Analytics 2013 kicked off today in London and I had the opportunity to chat with economist and journalist, Tim Harford, right after his presentation on “How Not to Do Data Visualization.” Here’s the video from our conversation: You can watch live streaming of the conference on SAS Professionals.
Writing, editing, galley proofs, indexing, cover design…it all takes time. The logistics of getting a book published can be tough when you’re sitting across the room from each other. What happens when you’re across the world from each other? That’s the topic of this month’s blog post. Technology makes the
This week's SAS tip is from Art Carpenter and his latest book Carpenter's Guide to Innovative SAS Techniques. Art is a talented SAS user and prolific author--and was just recognized in the SAS Circle of Excellence for 30 years of using SAS software. After taking a look at this week's book
You might have seen my previous blog, where I plotted some interesting tourist attractions on a geographical map of the British Isles (which may be of interest to Analytics 2013 Conference delegates)... Well this blog uses even more powerful analytics, and shows how SAS can calculate the "optimal tour" to visit all
Imagine millions of people tweeting about an event as big as the Super Bowl. How do you make sense of all that data without spending months reading them all? Mary Osborne, Dan Zaratsian and Justin Plumley have some answers in this video. Their paper Uncovering Patterns in Textual Data with
This week's SAS tip is from Michele Burlew and her book SAS Macro Programming Made Easy, Second Edition. Michele is the author of several extremely helpful SAS books. Visit her author page to learn more about her work and for additional free content. The following excerpt is from SAS Press
Are you going to Analytics 2013 in London?!? And if so, have you found any fun/interesting/touristy things to do while you're there? ... Being an analytics conference, I thought it would be good to apply some "analytics" to the task! So I took some locations in the British Isles that I thought
Analytics 2013 is the educational conference for data analysts to learn about the latest technology and advances in the field of analytics. The next conference is set for June 19-20 in London, and I am excited to be attending this year. In fact, this will be my very first international
I recently interviewed SAS project manager, Jonathan Wexler, who will be speaking at Analytics 2013 in London on June 19. His topic will be operationalizing your data and he’s breaking it down into three main points: Big data trends SAS tools you can use SAS tool trends Watch as he
This week's SAS tip is from Gerhard Svolba and his latest book Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS. For additional bonus book content and to learn more about Gerhard and his work, visit his author page. The following excerpt is from SAS Press author Gerhard Svolba's book "Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS"
