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Analytics | Data Management

Mark TorrJuly 7, 2015 0

What’s the future of analytics within the enterprise architecture?

What does the future of analytics look like in your organizations enterprise architecture? Does it include thinking about a two speed approach to analytics which includes both: An agile rapidly changing analytics platform for innovation (a lab) seperated from operations and broad enterprise audience usage A slowly moving systematic enterprise analytics platform (a factory)

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Advanced Analytics

Rick WicklinJuly 6, 2015 0

The use of SAS/IML software in published research

SAS/IML software is used by many SAS programmers, primarily for creating custom algorithms and macros that implement statistical analyses that are not built into any SAS procedure. I know that PROC IML is used regularly by pharmaceutical companies, by the financial and insurance industries, and by researchers in medical colleges

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJuly 2, 2015 0

Row Lattice Headers

The SGPANEL procedure makes it easy to create graph panels that are classified by one or more classifiers. The "Panel" layout is the default and it places the classifier values in cell headers at the top of each cell. When using LAYOUT=Latice or RowLattice, the row headers are placed at

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Data Management

Dylan JonesJuly 2, 2015 0

Struggling with data governance alignment? Look to history.

If your organization is large enough, it probably has multiple data-related initiatives going on at any given time. Perhaps a new data warehouse is planned, an ERP upgrade is imminent or a data quality project is underway. Whatever the initiative, it may raise questions around data governance – closely followed by discussions about the

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Data Management | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

David SternJuly 2, 2015 0

Anonymization for data managers

I’ve spent some time over the past couple of months learning more about anonymization. This began with an interest in the technical methods used to protect sensitive personally-identifiable information in a SAS data warehouse and analytics platform we delivered for a customer. But I learned that anonymization has two rather different meanings; one in the

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Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 1, 2015 0

Finding July 4th fireworks shows with SAS software!

Update: This blog has been updated with the 2016 map. You can use SAS for just about anything - that includes finding a great fireworks show to watch during the US Independence Day holiday! Here's a fireworks-locator map I created using SAS (see technical details below). The red dots represent

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Sports & Entertainment

Work & Life at SAS

Jennifer StrobelJuly 1, 2015 0

Water Safety Myths- TRUE or FALSE

Summertime has arrived! Here are some fun, serious and what some might think are absurd questions about water safety. Take the quiz and test your knowledge.

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Rick WicklinJuly 1, 2015 0

Merge observed outcomes into a list of all outcomes

When you count the outcomes of an experiment, you do not always observe all of the possible outcomes. For example, if you roll a six-sided die 10 times, it might be that the "1" face does not appear in those 10 rolls. Obviously, this situation occurs more frequently with small

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Work & Life at SAS

Lisa AllredJune 30, 2015 0

Parenting in Shifting Sands

There is so much going on in our country right now socially, that I feel like someone has just placed a soapbox in front of me and dared me to climb up. Never one to resist, let's talk about parenting in shifting sands. Talking to your kids (of all ages) about

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Maggie MillerJune 30, 2015 0

Top 3 reasons to attend Analytics 2015 in Las Vegas

I’m not a big gambler, but there is something I would put my money on – analytics. Analytics is helping companies turn information into value. And yes, I mean money. If you want to learn about the latest analytics trends and get in on some of that “value” – attend

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Data Management

David LoshinJune 30, 2015 0

Data policies and data governance

In recent years, we practitioners in the data management world have been pretty quick to conflate “data governance” with “data quality” and “metadata.” Many tools marketed under "data governance" have emerged – yet when you inspect their capabilities, you see that in many ways these tools largely encompass data validation and data standardization. Unfortunately, we

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 29, 2015 0

Born to be wild - analyzing motorcycle data

What is it that people like so much about motorcycles? The thrill/excitement/freedom of riding them, the 'biker image' portrayed in movies, or great songs such as Little Honda by the Hondells? I'm not a biker per say, but I do have a couple of motorcycles, and am a known associate

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Insurance | Sports & Entertainment

Programming Tips

Word cloud in SAS Visual Analytics

Marjorie ShelleyJune 29, 2015 0

How sentimental of you! Enabling sentiment analysis in a SAS Visual Analytics word cloud

Word clouds have been available in SAS Visual Analytics for a while now, but recently, sentiment analysis was added to their functionality. For those of you not familiar with word clouds, a word cloud, also known as a tag cloud, is a visual representation of text data. You are probably

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Learn SAS

Rick WicklinJune 29, 2015 0

An easy way to use numbers for column headers

When I am computing with SAS/IML matrices and vectors, I often want to label the columns or rows so that I can better understand the data. The labels are called headers, and the COLNAME= and ROWNAME= options in the SAS/IML PRINT statement enable you to add headers for columns and

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJune 28, 2015 0

Attributes Priority for the Inquiring Mind

When ODS Graphics was first released with SAS 9.2 in 2008, a conscious effort was made to create graphs that were consistent and aesthetically pleasing out of the box. Features in the graph derive their visual attributes from the active Style. When Group classifications are in effect, the different classification

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Kristen HaddockJune 26, 2015 0

How registering your SAS Users Group this summer can heat up your connections this fall

The school year may be over, but it’s not too late to renew your SAS Users Group registration for 2015. Or, if you have always wanted to start a new Users Group in your area or company, you still have time to register a new group and receive support this

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 26, 2015 0

Is Greece in hot water, financially?

Greece has been in the news lately, trying to secure funds to repay 1.5 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the month. And as luck would have it, there is some data available and some graphs to be created ... I love this job!

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Banking | Government

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 25, 2015 0

Pyramids, body parts, and gender differences

Nope - we're not digging up mummies in pyramids and analyzing the gender - this blog is about population pyramid charts and "digging into data"! But since the title might have lured in some pyramid fans, here's a picture of my friend Angela posing beside a pyramid - pretty cool, eh?!?

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Data Visualization | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Stuart RoseJune 25, 2015 0

Location, Location, Location

If you buying or selling a house. The relator will tell the value of the property is all about location, location, location. For insurance companies location is just as important. For an underwriter assessing the risk on a property is essential that they consider the location of the property. How

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Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

Greg WoodJune 25, 2015 0

Are you missing out when it comes to data monetization?

After doing some recent research with IDC®, I got to thinking again about the reasons that organizations of all sizes in all industries are so slow at adopting analytics as part of their ‘business as usual’ operations. While I have no hard statistics on who is and who isn’t adopting

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Advanced Analytics

Imre PólikJune 25, 2015 0

Finding the Beauty in Optimization Models - Visualizing MPS data sets

In 2013, Rick Wicklin blogged about visualizing matrices as heat maps using SAS/IML. That post reminded me that we had done a similar thing for the coefficient matrices in our optimization problems. In particular, we have developed some SAS macros to visualize the input data sets for the OPTLP (linear

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJune 24, 2015 0

Bubble Plots

Bubble Plots provide additional ways to visualize your data. The plot supports display of multiple response characteristics of the data in one graph. Bubble plots were introduced with SAS 9.3 in GTL and SG Procedures. A bubble is drawn at each (x, y) point in the graph, and each bubble is

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Events

Maggie MillerJune 24, 2015 0

2 days. 2 exams. 2 SAS certifications.

In just one weekend Shang-Hua Wu went from a SAS user to a super SAS user by getting not just one, but two SAS certifications – SAS Certified Base Programmer and SAS Certified Advanced Programmer. Wu wanted to earn his certifications to position himself for new career opportunities in the

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Work & Life at SAS

Cathy Greer Mazanec, MPH, RDN, LDN

Cathy Greer Mazanec, MPH, RDN, LDNJune 24, 2015 0

Is this Added Sugar or Natural Sugar??

Updated Oct 2023 You may have heard that the World Health Organization (WHO) released its new Sugar Guidelines which recommend keeping Added Sugar to less than 5% of our total calories or 6 teaspoons of Added Sugar per day. To give you an idea of what 5% of your total

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Rick WicklinJune 24, 2015 0

The sensitivity of Newton's method to an initial guess

In my article about finding an initial guess for root-finding algorithms, I stated that Newton's root-finding method "might not converge or might converge to a root that is far away from the root that you wanted to find." A reader wanted more information about that statement. I have previously shown

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Data Visualization

Gail BamfordJune 23, 2015 0

Looking "beneath the dots" of geospatial data

If you use a GPS system or a mapping app on your phone, you're familiar with geospatial intelligence. But did you know this same technology can be used to map the spread of diseases, to understand the spread of wildfires, to visualize environmental issues - and much more? The proliferation

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Mark StevensJune 23, 2015 0

New SAS Visual Analytics certification launched

The SAS Global Certification program is proud to announce the release of a new credential: SAS Certified Visual Business Analyst Using SAS Visual Analytics. This credential is designed for analysts who are using SAS Visual Analytics to explore data and create insightful data visualizations. With SAS Visual Analytics now deployed in over

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Analytics | Data Management | Data Visualization

Daniel TeacheyJune 22, 2015 0

Build a culture that embraces big data challenges

Big data. Streaming data. Complex data. We’ve all heard the reasons why organizations feel like they’re facing an insurmountable data challenge. Now, it’s time to do something about it. For the past few years, SAS has helped some of the world’s leading companies make sense of an avalanche of data.

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJune 22, 2015 0

Using SAS to get the jump on Shark Week

Discovery Channel's Shark Week starts July 5, 2015 - and I've created a special SAS map & graph of shark attacks in North Carolina to get you in the mood for their week of shark education! But first, to get you in the mood for my blog, here's a picture

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Sports & Entertainment | Travel

Data Management

Phil SimonJune 22, 2015 0

Is effective data governance possible in an era of big data?

.@philsimon on the new challenges of data governance.

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