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Sophia Rowland
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Product Manager | SAS Model Manager

Sophia Rowland is the Product Manager of SAS Model Manager. Previously, Sophia was a Systems Engineer at SAS on a team that focuses on Data Science applications for the Financial Services industry. Sophia is an alumnus of both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke (but remains loyal to UNC when it comes to sports). At UNC-Chapel Hill, Sophia double majored in Computer Science and Psychology. At Duke, Sophia attended the Fuqua School of Business and completed a Master of Science in Quantitative Management: Business Analytics. After work, Sophia can be found reading, hiking, and baking.

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Generating word embeddings

Word embeddings are the learned representations of words within a set of documents. Each word or term is represented as a real-valued vector within a vector space. Terms or words that reside closer to each other within that vector space are expected to share similar meanings. Thus, embeddings try to capture the meaning of each word or term through its relationships with the other words in the corpus.

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SAS and R Integration for Machine Learning

SAS Viya is a cloud-enabled, in-memory analytics engine which allows for rapid analytics insights. Viya utilizes the SAS Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) to perform various actions and tasks. Best of all, CAS is accessible from various interfaces including R. In this blog, I will go through a few blocks one of my notebooks, which moves through an analytics workflow using R and SAS.