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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to workThe Data Visualization Charting 101 seriesexplores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. My grandmother often used the saying “as the crow flies” when giving directions, referring to a straight line being the shortest distance between two points. When
What does big data know that you don't? It could be a new source of revenue, a budding consumer trend or ... something sinister! Find out what big data knows in this funny but telling video spot: Look familiar? Do you know that guy? Share this funny big data video
Two years ago, Brad Pitt starred in Moneyball, an Academy Award-nominated story about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane bringing the power of advanced analytics to the sport. Beane wasn’t the first to use statistical analytics to build a successful team and keep its payroll in check. Baseball and political
The value of analytics to solve multiple business problems really makes analytics the ultimate reusable business investment, or as they say in the energy industry, it may be called a renewable resource. As I've commented before, organizations spend billions of dollars on storing data, and unless you happen to be a
The Data Visualization Charting 101 series explores different tools to visualize data. Check out other posts to see which data visualization is right for you. Have so much data that your head is spinning? If you have a lot of data that needs to be visualized, a scatter plot, aka
What do you see when you look at the picture to the right? Like you, I see a busy dad with his daughter trying to maneuver a shopping cart full of groceries! But the real question: is there more? What do you really see? In a business setting, depending on