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Beverly BrownJuly 24, 2015 0

Saint Peter’s University introduces Master’s degree in data science and business analytics

In December, Saint Peter’s University grants Master’s degrees to its inaugural class of data scientists. 36 students are enrolled in this program, and eight are set to graduate. As reported this year by Bloomberg, career opportunities for analytics talent are excellent. Saint Peter’s is the latest to collaborate with SAS to offer such a program.

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Rick WicklinJuly 24, 2015 0

The relationship between toothlessness and income

My colleague Robert Allison finds the most interesting data sets to visualize! Yesterday he posted a visualization of toothless seniors in the US. More precisely, he created graphs that show the estimated prevalence of adults (65 years or older) who have had all their natural teeth extracted. The dental profession

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Analytics

Stuart RoseJuly 24, 2015 0

No more excuses.. Analytics IS a game changer

Good news...an analytics survey last year found that 72% of insurance executive agreed that analytics is the biggest game-changer in the next 2 years. Bad news...compared to other industries the adoption rates of analytics in the insurance has lagged other industries. To reverse this trend and help insurers travel down the

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Fraud & Security Intelligence

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Lisa LoftisJuly 24, 2015 0

Who you gonna call (for a cybersecurity issue)?

During a lighthearted moment in a serious conversation, Howard Schmidt, cyber security advisor to multiple presidents, told a Wall Street Journal interviewer that relying on a government agency as your primary backstop during a major cyber security breach is akin to calling Ghostbusters: you might not get the help you

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 23, 2015 0

Only brush the teeth you want to keep

When I was a kid, I remember a motivational poster on my dentist's wall that said "You don't have to brush all your teeth -- only the ones you want to keep." That poster really made me think, and brush my teeth! And now that I'm a data-analyst adult, I think

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Data Management

Kelly McGuireJuly 23, 2015 0

Just get me my data! (Please): How advances in data management are making it easier for business users to access data

We’ve been talking about data recently at the Analytic Hospitality Executive. I’ve advocated to use whatever data you have, big or small, to get started today on analytic initiatives that will help you avoid big data paralysis. In this blog, I’m going to get a bit more technical than usual

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Analytics | Machine Learning

SAS Factory Miner projects

David PopeJuly 22, 2015 0

Machine learning in action today

What's that productivity related quote by Charles Dickens? "My advice is never do tomorrow what you can do today." For years, machine learning has been written about and discussed widely with a focus on the benefits it will bring in the near future. But guess what? The future for machine learning

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Teri PatsilarasJuly 22, 2015 0

Use Hub Shared Collections to automatically push VA reports to your users

The SAS Visual Analytics 7.2 release introduces a new look and feel to the Hub with the modern (HTML5) version. It also introduces a new feature, Shared Collections, which allows an administrator to push a Shared Collection to all users’ Hub view, including Guest access. And bonus - it will

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Analytics

Maggie MillerJuly 22, 2015 0

Explaining analytics with Jeff Zeanah

One of the most important skills for data scientists and business analytical professionals is communications. If decision makers and managers don't understand what the numbers mean -- results won't turn into action. Jeff Zeanah, President of Z Solutions, Inc. has been presenting on the topic of speaking “analytics” for many

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Work & Life at SAS

Ashley Bailey, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCPJuly 22, 2015 0

Natural Food Dyes...at Home!

As a new mom, I’ve been trying to provide the healthiest foods possible for my family that don’t have added chemicals and unnecessary ingredients. According to the 2015 Nielson Survey, I’m not alone in this journey! Consumers are going back to the basics with about 4 in 10 global respondents

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Rick WicklinJuly 22, 2015 0

A new method to simulate the triangular distribution

The triangular distribution has applications in risk analysis and reliability analysis. It is also a useful theoretical tool because of its simplicity. Its density function is piecewise linear. The standardized distribution is defined on [0,1] and has one parameter, 0 ≤ c ≤ 1, which determines the peak of the

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Work & Life at SAS

Page CvelichJuly 21, 2015 0

One is good enough!

Many of you know that I have lived for over a decade in an under-resourced neighborhood in Durham. I love my neighbors and my community. And I have learned the truth of Aboriginal activist Lilla Watson’s sage axiom, “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time; but

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Programming Tips

Marjorie ShelleyJuly 21, 2015 0

What you should know about SAS Factory Miner

On July 14, 2015 SAS released SAS Factory Miner, our latest advanced data mining and machine learning product. This new product provides automated predictive modeling by segment in a high velocity grid enabled environment, allowing modelers to run hundreds of models within minutes and find champion models by segment quickly.

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Internet of Things

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Mark TorrJuly 21, 2015 0

Why the Internet of Things will change how you interact with customers

There's a lot of talk right now about the Internet of Things and how it's likely the prime catalyst for the digital transformation of organizations over the next few years. Billions of sensors, and devices with sensors, all generating data in a hyper-connected world where it can be easily shared

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Programming Tips

SAS JediJuly 20, 2015 0

Jedi SAS Tricks - Maximum Warp with Hadoop

I'm gearing up to teach the next "DS2 Programming Essentials with Hadoop" class, and thinking about Warp Speed DATA Steps with DS2 where I first demonstrated parallel processing using threads in base SAS. But how about DATA step processing at maximum warp? For that, we'll need a massively parallel processing

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 20, 2015 0

Analysis of serial killings in the US

I recently came across some very interesting data on serial killings ... but it was in tabular/text form. This seemed like an invitation for me to create some graphs that make it easier to understand the data. It seems many people have a morbid curiosity about serial killers. For example, some

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Learn SAS

Rick WicklinJuly 20, 2015 0

Create a density curve with shaded tails

A SAS programmer wanted to plot the normal distribution and highlight the area under curve that corresponds to the tails of the distribution. For example, the following plot shows the lower decile shaded in blue and the upper decile shaded in red. An easy way to do this in SAS

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Kathryn McLawhornJuly 17, 2015 0

Customizing output from PROC MEANS

Customizing the output data set created using the OUTPUT statement When you request statistics on the PROC MEANS statement, the default printed output creates a nice table with the analysis variable names in the left-most column and the statistics forming the additional columns. Even if you create an output data

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Data Management

David LoshinJuly 17, 2015 0

Data modeling for data policy management

Operationalizing data governance means putting processes and tools in place for defining, enforcing and reporting on compliance with data quality and validation standards. There is a life cycle associated with a data policy, which is typically motivated by an externally mandated business policy or expectation, such as regulatory compliance.

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Rick WicklinJuly 17, 2015 0

Visualizing the distribution of ACT scores

My son is in high school and plans to take the ACT, a standardized test to assess college aptitude and readiness. My wife asked, "What is a good score for the ACT?" I didn't know, but I did a quick internet search and discovered a tabulation of scores for the

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJuly 16, 2015 0

Integrating SAS reports with Google maps: two-pane solution

➤ DISCLOSURE! In June 2018 Google introduced changes to the way it handles its Maps platform. They now require API key in order to embed a map, plus Google Maps "projects" must now be associated with a billing account. Unless these new Google rules are met, Google maps described in

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Work & Life at SAS

Amanda PackJuly 16, 2015 0

3 Reasons Why You Should Try Exercise in the Water This Summer

I was born in Florida and I like to think I'm a water baby. I love the way water feels so restorative and relaxing when my body needs a break from all the impact I put it through. I also love that swimming and water walking feel so relaxing, yet

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Work & Life at SAS

Lisa AllredJuly 16, 2015 0

Fun Ideas for Children and Older Adults

Fun ideas for Children and Older Adults to do Together When my daughter was a year old my mother had a stroke. Since my mother was my child care and then she needed help, I stopped working so I could care for them both. My daughter got to spend most of

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeJuly 15, 2015 0

Big Data Visualization

Big data is a popular topic, with multiple articles about the analysis of the same. Today, "Big Data" is measured in multiple of Tera Bytes, and SAS provides special software for analysis and visualization of Big Data - Visual Analytics. When data is very big, it may be meaningless, let alone inefficient, to plot

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Carl FarrellJuly 15, 2015 0

Cybersecurity and the doomsday case for analytics

Technology has brought the world a great deal of good, but the downside is that we’re increasingly vulnerable to some seriously scary stuff: Terrorists taking control of airplanes through the in-flight entertainment system. Governments breaking into secure systems and stealing identities. Thugs messing with the steering of self-driving cars. When

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Rick WicklinJuly 15, 2015 0

How to Winsorize data in SAS

Recently a SAS customer asked how to Winsorize data in SAS. Winsorization is best known as a way to construct robust univariate statistics. The Winsorized mean is a robust estimate of location. The Winsorized mean is similar to the trimmed mean, and both are described in the documentation for PROC

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonJuly 15, 2015 0

Where is my stuff? Documenting what is stored in SAS metadata

In a SAS Environment there is a lot of metadata, metadata about configuration such as server definitions, users, groups and roles and metadata about content like data, reports and jobs etc. SAS Administrators often want to report on metadata. They want to know what reports have been developed and where they are stored, what

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Analytics

Ian JonesJuly 14, 2015 0

From downtime to upside with oilfield predictive maintenance

Dust off that old aphorism about an ounce of prevention. Oil companies applying analytics for predictive maintenance can see a substantial downtick in the unanticipated equipment repairs that quickly eat into an oil well’s profitability. Maintenance is far from a trivial concern in the oilfield. A pumping oil well is

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Data Management

Joyce Norris-MontanariJuly 14, 2015 0

Common problems and pitfalls when starting a data governance project

Guess what? Data governance can be considered a bottleneck and a bothersome activity at some organizations. So let’s discuss how NOT TO BE the BOTTLENECK. Defining what the data governance initiative will entail is very important here.

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SAS Events

Maggie MillerJuly 13, 2015 0

Vote on the Analytics 2015 sessions you want to hear

Update: The winning sessions are Data mining - open source integration with SAS and Forecasting - multistage models for highly seasonal and/or sparse demand series. Get registered for the conference today. We'll see you in Las Vegas! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Analytics 2015 conference in Las Vegas, Oct. 26 and 27 is designed for

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