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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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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

Does your choice of programming language matter?

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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Artificial Intelligence | Internet of Things

David TareenNovember 21, 2018 0

AI and IoT, better together to accelerate digital transformation

Burger and fries, wine and cheese, peanut butter and jelly … some things just go better together. For organizations embarking on digital transformation, AI and IoT just go better together. These two distinct technologies; AI and IoT (or AIoT) are a natural fit. To take an analogy from the human

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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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Analytics | Data Management

Businessman considering the principles of data management for analytics

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

First SAS User Group Meetup

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

Jared Peterson from 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 Lightbody

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 Kinnebrew

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 Hallett

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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Data Management

Employees discuss Amazon's data-driven business success

Phil SimonOctober 15, 2018 0

Amazon's data train just keeps a rollin'

Think that the company has let up in the last two years? Think again.

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Data for Good | Work & Life at SAS

I-sah HsiehOctober 1, 2018 0

SAS mobilizes volunteers, analytics experts to support Hurricane Florence relief

Once a disaster is over, and the frenzy of news stories and social media posts has subsided, it can seem like the crisis has passed. However, for those Hurricane Florence survivors left with ruined homes and businesses, damaged schools and buildings, there remains a struggle to return to normalcy. As

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Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good

Lane WhatleyOctober 1, 2018 0

What can you learn from an AI art installation?

The solar farm at SAS world headquarters is a treasure trove of data. Jessica Peter, Senior User Experience Designer at SAS, had an idea about using that treasure in an art installation to show how data can tell a story. Her idea became a reality when she and others at SAS

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Customer Intelligence

Ashutosh KumarSeptember 26, 2018 0

Why customer journey design matters (and having analytics at its heart matters, too)

Marketing has changed and continues to change. Some of this is because of technology, but mostly it is the result of evolving customer expectations. Isolated customer interactions, however good, do not create a great customer experience. As isolated events, in fact, they may have a low level of influence on

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Analytics | Internet of Things

commute accelerometer

Chris HemedingerSeptember 26, 2018 0

Using your smartphone accelerometer to build a safe driving profile

How to extract driving patterns by using smartphone sensors -- especially the accelerometer. With accelerometer readings in hand, you can use spectral analysis and other techniques to decompose events, and machine learning to match differentiate from patterns of risky drivers.

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Artificial Intelligence | SAS Events

Anjelica CummingsSeptember 19, 2018 0

What could you create if nothing were impossible?

Referred to as the instigator of innovation, Mick Ebeling works to expand the human possibilities of technology through his company, Not Impossible Labs, whose mission is to change the world through technology and story. Powered by a team of thinkers, doers, creators and hackers, Not Impossible Labs works on inspirational

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinSeptember 19, 2018 0

Shuffling smackdown: Overhand shuffle versus riffle shuffle

Every day I’m shufflin'. Shufflin', shufflin'. -- "Party Rock Anthem," LMFAO The most popular way to mix a deck of cards is the riffle shuffle, which separates the deck into two pieces and interleaves the cards from each piece. Besides being popular with card players, the riffle shuffle is

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