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Manuel FigalloFebruary 7, 2019 0

An unexpected weapon in the fight against the opioid epidemic: Graduate students

Each day, more than 130 Americans die from opioid overdoses. Combating the opioid epidemic begins with understanding it, and that begins with data. SAS recently partnered with graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) 's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy to understand how data mining and machine

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Rick WicklinFebruary 6, 2019 0

Feature generation and correlations among features in machine learning

Feature generation (also known as feature creation) is the process of creating new features to use for training machine learning models. This article focuses on regression models. The new features (which statisticians call variables) are typically nonlinear transformations of existing variables or combinations of two or more existing variables. This

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K. Matthew WindhamFebruary 5, 2019 0

Webpage scraping made easy with PROC HTTP

SAS Press author Matt Windham shows you how to use the SAS procedure PROC HTTP to grab raw data from a website.

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