Michele Reister has worked in the Education Division at SAS since 2004. During that time she has played many roles including marketing training courses, developing product bundles, managing conferences and overseeing the division’s discount programs. Currently, she is responsible for the division’s social media strategy. Michele holds a BS in Management and Information Technology from Daniel Webster College and an MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michele is a perpetual student herself and is constantly looking for better ways to serve SAS’ user population. When she’s not expanding her knowledge of marketing, Michele enjoys group fitness classes, cooking, volunteering, reading and chasing after her two children.
Editor's Note: The following question was recently asked of our statistical training instructors. Terry Woodfield, along with Bob Lucas took the time to write this eloquent and easily digestible answer. Question: I'm trying to get a general – very general – understanding what the Bayes theorem is, and is used
This morning, FORTUNE Magazine announced their 100 best places to work in America. For the second year in a row, SAS came in at #1! As you can imagine, we're all pretty excited around here. But, you might be thinking, "So what? Why do I care?" Our Senior Vice President
As we come to the end of the year, it’s fun to reflect on the past 12 months and look at our most popular posts for 2010. But before I do that, I wanted to introduce one of our final entries of the year. In this insightful interview, SAS Education’s
Last month, our Director of Statistical Training, Bob Lucas was interviewed about trends in analytics by Anne Milley, Analytics Product Manager for SAS. The interview has been wildly popular, so I thought I'd share an excerpt here on the SAS Training Post. You can also read the full interview on
SAS Press authors have served up 21 new titles for you this year alone! Whether you’re looking for topics related to analytics, programming, or business effectiveness, we’ve got new titles that will help you use SAS or JMP more effectively. And, from now through December 13th, you can get a
As many of you know, I write the SAS Tech Report. In that capacity, I have had the great opportunity to meet some very interesting SAS users at our user events and through e-mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. It seems that every interesting SAS user has an exciting new way
At the M2010 Data Mining Conference, Dick DeVeaux gave a keynote speech about the Seven Deadly Sins of Data Mining. In this video, he gives us a little more insight into these common data mining mistakes and offers some advice.
In this video, M2010 Data Mining Conference keynote speaker, Dr. Simon Sheather compares classification trees and logistic regression and discusses situations in which logistic regression is expected to outperform classification trees and vice versa. In 2001, Dr. Sheather was named an honorary fellow of the American Statistical Association. Since 2006,
It’s not easy to justify time away from the job, but what if you could realize the benefits of attending the world’s premier Data Mining conference and also take on the challenge of a SAS certification exam at the same time? Many M2010 Data Mining Conference attendees found out yesterday
Editor’s note: David Pope is a SAS Solutions Architect and is helping to support SAS at the M2010 Data Mining Conference working in the SAS/Teradata partner booth, highlighting our partnership and how SAS and Teradata work together. The Teradata booth has drawn quite a lot of traffic and interest in
