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Robert AllisonOctober 28, 2015 6

How a data scientist plans his trick-or-treat route

As I continue to apply analytics to various aspects of Halloween, I turn my attention to planning my trick-or-treat route ... Random picture: Here's a shot of my friend Sara's trick-or-treat crew. With tiny legs, and huge loads of candy, having an efficient route is very important! :) I started by

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 26, 2015 4

Create Halloween images and learn SAS basics

Do you have fun being a computer geek, and programmatically creating holiday images? If so, then this blog's for you! In this example, I demonstrate how to take simple x/y coordinates, and create map polygons shaped like holiday images, that can be plotted using SAS/Graph's Proc GMap. Once you learn the

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Analytics

Gail BakerOctober 25, 2015 0

Not in Vegas? Watch the Analytics conference anywhere

SAS experts, users and decision makers are taking over Las Vegas this week while attending Analytics 2015 and The Premier Business Leadership Series. Whether you are in Vegas or need to participate from afar, read on for help to stay in tuned and be a part of it all. Watch

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 23, 2015 2

Need help choosing a Halloween costume?

When I was a kid, I always found it difficult to pick a Halloween costume. Now that I'm older, perhaps I can use computers & analytics to make my decision (and yours) easier! ... There are several different schools of thought on Halloween costumes - for example, some like to

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 20, 2015 7

Get the inside scoop for your Halloween candy selection

It's that time of year again - time to choose what Halloween candy to buy for the trick-or-treaters! This is always a tough decision that has me angsting in the candy aisle. And if selecting the perfect candy wasn't enough pressure, my city (Cary, NC) was recently recognized as #1 on

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 15, 2015 6

Where can a vegetarian get some protein around here?!?

More and more of my friends seem to be eating less and less meat, for various reasons (such as religious, health, social conscience, weight loss, personal preference, cost savings, etc). So I thought I would put together a graph to help them find alternate sources of protein. While searching for

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Health Care

Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 9, 2015 0

How trendy is your hipster beard?

The #1 rule of any self-respecting hipster is to not claim to be a hipster. Therefore, can there even be such a thing as a hipster beard, or hipster beard data? I contemplated this perplexing question, as I stroked my pirate beard. Since fashion trends tend to be cyclical, perhaps

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 6, 2015 5

Noah's Ark found ... in South Carolina!

I remember being intrigued by the movie In Search of Noah's Ark, when I was a kid back in the 1970s. They claimed to have definitively found the ark ... but of course, since then several other people claim to have found it in other locations. Therefore I don't feel too

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Insurance

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Jeff ZeanahOctober 5, 2015 0

What Hurricane Joaquin can teach us about analytics

While holed up inside, like many others on the East Coast of the United States, suffering from record-breaking rainfall and watching the path of Hurricane Joaquin, I found a perfect metaphor for handling a problem in explaining analytics. Many executives bemoan the fact that it seems to take forever for

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 5, 2015 4

Building a better income inequality graph

I hear a lot of talk about income inequality in the US ("the rich get richer..." and such) - especially as elections approach. I also see a lot of graphs, and they all seem to define their numbers slightly differently. I'm not in a position to improve the way income

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