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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Collaborative distributed data management with open source](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/05/SASViya.png)
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles to help current SAS programmers add SAS Viya to their analytics skillset. In this post, Advisory Solutions Architect Steven Sober explores how to accomplish distributed data management using SAS Viya. Read additional posts in the series. In my last article I
![Clustering of papers using Community Detection](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/Community-Detection_G1-702x336.png)
Community detection has been used in multiple fields, such as social networks, biological networks, tele-communication networks and fraud/terrorist detection etc. Traditionally, it is performed on an entity link graph in which the vertices represent the entities and the edges indicate links between pairs of entities, and its target is to
![Collaborative distributed data management using SAS Viya](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/05/SASViya.png)
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles to help current SAS programmers add SAS Viya to their analytics skillset. In this post, Advisory Solutions Architect Steven Sober explores how to accomplish distributed data management using SAS Viya. Read additional posts in the series. This article in the SAS
![The top 10 statistics to consider when filling out your NCAA brackets](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/article-basketball-600x336.jpg)
My high school basketball coach started preparing us for the tournaments in the season’s first practice. He talked about the “long haul” of tournament basketball, and geared our strategies toward a successful run at the end of the season. I thought about the “long haul” when considering my brackets for
![Are ensemble classifiers always better than single classifiers?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/ensemble-classifiers-603x336.png)
Ensemble models have been used extensively in credit scoring applications and other areas because they are considered to be more stable and, more importantly, predict better than single classifiers (see Lessmann et al., 2015). They are also known to reduce model bias and variance (Myoung - Jong et al., 2006;
![Securing sensitive data using SAS Federation Server data masking](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/SAS-Federation-Server-data-masking04-702x336.png)
SAS® Federation Server provides a central, virtual environment for administering and securing access to your data. It also allows you to combine data from multiple sources without moving or copying the data. SAS Federation Server Manager, a web-based application, is used to administer SAS Federation Server(s). Data privacy is a