Recently Sanjay Matange blogged about how to color the bars of a histogram according to a gradient color ramp. Using the fact that bar charts and histograms look similar, he showed how to use PROC SGPLOT in SAS to plot a bar chart in which each bar is colored according
#GivingTuesday has been gaining popularity as people worldwide find ways to give back, after giving thanks. On December 1, 2015, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world came together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give. SAS is proud that we were once again able
Langsam könnte man meinen, das Christkind sei der verbeamtete Chef des statistischen Himmelsamtes. Heute geht es an die Analyse von Zeitreihen zur Vorhersage (Forecasting) der Wunschzettelmassen. Die Kindergesellschaft ist eine Konsum- und Wegwerfgesellschaft. Das merkt das Christkind nicht erst seit 15 Jahren! Da wird gewünscht und ausgepackt was das Zeug
I've seen a number of articles and webinars recently that discuss data integration as a cloud-based service. So I thought it was worth exploring what this really means in the context of big data – specifically when the objective is to exploit many sources of streaming data for analytics. My initial reaction
Journal of Business Forecasting columnist Larry Lapide is a longtime favorite of mine. As an industry analyst at AMR, and more recently as an MIT Research Affiliate, Larry's quarterly column is a perpetual source of guidance for the practicing business forecaster. No wonder he received IBF's 2012 Lifetime Achievement in
Last Christmas I decided to knit a scarf while at a concert in the Bahamas. A little boy and his sister sitting in front of me watched me very intently. Their eyes grew bigger and bigger as the scarf grew longer and longer. Finally the little boy couldn’t take it
.@philsimon with some thoughts on the panoply of available tools out there.
Unser Christkind hat nun eine ganze Menge analytische Tipps bekommen. Auch wenn es kein Analyticsfreak ist, weiß es dennoch um die tollen Möglichkeiten (beispielsweise Mulitchannel-Wuschzettel richtig zuordnen). Dialoge wie diese hier gehören der Vergangenheit an, weil die im Himmel jetzt auch Master Data Management anwenden. Und das kam nur wegen
A SAS customer asked: Why isn't the chi-square distribution supported in PROC UNIVARIATE? That is an excellent question. I remember asking a similar question when I first started learning SAS. In addition to the chi-square distribution, I wondered why the UNIVARIATE procedure does not support the F distribution. These are
Das Christkind hat nun alle Kinder in homogene Segmente eingeteilt. Warum eigentlich nochmal? Weil es doch sehen wollte, auf was es bei der Geschenkewahl zu achten hat! Es geht heute um die lineare Regression. Und das deshalb ….
WRAL Chief Meteorologist (and Friend Of the Business Forecasting Deal) Greg Fishel garnered national attention recently with a thoughtful (yet to some, provocative) blog post on climate change. In the post, Fishel chronicled his evolving thought on the subject. He argued for an end to the political partisanship that stifles
Can pattern recognition software tell us if it is a Hermit Thrush or a Swainson's Thrush we've seen? A few of us have been debating an identification question at work, because we agreed to help Fulbright Scholar and Duke University PhD student Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela with research she is doing related to bird collisions with windows. A sad
Did you know that Tuesday, Nov. 24, was #ThankfulTuesday? This themed day was just two days before Thanksgiving and joined the ranks of newly invented opportunities such as #WorldPastaDay and #NationalMotherInLawDay to collectively post on social media about a single topic. Appropriate to the season of giving thanks, many people
It's Data Stewards Day! I could barely sleep last night after decorating the office with old floppy disks and outmoded data governance presentations from 2008. (Editor's note: That didn't happen, but it's a great idea for next year.) Yes, for anybody who lives and loves data, this is truly "the
Wie angekündigt traf das Christkind gestern unseren Einzelhändler. Er hielt es tatsächlich für eine außerirdische Erscheinung. Er ist ja ein Mann der Menschentat. Er ist einer, der viel von Text Analytics und Net Promoter Scores hält. Texte und deren Analyse sind die eigentliche Religion vom Einzelhändler M. Hier geht zu den Türchen
We have all been there. You are face to face with a test question. You stare at the page or screen, your mind is racing, your eyes scanning the question and then the answer options and then the question again. Your brain is straining to recall the information. Time is ticking. Frustrated at
On the first day of Big Data Analytics my colleagues sent to me: A data scientist discussing a decision tree On the second day of Big Data Analytics my colleagues sent to me: Two business analysts and A data scientist discussing a decision tree On the third day of Big Data Analytics my
The other day I was chatting with an ETL developer and he said he always pushes queries into the database instead of dragging data across the network. I thought “Hmm, I remember talking about those topics when I was a DBA.” I'd like to share those thoughts with you now.
Heute gegen 15 Uhr wird das Christkind einen Ausflug zu einem irdischen Einzelhändler unternehmen – es geht um Assoziationsanalysen und Warenkörbe. So viel vorweg. Doch lesen Sie jetzt erst mal, warum diese Reise ansteht. Und ganz unten im Blog lernen Sie Herrn Mümeschmi kennen! Hier geht's zum 1. & 2.
I have a short attention span. So, imagine my delight when a colleague of mine introduced me to theSkimm. If you are not familiar, theSkimm takes the top news stories of the day and summarizes them quickly, in ways that are easy to understand – and often linked to pop
It all started in 1985. December 2nd as a matter of fact. Four full time staff members shared one office and the responsibility for keeping SAS employees fit and healthy. It has always been a part of the SAS culture to look out for employee’s health and well-being. And as
Data science is hot. You've undoubtedly heard a lot about the field and the role of the data scientist, now it's time to learn more. So, here are the top three reasons to become a data scientist. 1 – For the enjoyment of creating and building new “things” No, data scientists do not
Das Christkind ist unzufrieden! Bald ist Weihnachten und die Vorbereitungen laufen nur langsam an. Stress liegt in himmlischer Luft. Und wenn ein Christkind gestresst ist, müssen die Engel stramm stehen. Doch weil Engel immer eine Lösung haben, sind sie Engel. Öffnen Sie das 2. Türchen und schauen Sie hinter die
Last week my colleague Chris Hemedinger published a blog post that described how to use the ODS LAYOUT GRIDDED statement to arrange tables and graphs in a panel. The statement was introduced in SAS 9.4m1 (December 2013). Gridded layout is supported for HTML, POWERPOINT, and the PRINTER family of destinations
Recently, I have been thinking about how search can play more of a part in discovery and exploration with SAS Text Miner. Unsupervised text discovery usually begins with a look at the frequent or highly weighted terms in the collection, perhaps includes some edits to the synonym and stop lists,
Here in the US, California is known as "wine country" - but I was wondering what other states make wine, and whether there have been any big changes in recent years. This seemed like a good excuse for some graphical analytics... My previous blog analyzed where various Thanksgiving foods were produced. I was
Nicole Tschauder schenkt Ihnen einen analytisch-literarischen Adventskalender. Jeder Blog symbolisiert ab heute bis zum 24. Dezember ein Türchen in ihrem digitalen SAS-Adventskalender. Klicken Sie auf read more, um IHR erstes Türchen zu öffnen: Soviel vorweg: Business Analytics ist himmlisch!
What is information? The lack of a working definition plagued both science and the emerging telecommunications industry until the arrival of Claude Shannon and his famous 1948 paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”, based on his cryptography work during WWII while at Bell Labs. The landmark article is considered the
In my first post, I talked about the hell of using Excel for all your data needs; in my second post, I covered the building blocks and initial first steps that will lead you to a future proof data strategy. Now let’s zoom in on the three domains that underpin
Government organizations are seeking new and innovative ways to use an abundance of data – both internally for government operations and externally to provide the public with greater access to information. This intersection of open and internal government data is the topic of a Route Fifty webinar taking place on
