I am blogging from O'Reilly's Tools of Change Conference in New York City, where I will be co-presenting a case study today with my colleague Sean Gargan about the work we have done over the past year with social media. While working on our presentation, Sean and I realized that
SAS Global Forum will be here before you know it, and we’ll have the opportunity to meet with the world’s largest assembly of SAS users. If you’ve attended before, you know about what to expect. There are lots of learning opportunities available on Sunday morning and afternoon, so if you
My last blog post about the Analytics Camp 2010 conference relates to Farhad Islam's talk about "Real-Time Analytics, Getting results when you need it". Farhad proposed that changes must occur not only at the Business Intelligence vendor level, but also to both operating systems and hardware to increase response time of analytical requests.
During the Analytics Camp 2010 event last weekend, I attended Manya Mayes presentation on Text Analytics. I noted two 'All Abouts' that affect any content analysis being completed. No, not the Girl Scout Cookies, but what really ensures successful analysis of content. And by content, I mean any non-numeric, non-standard context, which
During Analytics Camp 2010 this past weekend, I facilitated a discussion with a great group of attendees looking to create or improve their own dashboards. The question asked was: "What should all dashboards have to make them useful & successful?" During this discussion I added *** within my notes around
I’ve spent quite a while now going through chapter 8, “Creating Enhanced List and Summary Reports,” in the Base Certification Prep Guide. This topic should be straightforward, I keep telling myself. So why did I score 40% on the quiz? Thinking that I probably needed to delve a little deeper,
Out of the box, no members of the SASUSERS group are allowed to create OLAP Cubes. In 9.2, the error message states "The security package failed while authenticating a user", included below is a screen shot. The fastest way to remediate this is to allow the SASUSERS group to have
The 4.2 version of SAS Information Map Studio provides data managers with the ability to create a dynamic filter based on dates. This is extremely valuable for things such as daily reports. Included below is an example of a new filter that is built off a date formatted data item.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. -Rene Descartes A great quote to apply to many things in life, including this path towards certification. Realizing that I needed a review, I enrolled in a three day, onsite Programming I class here in
Conditional formatting for numeric values is pretty simple for users in Web Report Studio, but how about colors on categorical values - such as customer name, product type, issue severity etc. (This was requested from a WRS user in the SAS Discussion Forums) Turns out this can be done, however
