research, data science and machine learning - with which term do you prefer associate? Are you from the House of Capulet or Montague, or do you even care? Shakespeare's Juliet derides excess identification with names in the famous play, Romeo and Juliet. "What's in a name? That which we call

Na tym etapie nasza organizacja posiada określone dla programu Data Governance cele biznesowe oraz zarządza i współdzieli definicje pojęć biznesowych, którymi się posługuje. Ten logiczny obszar zarządzania danymi i informacją uzupełniony został o pomost do metadanych technicznych - w poprzednim kroku uzyskaliśmy jedno miejsce łączące informacje o technicznym przepływie danych w organizacji

Debido a que el fraude en contra de las organizaciones afecta a todos los niveles internos, es importante implementar procedimientos que verifiquen la adherencia a las políticas anti-fraude para poder detectar y desalentar posibles delitos. Los ejecutivos de negocio deben proteger su negocio, comprometiéndose a desarrollar una organización con una

When your job involves making decisions that affect thousands of college students, making the right decisions can have a large impact on the future. Giving college administrators easy access to reliable analytics can help improve enrollment and graduation rates – and find answers to complex questions that cut across many

A grid is a set of evenly spaced points. You can use SAS to create a grid of points on an interval, in a rectangular region in the plane, or even in higher-dimensional regions like the parallelepiped shown at the left, which is generated by three vectors. You can use

The advent of the AXISTABLE statement with SAS 9.4, has made it considerably easier to create graphs that include statistics aligned with x-axis values (Survival Plot) or with the y-axis (Forest Plot). This statement was specifically designed to address such needs, and includes the options needed to control the text attributes of

Un estudio desarrollado por Payscale y publicado en la revista Time asegura que el proceso y análisis de grandes cantidades de datos es una de las habilidades más valiosas y mejor pagadas en el mundo empresarial hoy en día. La investigación concluye que “Saber SAS” es la principal herramienta que

Have you been kicking around ideas for a great SAS book, but don’t know how to get started? Don’t wait another day – connect with the Publish with SAS community and let those amazing folks at SAS Press help you get your project rolling. You won’t regret it! I’m SO

The US has almost 400 national parks, and has been keeping attendance data for about 100 years. With a holiday weekend coming up, I thought this would be a good time to crunch those numbers, and see how each park compares to all the others... I first saw the tip of

"Correlation does not imply causation.” Does that bring back memories from your college statistics class? If you cringe when you hear those words, don’t worry. This phrase is still relevant today, but is now more approachable and easier to understand. Here at SAS, we use SAS® Visual Analytics to make

When you go to the grocery store, you see that items of a similar nature are displayed nearby to each other. When you organize the clothes in your closet, you put similar items together (e.g. shirts in one section, pants in another). Every personal organizing tip on the web to