SAS Voices
News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Big names talk big products](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
When users attend SAS Global Forum, they often look forward to hearing from the big names of SAS. To name a few: CEO Jim Goodnight, VP and CMO Jim Davis, and Co-Founder John Sall. Inside SAS Global Forum caught up with these busy executives on the demo floor to talk about SAS
![Discover something interesting and useful: A data mining overview](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
A contract instructor for SAS since 1981 and an NC State University professor, David A. Dickey has a passion for statistics and sharing that passion with others. On Tuesday at SAS Global Forum he gave a general overview of data mining, touching on decision trees, regression trees, logistic regression, neural
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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. What comes to mind when you hear the word bubbles? I think of the fact that it’s getting warmer outside and prime time for my
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Reading the latest issue of Intelligence Quarterly magazine has really brought home to me the limits of our human brain and its selective processing. Think about it: visualise a London bus in your mind. Even though you see them every day or have at least seen pictures, are you able
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“Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the Olympic motto. In a Keynote Lunch presentation at SAS Global Forum, Tim Patrick, Director of Enterprise Applications for the United States Olympic Committee, explained how technology, data analysis and visualization are helping fulfill that mission. After a successful showing at the Vancouver games, Patrick and
![Paul Kent on Hadoop, SAS and elevators](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
Paul Kent, SAS VP of Big Data talks to us at SAS Global Forum about working with Hadoop and the significant impact it has on SAS customers. Watch the video to learn how one Japanese real estate company used this technology to gather data from elevator stops in high-rise buildings. The