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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Calculating standard deviation of a measure in Visual Analytics Designer](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/standard-deviation-of-a-measure-in-Visual-Analytics-Designer13-702x336.jpg)
Several months ago, I posted a blog about calculating moving averages for a measure in the Visual Analytics Designer. Soon after that, I was asked about calculating not only the average, but also the standard deviation over a period of months, when the data might consist of one or more
![Resources for SAS Administrators at SAS Global Forum 2017 … and beyond](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/08/SASGF2017_globe.png)
Editor's note (4/11/17): Full proceedings from SAS Global Forum 2017 (including for the presentations mentioned in this blog) can be found at http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/. SAS Global Forum 2017 is just a month away and, if you’re a SAS administrator, it’s a great place to meet your peers, share your experiences and attend
![How to extract domain-specific sentiment lexicons](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/extract-domain-specific-sentiment-lexicons04-702x336.png)
In 2011, Loughran and McDonald applied a general sentiment word list to accounting and finance topics, and this led to a high rate of misclassification. They found that about three-fourths of the negative words in the Harvard IV TagNeg dictionary of negative words are typically not negative in a financial
![What are you willing to do to get to SAS Global Forum?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/02/get-to-SAS-Global-Forum-587x336.jpg)
Let’s have some fun, shall we? Share your video or photo! The SAS User Community, albeit spread around the world, is a tight-knit group. We may sit alone in our offices pounding out code, developing applications, tweaking system performance or creating reports, but the truth is other SAS users (our
![18 Visualizations created by SAS Visual Analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/02/Visualizations-created-by-SAS-Visual-Analytics-Chart-18-702x336.png)
As a practitioner of visual analytics, I read the featured blog of ‘Visualizations: Comparing Tableau, SPSS, R, Excel, Matlab, JS, Python, SAS’ last year with great interest. In the post, the blogger Tim Matteson asked the readers to guess which software was used to create his 18 graphs. My buddy,
![Bringing teams together](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/02/Bringing_Teams_Together.png)
Editor's note: Amanda Farnsworth is Head of Visual Journalism at BBC News and a featured speaker at SAS Global Forum 2017, April 2-5, 2017 in Orlando. There was a best selling book some years ago called “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus.” It’s a phrase I thought