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Missy HannahJuly 15, 2019 3

Curious about SAS® Viya®? Discover two new free SAS Press e-books!

With all the excitement around SAS’ new software architecture, SAS Viya, we often get asked the question: What is it and how can it help my company conquer our analytics challenges? Fortunately, learning more about SAS Viya has never been easier. SAS Viya extends the SAS® Platform and provides reliable,

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Christa CodyJuly 12, 2019 6

Visual machine learning using SAS Viya: a Graduate Intern’s perspective

Are you a seasoned data scientist looking for a fast, all-inclusive machine learning solution? Curious about machine learning but have little to no programming experience? Interested in using AI to take over the world? Follow my lead and use SAS VDDML to fast track your world domination. This blog is

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Katherine TaylorJanuary 10, 2019 0

Practical AI in banking

AI seems to be mentioned everywhere these days. But how can AI be used in day-to-day work? Here, Katherine Taylor explains an example of "practical AI" in banking using SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning. She'll explore more business problems and industries in future posts.

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Kevin D. SmithNovember 6, 2018 0

Great tip for dynamic data selection using SAS Viya and Python

You can communicate with various clients (SAS, Python, Lua, Java, and REST) in the same place using SAS® Cloud Base Analytics Services (CAS) in SAS Viya. But before you can do any analysis in CAS you need some data to work with, and a way to get to it. Check out this dynamic data selection tip using SAS Viya and Python.

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Advanced Analytics | Data for Good | Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerSeptember 18, 2018 3

Using machine learning to improve tumor biopsies

How can you use analytics to design better biopsies and improve outcomes? This high school student has some ideas, and she presented them at Analytics Experience 2018.

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Emily GaoJuly 26, 2018 3

How to tokenize documents into sentences

SAS Visual Analytics includes text parsing actions that can help tokenize sentences, and SAS Visual Text Analytics provides even better, more sophisticated methods. This article contains code samples and cites papers for more details.

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Emily GaoJuly 18, 2018 0

How to sample textual data with SAS

See how to sample unstructured (text) data using SAS Viya and CAS actions. This post includes complete code to cluster the text documents via k-means, and treats the cluster memberships as strata for analysis.

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Emily GaoJuly 12, 2018 0

How to calculate Word Mover's Distance with SAS

Word Mover's Distance (WMD) is a distance metric used to measure the dissimilarity between two documents, and its application in text analytics was introduced by a research group from Washington University in 2015. The group's paper, From Word Embeddings To Document Distances, was published on the 32nd International Conference on Machine

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Advanced Analytics | Programming Tips

Emily GaoJuly 5, 2018 1

How to get N-grams and TF-IDF count from Chinese documents

SAS Visual Text Analytics provides dictionary-based and non-domain-specific tokenization functionality for Chinese documents, however sometimes you still want to get N-gram tokens. This can be especially helpful when the documents are domain-specific and most of the tokens are not included into the SAS-provided Chinese dictionary. What is an N-gram? An

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoMay 21, 2018 1

Technology that gets the most from the Cloud

SAS Viya is our latest extension of the SAS Platform and interoperable with SAS® 9.4. There were a number of SAS Viya presentations at SAS Global Forum 2018. In this series, we will review several of the most interesting talks. This post reviews Hadley Christoffels’ talk, A Need For Speed: Loading Data via the Cloud.

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