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Work & Life at SAS

Alyssa GrubeApril 22, 2019 0

SAS, Solar Farms and Sheep: Working Together for the Good of the Planet

A few weeks ago, our team moved into SAS’ newest building, Building A. It’s a beauty, featuring a world-class training center, a bakery, and over 1000 pieces of artwork. While the abundance of baked goods is hard to beat, I think my favorite part about the building is the view.

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Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerApril 19, 2019 0

Deeper enjoyment of your favorite shows -- through data

By using data provided by a Game of Thrones fan, we use SAS to look at screen time for scene locations and characters in this crazy popular show.

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Programming Tips

Suzanne MorgenApril 16, 2019 0

Using code snippets in SAS® Viya®

This blog post is based on the Code Snippets tutorial video in the free SAS® Viya® Enablement course from SAS Education. Keep reading to learn more about code snippets or check out the video to follow along with the tutorial in real-time. Has there ever been a block of code

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Artificial Intelligence

Christian EngelApril 16, 2019 0

8 ways for banks to use AI

If a bank gets in touch with a software company and wants to know how it could use artificial intelligence (AI), that means two things. First, the bank is willing to consider AI, and second, that it really does not know much about the subject. Banks want AI, and they

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonApril 11, 2019 0

What to do in Dallas, during SAS Global Forum!

The past few years, I've created maps showing things you might visit and do during the big SAS Global Forum (SASGF) conference. This year the conference is in Dallas, and ... you guessed it ... I've created a Dallas map! If you're familiar with my previous maps, you know that

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Sports & Entertainment

Programming Tips

Chris HemedingerApril 11, 2019 0

Read RSS feeds with SAS using XML or JSON

This blog post could be subtitled "To Catch a Thief" or maybe "Go ahead. Steal this blog. I dare you."* That's because I've used this technique several times to catch and report other web sites who lift the blog content from blogs.sas.com and present it as their own. Syndicating blog

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Analytics | Data Visualization | SAS Events

Janny MorsinkApril 4, 2019 0

What’s it like to recruit the next great soccer star? Find out in this data science escape room from SAS and SciSports

Have you ever dreamed of working for a professional sports organization? Do you play fantasy sports leagues and fantasize about owning a real team? Do you follow the news about player drafts and trades, and wish you could influence who your team picks? Well, here’s your chance. The latest SAS

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Programming Tips

Rick WicklinMarch 13, 2019 0

The value of pi depends on how you measure distance

It's time to celebrate Pi Day! Every year on March 14th (written 3/14 in the US), math-loving folks celebrate "all things pi-related" because 3.14 is the three-decimal approximation to the mathematical constant, π. Although children learn that pi is approximately 3.14159..., the actual definition of π is the ratio of

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Analytics | Data for Good

swimmer diving into a pool

Yigit KarabagMarch 12, 2019 0

5 ways analytics is used at the Special Olympics

The Special Olympics is part of the inclusion movement for people with intellectual disabilities. The organisation provides year-round sports training and competitions for adults and children with intellectual disabilities. In March 2019 the Special Olympics World Games will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. SAS is an official

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Data Management

Jason Simon from the University of North Texas

Georgia MarianiMarch 6, 2019 0

The importance of data governance: An interview with UNT

Learn why Jason Simon from UNT calls data governance critical.

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Data Visualization

Christina Hsiao

Christina HsiaoFebruary 28, 2019 0

Automatically extracting key information from textual data

There is tremendous value buried text sources such as call center and chat dialogues, survey comments, product reviews, technical notes, legal contracts... How can we extract the signal we want amidst all the noise?

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Scott HicksFebruary 27, 2019 0

Using Custom Coordinates for map creation in SAS Visual Analytics

In this post, we continue our discussion of geography variables, the foundation of Visual Analytics Geo maps. This time we will look at Custom Coordinates. As with any statistical graph, understanding your data is key. But when using Custom Coordinates for geographic maps, this understanding becomes even more important. Use

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Students & Educators

Clare FitzGeraldFebruary 26, 2019 0

Black History Month: Honoring Science Pioneers

Following up on our look at mathematicians for Black History Month, let's highlight some African Americans who have made their mark in science. Dr. Mae Jemison (b. 1956) is an American physician and astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel to space in 1992 when she went

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Artificial Intelligence | SAS Events

Per HyldborgFebruary 22, 2019 0

Look to young people and basic statistics to create safe AI

As machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities develop in leaps and bounds, we are seeing the fulfilment of concepts and ideas that only a few years ago seemed like pure science fiction. Every day seems to bring a new story of how AI will help humans do what we

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinFebruary 20, 2019 0

An easier way to create a calibration plot in SAS

Last year I published a series of blogs posts about how to create a calibration plot in SAS. A calibration plot is a way to assess the goodness of fit for a logistic model. It is a diagnostic graph that enables you to qualitatively compare a model's predicted probability of

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Advanced Analytics

Liver CT scan divided into 16 blocks for analysis

Julia GongFebruary 15, 2019 0

Using deep learning for tumor segmentation in medical images

This is the second post in my series about a computer vision project I worked on at SAS. In my previous post, I talked about my initial research and excitement for the project. In this post, I’ll talk about how I refined my goals and got started with the project

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Analytics | Data for Good

Mark PittsFebruary 11, 2019 0

Saving lives with genetics and big data

During each minute you spend reading this article, 18 people will die of cancer. With each tick of the clock, your odds of becoming one of them increases: age is one of the primary risk factors for cancer. Take Nancy. She is a normal, active, healthy woman. Inside her body

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Scott HicksFebruary 8, 2019 0

Fundamentals of SAS Visual Analytics geo maps

Creating a map with SAS Visual Analytics begins with the geographic variable. This blog post explains the first type of geography variable that VA supports: predefined. Future posts will cover the other two types of geography variables in VA: custom coordinates and custom polygons.

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Rick WicklinFebruary 6, 2019 0

Feature generation and correlations among features in machine learning

Feature generation (also known as feature creation) is the process of creating new features to use for training machine learning models. This article focuses on regression models. The new features (which statisticians call variables) are typically nonlinear transformations of existing variables or combinations of two or more existing variables. This

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Learn SAS

Suzanne MorgenJanuary 22, 2019 0

Secrets from a SAS Expert: An Interview with Leonid Batkhan

You’re probably already familiar with Leonid Batkhan from his popular blog right here on The Learning Post. In fact, he’s one of our most engaging authors, with thousands of views and hundreds of comments. Leonid is a true SAS Sensei. He has been at SAS for nearly 25 years and

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Kathryn McLawhornJanuary 18, 2019 0

Navigating SAS documentation to find out about new, modified, and updated features

Learn about the latest product features, changes and upgrade information in new sections of SAS product documentation for SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Viya®. SAS' Kathryn McLawhorn tells us all about them.

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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

Data engineer reflects on his work

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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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

A bootstrap analysis (1) Starts with data, (2) resamples from the data many times to create bootstrap samples, (3) computes a statistic for each sample, and (4) uses the distribution of the bootstrap statistics to make inferences.

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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