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.
Our M2010 Data Mining Conference keynote speaker, Dick De Veaux from Williams College just finished his entertaining and informative presentation. He thoughtfully noted that our location (Las Vegas) is very appropriate for the subject of his presentation. Are you guilty of any of these data mining sins? Luckily, Dick also
M2010 Data Minining Conference session speaker David Gumpert-Hersh from Wescom Credit Union explains a new approach for examining FICO score data that reveals risks not exposed by scorecarding.
The M2010 Data Mining Conference kicks off today in Las Vegas. Tune into this blog and our YouTube playlist for live updates.
The M2010 Data Mining Conference team has arrived in Las Vegas and we’re getting ready to host the 750+ analysts, statisticians and database managers who will be ascending upon Sin City this weekend for our 13th annual conference.
The folks in charge of our SAS customer support Web site, support.sas.com are working on a new and improved home page. Who better to evaluate this Web page than you? You can view the beta page now and take a survey to tell us what you think. One new section
Terry Barham, the SAS Global Certification Program Manager talks about all the exams which will be offered next month in Las Vegas at the M2010 Data Mining Conference and shares some advice for taking a SAS certification exam. Hint: there's no shortcut!
Our Instructor Tip videos have received positive feedback and often generate follow-up conversations between our instructors and our users. For example, just this week, one of our instructors, David Ghan, responded to a question that he received from a SAS user about this video: SAS Enterprise Guide Tip: Exporting Results
In this interview, Robin Way, SAS Analytics Consultant talks about attending the M2010 Data Mining Conference for the fourth time (this year he'll be a speaker for the second time!), his talk on demystifying sequence analysis, his favorite part of the conference and his advice for first time attendees. My
Chris Hemedinger, author of The SAS Dummy blog and member of the team that builds SAS Enterprise Guide, and Stacey Syphus, SAS Enterprise Guide curriculum development manager, recently took some time to discuss the upcoming SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 product release and why experienced programmers should give the SAS Enterprise
I know that many of you will be traveling to Las Vegas in a couple of months to attend the annual Data Mining Conference. But, for those of you who won’t be attending, or for those who would love a sneak-peek beforehand, I’d like to share with you two upcoming
