With the medical science these days, there are many genetic defects you can be tested for, to see if you might develop a certain problem/disease, or might be a carrier for it. Would you rather know, or not know? (Would your health insurance company rather know, or not know?) These
With the pervasiveness of mobile devices, being able to read while “on the go” has been easier than ever. How many times have you found yourself in a situation where you pass the time waiting by reading something on your phone/iPad/tablet etc? With eBooks on my iPad, I find that
May 4 is celebrated by some folks as "Star Wars Day". Of course, this makes a SAS Jedi wonder "What is the SAS date of the next Star Wars Day"? Not being one to do things by hand, I'd rather program to find the answer. For this, I'll use the
This week's SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his very popular book Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's Guide. If you haven't yet discovered Ron Cody's work, you're missing out. Fortunately, you can learn a lot more about Ron and his many books--as well as view bonus content here. The following excerpt
So… what ‘cha gonna do? Use it or Peruse it? SAS Rapid Predictive Modeler (RPM) cranks out models like nobody’s business, and like the academy awards presentation will just “give you the envelope please." If your data is super clean, this might work beautifully for your non mission-critical models. If
A month ago, nearly 600 of us gathered on the south bank of the Thames in London for the first of this year's Analytics Conference series. So, in the spirit of data visualisation, I've compiled an 'infographic' giving a bird's eye of who came and from where. Social media is
I travel to many conferences throughout the year, and I’ve heard a lot of keynote speeches. Many of them stick with me for a few hours. But one speech I heard three years ago stuck with me for weeks. And then I heard it again at a regional conference. I
From an Enterprise Guide user's perspective, a SAS library is a library. Whether it was defined in the autoexec or in the metadata or by magic, it is there for them to use with no issues. However, there is a difference as metadata defined libraries do not behave in the
This week's SAS tip is from Michele Burlew and her latest book SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy. Michele is the author of several extremely helpful SAS books. Visit her author page to read free chapters and for additional bonus content. The following excerpt is from SAS Press author Michele
We’ve just published Decision Trees for Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner by Barry de Ville and Padraic Neville. Filled with many figures and examples, this comprehensive book has garnered strong early user reviews. We invited the authors to share a few words about their new book. Neville had this to
