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Hackin' around the decision tree

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Tis the season for my annual, fun Christmas themed blog post! This is the seventh year and my tenth song. I hope you enjoy this 2020 holiday song (to the tune of Rockin' around the Christmas Tree).

Hackin around the Decision Tree

at the SAS party hackathon

Data science algorithms available for all to use

Every team tries to be top one

You will get a deep learning experience when you see other teams singing

"Let's try a CNN; or better yet some boughs of RNN"

Hackin' around the decision tree

Have a happy time

With all the teams leveraging the data merrily

In a new, old computing way

Hackin' around the decision tree

Let the maps self organize

Later we'll try some deep belief networks

and we'll help solve the problem

You will get a deep learning experience when you see other teams singing

"Let's try a CNN; or better yet some boughs of RNN"

Hackin' around the decision tree

Have a happy time

With all the teams leveraging the data merrily

In a new old computing way

Happy Holidays everyone! And please consider registering a team to participate in the next SAS Hackathon!

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David Pope

Technical Leader, Senior Manager US Energy

David leads the pre-sales technical team for SAS US Energy which solves business problems in the Oil & Gas and Utilities industries using advanced analytics. He is a lifetime learner who enjoys sharing information and helping others to grow their careers. He earned a BS in Industry Engineering and a Computer Programming Certificate from North Carolina State University. Furthermore, he has over 29 years of business experience working with SAS across R&D, IT, Sales and Marketing in the Americas and Europe. He is an expert in working with data and producing insights through the use of analytics. David has presented at SAS Global Forum, the 2012 SAS Government Leadership Summit, IBM’s Information on Demand(IOD), EMC World, CTO Summit Conferences, is the author of the book: "Big Data Analytics with SAS", and he currently holds 14 patents for SAS in several countries: US, CA, Norway, UK, China, Mexico, and Hong Kong.

4 Comments

    • David Pope
      David Pope on

      Einar, thanks for reading and for the compliment. HackinSAS is a wonderful idea and I look forward to working with the registered teams to solve some interesting problems across a wide variety of industries.

  2. Tom FIsher on

    Thank you David! Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy 2021 - gotta be better than 2020! Happy Holidays - All!

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