We have come very far in our journey (I started this series in March) to the 10 best practices from education customers for information management, reporting and analytics. Lets’ recap our journey of the previous nine blogs: Securing executive sponsorship. Identifying and involving stakeholders early and assessing their unique needs.
Thanks to Illumino, the citizens of Datapolis are still able to get their medicine and Frackture is being kept at bay; however we both have our hands full and a new crisis is on the horizon. Our data scientists and engineers have informed me that a new evil force is
For those that didn’t study Latin or law, caveat emptor quite simply means “buyer beware”. David Reibstein, the William Stewart Woodside Professor, Professor of Marketing at Wharton Business School and author of “Marketing Metrics: 50+ Measures Every Manager Should Master” says that marketers chase growth, but few get very specific
It is becoming clear that a fair percentage of the health care community, particularity outside of the United States, are uncomfortable using the word, “fraud.” Instead, you see the words "risk" and "error" used more often to describe fraud. There appear to be many different reasons for the discomfort with
Economist and statistician Kattamuri Sarma and his book Predictive Modeling with SAS Enterprise Miner are the source for this week's SAS tip. In a review of the book, SAS user Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman said "The content is wonderful, clear, and thorough." If you're using SAS Enterprise Miner, I'd invite you to visit Kattamuri Sarma's
Math is a system of rules, and so is computer software, says Joseph Pingenot, a software developer in the Enterprise Miner group. Pingenot—whose background in physics includes modeling quantum wells, semiconductor research and next-generation electronics—uses math every day, at work and at home. Read on to find out how! How
US Presidential Race Going to the Dogs Mitt Romney transporting his dog on the roof rack. Barack Obama eating dog meat as a child in Indonesia. Former candidate Rick Santorum overwrought about man-dog love. Is this what the US Presidential race has turned into -- one dog attack after another? Back in
With the London 2012 Olympics around the corner, there are sure to be reports or rumors of performance-enhancing drug use among some athletes. It turns out that using manufactured chemicals to give yourself an edge is frowned upon in the athletic community. However, as a SAS user you should avail
If you've heard anything from SAS in recent months, then you've heard about high-performance analytics and the new SAS Visual Analytics offering. SAS has taken the high-performance analytics message around the world in a series of recent "road shows". From the start, this project has enjoyed a different development process
We've introduced the topic of the Four E's and discussed the role of analytics in Enforcement and Engineering. Now let's delve into Emergency Response. A quick emergency response can make all the difference in saving the lives of crash victims. Many vehicles can now communicate directly with emergency responders immediately after
Over the past few years, and especially since I posted my article on eight tips to make your simulation run faster, I have received many emails (often with attached SAS programs) from SAS users who ask for advice about how to speed up their simulation code. For this reason, I
Welcome back to the jaw-dropping discussion on what really matters in your social media strategy. Harkening back to Katie Paine’s amazing presentation at the recent SAS Government Executive summit, there are six steps to measuring what really matters in a social media campaign: Define the expected goals. If you were climbing
My suitcase is out and ready to be packed because I’ll soon make a cross-country trip to San Diego for JSM 2012. I, along with my colleague Brenda Hairston, will manage the SAS Books booth in the Exhibit Hall from July 29-Aug. 1. Be sure to visit us and take a
Recently, SAS had the pleasure of hosting Katie Paine, social media maven, expert on media measurement, and author of Measure What Matters, at the SAS Government Leadership Summit in Washington D.C. The session was jam-packed with the usual drool-worthy stats and figures covering the current status of the social media
A SAS Professionals attendee and Twitter follower named Marco asks for help: ..struggling to find a method with custom tasks in EG to be able to list the datasets in a library, can you help please? Sure, no problem. This is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. First, make sure that you have a reference
I have blogged about three different SAS/IML techniques that iterate over categories and process the observations in each category. The three techniques are as follows: Use a WHERE clause on the READ statement to read only the observations in the ith category. This is described in the article "BY-group processing
Jack Shostak is the Associate Director of Statistics at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. A SAS user since 1985, Jack has two SAS books under his belt with a third on the way. This week's SAS tip is from Shotak's SAS Programming in the Pharmaceutical Industry. The following excerpt is from SAS Press
Free The BFD The BFD has been on a short hiatus, fending off potential litigation with the organizing committee of a quadrennial international sporting event that isn't the World Cup. Per the advice of SAS Legal, I've had to make a few changes to the May 30 post, now entitled "Forecasting
Certain things are just hard to squeeze into your day. For some of us, it's exercise or doing laundry. For others, it's blogging. You want to do it almost every day, but you can't seem to find the time. If you're one of the bloggers or would-be bloggers trying (and
I was recently following a post where a user asked what the earliest SAS PROCs (procedures) were. Since I started using SAS in 1970, I knew I could find a copy of the old documentation that we used at that time. This “user’s guide” was something that you printed out on
Most management literature and studies posit that organizations with a clear mission and work objectives, understood by all levels of the organization, are the most productive. The key to that success is effectively communicating the mission, agreeing on key performance indicators and giving employees at all levels access to relevant
When you are working with probability distributions (normal, Poisson, exponential, and so forth), there are four essential functions that a statistical programmer needs. As I've written before, for common univariate distributions, SAS provides the following functions: the PDF function, which returns the probability density at a given point the CDF
"Welcome to the English summer." "In the US you have climate. In England we have Weather." These are just two of the familiar phrases I heard yesterday during the SAS Professionals Convention held at SAS UK in Marlow. The weather changed from sun to dark clouds to rain and even
Why do military fleet managers drive everywhere looking in the rear-view mirror? Can you imagine driving your car down the freeway but navigating by only using your rear-view mirror? In essence that’s what most military fleet managers use to manage their assets, be they tanks, trucks or aircraft. Whatever the
In Paul Allison’s own words, “It’s about time!” The first edition of his book on logistic regression came out in 1999, and since then, “there have been an enormous number of changes and enhancements to the SAS procedures for doing logistic regression and related methods.” Allison has incorporated those changes
Suppose that you have two data vectors, x and y, with the same number of elements. How can you rearrange the values of y so that they have the same relative order as the values of x? In other words, find a permutation, π, of the elements of y so
Update 24Nov2015: The methods in this post no longer work for Twitter, as Twitter has discontinued support for its "share count" API that was used within the Twitter share buttons. But the Facebook method still works, and I've described a method for counting LinkedIn shares on another post. As of
The Centre for Economic and Business Research is a respected economic consultancy. Earlier this year we asked them to look at the value of analytics to the UK today, and forecast the likely growth of analytics over the next five years. Their full findings can be downloaded here. But why
If you're using JMP, please read on. This week's tip is from Professor Robert Carver and his popular book Practical Data Analysis with JMP. To read a free chapter and reviews of the book, visit Robert's author page. The following excerpt is from SAS Press author Robert Carver and his book "Practical Data Analysis with JMP" Copyright ©
I've been working on a new book about Simulating Data with SAS. In researching the chapter on simulation of multivariate data, I've noticed that the probability density function (PDF) of multivariate distributions is often specified in a matrix form. Consequently, the multivariate density can usually be computed by using the
