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Advanced analytics from SAS data scientists![6 machine learning resources for getting started](https://blogs.sas.com/content/subconsciousmusings/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-1.png)
If you turned in for my recent webinar, Machine Learning: Principles and Practice, you may have heard me talking about some of my favorite machine learning resources, including recent white papers and some classic studies. As I mentioned in the webinar, machine learning is not new. SAS has been pursuing
![Principal Component Analysis for Dimensionality Reduction](https://blogs.sas.com/content/subconsciousmusings/files/2015/10/Eigenfaces-method.png)
When you work with big data, you often deal with both a large number of observations and a large number of features. When the number of features is large, they can be highly correlated, resulting in significant amount of redundancy in the data. Principal component analysis can be a very
![Data science training - is it possible?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/subconsciousmusings/files/2015/10/data-scientist-lady.jpg)
Ok, so the title is a little provocative, but some people are dubious that data science training is even possible, because they believe data science entails skills one can learn only on the job and not in a classroom. I am not in that camp, although I do believe that data
![Pitching analytics: recommendations on how to sell your story (part 2)](https://blogs.sas.com/content/subconsciousmusings/files/2015/10/Mets-pitcher.jpg)
My last post, Pitching analytics: recommendations on how to sell your story, discussed the steps I consider when winding up for an analytics pitch. In part 2 of this series I share the tips and tricks I have acquired for throwing strikes for during your analytics pitch. Like everyone, sometimes
![How analytical web services can help scale your machine learning](https://blogs.sas.com/content/subconsciousmusings/files/2015/10/SAS-from-iPython-notebook.png)
Have you been in your attic lately? Or maybe cleaned out that closet that all of your “stuff” seems to gravitate to? Sure, mostly you’ll just find old junk that is no longer useful or purely nostalgic, but every once in a while you come across those long lost treasures
![Multi-stage modeling delivers the ROI for internet of things](https://blogs.sas.com/content/subconsciousmusings/files/2015/10/Fournier-transformation-plot1.png)
Gartner has stated that there are nearly five billion connected devices throughout the world today and predicts that there will be more than 25 billion by 2020, making the potential of this technology unlimited. The connected devices in industrial settings, in personal devices, and in our homes are creating a