Last night I attended a Social Media Analytics Networking Reception at the SAS Global HQ in Cary, NC (I have been a guest of my American colleagues for a few days whilst I waited to find a flight home). It was a great evening with lively and amusing conversation. After
Topic Modeling of documents is hot in the research community. Conferences are filled with different ways of determining topic models and how to apply them. The prestigious data mining conference KDD has in recent years had entire sections on topic modeling. The leading algorithms all have three-letter acronyms and sound
The SAS Social Media Analytics product launch was a huge hit with the press at SAS Global Forum. I wrote about it below, a lot of analysts and social media pros are blogging about it too, and it seemed for at least a few hours last Monday that everyone on
Based on the influence score we're using in the SAS Social Media Analytics product, the following people were the top ten influencers participating in the Twitter conversation during the launch announcement. For this situation, the influence score was based on how often the person wrote about the topic, how often
Those of you who have seen the new version of SAS Text Miner know that we are transitioning from a “document clustering” approach towards a “topics in documents” approach. I have received a lot of questions about this, so I thought I would address some of them in a multi-part
A lot of technology conferences are celebratory in nature. They showcase new products, highlight customer successes and provide a platform for authors, analysts and industry experts to praise these accomplishments. To be sure, there was plenty to celebrate at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference. But this year’s conference -
My coworkers Dave Thomas and Waynette Tubbs hosted the Inside SAS Global Forum video series this year, which offers a fun, informal roving reporter type of look at the conference. Individually, they interviewed SAS executives, conference organizers and SAS customers, but they made such a great pair in front of
A number of the sessions at today's SAS Global Forum Executive Conference included discussions about how IT and business leaders can best collaborate on business analytics projects, or how analysts and business decision makers can best work together. In one panel I attended, "Retail and Manufacturing Analytics: Driving Business-Building Insights
I am typing this blog shortly after the closing session of SAS Global Forum Executive Conference in Seattle and I am going to admit that I've found the whole conference experience amazing - such a privilege for me to be able to attend. Especially as being from the 'international' community
From posterous photos of Opening Session to the New York Times Bits Blog, the first blog posts about SAS Global Forum are starting to show up online. Writing on the Bits Blog, Steve Lohr says: Analysts who have looked at the new offering – and tried it out – are
