Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJanuary 9, 2019 0

10 posts from 2018 that deserve a second look

Numbers don't lie, but sometimes they don't reveal the full story. Last week I wrote about the most popular articles from The DO Loop in 2018. The popular articles are inevitably about elementary topics in SAS programming or statistics because those topics have broad appeal. However, I also write about

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Data for Good

Alison BolenJanuary 4, 2019 0

Top 10 data for good articles of 2018

Do you want to start your year feeling great about data and analytics? Then dive into this list and read a few data for good stories that you might have missed in 2018. You'll learn how data scientists are using analytics to save endangered species, prevent suicide, combat cancer -

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Data Management

Joyce Norris-MontanariDecember 31, 2018 0

The data engineer: Jack of all trades

Joyce Norris-Montanari discusses data engineers in the second of her two-part series.

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Programming Tips

Joe FurbeeDecember 21, 2018 0

SAS REST APIs: a sample application

This post rounds out the year and my series of articles on SAS REST APIs. The first two articles in the series: Using SAS Viya REST APIs to access images from SAS Visual Analytics and Using SAS Cloud Analytics Service REST APIs to run CAS Actions, examined how to use

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeDecember 20, 2018 0

A Graphical Journey

The ODS Graphics software, first released with SAS 9.2, supported creating graphs directly from statistical procedures.  Prior to this, very few statistical procedures created graphs on their own, and in most cases creating graphs was a post process or creating the graphs from the saved data using SAS/GRAPH procedures. With

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Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerDecember 20, 2018 0

Five SAS programming language features you should be using

Good news -- the SAS program that you wrote and put into production 10 years ago still works. Hey, it's SAS, so you probably take that for granted. But are those techniques from 2008 still the best way to accomplish your task? SAS 9.4, first released in 2013 and now

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Analytics | Data for Good | Work & Life at SAS

Marcia WalkerDecember 14, 2018 0

Rule number one: follow your heart

Singer-songwriter David Wilcox kept me out of prison. That’s not a country song gone bad – it’s a real-life experience. Almost two decades ago, I attended a David Wilcox concert in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. His songs have always hooked my heart, and one in particular caught my attention that

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Health Care | Life Sciences

Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Kim WilsonDecember 13, 2018 0

FAQs about SAS dates, arrays and managing local PC files

Every so often, SAS Technical Support highlights questions that come in on a regular basis. This is one of those times. Here Kim Wilson describes answers to questions covering SAS dates, arrays, and how to reference local PC files from SAS® Enterprise Guide® and SAS® Studio when those applications connect to a SAS® server in UNIX operating environments.

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinDecember 12, 2018 0

The essential guide to bootstrapping in SAS

This article describes best practices and techniques that every data analyst should know before bootstrapping in SAS. The bootstrap method is a powerful statistical technique, but it can be a challenge to implement it efficiently. An inefficient bootstrap program can take hours to run, whereas a well-written program can give

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Learn SAS

Terry BarhamDecember 11, 2018 0

Take your SAS exam from home or office

SAS has partnered with Pearson VUE to offer Online Proctored for all public SAS exams.

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Data Management

Todd WrightDecember 11, 2018 0

The California data privacy wave is coming – Are you ready?

Todd Wright shares results of a SAS survey about consumers' data privacy concerns.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Larry LaRussoDecember 10, 2018 0

Navigating the Candy Wall of SAS Support Resources

While support.sas.com remains the holy grail of SAS support resources, there are so many good choices, it can sometimes be hard to know where to start. That’s why we’ve put together a new guide to make things easier for new SAS users: the SAS Starter Kit.

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Work & Life at SAS

Alyssa GrubeDecember 10, 2018 0

Sustainability is Sweet: Lessons from Honey Bees

Sometimes, during my day-to-day job, I get to experience some really fun and unique things. I’m thankful that these experiences, while work-related, sometimes spark deeper reflection about the world around me. Case in point: a few weeks ago, I zipped into a bee suit to tour and learn about SAS’

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinDecember 10, 2018 0

Visualize Christmas songs

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! -Buddy in Elf In the Christmas movie Elf (2003), Jovie (played by Zooey Deschanel) must "spread Christmas cheer" to help Santa. She chooses to sing "Santa Claus is coming to town," and soon all of New

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Analytics

Paul GittinsDecember 6, 2018 0

Does your choice of coding language matter?

I can still remember the emergence in the 1990s of Java as a universal and largely open-sourced programming language. Some observers believed it would signal the eventual demise of proprietary languages such as C, Fortran and Cobol. Current surveys, however, and there are many, confirm that plenty of people continue

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Artificial Intelligence | Learn SAS | Machine Learning | SAS Events

Charu ShankarNovember 28, 2018 0

3 things you need to know about SAS Global Forum 2019 from the conference chair

Find out what SAS Global Forum 2019 conference chair MaryAnne DePesquo says about the upcoming conference in Dallas.

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Work & Life at SAS

John MaynardNovember 19, 2018 0

Why Being a Great Place to Work Benefits Customers Too

SAS was again named a Top 10 Place to Work in the World by Great Places to Work™. This is quite an honor, and one which SAS has enjoyed for the past eight years. SAS has also been a highly ranked work place in the US for the past 20

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence | SAS Events

Paula HendersonNovember 13, 2018 0

Georgia health department uses analytics to stop fraud in WIC program

In many grocery stores throughout the country, the acronym “WIC” accompanies a number of the food items on the shelves. The letters stand for the federal “Women, Infants and Children” program that provides nutritional food to pregnant women and their young children who are in need. While this is a

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Government

Analytics | Data Management

Joyce Norris-MontanariNovember 12, 2018 0

5 principles of data management for analytics

Joyce Norris-Montanari cites five things she considers essential to data management for analytics.

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Analytics | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Steffen StahlNovember 6, 2018 0

First SAS User Group Meetup: "Inspired users can go to work the next day and start right away"

A few weeks ago, the first German SAS® user group meetup took place in Berlin. I had a chance to talk to Igor Khorlo, Senior Statistical Programmer at Syneos Health Germany GmbH and founder of the SUGG, about his motivation to constitute this group. What I experienced was a fascinatingly

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Customer Intelligence

Laura MaroglouNovember 6, 2018 0

Using SAS at SAS: How content targeting drives better UX

The only constant is change – Heraclitus As online user behavior continues to evolve, user expectations are growing as well. More and more, users expect to be known; thus, web personalization and targeted content are becoming mission critical and an expectation, not an exception. Using SAS Customer Intelligence 360, we

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Work & Life at SAS

Anjelica CummingsNovember 5, 2018 0

Create Code that Counts

What does it take to see the work we do as more than a source of income? It's about looking beyond the day-to-day tactical items of a to-do list. For our employees, it's about connecting to the significant contributions SAS makes to the world. And our own Jared Peterson experienced

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Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Pei-Yi TanOctober 31, 2018 0

Improving model interpretability with LIME

This is the fourth post in our AI interpretability series. Previous posts by my colleague Ilknur Kaynar Kabul covered partial dependence, interpreting data sets and other topics.   While some machine learning models – like decision trees – are transparent, the majority of models used today – like deep neural networks, random forests, gradient boosting

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Customer Intelligence

Malcolm LightbodyOctober 29, 2018 0

Better product-centric recommendations using SAS Customer Intelligence 360

In an earlier blog post my colleague, Suneel Grover, wrote about how to take advantage of the product recommendations technology implemented in SAS Customer Intelligence 360. He noted that two methods are implemented behind the scenes, a visitor-centric and a product (or item)-centric approach. And most importantly, while some sophisticated

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Programming Tips

Rick WicklinOctober 29, 2018 0

Bootstrap regression estimates: Residual resampling

If you want to bootstrap the parameters in a statistical regression model, you have two primary choices. The first, case resampling, is discussed in a previous article. This article describes the second choice, which is resampling residuals (also called model-based resampling). This article shows how to implement residual resampling in

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Programming Tips

Brian KinnebrewOctober 29, 2018 0

How to use CASL to develop and work with user-defined CAS actions

In addition to the many CAS actions supplied by SAS, as of SAS® Viya™ 3.4, you can create your own actions using CASL. Learn how in this post.

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Analytics

Heather HallettOctober 23, 2018 0

I am a recovering ICU nurse

I've been recovering for 15 years now, after a lengthy career caring for critically ill patients. Now, I’m part of a team at SAS that’s working to transform health care – and that's important to me because of something that happened when I was an ICU nurse. It changed my

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Government | Health Care

Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Susan KahlerOctober 17, 2018 0

Four machine learning strategies for solving real-world problems

There are four widely recognized styles of machine learning: supervised, unsupervised, semi-supervised and reinforcement learning. These styles have been discussed in great depth in the literature and are included in most introductory lectures on machine learning algorithms. As a recap, the table below summarizes these styles. For a comprehensive mapping

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Analytics | Data for Good

Alison BolenOctober 17, 2018 0

3 wildfire predictions from a recent SAS hackathon

What can you learn about wildfires when you provide a room full of analysts with 7 years of US wildfire data and the tools they need to analyze it? A lot. At a recent data dive, we split 35 data scientists into 9 teams, provided multiple data sets containing information

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonOctober 16, 2018 0

Why you need GPUs for your deep learning platform

Deep learning has taken off because organizations of all sizes are capturing a greater variety of data and can mine bigger data, including unstructured data.  It’s not just large companies like Amazon, SAS and Google that have access to big data. It’s everywhere. Deep learning needs big data, and now

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