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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 26, 2014 0

Will California dry up and fall off?

When the recent earthquake hit California, one of my friends commented that "California is so dry right now, I'm surprised it didn't just break off and fall into the ocean!" It got me wondering, just how bad and widespread is California's drought? I did a few Web searches and found lots

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 22, 2014 0

How to show recessions (or other ranges) on a time series plot

It's easy to plot events that happened at a certain time, but what about events that extended over a range of dates, such as recessions? ... This blog post teaches you a nice trick to use for that! Let's say you have a plot of the labor force participation rate

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Banking | Government

Analytics

Prince William at the Controls of a Search and Rescue Seaking Helicopter

Beverly BrownAugust 21, 2014 0

Prince William and other emergency workers can benefit from analytics

Did you hear that Prince William is getting a new job? Next year, he’ll fly emergency helicopters for the East Anglian Air Ambulance. The prince, who’ll donate his salary to charity, called his new gig “one of the finest forms of public service.” The Duke of Cambridge won’t get any

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Analytics

Alison BolenAugust 20, 2014 0

Discuss: hotel reviews, statistical wisdom and confirmation bias

If you read SAS blogs but never click through to the comment sections, you're missing some great information. Need proof? Check out some of these comments from the last few weeks. And then leave one of your own. Kelly McGuire has been studying the effects of negative hotel reviews online.

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 19, 2014 0

Mapping 206 hospitals in 29 states!

If you're a really big company, with many locations around the country, how do you keep track of all that? ... With a great map, of course! I recently read a CNN article about the Community Health Systems network being hacked - exposing the names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, birthdays

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 15, 2014 0

What's trending in your neck of the woods?

"Trending" is one of those words that's trending these days, as we verbify everything. And if you understood that, then you'll probably love this blog! :-) For those of you not hip to the lingo ('hip' meaning 'knowing about and following the newest styles, fashions, etc.'), dictionary.com defines trending as "to emerge

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 13, 2014 0

If US state borders were redrawn -- which new state would you live in?

Find out which state you'll live in, if the US state borders are redrawn so we have 50 states with equal population! (Don't worry! - This is just a fun/hypothetical "what if" blog!) To get you in the mood for this topic, here's a picture of one of the many

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Eric RosslandAugust 12, 2014 0

Your SAS Visual Analytics expert is here

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an expert to answer your SAS Visual Analytics question? Now you do and the best part, it’s free! Beginning September 8, SAS will be hosting a one-hour Ask the Expert session each Monday through November. Each interactive session will focus on a specific Visual

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Analytics

Leo SadovyAugust 12, 2014 0

Impending Crisis: Analytics for the top-line

I’m sitting here staring at a book on my shelf entitled, “Impending Crisis”. Even knowing the copyright date, 2003, it could still be about any one of several possible crises: healthcare, financial, energy, education, environment. But no, in this case the impending crisis in question is provided by the subtitle: “Too many jobs,

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 5, 2014 0

Tracking Ebola: Layering customized SAS maps

There are many ways to use SAS in Health & Life Sciences, and one of my favorite is using it to track the spread of diseases. This post demonstrates how to layer several customized maps to track the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa. In this blog post, I describe how I

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Analytics

David PopeAugust 4, 2014 0

Analytics is an enhanced oil recovery process

You may have heard the phase that big data is the new oil. Well (pun intended), if that is the case, then analytics should be thought of as the fracking technique used on data to improve the value you get from this new oil. Fracking is actually just one

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Eric RosslandAugust 4, 2014 0

A tale of two administrators

You are the new SAS Administrator. After the initial shock or excitement, you sit back and wonder, “What does that MEAN???” In an enterprise environment there are often divisions of duties. The SAS Intelligence Platform is no exception. Just take a look at the architecture. Just looking at this picture,

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Fritz LehmanAugust 1, 2014 0

Helping the academic community build an analytics army

For those of you who are classic rock fans, you may remember Alice Cooper’s title track “School’s Out for Summer” on the album “School’s Out.” That song captures students’ excitement of a taking a hiatus from the classroom. But for professors, summer is a time to continue their own education

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonAugust 1, 2014 0

Oh buoy! It's time for some Shark Week graphs!

With Discovery Channel's Shark Week starting on August 10, I decided to sink my teeth into some shark-attack data - I even found there were some shark attacks in the Midwestern US! Read on to learn the details... To get you into the shark mindset, here is a photo of an

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Analytics

Gerhard SvolbaJuly 30, 2014 0

Von der Regatta zur intuitiv richtigen Verwendung von Forecasts

Es ist ein lauer Sommerabend im Juli am Neusiedler See. Die Teilnehmer der traditionellen YES-Cup Regatta sitzen bei Bier und Grillkotelette auf der Terrasse unseres Clubhauses. Die Stimmung ist ausgelassen, jeder hat nach zwei ereignisreichen Wettfahrten seine Geschichte zu erzählen. Eine Unterhaltung am Ende unseres Tisches zieht meine Aufmerksamkeit auf

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Analytics

Patrick MaherJuly 30, 2014 0

There’s no ‘I’ in analytics

A few years ago I discussed the idea of analytic resources as ‘all-stars’ rather than ‘rock stars.’ While this previous blog certainly touched on the team aspect of analytic work, recently I’ve been thinking about just how much teamwork is required to make an analytics project successful. From extracting data,

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 24, 2014 0

When did 'your music' become 'classic rock'

In this blog post, I put some classic rock song data under the SAS Analytics microscope, to see if I could get a better picture of exactly what is considered 'classic rock' these days... Michael Raithel recently pointed me to an interesting article/study about 'classic rock' music, and invited (or is

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Sports & Entertainment

Analytics

Analytics Lifecycle

David PopeJuly 23, 2014 0

Why standard ETL tools are not designed to support analytics

IT folks love SQL (Standard Query Language). Once you know how to program in SQL, you can work with almost any database because it is a standard. However, SQL is NOT a standard for doing analytics. The SAS programming language pre-dates SQL and even though SAS does SQL, SQL does not

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 22, 2014 0

I see spots ... sunspots!

The sun has gone eerily quiet, in the middle of what should be the height of the 11-year sunspot cycle... Here's a superb photo of some sunspots that Stephen A. Carr posted to the Telescope Addicts Facebook group - a group which I follow with great interest. (Thanks for allowing

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Analytics

Nele CogheJuly 21, 2014 0

Hot hot heat map

Although I’m not particularly excited about football (I admit, I don’t completely understand what offside means), I did follow the last World Cup with more than average attention. Not only for the handsome players, but especially for all the fascinating statistics that appeared. It struck me that heat maps popped

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Analytics

Carl FarrellJuly 21, 2014 0

Energized about energy

I’ve been told I have rocks for brains before, but right now I have rocks on the brain – the kind that are millions of years old and contain precious stores of oil and gas. One reason I have petroleum on my mind is that I’ve just returned from Brazil, where

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mike GillilandJuly 18, 2014 0

Forecasting and supply chain blogs

In the summer heat, when The BFD alone isn't quite quenching your thirst for forecasting know-how, here are several other sources: CatchBlog -- by Steve Morlidge of CatchBull From his 2010 book Future Ready (co-authored with Steve Player), to his recent 4-part series in Foresight dealing with the "avoidability" of forecast

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 18, 2014 0

Use SAS to help plan your next vacation!

SAS is great at helping make important business decisions - how about helping decide where to take your next vacation?... Here's a picture from one of my favorite vacations with my buddy Joe. As you can see, I like "nature vacations." Can you guess where this one was? (leave a comment with

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Mike GillilandJuly 15, 2014 0

IIF/SAS grants to support research on forecasting

Again this year (for the 12th time), SAS Research & Development has funded two $5,000 research grants, to be awarded by the International Institute of Forecasters. Criteria for award of the grant will include likely impact on forecasting methods and business applications. Consideration will be given to new researchers in

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Analytics

Renee NockerJuly 14, 2014 0

You snooze, you lose.....

This was probably my favorite of the myth-busters webcasts I have been spewing about, and now I definitely want to meet James Dallas so we can discuss and nod emphatically at each other’s insights on this topic! The “You can’t have analytics without IT” myth is the fourth myth covered

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Analytics | Data for Good

Paula Henderson

Paula HendersonJuly 14, 2014 0

Analytics making a difference: NYC finds Good Shepherd Services program reduces homelessness, jail stays

A recent project with a supportive housing provider in New York City showed how analytics leads to insights that can change, even save, lives. The New York City Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence (CIDI) is the analytics research arm of the City’s Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 9, 2014 0

Live long and prosper ... but how long?

I bet a lot of SAS users know where the phrase "Live Long and Prosper" comes from ... but can we use SAS software to also help analyze 'how long'? This blog posting shows several different kinds of SAS graphs that can help answer such a question! Let's start with

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics

Renee NockerJuly 8, 2014 0

What is a better decision worth?

The word “analytics” is widely misused and misunderstood. While SAS arguably invented the advanced analytics and predictive analytics categories more than 38 years ago, other software vendors have used the term to describe things like reporting, monitoring, and tracking what happened. The value of these more simple capabilities are easily

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonJuly 7, 2014 0

Where will the next earthquake strike?

This morning, a fairly strong earthquake struck southern Mexico - can SAS analyze past earthquake data to help predict future earthquakes?... I don't have any pictures of earthquake damage, but here's one I took of the main house/prop from the Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre here in North Carolina - I imagine this

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