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Analytics | Data for Good

Trent SmithNovember 11, 2019 0

Analytics helping veterans make the transition to civilian life

US military veterans are mission-focused, team-oriented and natural leaders that benefit any organization that hires them. Many of today's veterans organizations use data and analytics to help transition military members and their spouses find rewarding civilian careers. SAS supports those efforts and we're also proud to offer many programs to

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Ron CodyNovember 6, 2019 0

Making your SAS code more readable

Learn about best-selling SAS author Ron Cody's programming standards.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinOctober 30, 2019 0

Compute the first or last day of a month or year

Every year at Halloween, I post an article that shows a SAS trick that is a real treat. This article shows how to use the INTNX function to find dates that are related to a specified date. The INTNX function is a sweet treat, indeed. I previously wrote an article

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Work & Life at SAS

Cassio Pantaleoni, Country Manager, Latin America Sales

Alyssa GrubeOctober 30, 2019 0

Our Storytellers: Cassio Pantaleoni

We’re proud of our unique company culture that spans across offices, divisions and geographies. It’s one of the reasons SAS was recently named among the top workplaces in the world by Fortune’s Great Place to Work! If you’re curious about what it is that makes SAS such a great place

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanOctober 30, 2019 0

How to create checklist tables in SAS®

Leonid Batkhan shows you easy ways to create a checklist table in SAS software.

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good | Internet of Things

Mark WolffOctober 29, 2019 0

I applied AI to my arthritis assessment. Here’s what happened.

I suffer from arthritis. You can tell just by watching me walk: Depending on the day, I have a slight limp, which varies in severity based on a number of factors such as the time of day and recent physical activity. Years of treatment for my condition have shown me

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Artificial Intelligence

Annette GreenOctober 16, 2019 0

Model-driven architectures are key to surviving digital transformation

Two pieces of advice stood out for me in Tom Siebel's book: re-educate your leadership team and pick your partners carefully.

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Machine Learning

Beth EbersoleOctober 14, 2019 0

Training, validation and testing for supervised machine learning models

Validating and testing our supervised machine learning models is essential to ensuring that they generalize well. SAS Viya makes it easy to train, validate, and test our machine learning models.

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinOctober 14, 2019 0

Compute the geometric mean for many variables in SAS

I recently wrote about how to use PROC TTEST in SAS/STAT software to compute the geometric mean and related statistics. This prompted a SAS programmer to ask a related question. Suppose you have dozens (or hundreds) of variables and you want to compute the geometric mean of each. What is

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Work & Life at SAS

Jenn MannOctober 10, 2019 0

How to cultivate a World's Best Workplace culture

SAS has always focused on the employee experience, and it’s been a part of our founder’s philosophy since day one. It may sound cliché today, but when we started this trend over 40 years ago, others noticed. Jim Goodnight, our founder and CEO has always said, “If you treat people

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Analytics | Data Management

Consider 6 tips for preparing data for analytics

Jenine MilumOctober 9, 2019 0

6 tips to prepare data for analytics

Proper data prep means faster, better analytics. Guest blogger Jenine Milum shares tips.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonOctober 2, 2019 0

When did household air conditioning become ubiquitous in the US?

We've had record high 90+ degree temperatures here in the southeast US this past week (September / October), and it has made me appreciate having an air conditioner. Indeed, air conditioners were pretty much invented here in North Carolina (see Eric Cramer). They are used in pretty much every building

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Data Visualization

Cindy WangSeptember 13, 2019 0

How to Visualize Time Series Decomposition using SAS® Visual Analytics

Time-series decomposition is an important technique for time series analysis, especially for seasonal adjustment and trend strength measurement. Decomposition deconstructs a time series into several components, with each representing a certain pattern or characteristic. This post shows you how to use SAS® Visual Analytics to visually show the decomposition of

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Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerSeptember 5, 2019 0

How to publish to a Microsoft Teams channel using SAS

If you use Microsoft Teams for collaboration, you should use it for operational messages too. You can use SAS to automate tailored notices to your Teams Channel.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinSeptember 5, 2019 0

Use cosine similarity to make recommendations

When you order an item online, the website often recommends other items based on your purchase. In fact, these kinds of "recommendation engines" contributed to the early success of companies like Amazon and Netflix. SAS uses a recommender engine to suggest articles on the SAS Support Communities. Although recommender engines

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Beverly BrownSeptember 4, 2019 0

YouTube.com/SASusers: a pop of personality

Editor's Note: SAS' Evan Mann contributed to this post. First came SAS' reputation as a great place to work. Next came a storytellers article series offering a glimpse of the people behind the brand. Now there's the SAS Users YouTube Channel, where tutorial videos provide a window into some of

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SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeSeptember 4, 2019 0

Storage in the Cloud – SAS and Amazon Web Services

Editor’s note: This article is a continuation of the series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. Access all the articles in the series here. In a previous article in this series, Accessing Databases in the Cloud – SAS

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Cindy WangAugust 28, 2019 0

How to Calculate Hull Moving Average in SAS Visual Analytics

Moving Average (MA) is a common indicator in stocks, securities and futures trading in financial markets to gauge momentum and confirm trends. MA is often used to smooth out short-term fluctuations and show long-term trends. But most MA indicators have big lags in signaling a changing trend. To be faster

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Data Management | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

SAS Spark Load Save

Kumar Thangamuthu

Kumar ThangamuthuAugust 27, 2019 0

Data and Analytics Innovation using SAS & Spark - part 1

This article is not a tutorial on Hadoop, Spark, or big data. At the same time, no prerequisite knowledge of these technologies is required for understanding. We’ll give you enough background prior to diving into the details. In simplest terms, the Hadoop framework maintains the data and Spark controls and

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Lisa MortonAugust 23, 2019 0

College-bound students with visual impairments learn to independently analyze data

This summer the Accessibility and Applied Assistive Technology team at SAS launched a new course that teaches students with visual impairments how to independently analyze data, which is a critical skill that all students need for success in college and their careers. However, many students with visual impairments don’t have

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Analytics

Rick WicklinAugust 12, 2019 0

The math you learned in school: Yes, it’s useful!

What is this math good for, anyway? –Every student, everywhere I am a professional applied mathematician, yet many of the mathematical and statistical techniques that I use every day are not from advanced university courses but are based on simple ideas taught in high school or even in grade school.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonAugust 7, 2019 0

Mapping the drone registration data (for NC)

Flying drones was a new & exciting hobby, and very cool fad a few years ago. In recent years, the drone manufacturers have added some really nice features to make the drones easier to fly and more capable ... but the government also added some new rules that have curbed

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Analytics | Data for Good | Data Visualization | Work & Life at SAS

Anjelica CummingsAugust 5, 2019 0

Combining the power of analytics and art

A technology company that places a high value on art. Beyond SAS’ workplace culture, benefits and leadership in the analytics market, it was the company’s emphasis and appreciation toward the arts that first caught Jessica Peter’s attention. Jessica first learned about SAS from the comfort of her living room. During

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Learn SAS | SAS Events

Lisa MendezAugust 2, 2019 0

SAS Global Forum Call for Content is Open

Submit your ideas for SAS Global Forum 2020, and share your knowledge with SAS users worldwide.

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Chris HemedingerJuly 25, 2019 0

Building a recommendation engine with SAS

How we built a recommendation engine for new topics on communities.sas.com. We used data, machine learning, and DevOps to build a scoring engine with SAS.

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Work & Life at SAS

Keith jumping in front of an art structure

Alyssa GrubeJuly 23, 2019 0

Our Storytellers: Keith Teo

If you're curious what makes SAS a great workplace, one answer always rises to the top - our people. It's no secret that the people who work here are some of the best and brightest - not to mention the most passionate, accountable, authentic and curious people you'll ever meet. And at SAS, Your

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Analytics

Hidden Insights: Do you need data hunters?

Serge BouletJuly 23, 2019 0

Do you need data hunters?

Without the right data, any analytics initiative is just an illusion. For machine and deep learning efforts, new sources of data are always in demand. In a few of our Innovation at Scale study interviews, respondents pointed to the rising need for data hunters. I asked our resident guru on

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Data Visualization

Falko SchulzJuly 19, 2019 0

Ring of fire: Visualizing 5,000 years of solar eclipses

When a new Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, the Moon can cast a shadow on certain regions of the Earth. This natural phenomenon creates a solar eclipse, meaning the Moon covers, or eclipses, your view of the Sun if you're in that region. No surprise that in

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJuly 17, 2019 0

Passing comma-delimited values into SAS macros and macro functions

Have you ever tried to pass comma-delimited values to SAS macro or to a SAS macro function? How can SAS distinguish commas separating parameters or arguments from commas separating parts of the values? Passing comma-delimited value as an argument to a SAS macro function Let’s say you want to extract

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