Here, not a moment too soon, is a more-or-less random recollection of the big ideas and trends I witnessed at South by Southwest Interactive. Location-based applications were predicted to have the biggest hype, and that was borne out. These are applications, primarily for mobile devices, that let you "check in"
Robert Springborn has a special relationship with his SAS software. Like many long-time SAS users, Robert’s livelihood depends upon his advanced skills with SAS technology, as well as his analytical expertise. He’s been using SAS for over 28 years, which means when it comes to writing SAS programs, he’s comfortable
I started writing this post on the plane coming home from the South by Southwest Interactive festival. If you've been on Twitter the past two weeks, you've probably seen the #sxsw or #sxswi hashtags, and if you weren't actually in Austin, you probably saw them a heck of a lot
This past weekend, I decided it was time--time to take on the white grout in the white bathroom. After almost 15 years, the grout wasn’t quite as bright as it had once been. As I scrubbed, I thought, “There has got to be a blog post in here somewhere…” The
Today, I had the privilege of speaking to a group of high school students at a community outreach event sponsored by the Human Resources division at SAS. Approximately 80 students from schools as far away as Charlotte came to visit SAS and hear about the impact that SAS and analytics
Tuesday at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, I had the true pleasure of meeting Capt. Nathan Broshear, who's known on Twitter by one of the weightiest user names you could imagine: @usairforce. He's an energetic and genuine person and a great ambassador for the Air Force. I summarized Nathan's
My friend Meg Crawford wrote a great post yesterday previewing all the great social media activities planned for SAS Global Forum next month. Like Meg, it will be my first time attending SAS' biggest conference of the year and I couldn't be more excited to meet many of the customers
Contributed by Meg Crawford, Marketing Specialist, User & Customer Marketing Hi everyone! I'm Meg Crawford and I have a small and somewhat unhealthy obsession with social media. You may have seen me this year on Twitter as @Postgrad, on Facebook posting on the SAS Global Forum Fan Page, on LinkedIn,
The purpose of this panel was to give some visibility to areas of business that are being affected by social media, outside of the traditional marketing and PR stories we're used to hearing. The panel was moderated by David Meerman Scott, (@dmscott) author of The New Rules of Marketing &
It's March, and in North Carolina all of the talk is about college basketball. At SAS, we like to brag about how these guys use SAS analytics to predict the NCAA "dance card" with astounding results. This year, the fun question revolves around conference bias and how it affects a
My notes from the Customer Support in a 140-Character World panel. Panelists were Frank Eliason from Comcast (@ComcastCares), Lois Townsend (@ltownsend) from HP, Toby Richards (@TobyRichards) from Microsoft and Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) from Altimeter. The moderator was Caroline McCarthy (@Caro) from CNET News. Caroline: Is social media the most effective
Gary welcoming people as they enter his keynote Gary Vaynerchuk (@GaryVee) gave one of the most popular keynotes at SXSW. The auditorium was packed and there was a very warm and genuine vibe. Here are my notes from his talk. Gary started out asking how many people swore they would
Contributed by Warren Kuhfeld, Analytical Solutions Manager, Research & Development SAS/GRAPH software was first released when I was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1980s. I remember submitting a SAS program to make a graph and then walking to the computing
My notes from the “Big Campaigns on Digital Dollars" panel, with Melissa Fallon, Chris Hanada, Milo Ventimiglia, Wilson Cleveland and Andrew Hampp. (Their bios are posted on the event page.) The panel focused on working with brands to create online content and web TV series that are fun, intersting and
When you connect to a SAS environment with SAS Enterprise Guide, are you a single, consistent person? Or do you have more identities than Chevy Chase in Fletch? When you connect to a SAS environment, you can be many people at once: You are logged into your Windows account on
David Carr after the session These are my notes from the SXSW panel discussion, “Media Armageddon: What Happens When The New York Times Dies?” The panelists were David Carr from The New York Times, Amy Langfield from Newyorkology.com, Markos Moulitsas from Daily Kos and Greg Beato from Reason magazine. The
I arrived in Austin mid-afternoon and got to the convention center in time for the first session on my list, "Do Cool Kids Leave When the Suits Arrive?" The discussion was led by John Biehler and Chris Heuer. I arrived a bit late for this session, having experienced what I'm
The SAS Talks series is a big hit, and now we've got a landing page where you can find previously recorded talks, plus information about upcoming talks. You can learn about SAS programming with SAS Enterprise Guide, ODS statistical graphics, fancy multi-sheet output for Microsoft Excel from SAS, and more!
Like many of you, I’m closely following the last season of the ABC drama Lost. I’ve followed Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer et al. through six long years of island confusion. Now, with nine episodes left until the series ends for good, I can see how the writers are setting us
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament is big business and March Madness is exciting, but is the selection process fair? Using the SAS Analytics-powered "Dance Card" formula developed by Jay Coleman of the University of North Florida, Mike DuMond of Charles River Associates, and Allen Lynch of Mercer University,
Business problem: By default, OLAP cubes calculate aggregations at each possible intersection of levels in one or more dimensions. However, there are situations where aggregations cannot be completed on the fly for all intersections within the cube due to business rules for some data levels. Also, the source data table
I LOVE to read. Six months ago, it was “bah humbug” for me when it came to eBooks. I want my print books! Then I got the Apple iPhone for Christmas and whoa, now I love reading online. Have you tried it yet? SAS Publishing Operations is working with the
Twenty-four sessions, twenty-four speakers, twenty-four different topics over just two days, and I didn’t just sit through the convention as a participant, no, I moderated the entire two day event as its Chairman. The Financial Forecasting and Planning Summit, organized by the IE Group, and held at the DoubleTree Mission
If you would like for the BI Dashboard to send you an alert via email, you must ensure that the email address is included for each user that will be receiving emails. This is located in SAS Management Console User Manager. Instructions: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/biwaag/63059/HTML/default/a003311779.htm Example:
Yesterday, we at SAS performed a little experiment, unintentionally. Who would notice (we wondered in retrospect) if we disabled one of our discussion forums on support.sas.com? As we learned: a lot of people would notice. There was a technical glitch that broke the SAS Enterprise Guide discussion forum for much
In one of my previous posts, I challenged myself to use SAS to create a monthly household budget and I’m happy to report that I have started this process. I have a few months worth of data and have begun to merge this information into data sets. With the combination
Contributed by Dave Russo, Technical Writer, SAS Publications Most of us in the Publications division spend our days capturing, refining, delivering, or promoting knowledge about SAS software. Like many of our customers, we’re in the knowledge business. As part of that business, I have the privilege of leading a small
You may choose to address security of who can view what dashboards within a SAS Information Delivery Portal page by managing the 'Sharing' capabilities at the Page or Portlet levels, however the most gradular level might also require a 'lock down' to avoid users surfing for and locating dashboards they
Check out AnnMaria's blog covering what she's learned by being on the bleeding edge: using SAS 9.2 for Windows x64 on a Win7 virtual machine. Also, her short primer on XPT files makes me want to add some native capability into SAS Enterprise Guide. If your goal is to send
Would you like to get a quick preview of the gauge you are using in the BI Dashboard Indicator? Just tap the 'Select ...' button to the right of the 'Gauge type:' dropdown box. There are then images of what these gauges look like, such as the 'Dials' category below:
