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Robert AllisonFebruary 9, 2017 3

Visualizing 100 years of US presidential pardons

A topic that's been in the news a lot lately is the presidential power to grant pardons, commutations, and such. But all the articles I've seen just quoted numeric totals - I haven't seen a graph of the data anywhere! So I set out to find the data and graph

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Analytics | Data Visualization | SAS Events

Robert AllisonJanuary 25, 2017 14

Something for geeks and nerds to do at Disney World!

Are you one of those people who get easily bored at amusement parks? Would you like something to do while your friends/family are waiting in line for a ride? Perhaps I have an alternate idea, to keep you busy - survey markers! When surveyors are measuring and marking areas for

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Learn SAS

Jeff ThompsonJanuary 24, 2017 3

Step into the wonderful world of SAS Enterprise Miner

Editor's note (10/25/17): You can practice what you learned in class with 15 hours of Free virtual lab time when you attend the in-person or Live Web Applied Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner class. Register now. Are you interested in taking an advanced course on the machine learning topic of Neural Networks? Does text

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Analytics

Jeff ZeanahJanuary 20, 2017 0

Explaining analytics? Maybe you should think about the narrative

I continue to find the concept of explaining analytics through storytelling intriguing. As I have written before, at first blush this did not seem immediately clear to me. The advice to use storytelling appeared somewhat vague, trite and without substance. More importantly, it seemed to conflict with the rigor required

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 20, 2017 0

How do teenage boys eat so much, and stay so thin?

"They'll eat you out of house & home! Their food bill will put you in the poor house! ... And they never gain an ounce!" - That's what my friends say about their teenage sons. They're probably exaggerating a little, but since it's a recurring theme, there's probably some truth

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 18, 2017 57

Where does Girl Scout cookie money go?

Here in the US, it's Girl Scout cookie season. This is when you get to spend a few bucks on cookies, break your New Year's resolution about losing weight ... and feel good about it, because the money's going to a good cause. Or is it? - Let's break down

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 16, 2017 3

Prius isn't the highest-mpg hybrid in 2017!

For many years, the Toyota Prius was the hybrid with the best mpg - but in 2017 that's changing! Let's examine the data ... For analyses like this, I have found the fueleconomy.gov website to be a wonderful source of information. In recent years, they've even made all their data

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Robert AllisonJanuary 13, 2017 6

What to do in Orlando, during SAS Global Forum!

They say "a picture is worth 1000 words" - and I think it might be more like 2000 when it comes to planning out fun/interesting things to do in a new city! I'm going to the SAS Global Forum (#SASGF) conference in Orlando this year, and I was wondering where

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 4, 2017 13

American English: Where to use 'yall' versus 'yinz'

If you do much traveling in the United States, you're bound to hear a few words and expressions that are unique to certain areas. Well y'all get ready, because I'm fixin' to analyze some of those words for ya! I recently found a really neat web application called The Great

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJanuary 2, 2017 6

Beer: Finding your favorite that you didn't know about!

Data analysis can be used for many things ... how about finding other beers you might like, so you don't keep drinking the same old brand every time? Hang on tight - I think we're about to make a beer run! I recently read an interesting article on the Flowingdata website,

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