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Waynette TubbsSeptember 21, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - That's a COPY

Diane Olson, from SAS, wrote a SAS Global Forum paper in 2011 that seems ready-made for this SAS user's Post-It note. Olson wrote about PROC COPY and PROC APPEND. In her paper, she lets you in on the inside tricks on how to clone your data set to the same library, copy

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Waynette TubbsAugust 31, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Digging in to social data

A super hot topic in most organizations is how to make the most of the troves of social data available. This Post-It Note author isn't specific about the SAS solution that is being used, so I'm going to speculate that he or she is taking advantage of SAS Text Miner, SAS Text

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Waynette TubbsAugust 10, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Automated reports and poster ideas!

This Post-It Note reminds me of a presentation at SAS Global Forum 2012 about automating reports. Of course, these Post-It Notes always remind me of presentations. This week, instead of pointing you to a bunch of past presentations, I'm going to challenge you to use this note as an idea

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Waynette TubbsAugust 3, 2012 3

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Ratemaking

In this Innovation Inspiration, a SAS user has developed the insurance rating plans for a country using predictive modeling. How exciting! Additionally, the system adjusts based upon actual experience. This is quite the accomplishment given the complexity of the ratemaking for even a small geographical territory. The comments section reveal the identity of this innovator. Check it out.

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Waynette TubbsJune 29, 2012 1

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Extracting data from Oracle

It's so important for companies to build what customers want rather than build a product and then convince the market to buy it. So I love it when I hear or read remarks like the one below - SAS has grown with me. That means that we have listened to

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Waynette TubbsJune 15, 2012 7

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - A billion rows on the fly

The first time that I saw a demonstration of SAS Visual Analytics Explorer was awesome, but it didn't give me goosebumps. I got goosebumps the size of golfballs during SAS Global Forum Opening Session when Dr. Goodnight sat down at a computer screen and began to demonstrate how effortlessly users can

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Waynette TubbsJune 1, 2012 1

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - High-performance analytics with Jim Goodnight

One of the coolest things that I saw at SAS Global Forum was Dr. Goodnight dissecting a hologram of a SAS high-performance server and describing how the technology works with analytics. This is the height of innovation. You have got to watch this! Here are a few great

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Waynette TubbsMay 25, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Put up or shut up

Put up or shut up is one of those great sayings from my generation. Loosely translated it means, stop complaining if you aren't going to do something about the problem. In this week's Innovation Inspiration, the author decided to teach American middle schoolers how to question the information that they

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Waynette TubbsMay 18, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Jenine Milum creates a report

At SAS Global Forum, one of the most difficult areas for me to show to you are the poster presentations. This year, I asked Steve Polilli, a colleague who is great with a Flipcam, to video a few for me. I picked out three that I will use in the

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Waynette TubbsMay 11, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - High schoolers analyzing high schoolers

Part of what captivated me about this paper and poster presentation were the presenters - these guys are high school kids using SAS to do a visual analysis of Internet use by high schoolers. The idea was so compelling that Anna Brown and Inside SAS Global Forum went to talk

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