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Cindy WangOctober 13, 2017 0

A preliminary analysis of the Nobel Laureates

Every year in early October, the eyes of the world turn to Sweden and Norway, where the Nobel Prize winners are announced to the world. The Nobel Prize is considered the world's most prestigious award. Since 1901, the Prize has been presented to individuals and organizations that have made significant

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoSeptember 27, 2017 1

SAS Viya: What’s in it for me? The user.

If you’re in the field of analytics, you’ve undoubtedly heard about SAS Viya. Designed for all analytic professionals, regardless of skills or experience, SAS Viya seamlessly handles big, complex, diverse data. It also supports any programming language, allowing analysts to choose the tool that makes them most productive. Recently a colleague

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Analytics | Data Management

Stephen FoersterAugust 14, 2017 12

CAS data modeling for performance

The Cloud Analytic Server (CAS for short) is SAS’ latest high-performance, scalable, in-memory analytic data server. In this post, I’d like to discuss the CAS physical data model, i.e.what features CAS offers for data storage, and how to use them to maximize performance in CAS (and consequently SAS Visual Analytics

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Larry OrimoloyeJuly 17, 2017 0

What are the characteristics of “true clusters?”

In the digital world where billions of customers are making trillions of visits on a multi-channel marketing environment, big data has drawn researchers’ attention all over the world. Customers leave behind a huge trail of data volumes in digital channels. It is becoming an extremely difficult task finding the right

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Mary Kathryn QueenJuly 10, 2017 0

SAS Viya 3.2: Visual Data Builder

In SAS Viya 3.2, SAS Visual Data Builder provides a mechanism for performing simple, self-service data preparation tasks for SAS Visual Analytics or other applications. SAS Visual Data Builder is NOT an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) or data quality tool. You may still need one of those tools to

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Analytics | SAS Administrators

Mary Kathryn QueenJune 13, 2017 0

The Self-Service Import in SAS Viya 3.2

In SAS Viya 3.2, the Self-Service Import provides a mechanism for a user to import (copy) data into the SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) environment. The data is copied as a .sashdat file into the selected CAS Library location when it is imported. Self-Service Import data can only be imported into

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Greg WillisMay 5, 2017 0

Dr. StrangeRAM or: How I learned to stop worrying and love CAS

As SAS Viya has been gaining awareness over the past year among SAS users, there has been a lot of discussion about how SAS’ Cloud Analytic Server (CAS) handles memory vs SAS’ previous technologies such as LASR and HPA. Recently, while I was involved in delivering several SAS Viya enablement

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Lavanya MandavilliMay 4, 2017 1

Linking to target reports and sections in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4

SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 comes chock-full of new features. Report and section linking come with an added benefit. If you set up linking from one section to another section in the same report, or from one report to another report, you have the option to configure linking such that any filter

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Teri PatsilarasApril 11, 2017 7

SAS Visual Analytics Designer 7.3 Schedule Chart

You may be wondering if you need something special to gain access to the Schedule Chart object. Don’t worry, you don’t, you just need to unhide this visualization if it isn’t already. You can do this from the Objects’ drop down menu. There are several other objects available to you

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Analytics | Data Visualization | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerApril 10, 2017 1

Easy Scheduling in Visual Data Builder - SAS Visual Analytics 7.3

You can expand on the functionality of SAS Visual Data Builder in SAS Visual Analytics by editing the query code, adding code for pre- and post-processing, or even writing your own query. You can process single tables or join multiple tables, writing the output to a LASR library, a SAS library, or a

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