New edition of the Cody classic: Learning SAS® by Example
Find out about the new edition of Ron Cody's latest best selling book.
Tag: sas press
Speeding Up Your Analytics with Machine Learning (Part 1)
Hybrid computers that marry CPUs and devices like GPUs and FPGAs are the fastest computers, but they are hard to program. This post explains how deep learning (DL) greatly simplifies programming hybrid computers.
What your favorite authors are reading: SAS Press authors highlight SAS Global Forum papers
Three bestselling SAS Press authors feature their favorite papers from SAS Global Forum 2018.
Five things you (probably) don’t know you can do with a hash table
Hash tables are a very powerful and flexible data structure. Most SAS applications of hash tables focus on just one of their many powerful facilities: table lookup. Hash tables are a fantastic table lookup tool and their use for that should never be diminished. However, hash tables can do so
Jedi SAS Tricks: Transwarp Processing with DS2 in SAS® Viya®
When speed is required at scale, it's hard to beat parallel processing data in memory with DS2 and SAS® Viya® with the amazing Cloud Analytic Services (CAS)!
Authoring a data-driven book - yes, we do that!
At SAS we use data to accomplish many of our everyday tasks. At SAS Books, we have now even used data to create a data-driven book, An Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics.
Six new SAS books for 2018
Start off the New Year by brushing up your SAS programming skills! Begin your goal to become SAS certified or explore these New SAS books and other SAS Press titles, many of which will be making their bookshelf debut at SAS® Global Forum 2018 in Denver, CO! Want to be notified when a new book
An introduction to SAS Visual Analytics: the Parallel Period function of the Derived Item calculations
My new SAS Press book “An Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics” (written in collaboration with Tricia Aanderud and Rob Collum) covers all of the different aspects of SAS® Visual Analytics, including how to develop reports, load data, and handle administration. Below is an example of the types of tips that you can find
3 steps to prepare your data for accurate predictive models in SAS Enterprise Miner
In this post I describe the important tasks of data preparation, exploration and binning.These three steps enable you to know your data well and build accurate predictive models. First you need to clean your data. Cleaning includes eliminating variables which have uneven spread across the target variable. I give an
8 new summer reads for SAS users
Summer is here, which means vacations and time at the pool with a good book. If expanding your knowledge is a goal of yours this summer, SAS has a shelf full of new titles becoming available over the next few months. From new editions of classics – such as SAS® for Forecasting