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In my Friday series about innovation, I've decided to include some personal stories of unusual and unique uses of SAS. Once a month or so, I'll swap out the Post-it Notes for a profile of someone who has used SAS in an innovative way to solve a problem or, like
Which would you rather do? Click stop (or start) over and over, while waiting in between the services to make sure everything is up and running ... OR ... click one button and go have lunch? Honestly I prefer the lunch option. (And for administrators, the quickest option is always
I had the pleasure of attending the Western Users of SAS Software (WUSS) conference last week in San Francisco, and I am amazed at the energy and enthusiasm for all things SAS at the regional user group conferences. It’s truly an exciting and energizing three days where you can learn
Halloween is around the corner and children everywhere will wear masks throughout their neighborhoods for a night of trick-or-treating fun and, likely, too much candy. A masking has also occurred in education policy with the No Child Left Behind Act, sans the candy at the end of the night. That
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of reading Tom Wallace's new book, Sales & Operations Planning: Beyond the Basics. This is not an introductory "how to" book -- Tom and Bob Stahl have already written those -- but instead covers nine major companies that have implemented (and extended!) S&OP
One of the most widely attended sessions at the BAI Retail Delivery conference was a Q&A hosted by John Colas, Partner at Oliver Wyman. Colas was interviewing David Silberman, the Assistant Director, Deposit and Payment Markets Consumer Financial at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). As you can imagine, there
Functionality to upload files onto the SAS server (from 9.2 on) is available using stored processes and an html input type="file". I introduced this topic last year in my blog post using the SAS Stored Process Developer Guide sample. Of course, it is never as easy as the sample is
Reflecting on my 25 years as a data analyst, I’ve always felt that there is something more to being a good applied statistician than just applying what I had learned from school. What are those key skills that make a good field statistician? Before analytics came into play, when presented with
"Unless you understand the data aspects of the problem, you're not going to be able to solve it." ~ Thornton May, IT futurist and author of The New Know. In this brief video interview excerpt, Thornton suggests four tips for solving problems analytically: Focus on the pressing issues of
SAS is once again a proud sponsor of the eMetrics Marketing Optimization conference, happening in New York City on October 19-21, 2011. One of the ways to participate in eMetrics that we have found the most engaging is by hosting a “Marketing Lab.” Marketing Labs are designed to allow the
I am a shopper. I always have been. As a teenager, a fun weekend for me was hours at the mall, trying on cool clothes, procuring perfume samples from the department store make-up counters, and hanging out with friends at the food court. But my love for shopping doesn’t end
If you are interested in hearing firsthand about the benefits, business issues and challenges involved in implementing analytics you'll want to hear directly from an organization that is actively applying analytics and customer intelligence to create business value. We invite you to view this live webinar to learn how Verizon applied
There are days that I could use code like this to make two of myself. No, that would never work; then I would be bored with so much time on my hands! In this new series, called Friday's Innovation Inspiration, we'll take a look at Post-It Notes from the 2011 Innovation Walls. SAS users filled
At our latest Power Series event in Manhattan, one of the teams took a futuristic approach to addressing data challenges. They described the need for a “compliance box” that front ends the data management process that integrates, cleanses and ensure data integrity across a number of different, typically silo’d data
I just returned from a vacation to the Pacific Northwest. What a place! The highlight was a whitewater rafting trip we took on the White Salmon River in Washington. The trip is scenic and chaotic. The track of river we ran delivers a steady barrage of class 3-4 rapids and