“It’s not about how much money you make but to work on stuff that matters," according to Tim O’Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media. At the recent Tools of Change conference, Tim O’Reilly mentioned during his keynote that writers tend to be motivated to work on “stuff that matters.” Through SAS
Are you a new SAS user who isn't sure where to begin? Have no fear, because you're not alone. Here at SAS, we often receive questions from people who need help getting started with the software. Getting Started with SAS is the topic of a SAS Talks session that I
It is easy to use the SGPLOT procedure in SAS to plot the graph of a well-behaved continuous function: just create a data set of the (x,y) values on some domain and use the SERIES statement to connect the points. However, to plot the graph of a discontinuous function correctly
Gestern erschienen bei Heise: Ein kontroverser Beitrag zum Thema Big Data. Auch das IT-Magazin Silicon findet 400 kritische Worte zum Phänomen. Beide Artikel sind lesenswert, aber die Darstellung ist in einigen Punkten nicht vollständig und gerne würde ich noch ein paar Punkte zur Betrachtung von Big Data ergänzen. Big Data
Revenge of the Nerds was so 1980s. Now it's a new world order: math geeks and athletes are working together. I'm not talking just about what happens when data nerds observe, analyze, and predict sports outcomes -- as they do in March Madness with their "bracketology". That's compelling, but your
A big part of "winning" these days (be it sports or a business) is performing analytics better than your competition. This is demonstrated in awe-inspiring fashion in the book (and movie) "Moneyball." And on that topic, I'd like to show you a few ways SAS can be used to analyze sports data
The digital world we live in gives marketers the opportunity to capture, record, measure, analyze and report just about anything nowadays - and we do it! Clicks, conversions, likes, attrition, business drivers, value destroyers - you name it and it's all fair game. Therein lies the rub - it's all fair game, and that's what's putting
Personally, I love studies. They help put things into context, and when done well, provide an independent and hopefully unbiased view of the forces that shape our lives. They are also a great way to see government funds used in strange ways. For example, the new NIOSH (National Institute for
It’s early March and one of these days, the snow will melt here in Minnesota, the ice will disappear from the lakes, and spring will arrive. On my list of things to do this spring is a third edition of SAS Macro Programming Made Easy. It’s time to update the
Someone recently asked a question on the SAS Support Communities about estimating parameters in ridge regression. I answered the question by pointing to a matrix formula in the SAS documentation. One of the advantages of the SAS/IML language is that you can implement matrix formulas in a natural way. The
I’m holding down the fort from my office in North Carolina wishing I could have made the Gartner Master Data Management Summit in Texas. Is cloning the answer? This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever. Business-side managers will enjoy the new track recognizing master data management
“Speak and you shall be heard.” Well… our students spoke, and we listened! SAS Education is always striving to improve the training we deliver, and one of the most important ways we do this is by taking the time to listen to our students. Over the past several months, our
If you’ve been following along this year, you know that I spoke to Sanjay Matange last month. Sanjay has a top-selling book to his credit and juggles work, speaking engagements and book writing. Another SAS employee who will soon add “Author” to his name is Kevin D. Smith. Kevin is
Last week I delivered a SAS Talks session: Introduction to Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide (click to watch it). I promised that I would share a collection of resources where you can learn more information. First, here is a round-up of the custom tasks that I mentioned, with links
One purpose of this International Year of Statistics is to spread the word that the field of statistics benefits society. As part of the International Year, many organizations, including SAS and the American Statistical Association (ASA), are turning to history to illustrate how statistics is vital to the health and
This week's SAS tip is from A. John Bailer and his book Statistical Programming in SAS. A SAS user for over 30 years, John is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Society for Risk Analysis--and a member of the International Biometric Society and the International Statistical Institute. The following
Each fall, SAS Customer Intellience (CI) customers gather at SAS global headquarters for the SAS CI Customer Connection. It's a great opportunity you to interact with your peers in other companies and to gain firsthand knowledge on how to make the most of your CI investment in three important ways: Much of the event is planned to give you many
What does π have to do with exchange rates, much less pie? First a disclaimer: an over-educated family member said that puns are the lowest form of humor. She meant that puns are “crude”, and are not to be used. Exchange rates convert values denominated in one currency into another
I've heard many customers ask "Can SAS do/use/handle census block maps?" My answer was "of course!" ... but I never really had any examples to show/prove that. Well, now I do! :) First, you need to locate & download the shape files for the census blocks you're interested in plotting. For
Kimberly Holmes doesn't want to put any limits on what analytics can accomplish at XL Group plc. As the Head of Strategic Analytics, Holmes recently selected SAS Visual Analytics to help the global insurance and reinsurance operations at XL Group meet that lofty goal. We spoke with her at a recent
SAS Publications has been working hard to convert our most popular titles to eBooks. We believe that eBooks are particularly important for our customers outside the US because of shipping costs, import fees, and the time it takes for you to obtain your books. Benefits to reading eBooks: eBooks are
In the past five years, value-added models have been increasingly adopted by states to support various teaching effectiveness policies. As educators make the paradigm shift from looking at only achievement data to incorporating growth data, many misconceptions have developed. Compounding this issue is the fact that not all value-added and
My wife rescued a dog a couple of years ago from a rural North Carolina rest stop . We named her "DOTi" in honor of the Department of Transportation. It took a while for us to get into the swing of being responsible owners; sometimes the first to leave for
This post is another in my series about creating apps with SAS Integration Technologies, a topic that I'm preparing for SAS Global Forum 2013. In this article, I'll describe how to use Windows PowerShell to connect to a remote SAS Workspace, run a SAS program, and retrieve the results. This
Argh! I've just spilled coffee on output that shows the least squares coefficients for a regression model that I was investigating. Now the parameter estimate for the intercept is completely obscured, although I can still see the parameter estimates for the coefficients of the continuous explanatory variable. What can I
There is a well recognized phenomenon that combining forecasts, derived from different methods using different sources of information, can improve forecast accuracy. This approach, sometimes called "ensemble forecasting," is available in SAS Forecast Server. Per Scott Armstrong's review of 57 studies on combining forecasts, "the combined forecast can be better
We've analyzed traffic to SAS Documentation pages and these 13 titles are leading the list as the first quarter winds down. The top 13 of 2013, thus far SAS 9.2 Language Reference: Dictionary, Fourth Edition Base SAS 9.2 Procedures Guide SAS/STAT 9.2 User's Guide, Second Edition Base SAS 9.2 Procedures Guide: Statistical Procedures, Third
Die CeBIT stand in diesem Jahr unter dem Leitthema Shareconomy. Bitkom-Präsident Dieter Kempf verkündete direkt zum Auftakt der Cebit: „Shareconomy betrifft die gesamte Gesellschaft“ und „Wir wechseln von einer Welt des Besitzens in eine Welt des Teilens.“ Soll uns nach Einführung des Tempolimits nun auch die Freude am persönlichen Besitz
Last week there was an interesting question posted to the "Stat-Math Statistics" group on LinkedIn. The original question was a little confusing, so I'll state it in a more general form: A population is normally distributed with a known mean and standard deviation. A sample of size N is drawn
Vier Videos beschreiben das Phänomen Big Data, skizzieren tatsächliche und mögliche Anwendungsfälle und zeigen an Praxisbeispielen, wie Unternehmen große Datenmengen bereits jetzt effektiv nutzen. Zur Playlist bei Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMxv2SumIKtzvevr2oSBNUHxxbGWFMd0
