ChatGPT brings AI into popular culture
ChatGPT from OpenAI has changed how the general public thinks about AI. What does this mean for analytics practitioners?
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Getting started with Python integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 12 - Count of Unique Values
Welcome to the continuation of my series Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya. In previous posts, I discussed how to connect to the CAS server, working with CAS actions and CASResults objects, and how to summarize columns. Now it's time to focus on how to get the count of unique values
Simulate data from a logistic regression model: How the intercept parameter affects the probability of the event
This article shows that you can use the intercept parameter to control the probability of the event in a simulation study that involves a binary logistic regression model. For simplicity, I will simulate data from a logistic regression model that involves only one explanatory variable, but the main idea applies
6 reasons why hiring early-career talent may be a strategy to explore
Determining the “right” talent strategy for an organization isn’t easy. Diverse projects and priorities demand various levels of knowledge, skills and experiences to achieve the end goal. Talent planning requires assessing current employees and unearthing the gaps to identify what’s needed to meet business demands. Specific and extensive knowledge and
3 ways the hospitality industry can prevail over post-pandemic disruption
The past few years have been ripe with uncertainty, further proving the necessity of resilience across industries. While the hospitality sector has faced significant disruption over the last two years, it also faces several new opportunities. Consumers are turning their focus to self-improvement. Wellness trends continue to grow in popularity.
Five Trends in Tax Administrations
Let me introduce you to the 5 trends in Tax Administrations that Shaun Barry presented at the “Tax Summit in Madrid” last October. What does Smart Cloud mean? Security Data Strategies are on the rise OSINT - Open Source Intelligence The Rise of Cryptocurrency My job today is to present
Knowing your customer: how the telecoms industry can weather a squeeze on consumer spending
With the cost-of-living crisis continuing and the UK now in a recession, industries have to acclimatise to shifting market trends and consumer behaviour to maintain revenue and hit sales targets. The telecommunications industry is susceptible to consumers’ different priorities in times of economic hardship - many consumers will stick with
Habit building hacks
If you’ve decided to make some changes this year, but you have yet to start or your resolution is fizzling out after a couple weeks of going strong, you are not alone. Even when we have the best intentions, stubborn old habits, day-to-day responsibilities and unexpected life events can sometimes
Automatic cloning of SAS metadata user groups and roles
SAS expert Leonid Batkhan demonstrates how to automatically replicate/clone metadata users’ groups and roles from one user to another.
12 blog posts from 2022 that deserve a second look
In a previous article, I presented some of the most popular blog posts from 2022. In general, popular articles deal with elementary topics that have broad appeal. However, I also write articles about advanced topics. The following articles didn't make the Top 10 list, but they deserve a second look.
Using PROC DEEPPRICE to personalize prices and optimize revenue
SAS' Sylvia Kabisa shows you how an online media company might use SAS to offer targeted discounts through personalized pricing.
Anxiety in Children, Anxiety in Parents
I have an anxiety disorder and 24 years ago when I decided to have a child, I was most worried about how I could parent in a way that didn’t stack the “nurture” part of the equation against my child. Anxiety disorders are thought to only have about a 30%
Bringing DataOps and ModelOps together via a feature store
DataOps increases the productivity of AI practitioners by automating data analytics pipelines and speeding up the process of moving from ideas to innovations. DataOps best practices make raw data polished and useful for building AI models. Models need to work on the data that is introduced, as well as on
Understanding the _TYPE_ variable in output data sets
When you use PROC MEANS or PROC SUMMARY to create a summary data set and include a CLASS statement, SAS includes two variables, _FREQ_ and _TYPE_, in the output data set. This blog shows you two ways to interpret and use _TYPE_ using the data set Shoes in the SASHELP
How organizations can maximize productivity to maintain their competitive edge
Data science teams are no longer comprised of tiny groups of Ph.D. holders exploring cutting-edge projects. Organizations that wish to stay competitive in their marketplaces today need effective data science teams. A strategy to effectively apply advanced analytics and data science to drive better products, services and decisions has many
Installing R for SAS IML in SAS Viya
Since 2008, SAS has supported an interface for calling R from the SAS/IML matrix language. Many years ago, I wrote blog posts that describe how to call R from PROC IML. For SAS 9.4, the process of installing R and calling R from PROC IML is documented in the SAS/IML
The SAS MLOps solution outperforms vendors such as DataRobot, Databricks, Dataiku, Domino Data Lab, Iguazio, according to IDC MarketScape 2022
SAS' Marinela Profi and Sophia Rowland elaborate on IDC including SAS among the leading platform providers for Machine Learning Operations.
New certification alert: SAS® Certified Specialist: Administration of SAS® Viya®
Thank you to my co-author Raymond Thomas for his assistance on this post. Learn more about the SAS Certified Specialist: Administration of SAS Viya and how to prepare. Certification overview SAS is pleased to announce a new SAS Viya Administration certification. Recognizing the growing need of cloud computing and Kubernetes,
Top 10 posts from The DO Loop in 2022
Last year, I wrote almost 90 articles for The DO Loop blog. My most popular articles were about SAS programming, data visualization, statistics and data analysis, and matrix computations. If you missed these articles when I published them—or if you want to read them again!— here is the "Reader's Choice
SAS training: 5 free sessions technologists love
SAS Explore was created by technologists for technologists, and has more than 100 free SAS training sessions. Here are a few top picks!
Creating a Microsoft Excel report using SAS, Python and SQL!
The addition of the PYTHON procedure and Python editor in SAS Viya enables users to execute Python code in SAS Studio. This new capability in SAS Viya adds another tool to SAS's existing collection. With this addition I thought, how can I utilize this new found power? In this example,
How young professionals are teaching younger students how to code
More than 100 volunteers from the SAS Young Professionals Network (YPN) led sessions at Wake Forest Elementary school for the annual week-long Hour of Code initiative during Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) to teach kids to code. Students were challenged to work in groups and navigate a Sphero robot through
Decode your SAS® macro code with the MFILE and MPRINT options
SAS' Bari Lawhorn introduces you to the MFILE option as a way to home in on errors and warnings in your macros.
ESM and S9CA: Useful Tools for Migration from SAS 9 to SAS Viya
Change is hard and can be a bit scary. We tend to resist change as we get comfortable with our routines and how things work. However, many times we fail to see the benefits of that something new. Imagine if we didn't move from MS DOS to Windows? If we'd
Automate your machine learning pipeline in SAS Viya
Anuja Nagpal and Yonglin Zhu of SAS R&D reveal how, MLPA – without any code and within a given timeframe – finds an effective pipeline for a data set after applying data preprocessing, feature engineering and modeling with hyperparameter tuning.
Questions of the Week
Throughout the year our Work/Life Weekly newsletter has featured a Question of the Week segment. Our goal was to provide a simple resource to help grow the relationships in your life. Also, by now it should be clear that I love a good conversation question. I have compiled all the
CAS-Action! Advanced Frequency Tables - Part 4
Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. The previous posts show how to use the simple.freq CAS action to generate, save and group simple frequency tables. In this post I will show you how to use the freqTab.freqTab CAS action to generate more advanced
Congratulations to our Excellence in Innovation award winner and finalists
It is difficult – one might even say impossible – to talk about partners without mentioning innovation. The two go hand in hand, which is why we regularly honor our partners who demonstrate outstanding innovation in our Excellence in Innovation Award. This year’s winner and finalists innovated across industries and
Working with combinations in SAS
A colleague posted a Christmas-themed code snippet that shows how to use the DATA step in SAS to output all the possible ways that Santa can hitch up a team of reindeer to pull his sled. The assumption is that Rudolph must lead the team, and the remaining reindeer are
CAS-Action! Grouping Frequency Tables - Part 3
Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. In my previous part 1 and part 2 posts I reviewed how to use the simple.freq CAS action to generate frequency distributions for one or more columns and how to save the results. In this post I