The Little SAS Book 6.0: The best-selling SAS book gets even better
Find out about the changes and enhancements to the best-selling book, The Little SAS Book.
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From Service to Software: Michael Orlando'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. Today, hear about how
8 ways analytics can support strategic planning and decision making
If you're looking for advice on developing an analytics strategy, there's no shortage of resources, including this from SAS: Building your data and analytics strategy. If, on the other hand, you're looking for advice on how to apply analytics to strategic planning, your search has likely to come up wanting.
“Please wait while we find the best quote for you.”
How to address insurers' challenges by providing AI and machine learning to streamline a customer centric pricing process.
Why AI at the edge will reshape cloud computing
Edge computing allows businesses to handle thousands of data points and interactions rapidly and immediately, in real time.
Use regular expressions to specify variable names in SAS
A common task in SAS programming is to specify a list of variables that satisfy some pattern. You can specify lists for the KEEP= or DROP= data set options, and you can use lists of variables on many SAS statements such as the VAR and MODEL statements. Although SAS has
Studying endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) using NHANES data with SAS
With NHANES data from the CDC, we can use SAS to research the impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Special sampling techniques are needed when using these data.
Batter-pitcher matchup analysis in the 2019 Major League Baseball playoffs
After a marathon of a season, 162 games in each team's schedule to be precise, the stakes for Major League Baseball are higher in October, and postseason play is underway. Whether it's the renewal of an old rivalry, redemption for last year's runners up, or rooting for this season's breakout
Data-driven to business insights
Data-driven businesses use technology as an insight platform to empower nontechnical users.
Establishing an analytics culture: An interview with Oklahoma State University
“Analytics Can Save Higher Education. Really.” is a call to action for the higher education community to leverage data and analytics for better decision making at colleges and universities. It stresses the importance of using data and analytics to improve student outcomes, campus operations and much more. Oklahoma State University
Navigating with 'what if'
Risk and finance teams know more about each other’s worlds than at any time since risk emerged from finance.
Just how fast was Eliud's 2 hour marathon?!?
Eliud Kipchoge recently ran a marathon in under 2 hours. It was a special marathon where they had set up the best possible conditions to help him achieve this goal (such as swapping in pace-setting runners to block the wind for him), so it won't count as the world record
An Easy Button for Data Science
Are you looking for a Data Science easy button? The Data Science Pilot Action Set comes pretty close.
Hair Loss in Women: Common Causes and Solutions
Hair loss in women is, unfortunately, fairly common. Studies tell us that 30-50% of women under the age of 50 will be affected. Of course, some hair loss is normal. We typically shed around 100 strands of hair daily due to normal turnover. Hair loss beyond that can happen either
Proving the Value of Next-Generation Risk Modeling
Quantitative risk and finance modeling is no different. Data scientists use a mix of old and new technologies and algorithms.
Perform matrix computations when the matrices don't fit in memory
In response to a recent article about how to compute the cosine similarity of observations, a reader asked whether it is practical (or even possible) to perform these types of computations on data sets that have many thousands of observations. The problem is that the cosine similarity matrix is an
What’s in A Name? Shakespeare May Have Had It Right for Roses, BUT NOT for People!
Today's blog is by Jenny Bradley of Triangle Smart Divorce in Cary, NC. We are so appreciative of our friends in the community who gracously share their knowledge and expertise. Names matter. Names are part of our identity. Many cultures have naming ceremonies. What if you feel like the name you
SAS® Viya®: How to Emulate PROC SQL Using CAS-Enabled PROC FedSQL
Someone asked SAS' Steven Sober if the PROC SQL example noted first in this post could be refactored into PROC FedSQL so it could run faster by leveraging SAS Viya’s in-memory engine CAS? Yes. Here's how.
'Please hold, your call is important to us'
Which measures financial services can take to keep their customers complaints at a minimum.
Tackling procurement fraud in health care
Analytics-based approaches in healthcare offer a new way of thinking about fraud. They are able to predict potential events.
How SAS® Viya® fosters collaboration
When my younger son grabs a book or a toy from his older siblings without permission, his line of defense is always the same: “Sharing is caring!” Our kids' schools teach and reinforce this philosophy. Likewise, our family has rules to ensure peaceful, orderly sharing. Similarly, many organizations value collaboration.
Compute and visualize binomial proportions in SAS
Computing rates and proportions is a common task in data analysis. When you are computing several proportions, it is helpful to visualize how the rates vary among subgroups of the population. Examples of proportions that depend on subgroups include: Mortality rates for various types of cancers Incarceration rates by race
Simple general authorization patterns
Newcomers to SAS Viya Administration may appreciate these tried-and-tested patterns for securing folders, and the content within them (reports, data plans, models etc.). If you are new to security model design in SAS Viya, this post is for you.
Separation Agreements
This blog is the 3rd in our series on separation by Lisa Angel of Rosen Law Firm. Can the court order a separation? Yes, and this is done via a divorce from bed and board which is a court-ordered separation of the parties. The parties remain married until an absolute
The last mile – getting analytics into operations
The “last mile” is well known in telecommunications and supply chains. Now we face it in the analytical world as well. Read why!
Innovation at Scale: The changing profile of internal IT
SASChat - Innovation@scale on 14 November. A vivid twitter discussion on how innovation projects become revenue generating services.
The Halloween candy challenge (for kids)
You've probably heard of the stupid 'challenges' where people usually end up hurting themselves (cinnamon challenge, Carolina reaper pepper challenge, etc). I thought it might be more helpful to society to have a challenge that could actually help people, rather than hurting them! Therefore I came up with the Halloween
Real-time analytics: the key to success in banking?
SAS study (i.p. w. Harvard Business Review, Accenture, Intel) to learn more about how companies are enhancing their business.
How to Parallel Load and Compress a SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) Table
In this post, you'll learn how to parallel load and compress a SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) Table in one pass of the CAS table.
Creating a word cloud using Python and SAS® software
Generating a word cloud (also known as a tag cloud) is a good way to mine internet text. Word (or tag) clouds visually represent the occurrence of keywords found in internet data such as Twitter feeds.