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Angela HallJanuary 27, 2012 0

SAS BI Dashboard: It's all in a name

When developing content in SAS BI Dashboard, such as indicators, ranges, and dashboards, knowing how to name them is pretty important. If changes are required later (for instance to improve the administrators capability of partial promoting content) much more work is required to ensure the links between the objects isn't

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Waynette TubbsJanuary 27, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Surface complexation modeling

What is surface complexation? Everyday I have to look something up on Google or in the dictionary. For example, do you know what a Cthulhu is? I had to search for that term after I tweeted that I thought a SAS surface plot graph was beautiful. Mike Nemecek from SAS

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Angela HallJanuary 25, 2012 0

New job, same technology, huge customer value

As many of you have already noticed, my LinkedIn profile and the blog profile blurb have changed. I took on an exciting new job in the SAS Solutions OnDemand team. The official title is Software Development Manager, but what I really do is lead a team of fraud solution architects.

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Waynette TubbsJanuary 20, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Data miners slow churn

Churn is a huge concern for insurers, credit card providers and telecommunications companies - even utilities. This Post-It Note author says that his company has found a way to reduce customer turnover - churn - by 10 percent using SAS Data Miner.

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Franklin SoJanuary 18, 2012 0

How the Chinese zodiac relates to business forecasting

Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a prosperous and joyful 2012! The joyful festive atmosphere continues to pervade most Chinese families in Asia in the coming week, as we will be celebrating Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) on Jan 23rd . This date is determined by the lunisolar Chinese calendar. Alongside

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Malene HaxholdtJanuary 13, 2012 0

How will analytics rock your world in 2012?

It's true. "Big data" can be a problem and an opportunity. Many organizations have struggled to manage, much less profit from, the deluge. In 2012, look for big data to spur demand for big data analytics. New developments in high-performance computing as well as increased demand for visualization and text

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Waynette TubbsJanuary 13, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Feeling lucky?

It's Friday the 13. That can conjure up all kinds of scary thoughts, or you might consider it a lucky day. Which is it for you? This SAS user doesn't rely on luck or chance with his or her important projects. SAS is used to predict failures and outages!

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Waynette TubbsJanuary 6, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Life with SAS 24/7

If you live in the US, do you remember the Dunkin Donuts commercial from about 30 years ago. It opens with a devoted donut maker climbing out of bed, saying "It's time to make the donuts." (Donut makers have to get up early so that you and I can have

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Waynette TubbsDecember 30, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Stretching resources with grid computing

Today, every organization is running on too few resources - getting it done with fewer people, a reduced budget and less time. Grid computing enables SAS to automatically use a centrally managed grid infrastructure to achieve workload balancing, high availability and parallel processing. Do what once took days in minutes

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Forecasting inventory with SAS

Waynette TubbsDecember 23, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Forecasting

As you probably remember, this innovation series is really Brainstorming 2.0. I've taken the Post-It Notes that SAS users put on the Innovation Wall and reposted them here to help spark new ideas for using SAS. I'm also adding posts here and there when I have an interview with a customer

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Waynette TubbsDecember 16, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Do you believe?

From the largest corporation to a small startup, data overload can be a crippling problem. Just ask this big guy ... Now you know. Happy holidays!

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Sascha SchubertDecember 14, 2011 0

The promise of "big analytics" from an analyst’s perspective

Big data has been a hot topic recently, but more often than not the topic is covered from an IT perspective. What do the analysts, data miners and statisticians think? I recall the old days discussing with statisticians what data mining is and how it fundamentally differs from statistics. In

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Waynette TubbsDecember 9, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - The holidays are for giving

The holiday season has just begun here in Cary, North Carolina. My favorite holiday is Christmas, but your's may be another. I'll try to outline some of the ones that are celebrated here and for some of my other global readers - I may miss an important holiday when I try

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Angela HallDecember 8, 2011 0

Building custom measures for OLAP cubes

In one minute (and 10 seconds, but are you measuring that?) you can add a custom measure (also known as calculated members) to your OLAP cube. Watch this video to create a simple calculation multiplying units * price. Remember that this mechanism is not just used for multiplications, you can

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Dropping into the abyss of Detail Data

Angela HallDecember 5, 2011 0

OLAP users can fall into the abyss of detail data

OLAP cube developers might have noticed that the amount of time required to generate any aggregation (including the NWAY) can negatively impact their productivity. Developers remove the NWAY aggregation (following the sample screens in a prior post) to significantly reduce build time and allow quick modifications to the cube definition.

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Waynette TubbsDecember 2, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Jingle bells

It's the holiday season again in the US. Every December, many of us break out the holly, mistletoe, fir and SAS software to ring in the Christmas spirit. What's that? Do you mean to tell me that you don't use the world's leading business analytics software to play Jingle Bells! Well,

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Waynette TubbsNovember 25, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Customer perception and networking

I've heard it said that perception is everything, but can you really track and measure customer perception in a way that will allow you to effect change? The answer is yes.

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Iain BrownNovember 24, 2011 0

Could the financial sector be doing more with their models if they borrowed innovation from elsewhere?

As the Basel Accords continue to drum up attention in the global financial markets, many institutions are looking at how they can strike a balance between capital requirements and competitive advantage. One area of focus is consumer credit risk modelling and scoring, as the more accurate and robust the models

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Waynette TubbsNovember 18, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Prevalence data analysis

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Waynette TubbsNovember 11, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration: Olesen's Icelandic adventure with SAS

~Contributed by Martin L. Olesen I began using SAS 6.04 in 1992 for my own projects and as a teaching assistant. Professionally, I have worked in SAS since 1997, after graduation. I use Base SAS, SAS/STAT and SAS/OR. I work in an Icelandic bank doing credit risk analysis and rating

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Waynette TubbsNovember 4, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Clinical analysis and sports stats?

Now this is the way you sports fans should be thinking of using SAS! Of course there are no real specifics here, but you guys are pretty smart. Here's an older story about using SAS for sports, and I'm sure you've all seen Money Ball by now. Today's series entrant is

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Polly Mitchell-GuthrieNovember 2, 2011 0

How to fail in predictive modeling: Wisdom from the experts

“Wise Enterprise: Best Practices for Managing Predictive Analytics” was the title, and the assignment to the panel at the recent Predictive Analytics World conference in New York was to share “poignant moments of failure.” Wayne Thompson from SAS began, going back ten years to describe a network intrusion project. He

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Angela HallNovember 1, 2011 0

Adding format catalogs without losing others

As I mentioned when creating a user-defined format for Information Maps in a prior post custom or user-defined formats can be created and stored quickly in the default format catalog for all Business Intelligence products within "Lev1SASAppSASEnvironmentSASFormats". This is useful for custom sorting, reclassifying or grouping data as well as

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Mike GillilandOctober 31, 2011 0

Flash1: Report from Analytics2011 in Orlando

We'll interrupt the series on Why Forecasts are Wrong, with a report from the inaugural Analytics 2011 conference, held last week in Orlando. A2011 drew over 1025 attendees (from 44 states and over 25 counties). The Analytics conference series features a wide range of topics (including forecasting, optimization, data mining, text

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Waynette TubbsOctober 28, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Merge!

Writing is usually very easy for me - I close the door and concentrate on the task at hand. But today, my mind is wandering. Maybe it's the changing season (it's fall in the US) that makes me think of all of the SAS users who might be reading my posts:

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Mike GillilandOctober 21, 2011 0

Why forecasts are wrong

This week brought big news of one of the most cruel and heartless tyrants of the 21st century. This man is known for narcissistic behavior, surrounding himself with a cadre of beautiful women, sleeping in a different place every night, picking new favorites each week, and bringing tears and untold suffering

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Waynette TubbsOctober 21, 2011 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration: Cleaning data in her spare time

In my Friday series about innovation, I've decided to include some personal stories of unusual and unique uses of SAS. Once a month or so, I'll swap out the Post-it Notes for a profile of someone who has used SAS in an innovative way to solve a problem or, like

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Mike GillilandOctober 19, 2011 0

New S&OP book by Tom Wallace

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of reading Tom Wallace's new book, Sales & Operations Planning: Beyond the Basics. This is not an introductory "how to" book -- Tom and Bob Stahl have already written those -- but instead covers nine major companies that have implemented (and extended!) S&OP

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Angela HallOctober 18, 2011 0

Troubleshooting a web file upload

Functionality to upload files onto the SAS server (from 9.2 on) is available using stored processes and an html input type="file". I introduced this topic last year in my blog post using the SAS Stored Process Developer Guide sample. Of course, it is never as easy as the sample is

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Jin-Whan JungOctober 18, 2011 0

How to be more than just a good statistician

Reflecting on my 25 years as a data analyst, I’ve always felt that there is something more to being a good applied statistician than just applying what I had learned from school. What are those key skills that make a good field statistician? Before analytics came into play, when presented with

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