I frequently see questions on SAS discussion forums about how to compute the geometric mean and related quantities in SAS. Unfortunately, the answers to these questions are sometimes confusing or even wrong. In addition, some published papers and web sites that claim to show how to calculate the geometric mean
We’re all familiar with Plato and his quotes so I’d like to share one – For the part can never be well unless the whole is well. The body, mind and spirit are intertwined like a rope. They all work together to provide strength and flexibility. In this case… optimal
Surprise! The data team does more than you think to implement certain legislative actions.
I get it. You are between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, you want to allow space to let your emerging adult take the reins and handle the college application process. On the other hand, you quake in your boots thinking about the [remote] possibility that your high
Did you know the first SAS® Users Group event took place before SAS was incorporated as a company? In 1976, hundreds of early SAS users gathered in sunny Kissimmee, FL to share tips and offer feedback before SAS was even officially a company. Our users have continued to influence the
Customer Experience Day (aka #CXDay2019) is one of our favorite days of the year—when we can reflect on customer interactions, questions and feedback from the past year—and look to the year ahead for ways to enhance our customers’ experience, like expanding our support options and helping drive improvements to our website and self-service offerings.
New payment methods will deliver huge improvements in speed of transaction, but also provide challenges.
You may have heard the saying that to achieve success, it’s necessary to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Stepping outside your comfort zone can be challenging, but our own Andrea Horn, Manager of Supplier Diversity, takes that saying to heart when it comes to growing her career! I sat down
Industrial leaders need an #IoT #analytics platform and a strategy that generates intelligence in lockstep with business needs.
There are several different kinds of means. They all try to find an average value from among a set of numbers. Although the most popular mean is the arithmetic mean, the geometric mean can be useful for problems in statistics, finance, and biology. A common application of the geometric mean
This article continues a series that began with Machine learning with SASPy: Exploring and preparing your data (part 1). Part 1 showed you how to explore data using SASPy with Python. Here, in part 2, you will learn how to begin to prepare your data to use it within a
In part 1 of this post, we looked at setting up Spark jobs from Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) to load and save data to and from Hadoop. Now we are moving on to the next step in the analytic cycle, scoring data in Hadoop and executing SAS code as a
Interview with Line Lyst about how to ensure innovation at Ramboll while taking care of business as usual.
Lately we've been hearing a lot about "record low unemployment" in the news. Being a data guy, I wanted to see it for myself. Follow along as I create some custom unemployment graphs from the official data for California and New York (two of our most populous states). Or, if
Importing about 4,400 messages worth of data into SAS Visual Text Analytics to exploring it and create an information extraction model.
Most people buy carrots, beets, turnips and radishes to eat the roots of these vegetables, but they often come with the tops still attached. Loaded with B vitamins, vitamin K, potassium and fiber, it is a shame to throw the greens in the trash. So, what should you do with
One of the strengths of the SAS/IML language is its flexibility. Recently, a SAS programmer asked how to generalize a program in a previous article. The original program solved one optimization problem. The reader said that she wants to solve this type of problem 300 times, each time using a
I’m Tahseen (better known as Tazz around the SAS Africa offices) and I am a recent intern-turned-permanent SAS employee in the Customer Advisory Academy! My interest in the field of analytics coupled with the attractive internship opportunity brought me to SAS, and I’m so glad it did! The internship was
This series of videos spotlights a very powerful API that lets you use Python while also having access to the power of SAS Deep Learning.
"Take care of yourself!" Sound like something you hear often? This instruction may conjure up fixed ideals of what "taking care" means: getting to the gym, making smoothies, meditating, or getting more sleep. But gym memberships aren’t for everyone, not everyone has a blender, and we may not be able
"Senior managers adore their dashboards. Are they really capable of understanding what they indicate? I have my doubts!"
"Artificial intelligence? Creates jobs? I admit it is far more usual to hear apocalyptic predictions that AI will destroy jobs. Is that true?"
In this blog, I use data from the U. S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons (TIP) reports for the years 2013-2017 to accomplish these objectives: 1) To determine what are the main themes in TIP reports, and 2) to show how to work with ASTORE code to deploy models using SAS Viya 3.4 Visual Text Analytics 8.4.
The SAS Global Forum 2020 call for content is open until Sept. 30, 2019. Are you thinking of submitting a paper? If so, we have a few tips adapted from The Global English Style Guide that will help your paper shine. By following Global English guidelines, your writing will be
"Once an attack is discovered, the average #cybercrime victim in the UK spends 14.8 hours dealing with the aftermath. These are worrying facts."
College graduates are eager to switch the tassel from student to professional, but a career for young professionals today requires more than a place to use their skills and pay the bills. Pauline Ashcraft, a Senior Associate Business Operations Specialist for SAS, knows what it means to find a career
Although I do not typically blog about undocumented SAS options, I'll make an exception this time. For many years, I have known that the CONTENTS and COMPARE procedures support the BRIEF and SHORT options, but I always forget which option goes with which procedure. For the record, here are the
The machine learning autogenerated concept and fact rules in VTA 8.4 facilitate the process of developing LITI rules to extract and find information in text documents. There are many important problems where the use of Text Analytics provides valuable insights such as with Human Trafficking.
Forming a significant theme in several organisational technology strategies, AI can augment a gamut of business practices, including compliance. Compliance is a must-do activity, not a nice-to-have. It is essential that companies extract maximum value from compliance processes, reducing the possibility of it being considered a cost centre. Technological innovation
Put simply, data literacy is the ability to derive meaning from data. That seems like a straightforward proposition, but, in truth, finding relationships in data can be fraught with complexities, including: Understanding where the data came from, including the lineage or source of that data. Ensuring that the data meet compliance
