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.
Dear Data, You are immense. Too big for me to create summary reports that are useful, perform basic statistical analysis to draw meaningful conclusions and I can forget just looking at you directly. I am going for help - to Las Vegas, in October. Yep, and when I return you
Dr. Goutam Chakraborty is a professor of marketing and founder of the SAS and OSU Data Mining Certificate Program at Oklahoma State University. He has been involved with the annual data mining conference for five years and also teaches a Business Knowledge Series course, "Getting the Most Out of Testing
Editor’s Note: Meet Rick Cornell, SAS Training Course Development Manager. In a multi-part series, Rick will tell us about how a SAS training course is born. In this first installment, learn where a course comes from, what new courses are in the works and Rick’s desert island list of albums.
If repeats are sweet, then the SAS Education e-Learning Technology team is running on a sugar high that would make Willy Wonka (and my young daughters) envious. Not only did it just earn honors from the Society for Technical Communication’s (STC) international competition for the second consecutive year; it took
Terry Woodfield is teaching his new course, "Text Analytics with SAS Text Miner", at the upcoming M2010 Data Mining Conference. Terry has been a SAS instructor for more than 10 years and has attended several Data Mining Conferences. He took some time out of his busy schedule to answer a
I wanted to blog about our new Extended Learning Pages, but Larry LaRusso beat me to it in the latest issue of SAS Training Report. Larry is a fantastic story-teller, so instead of trying to come up with something original, I decided to share his story with you: For most
Note: This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting the annual M2010 Data Mining Conference, hosted by SAS Education. All subsequent posts will be designated with this snazzy little M2010 graphic. The 13th annual Data Mining Conference, M2010 will be held October 25-26 in Las Vegas. Hear
Contributed by Angela Hall, author of the Real Business Intelligence for Real Users' blog, an acclaimed blog for tips and tricks on SAS BI. Angela works for SAS Professional Services as a Technical Architect and holds a MBA with a Technology Management focus and a BA in Statistics. You can
If you haven’t checked out sasCommunity.org yet, you should. It’s a fantastic resource, created by SAS users for SAS users. The wiki-based tool is a collaborative online community designed as a place to find answers, share technical knowledge and SAS code, collaborate on ideas and connect with others in the
SAS Education’s annual Business Forecasting Conference took place last week here at SAS Headquarters in Cary, NC. Over the course of a few days, over 150 tweets included the #SASF2010 hashtag on Twitter. Here are some of my favorites. @stchrist80: A small MAPE & a small WAPE make an analyst
