Big data might be daunting, but Matthew J. Becker, Senior Director and Global Head of Statistical Programming at inVentive Health Clinical, says the goal remains simple for those in health care and life sciences: cure disease and improve health outcomes. Speaking last week at SAS Global Forum, Becker noted that
PROC UNIVARIATE has provided confidence intervals for standard percentiles (quartiles) for eons. However, in SAS 9.3M2 (featuring the 12.1 analytical procedures) you can use a new feature in PROC UNIVARIATE to compute confidence intervals for a specified list of percentiles. To be clear, percentiles and quantiles are essentially the same
When users attend SAS Global Forum, they often look forward to hearing from the big names of SAS. To name a few: CEO Jim Goodnight, VP and CMO Jim Davis, and Co-Founder John Sall. Inside SAS Global Forum caught up with these busy executives on the demo floor to talk about SAS
A contract instructor for SAS since 1981 and an NC State University professor, David A. Dickey has a passion for statistics and sharing that passion with others. On Tuesday at SAS Global Forum he gave a general overview of data mining, touching on decision trees, regression trees, logistic regression, neural
These activities may have been announced at SAS Global Forum, but they apply to a much broader audience! And you can take advantage of them today. New Program: Publications is pleased to announce that you can now use Training Points to buy books. Training Points (previously known as EPTO's) is
Google holds the gold standard for maps and we have heard our users loud and clear. SAS will introduce enhanced mapping features in SAS Visual Analytics Explorer, SAS/GRAPH®, and other products.
The Data Visualization Charting 101 series explores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. What comes to mind when you hear the word bubbles? I think of the fact that it’s getting warmer outside and prime time for my
Reading the latest issue of Intelligence Quarterly magazine has really brought home to me the limits of our human brain and its selective processing. Think about it: visualise a London bus in your mind. Even though you see them every day or have at least seen pictures, are you able
You won’t find videos of cats or the Harlem Shake on this website, but you might pick up a useful SAS trick that could improve your job performance or career. We launched our new SAS Training video library that houses all of our helpful content. A majority of the videos
In my last blog, I discussed the growing commitment among governors to infrastructure investment, and to coming up with innovative ways to find dollars to fund the needed improvements to the transportation network. I heard it over and over again during the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in January
Rick Styll from SAS presents the latest features of SAS® Enterprise Business Intelligence which include improved dashboards, navigation and better integration with Excel and email clients.
Stephen Overton from Overton Technologies, LLC discusses the features of OLAP technology in business intelligence reporting.
According to research, less than half of an organization's data is structured data; nearly 80 percent is unstructured data that may come from social media, customer letters, web pages, invoices and freeform survey answers. Getting the information you need from that data can be a quick and automated experience or
Justin Choy from SAS presents an overview of best practices for providing data to clients and users while also maintaining analytic integrity of models and processes.
Learn how to leverage the power of hash tables for sentiment analysis with David J. Corliss from Magnify Analytic Solutions.
Imagine using software to build the perfect sports team. That’s exactly what an Indian cricket league did using SAS® Enterprise MinerTM! Pankush Kalgotra tells us how he used predictive modeling to select the best players for the Indian Premier Cricket League on the SAS Global Forum livestream: sasglobalforum on livestream.com.
American country songs are known for topics such as mama, trucks, trains, heartbreaks and drinking. How many of these topics are included in the top country songs over the past 25 years? Deovrat Kakde of Kavi Associates used SAS Text Miner to find out! He shares some of his more
Tricia Aanderud from And Data and Angela Hall from SAS share the advantages of SAS® Stored Processes with the SAS Global Forum! In this discussion, you will learn tips and tricks for using stored processes within SAS BI clients. Watch their presentation, "Stop Your "Wine"ing: Use a Stored Process", now
What is data mining and how do you find those golden chunks of information that transform your business? David Dickey from NC State University gives examples of how tools such as SAS® Enterprise Miner™ can help in his presentation "Finding the Gold in Your Data: An Overview of Data Mining"
Fify students are presenting papers at SAS Global Forum 2013. Many of these students are SAS Global Forum Scholar winners and from the SAS Student Ambassador Program. Students Aude L. Pujula, David Isaias Maradiaga Pineda, Elizabeth Leslie and Mantosh Kumar Sarkar talk about how they use SAS and why it
Timothy Rey from The Dow Chemical Company describes how to get the most value from your data using mining techniques specific to data collected over time.
Managers, boards of directors, executives - everyone needs up-to-date information for decision making. And today that often means they need it in real-time. James Beaver and Tobin Scroggins from Farm Bureau Bank give their users the option of emailed reports for this real-time or near real-time information, or the users
It was a packed house at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco last night as more than 4,000 SAS users and employees from around the world gathered together to officially kick off SAS® Global Forum. Following the live software demos from customers and SAS development teams, Technical Support Vice
Big data, social, Bayesian techniques, and new methods being developed every day, according to Jennifer Waller of Georgia Regents University. Watch this Inside SAS Global Forum interview for details. Be sure to check out the ending.
Anna Brown talks to Tyler Smith of National University about the International Year of Statistics and why it's important for businesses to use statistics when making decisions. He also talks about the role of statistics in the health industry. Watch it now on the SAS Global Forum livestream: sasglobalforum on
SAS presenters highlight software features built on SAS 9.4 platform and share the 2013 product release roadmap for these technology themes: high-performance analytics business visualization data management decision management cloud sasglobalforum on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
What a conference so far... SAS Global Forum is now in full swing, and the two big sessions (Opening Session last night, and the Tech Session this morning) have been packed with impressive material. The attendees I've spoken with have been suitably impressed and enthused. You can view the sessions
Jim Goodnight kicks off SAS Global Forum with a look back the first SAS visit to San Francisco in 1982 - when everything was big including hair, cell phones and computers! Now, small computers deliver big data and we can access that data on even smaller devices such cell phones
More than 4000 users at SAS Global Forum 2013 have previewed software capabilities powered by SAS 9.4 — the upcoming release of the SAS platform that promises to fuel new waves of innovation for both SAS and its customers. The initial release of SAS 9.4 platform will be available in
The TV show Cheers was set in a bar "where everybody knows your name." Global knowledge of a name is appealing for a neighborhood pub, but not for a programming language. Most programming languages enable you to define functions that have local variables: variables whose names are known only inside
