A day in the life of the SAS Platform Administrator
SAS instructor Raymond Thomas describes a typical day in the life of a SAS Administrator.
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SAS and Open-Source Model Management (free eBook)
Turn analytical models into business value and smarter decisions with this special collection of papers about SAS Model Management. Without a structured and standardized process to integrate and coordinate all the different pieces of the model life cycle, a business can experience increased costs and missed opportunities. SAS Model Management solutions enable organizations to register, test, deploy, monitor, and retrain analytical models, leveraging any available technology – including open-source models in Python, R, and TensorFlow –into a competitive advantage.
Splitting a data set into smaller data sets
SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to split a large data set into many by a subsetting by a number of observations to produce smaller, better manageable data sets.
How to create a path-based CASLIB to SASWORK for speedier analysis with SAS® Viya®
Is there programmatic way to reduce memory requirements of a CAS table in SAS® Viya®? Yes! SAS' Steven Sober shows you how.
Adjusting outliers with the 1.5 IQR rule
In my new book, End-to-End Data Science with SAS: A Hands-On Programming Guide, I use the 1.5 IQR rule to adjust multiple variables. This program utilizes a macro that loops through a list of variables to make the necessary adjustments and creates an output data set. One of the most
Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 3 - Loading a CAS Action Set
Are you looking for a specific CAS action to use in your project? Maybe you need to create a linear or logistic regression and can't seem to find the CAS action? In this post in the Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® series, we are going to look
How to improve recommendation engines with real-time context and business rules
Nowadays, recommendation engines can be found just about everywhere from news websites to e-commerce sites to online streaming services. However, customers frequently encounter recommendations that are inappropriate or repetitive.
Multi-way lookup tables
A lookup table is a programming technique where one or more values can be used to retrieve another value. For example, many years ago, I had benzene exposure estimates for 10 years (1940 to 1949) for each of five locations in a factory. Given a year and a job location,
Partition your CAS tables to greatly improve performance
Kevin Russell of SAS Technical Support shows you how partitioning CAS tables speeds processing.
Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 2 - Working with CAS Actions and CASResults Objects
In the second post of the Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® series we will learn about Working with CAS Actions and CASResults Objects. CAS actions are commands sent to the CAS server to run a task, and CASResults objects contain information returned from the CAS server. This