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Machine learning is moving into the mainstream. Once the sole purview of academic researchers and advanced technology firms, machine learning is now being is used by many companies in more traditional industry verticals. Machine learning uses mathematical (not necessarily statistical) models to learn about data. In this context, learning about
There's big money in professional sports these days - we're talking billions of dollars! Do you know which teams are the most valuable? The graphs in this blog will show you... I recently saw a bar chart on dadaviz.com showing the world's most valuable sports teams. It was the right kind
Why visualization? Several reasons, actually, the most compelling being that sometimes visualization literally solves the problem for you. I remember an exercise in eighth grade English class where we were asked to describe, in words only, an object set in front of us with sufficient clarity such that our classmates,
The SASIOLA libname engine is now delivered with most SAS software orders so that we can load LASR environments remotely from separate SAS environments. For example, maybe you have an existing SAS “ETL” machine that you use to access your source environments and load your target environments. With the SASIOLA
Krystian Matusz is what I’d call a super SAS user. He currently holds seven out of the nine credentials SAS offers. SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9 SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 SAS Certified BI Content Developer for SAS 9 SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS
While I've often written about how to get your SAS data to Microsoft Excel in some automated way, I haven't really addressed what's probably the most frequently used method: copy and paste. SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 added a nifty little feature that makes copy-and-paste even more useful. The new "Copy
今年もユーザー総会が8/6・8/7で行われました。会場にて、あるユーザーの方に「SAS Enterprise Guideのよりよい使い方などに関する情報があればもっと教えてほしい」と相談を受けましたので、今回はそれを取り上げたいと思います。 SAS Enterprise Guideとは、SAS Business Intelligenceの主要アプリケーションのひとつです。定型レポートの作成や定型レポートで発見した課題をより深く掘り下げて詳細な課題箇所を特定するアドホックレポーティングに使用する、グラフィカルユーザーインターフェースを備えたツールです。SAS Global Forumではそのようなツールの使い方Tips等実際のユーザーの方々の便利な利用方法が紹介されたりしています。今回は、SAS Global Forum 2015および2014から、SAS Enterprise Guideの使い方に関わるものをピックアップしてみました。 最新バージョンで追加された新機能については、こちらの What's New in SAS(R) 9.4 にまとまっており、最新バージョンの7.1および7.11においても継続的に機能が追加されていますので、是非ご参照ください。 二つほど最近追加された機能をご紹介します。 Enterprise Guideには昨今約90に上るタスク機能が搭載されています。初心者の方であれば自分の使いたいタスクを見つけるのが大変なので検索機能が欲しいでしょうし、使い慣れた方であれば、マウス操作とはいえ、使いたいタスクまでマウスを移動させる時間も惜しいでしょう。さらには、いつも使うタスクは決まっている人は、「最近使ったタスク」が欲しいことと思います。最近これらの悩みを解決する「タスクブラウザ」という機能が新たに追加されました。 さらに、私の身近にもEnterprise Guideをマウスで目にもとまらぬスピードで操っている人がいます。そのような人が長年待ち望んでいた機能も実現しています。プロセスフローダイアグラム上で結合したい複数のデータを選択し、クエリビルダを選択することで、複数の入力テーブルを一度の操作で設定することが可能となりました。 是非ご活用ください。 このようなことが、下記に紹介するドキュメントには掲載されています。 2015 Creating Keyboard Macros in SAS® Enterprise Guide® キーボードマクロを作成する方法が紹介されています Easing into Analytics Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® 6.1 基本的な使用方法が紹介されています Joining Tables Using SAS® Enterprise
Many people who plan data governance initiatives ignore the need for a business case. "We've already had approval for the project; why do we need a business case when we've got the budget signed off?" The perception is that because they have a strong commitment, there is no need to get
There are many ways to modify the graphs that SAS creates. Standard graph customization methods include template modification (which most people use to modify graphs that analytical procedures produce) and SG annotation (which most people use to modify graphs that procedures such as PROC SGPLOT produce). However, you can also
When using SAS to format a number as a percentage, there is a little trick that you need to remember: the width of the formatted value must include room for the decimal point, the percent sign, and the possibility of two parentheses that indicate negative values. The field width must
Right now I’m crossing the Pacific toward Australia and New Zealand for the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (a.k.a. KDD), a Data Science Melbourne MeetUp, and the SAS Users of New Zealand conference. New Zealand is the birthplace of open source R. So this trip
It’s been very hot here in Northern Italy: electricity provision has struggled to keep up and we’ve had frequent power outages in the area, even within our apartment building. A bit inconvenient? Don’t get me started. I feel like my home appliances have turned against me, taking me back to
We all want to customize our graphs just so, and have our personal preferences. Over the past few releases SG Procedures and GTL have added options to customize the look and feel of our graphs. In this article, I will describe new ways in which you can customize your legends. We will also see some
Jorge Luis Sánchez, Decano Facultad Ingeniería Universidad Javeriana La ciencia de datos se ha convertido en un concepto muy usado últimamente. No tiene una definición clara ya que varias organizaciones y personas lo han clasificado de diferentes maneras, incluso algunas lo han etiquetado simplemente como una ciencia más, pero esto
.@philsimon offers his definition of the term.