Over the past few weeks, the SAS Loves Math series has showcased just a few of the math aficionados at SAS and how they use math in their jobs, from software development to text analytics. But for this installment of SAS Loves Math, I want to spotlight another distinct group
Dan Zaratsian, senior associate technical consultant in the analytics group, is an expert web-crawler—and wakeboarder—who works one-on-one with customers using math to mine sentiment from textual data. An electrical engineer with a mathematical mind, Dan thinks the text analytics he does is awesome—and so do we. Read on for a
Who comments on our SAS blogs? Thanks to a new weekly report created by Chris Hemedinger (and powered by SAS, of course), I now know who comments on every post. As the SAS blog editor, I do try to keep up with all the new blog posts, but I don't
The word “common” is often used in a derogatory way, but the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) may be the best thing to happen in education in the last decade. The states and the National Governors’ Association led this initiative to establish a common framework for math and English curriculum
Streaming video has been available on mobile devices for several years, but the London Olympics are the first truly worldwide use of wireless networks to stream video to millions of consumers, including me. It is not a substitute for watching on an HDTV, but is great for having a look
I love working with the Education industry and with our partners and customers. They are always so eager and willing to help that it really makes my job fun and easy. Plus, they are doing some amazing things to help districts, teachers and students. And everyone knows, teachers and schools
Imre Polik, senior operations research specialist in the operations research group, truly qualifies as a math lover. Having studied math his entire life—and having taught it for two years—Imre offers some valuable words of wisdom and experience. He even has a couple of stories and jokes up his sleeves! Read
I’m beginning to think that 2012 is the year of the customer. We’ve seen a huge increase in customer experience initiatives coming out of the financial services and insurance industry this year. As we’re working with these companies to help them through this journey, you can almost forget that you
Big data. It’s a popular term used to describe the exponential growth, availability and use of information, both structured and unstructured. Of course, the term big data is relative; it applies whenever an organization’s ability to handle, store and analyze data exceeds its current capacity. And the real issue is not
As leaders and managers of human beings with million year-old brain structures, as part of our managerial toolkit we need to keep ourselves knowledgeable about psychology and the cognitive science of how people make decisions. You have undoubtedly read about how innately bad we are at making certain types of
