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Analytics | Programming Tips

Steven SoberMarch 16, 2017 0

Collaborative distributed data management using SAS Viya

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles to help current SAS programmers add SAS Viya to their analytics skillset. In this post, Advisory Solutions Architect Steven Sober explores how to accomplish distributed data management using SAS Viya. Read additional posts in the series. This article in the SAS

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Sam EdgemonMarch 13, 2017 0

The top 10 statistics to consider when filling out your NCAA brackets

My high school basketball coach started preparing us for the tournaments in the season’s first practice. He talked about the “long haul” of tournament basketball, and geared our strategies toward a successful run at the end of the season. I thought about the “long haul” when considering my brackets for

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Analytics

Larry OrimoloyeMarch 10, 2017 0

Are ensemble classifiers always better than single classifiers?

Ensemble models have been used extensively in credit scoring applications and other areas because they are considered to be more stable and, more importantly, predict better than single classifiers (see Lessmann et al., 2015). They are also known to reduce model bias and variance (Myoung - Jong et al., 2006;

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Data Management

Mary Kathryn QueenMarch 8, 2017 0

Securing sensitive data using SAS Federation Server data masking

SAS® Federation Server provides a central, virtual environment for administering and securing access to your data. It also allows you to combine data from multiple sources without moving or copying the data. SAS Federation Server Manager, a web-based application, is used to administer SAS Federation Server(s). Data privacy is a

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerMarch 8, 2017 0

Calculating standard deviation of a measure in Visual Analytics Designer

Several months ago, I posted a blog about calculating moving averages for a measure in the Visual Analytics Designer. Soon after that, I was asked about calculating not only the average, but also the standard deviation over a period of months, when the data might consist of one or more

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Margaret CrevarMarch 1, 2017 0

Resources for SAS Administrators at SAS Global Forum 2017 … and beyond

Editor's note (4/11/17): Full proceedings from SAS Global Forum 2017 (including for the presentations mentioned in this blog) can be found at http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/. SAS Global Forum 2017 is just a month away and, if you’re a SAS administrator, it’s a great place to meet your peers, share your experiences and attend

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Emily GaoMarch 1, 2017 0

How to extract domain-specific sentiment lexicons

In 2011, Loughran and McDonald applied a general sentiment word list to accounting and finance topics, and this led to a high rate of misclassification. They found that about three-fourths of the negative words in the Harvard IV TagNeg dictionary of negative words are typically not negative in a financial

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SAS Events

John AmrheinFebruary 24, 2017 0

What are you willing to do to get to SAS Global Forum?

Let’s have some fun, shall we? Share your video or photo! The SAS User Community, albeit spread around the world, is a tight-knit group. We may sit alone in our offices pounding out code, developing applications, tweaking system performance or creating reports, but the truth is other SAS users (our

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Cindy WangFebruary 24, 2017 0

18 Visualizations created by SAS Visual Analytics

As a practitioner of visual analytics, I read the featured blog of ‘Visualizations: Comparing Tableau, SPSS, R, Excel, Matlab, JS, Python, SAS’ last year with great interest. In the post, the blogger Tim Matteson asked the readers to guess which software was used to create his 18 graphs. My buddy,

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SAS Events

Amanda FarnsworthFebruary 23, 2017 0

Bringing teams together

Editor's note: Amanda Farnsworth is Head of Visual Journalism at BBC News and a featured speaker at SAS Global Forum 2017, April 2-5, 2017 in Orlando. There was a best selling book some years ago called “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus.” It’s a phrase I thought

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Chevell ParkerFebruary 20, 2017 0

Tips for Using the ODS Excel Destination

The SAS® Output Delivery System provides the ability to generate output in various destination formats (for example, HTML, PDF, and Excel). One of the more recent destinations, ODS Excel, became production in the third maintenance release for SAS 9.4 (TS1M3). This destination enables you to generate native Microsoft Excel formatted

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Teri PatsilarasFebruary 14, 2017 0

Visualization Spotlight: Visual Analytics Designer 7.3 Word Cloud

In this post I wanted to shed some light on a visualization you may not be using enough: the Word Cloud. Word association exercises can often be a fun way to pass the time with friends, or it can trigger immediate action – just think of your email inbox and

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoFebruary 13, 2017 0

Facial recognition: Monetizing faces in the crowd

Editor's note: The following post is from Shara Evans, CEO of Market Clarity Pty Ltd. Shara is a featured speaker at SAS Global Forum 2017 and a globally acknowledged Keynote Speaker and widely regarded as one of the world’s Top Female Futurists. Learn more about Shara. In the movie Minority Report lead

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanFebruary 10, 2017 0

Truncating vs rounding SAS time values

Small matters matter. Imagine saving (or spending wisely) just 1 second of your time every hour. One measly second! During your lifespan you would save or spend wisely (1 sec-an-hour * 24 hours-a-day * 365 days-a-year * 100 years) / (3600 seconds-an-hour * 24 hours-a-day) = 10 days, a whole

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenFebruary 9, 2017 0

Middle Tier Changes and Upgrades in SAS 9.4 M4

Since the SAS 9.4 M2 release in December 2014, there have been several refinements and updates to the middle tier that are of interest to installers and administrators. In this blog, I’m going to summarize them for you. What I’m describing here is available in the newest SAS release (9.4 M4). I’ll

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

John AmrheinFebruary 2, 2017 0

At SAS Global Forum, Content is King

I will begin with a short story. Like many employers, McDougall Scientific, my employer, requires its employees to review, with their co-workers and managers, what they learned at a conference or course. They are also asked to suggest applications of their learnings so that McDougall might realize value from the

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Mary Kathryn QueenJanuary 31, 2017 0

Securing sensitive data using SAS Federation Server at the row and column level

SAS® Federation Server provides a central, virtual environment for administering and securing access to your data. It also allows you to combine data from multiple sources without moving or copying the data. SAS Federation Server Manager, a web-based application, is used to administer SAS Federation Server(s). Data privacy is a

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Programming Tips

Edoardo RivaJanuary 30, 2017 0

SAS Studio 3.6 new features

Recently, SAS shipped the fourth maintenance of SAS 9.4. Building on this foundation, SAS Studio reached a new milestone, its 3.6 release. All editions have been upgraded, including Personal, Basic and Enterprise. In this blog post, I want to highlight the new features that have been introduced. In subsequent posts

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Advanced Analytics

Steven O'DonoghueJanuary 25, 2017 0

A journey of SAS high performance

SAS® Viya™ 3.1 represents the third generation of high performance computing from SAS. Our journey started a long time ago and, along the way, we have introduced a number of high performance technologies into the SAS software platform: In-Database processing where SAS data quality and analytical processing occur within the

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Advanced Analytics

Emily GaoJanuary 25, 2017 0

Analyzing Trump v. Clinton text data at Reddit

Recently a colleague told me Google had published new, interesting data sets at BigQuery. I found a lot of Reddit data as well, so I quickly tried running BigQuery with these text data to see what I could produce. After getting some pretty interesting results, I wanted to see if

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Advanced Analytics

Larry LaRussoJanuary 21, 2017 0

Credit score modeling in SAS Enterprise Miner: Reject inference to solve sample bias problem

Editor's note: The following post is from Xiaoyuan Zhang, presenter at an upcoming Insurance and Finance User Group (IFSUG) webinar. Learn more about Xiaoyuan Zhang. As a business user with limited statistical skills, I don’t think I could build a credit scorecard without the help of SAS Enterprise Miner. As you

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Programming Tips

Lelia McConnellJanuary 20, 2017 0

Comparing SAS/GRAPH® 9.4 capabilities with SAS/GRAPH® Version 6

I remember my grandparents talking about how hard things were for them growing up. They would say, “Things were so bad that we had to walk uphill, both ways, in the freezing snow to get to school.” It was always hard for me to relate to these statements because the

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Michelle HomesJanuary 16, 2017 0

Take a SAS security journey at SAS Global Forum 2017

Editor's note: Charyn Faenza co-authored this blog. Learn more about Charyn. As the fun of the festive season ends, the buzz of the new year and the enchantment of SAS Global Forum 2017 begins. SAS Global Forum is a conference designed by SAS users, for SAS users, bringing together SAS professionals

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Robert MoreiraJanuary 12, 2017 0

Five great analytics resolutions for 2017

The holiday season is over – and you survived. You’ve made a lot of personal resolutions for 2017 - go to the gym, eat less sugar, save more money, visit Grandma more often. These are all great personal resolutions for 2017, but what about your analytics resolutions? If you are

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SAS Events

Larry LaRussoJanuary 6, 2017 0

Junior Professional Program helps new users attend SAS Global Forum 2017

Regardless of how long they’ve used the software, there’s no better event for SAS professionals than SAS Global Forum. The conference will attract thousands of users from across the globe and is an excellent place to network with and learn from users of all skill levels. To help those relatively

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Advanced Analytics

Emily GaoJanuary 4, 2017 0

Word scatter plot with SAS

In my last post, I showed you how to generate a word cloud of pdf collections. Word clouds show you which terms are mentioned by your documents and the frequency with which they occur in the documents. However, word clouds cannot lay out words from a semantic or linguistic perspective.

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Edoardo RivaDecember 27, 2016 0

More SAS Studio Tips for SAS Grid Manager Administrators: Global Settings

We have seen in a previous post of this series how to configure SAS Studio to better manage user preferences in SAS Grid environments. There are additional settings that an administrator can leverage to properly configure a multi-user environment; as you may imagine, these options deserve special considerations when SAS Studio

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SAS Events

Larry LaRussoDecember 22, 2016 0

Transform your technical talks with an audience centered approach

Editor's note: The following post is from Melissa Marshall, Principal at Melissa Marshall Consulting LLC. Melissa is a featured speaker at SAS Global Forum 2017, and on a mission to transform how scientists and technical professionals present their work. Learn more about Melissa. Think back to the last technical talk you were an

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleyDecember 21, 2016 0

Easier Space Management for EV Data Mart Tables in 9.4M4

The report-ready SAS Environment Manager Data Mart has been an invaluable addition to SAS 9.4 for SAS administrators. The data mart tables are created and maintained by the SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture Framework and provide a source of data for out-of-the box reports as well as custom reports that any

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