SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Your SAS Visual Analytics expert is here](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/08/Ask-the-expert.png)
Wouldn’t it be nice to have an expert to answer your SAS Visual Analytics question? Now you do and the best part, it’s free! Beginning September 8, SAS will be hosting a one-hour Ask the Expert session each Monday through November. Each interactive session will focus on a specific Visual
![Not the same ol’ middle tier](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/08/middle_tier_1.png)
The SAS Middle Tier is all new for SAS 9.4, and you might not recognize it. Gone are the third-party web application servers. Gone is the third-party Java development kit. Missing major components like those may cause you to ask yourself, “Does SAS still have a middle tier?” With the
![Tracking Ebola: Layering customized SAS maps](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/08/ebola_africa_20142.png)
There are many ways to use SAS in Health & Life Sciences, and one of my favorite is using it to track the spread of diseases. This post demonstrates how to layer several customized maps to track the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa. In this blog post, I describe how I
It is estimated that a typical organization loses 5% of its revenues to fraud each year (www.acfe.com). The total cost of insurance fraud (non-health insurance) in the US is estimated to be more than $40 billion per year (www.fbi.gov). The advent of Big Data & Analytics has provided new and
![A tale of two administrators](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/07/SAS-Intelligence-Platform.png)
You are the new SAS Administrator. After the initial shock or excitement, you sit back and wonder, “What does that MEAN???” In an enterprise environment there are often divisions of duties. The SAS Intelligence Platform is no exception. Just take a look at the architecture. Just looking at this picture,
![Oh buoy! It's time for some Shark Week graphs!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/07/meg_tooth.jpg)
With Discovery Channel's Shark Week starting on August 10, I decided to sink my teeth into some shark-attack data - I even found there were some shark attacks in the Midwestern US! Read on to learn the details... To get you into the shark mindset, here is a photo of an