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Our SAS Culture Code: Perks + Benefits
Assessing a company from the outside can be tricky business – but it shouldn’t be. That’s why we’re pulling back the curtain on the #saslife. From our values to our vision for the future, we’re giving a transparent look at what it’s really like to work here. We kicked off
Resources to help you conquer the 'last mile' of analytics
Getting value from analytics is becoming top of mind for businesses. Organizations have invested millions of dollars in data, people and technology and are looking for a return on their investment. That requires operationalizing analytics so that it can be used for strategic decision making -- often referred to as
Create a strip plot in SAS
My colleague, Mike Drutar, recently showed how to create a "strip plot" that shows the distribution of temperatures for each calendar month at a particular location. Mike created the strip plot in SAS Visual Analytics by using a point-and-click interface. This article shows how to create a similar graph by
Fighting fraud in the new world of Value-Based Payments
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Value-Based Payments (VBP), health care’s new magic, “silver bullet” that will solve all our fraud problems. Last month, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release entitled, “HHS Proposes Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Reforms to Support Value-Based and
Climate change: It's all about the CO2
“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” ~ William Gibson, author The same can be said for climate change – global warming is here, in a big way, but its effects are still an arm's length away for many of us. How is climate change
New control prompt placement option in SAS Visual Analytics
Introduced in the SAS Visual Analytics 8.4 release is the ability to control the layout position of these prompts. Using my example report, let’s change the placement of these prompts.
Our Storytellers: Why Brooke Fights Fraud
At SAS, curiosity is one of our values, it’s in our DNA and an important piece of our history. Our people use their curiosity every day to answer critical questions, create meaningful customer experiences and make the world a better place. They’re the ones writing SAS’ story, and we want
Getting the most from analytics on the edge
There is much to consider about getting value from deploying AI and analytics at the edge to manage IoT data. Read more here.
Healthy Snacks on the Go
With the holidays quickly approaching, many of us have quite a bit of travel ahead and/or overall increased busyness running around from here to there. When you’re on the go, it can be difficult to continue to eat nutrient dense, healthy foods. However, with a little planning (and patience!) you
Create biplots in SAS
Biplots are two-dimensional plots that help to visualize relationships in high dimensional data. A previous article discusses how to interpret biplots for continuous variables. The biplot projects observations and variables onto the span of the first two principal components. The observations are plotted as markers; the variables are plotted as
When Parents Disagree
This is an issue I hear about from parents all of the time. Sometimes the disagreements are small, and sometimes they are very significant. As your child ages, the stakes become even higher when parents can't get on the same page. Here are a few common ways that parents find themselves
Testing the Assumption of Normality for Parametric Tests
The t-test is a very useful test that compares one variable (perhaps blood pressure) between two groups. T-tests are called t-tests because the test results are all based on t-values. T-values are an example of what statisticians call test statistics. A test statistic is a standardized value that is calculated
Do you know what your customers are saying about you?
A major UK insurance company used text analytics to categorise complaints.
Analytics helping veterans make the transition to civilian life
US military veterans are mission-focused, team-oriented and natural leaders that benefit any organization that hires them. Many of today's veterans organizations use data and analytics to help transition military members and their spouses find rewarding civilian careers. SAS supports those efforts and we're also proud to offer many programs to
Analyze tweets about global warming using Fact Autogeneration
Analyzing tweets is challenging because of their succinctness (max 280 characters). However, that task is facilitated by the powerful features of SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA), which includes embedded machine learning algorithms.
Will vinyl records outsell CDs in 2019?
I recently saw in several social media posts that sales of vinyl records are forecast to be higher than sales of CDs this year (2019) for the first time since 1986. Two questions came to mind - 1) Is this true? and 2) Is this a big deal? Let's analyze
Why do analytics in a place without electricity?
It’s always worth trying to improve our world and if it can be done thanks to analytics - I can’t imagine a better use case.
Round to even
In grade school, students learn how to round numbers to the nearest integer. In later years, students learn variations, such as rounding up and rounding down by using the greatest integer function and least integer function, respectively. My sister, who is an engineer, learned a rounding method that rounds half-integers
Does plotting data give you the jitters?
With all this sitting at a desk writing code, I have to do something to keep in shape. And for me, that something is paddling boats ... as fast as I can - and occasionally trying to race them. This past weekend I entered the race at Hunting Island, SC.
Changing the game in risk management
What precisely, then, is needed in risk management? Users want a user-friendly interface, so that they can find what they need.
Everything But the Kitchen Sink Feature Generation
Are you looking for a Data Science easy button? The dataSciencePilot action set comes pretty close.
The Gift of Reading
“Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world." — Malala Yousafzei Growing up with dyslexia was a challenge but what I most clearly remember are the successes. I attribute much of this to my dad’s dedication to my education and reading skills.
Making your SAS code more readable
Learn about best-selling SAS author Ron Cody's programming standards.
The architect’s role in operationalizing analytics
Innovation comes in all shapes and sizes. Business value though, lies in translating ideas into production.
What are biplots?
Principal component analysis (PCA) is an important tool for understanding relationships in continuous multivariate data. When the first two principal components (PCs) explain a significant portion of the variance in the data, you can visualize the data by projecting the observations onto the span of the first two PCs. In
De-stressing the Family
If you know me, you know I’m not a shopper. Shopping stresses me out. I wish I had a uniform to put on for work so that I didn’t have to think about it, because life is stressful enough without adding stress. What I need to do is eliminate the
A healthy intelligence mix for the public sector: Artificial and natural
The public sector is finally changing. Artificial intelligence is gradually finding its way into its administrative structures.
From Service to Software: Dan Schaub’s Career at SAS
At SAS, we recognize and appreciate the valuable skills and experience that veterans, active military and military families bring to our workforce. We honor the service of military families, and actively support our employees in their transition from the military to the civilian corporate work environment. Our own Dan Schaub
How to make the most of arrays with SAS® software and streamline your programming
Grace Whiteis of SAS Technical Support shows you how to capitalize on arrays using SAS software -- and streamline your code, whether it involves arrays or not.
