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“Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the Olympic motto. In a Keynote Lunch presentation at SAS Global Forum, Tim Patrick, Director of Enterprise Applications for the United States Olympic Committee, explained how technology, data analysis and visualization are helping fulfill that mission. After a successful showing at the Vancouver games, Patrick and
You won’t find videos of cats or the Harlem Shake on this website, but you might pick up a useful SAS trick that could improve your job performance or career. We launched our new SAS Training video library that houses all of our helpful content. A majority of the videos
In my last blog, I discussed the growing commitment among governors to infrastructure investment, and to coming up with innovative ways to find dollars to fund the needed improvements to the transportation network. I heard it over and over again during the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in January
Paul Kent, SAS VP of Big Data talks to us at SAS Global Forum about working with Hadoop and the significant impact it has on SAS customers. Watch the video to learn how one Japanese real estate company used this technology to gather data from elevator stops in high-rise buildings. The
Rick Styll from SAS presents the latest features of SAS® Enterprise Business Intelligence which include improved dashboards, navigation and better integration with Excel and email clients.
Stephen Overton from Overton Technologies, LLC discusses the features of OLAP technology in business intelligence reporting.
According to research, less than half of an organization's data is structured data; nearly 80 percent is unstructured data that may come from social media, customer letters, web pages, invoices and freeform survey answers. Getting the information you need from that data can be a quick and automated experience or
Justin Choy from SAS presents an overview of best practices for providing data to clients and users while also maintaining analytic integrity of models and processes.
Learn how to leverage the power of hash tables for sentiment analysis with David J. Corliss from Magnify Analytic Solutions.
Imagine using software to build the perfect sports team. That’s exactly what an Indian cricket league did using SAS® Enterprise MinerTM! Pankush Kalgotra tells us how he used predictive modeling to select the best players for the Indian Premier Cricket League on the SAS Global Forum livestream: sasglobalforum on livestream.com.
American country songs are known for topics such as mama, trucks, trains, heartbreaks and drinking. How many of these topics are included in the top country songs over the past 25 years? Deovrat Kakde of Kavi Associates used SAS Text Miner to find out! He shares some of his more
Tricia Aanderud from And Data and Angela Hall from SAS share the advantages of SAS® Stored Processes with the SAS Global Forum! In this discussion, you will learn tips and tricks for using stored processes within SAS BI clients. Watch their presentation, "Stop Your "Wine"ing: Use a Stored Process", now
When you hear the term “big data,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Complex numbers? Information overload? Now where did I put my aspirin …? Thanks to visual analytics (VA), it turns out big data doesn’t have to be scary or a headache. “Big data is not just
After an energy-packed opening session Sunday night at SAS Global Forum 2013 in San Francisco, hundreds of senior-level executives reconvened Monday in the Marriott Marquis for a day of discussion on what it means to be a high-performance organization. Big Data: We're all in this together Author and MIT Principal
What is data mining and how do you find those golden chunks of information that transform your business? David Dickey from NC State University gives examples of how tools such as SAS® Enterprise Miner™ can help in his presentation "Finding the Gold in Your Data: An Overview of Data Mining"