Using SAS with REST APIs is fun and rewarding, but it's also complicated. When you're dealing with web services, credentials, data parsing and security, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. It's useful to have a simple program that verifies that the "basic plumbing" is working before
My fear of headstand took me years to overcome. I had to learn to be safe and protect my neck. I had to learn about structurally positioning my limbs in alignment to prevent injury. I had to overcome my mental fear of being upside down which is quite different from
Are you in the early stages of your Internet of Things (IoT) strategy? According to new IoT research done by the Internet of Things Institute on behalf of SAS, you are not alone. There's been a lot of buzz in the market for several years around IoT and how it's
Jahreswechsel bieten sich für Bestandsaufnahmen an. Mit ein wenig Abstand betrachtet fällt mir auf, dass die Spezialisten-Themen „Analytics“, „Big Data“ und vor allem „künstliche Intelligenz“ (KI) längst im publizistischen Mainstream angekommen sind. Täglich erscheinen in allen möglichen Publikumszeitschriften neue Artikel, die zwischen Euphorie und Pessimismus jede Facette anbieten. Grund genug,
統計ソフトを大学等の授業で用いる際に問題となるのが、統一的な環境を用意することの難しさです。受講者全員が同じバージョンのソフトウェアを同じ設定で利用し、同じ場所にあるデータにアクセスするような環境を準備しないと、個々の環境の差異から発生する問題に対処するだけで授業時間が終わってしまうでしょう。 また、統計ソフトを利用した演習講義では、プログラミングが必要になる場面が多いと思います。しかし、少ない授業時間を割いてプログラミングに慣れていない学生にコーディングを教えることは、本来その講義で教えるべき内容を削ってしまいかねません。 ご存知の方も多いと思いますが、SASでは、教育・研究および個人学習目的の利用に限り、無償ソフトウェアを提供しています。ダウンロードしてローカルPCの仮想マシンにセットアップするタイプの SAS University Edition と、クラウド上のアプリとして実行するタイプの SAS OnDemand for Academics がありますが、後者を使うと、上述した統計ソフトを利用した講義における統一環境の準備の問題およびプログラミングの問題を解決することができます。 SAS OnDemand for Academics (以下、SODAと略します) の特徴は以下のとおりです。 クラウド上で実施するソフトウェアなので、インターネット接続さえあれば、PC環境を統一させる必要がありません。 教員はWebページ上で「Course」を作成することができ、学生がその「Course」に登録することで、教員が用意したデータに学生の環境からアクセスすることができます。 ポイント＆クリックで操作できるインターフェイスにより、プログラミングせずに統計やデータマイニングの機能を利用することができます。 SODAの利用手順： まずはSODAに登録します。登録の方法は、SlideShareの資料を参考にしてください。(※Analytics Uのページがなければ、SODAのページにアクセスし、上記のスライド4から開始してください。) 教員の方は「Course」を作成してください。こちらのページのInstructorsセクションのドキュメントおよびビデオ「Upload Your Course Data」「Invite Students to Your Course」を参考にしてください。 学生は教員から「Course」に参加するためのリンクを取得し、こちらのページのStudentsセクションを参考にCourseに参加してください。 SODAを利用すれば、無料で環境構築・プログラミング教育のためのコスト・リソースを削減し、統計スキルの教育・学習に集中できます。Let’s teach & learn data science!
Amazon recently announced the 20 finalists in their search for a location to house their new 2nd headquarters (nicknamed 'hq2'). They showed a map on their web page, but I wanted to create my own map, with a few improvements ... Here's their official map. It's not terrible, but it
SAS/IML 14.3 (SAS 9.4M5) introduced a new syntax for creating lists and for assigning and extracting item in a list. Lists (introduced in SAS/IML 14.2) are data structures that are convenient for holding heterogeneous data. A single list can hold character matrices, numeric matrices, scalar values, and other lists, as
With all the talk about Bitcoin in the news lately, I decided it was time I created a Bitcoin graph! Follow along as I track down the data, create a graph, and then polish up that graph to make it shine. But before we get started, here's a little example
여전히 많은 금융 기관들이 국제회계기준(IFRS; International Financial Reporting Standard) 9를 준수하기 위해 애쓰는 가운데, 2021년부터 시행될 새로운 규정인 IFRS 17에 대한 부담이 보험 업계 전반에 긴 그림자를 드리우고 있습니다. 이미 IFRS 9의 새로운 보고 기준은 은행과 금융 기관에 전혀 새로운 차원의 거버넌스와 통제를 요구하고 있으며, 각 기관은 이를 지원하기 위해 IT
음악 추천부터 대출 심사, 직원 평가, 암 진단까지 현대 사회는 인공지능(AI)과 머신러닝 기반의 애플리케이션에 둘러싸여 있습니다. 기계가 사람을 대신해 내린 의사결정에 점점 더 많은 영향을 받고 있는데요. 일상적인 것부터 사람의 목숨이 걸린 중대한 의사결정에 이르기까지 우리는 머신러닝 모델에 수많은 질문을 던집니다. 이때 질문에 대한 답변은 ‘예측 모델’이 결정합니다. 생소하고 어려운 개념인데요. 데이터
Have you ever played the lottery? Have you ever heard people bragging about all the money they've won? Does it make you want to play? ... We've had an Education Lottery here in North Carolina for over 10 years, but I still didn't really know much about it - therefore I
Wherever there is uncertainty there has got to be judgment, and wherever there is judgment there is an opportunity for human fallibility. Donald Redelmeirer, physician-researcher Recently, I read a fascinating book titled The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Mind by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton & Company, 2017). Lewis
@philsimon chimes in on a massive opportunity for organizations that process the data of EU residents.
Money magazine (Jan/Feb 2018) contains an article about how much it costs to give birth in the US. The costs, which are based on insurance data, include prenatal care and hospital delivery but exclude infant care. The data are compiled for each state (including Washington, DC) and by type of
I've used SAS with a bunch of different REST APIs: GitHub, Brightcove, Google Analytics, Lithium, LinkedIn, and more. For most of these I have to send user/password or "secret" application tokens to the web service so that it knows who I am and what data I can retrieve. I do
If you are a SAS programmer, you may wonder why you should read this. After all isn’t SAS Enterprise Guide just for folks who don’t want to be bothered writing SAS code? SAS Enterprise Guide is just point, click, and get results, right? Well there is a lot more to
금융소비자보호국, 불공정 행위로부터 소비자 보호 버락 오바마 미국 전 대통령은 2008년 글로벌 금융 위기 이후 소비자 보호를 강화하고, 금융 업계를 규제함으로써 사태 재발을 막기 위해 다양한 노력을 기울였습니다. 그 중 하나가 바로 2011년 월스트리트에 대한 연방 감독 기구로 출범한 미국 금융소비자보호국(CFPB; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)인데요. 금융소비자보호국은 소비자를 불공정 행위, 사기, 권력
Last week I got the following message: Dear Rick: How can I create a normal distribution within a specified range (min and max)? I need to simulate a normal distribution that fits within a specified range. I realize that a normal distribution is by definition infinite... Are there any alternatives,
Supply Chain Lead Times Most companies with a supply chain have to deal with supply lead times. When I worked in the processed meats industry many years ago, production plans were locked three weeks in advance.That's how long it took to secure raw materials and schedule the production lines. Many
Former U.S. Chief Technology officer Megan Smith stressed the importance of continued investments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in her keynote address at SAS Analytics Experience, sharing a quote from George Washington. In his first address to Congress, in 1790, Washington said, “There is nothing which can better
Without a doubt, working with teachers and educational leaders to understand education data is what I love most about my job. I have enjoyed engaging with these dedicated public servants and learned so much from our collaborations. One of the highlights of my role is planning conferences for EVAAS users,
Todd Wright says the risk of fines for GDPR noncompliance may pale in comparison to the risk posed by reputation loss.
If you work in a team environment, you might be accustomed to using mapped network drives for source data folders or to publish results. If you've recently moved to a SAS server environment, you might not have those mapped drives available. How can you tell? This question was posted on
Welche Veränderungen bringt 2018 im Datenmanagement? Ich habe Experten nach ihrer Meinung zu den Technologietrends 2018 gefragt und sie mit meinen eigenen Erwartungen verglichen. Herauskristallisiert haben sich fünf große Trends, die uns meiner Ansicht nach dieses Jahr im Datenmanagement begleiten: 1. Datenbewegung wird wichtiger Cloud-Anbieter haben bereits gezeigt, wie einfach es
Last week I wrote about the 10 most popular articles from The DO Loop in 2017. My most popular articles tend to be about elementary statistics or SAS programming tips. Less popular are the articles about advanced statistical and programming techniques. However, these technical articles fill an important niche. Not
As marijuana has become legal in several states, it's been a frequent topic of interest in the news. And as with any interesting topic, I like to find useful ways to visually analyze the data. In this case, let's have a look at the price of marijuana, and how it
Im Jahr 1963 wurde zu Silvester erstmals der Sketch „Dinner for One“ mit dem britischen Komiker Freddie Frinton im deutschen Fernsehen ausgestrahlt. Im Laufe der Jahre wurde diese Sendung zur lieb gewonnenen Tradition und erlebt immer wieder Phasen, in denen sie zum Kult avanciert. Die zentrale Frage lautet ja bekanntermaßen:
The first time I voted (back in the 1980s), I was very surprised that I didn't have to show any kind of identification. I assumed it was because I lived in a small North Carolina town of 300 people where "everybody knew everybody" ... but they told me that nobody
일본의 한 보험 회사가 올해부터 보험 계약 절차와 정보 조회 등 사무 작업의 90%를 인공지능(AI)으로 대체, 전사 업무 부담을 20% 가량 경감할 것으로 발표하며 이목을 모았습니다. 국내에서도 이처럼 보험과 IT 기술을 융합한 인슈어테크(Insure + Tech) 서비스가 속속들이 출시되며 보험 업계의 비즈니스 모델이 빠른 속도로 다각화되고 있는데요. 오늘은 보험 선진국으로 평가 받는 유럽의
A SAS programmer asked how to label multiple regression lines that are overlaid on a single scatter plot. Specifically, he asked to label the curves that are produced by using the REG statement with the GROUP= option in PROC SGPLOT. He wanted the labels to be the slope and intercept
