Work & Life at SAS

Anjelica CummingsJanuary 8, 2020 0

Moving the world forward with people, passion and technology

"Why are we doing this?" No matter who you are, that’s a question you’ve likely asked yourself more than once. Whether as a child receiving instruction from your parents, or as adults contemplating the reason behind decisions made at work, we are curious by nature. We all carry this innate

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJanuary 6, 2020 0

Top posts from The DO Loop in 2019

Last year, I wrote more than 100 posts for The DO Loop blog. The most popular articles were about SAS programming tips for data analysis, statistical analysis, and data visualization. Here are the most popular articles from 2019 in each category. SAS programming tips Create training, testing, and validation data

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Paata UgrekhelidzeDecember 23, 2019 0

Building and comparing open source models in SAS Model Studio

SAS Model Studio lets modelers use SAS alongside open source to create and compare models in a pipeline and project. Debugging, model comparison, and visual pipelines are included.

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Advanced Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Susan KahlerDecember 20, 2019 0

Case study: Computer Vision for monitoring tumors using image segmentation

Computer vision can augment radiologists and make the image interpretation process cheaper, faster and more accurate. The ultimate goal is to achieve a better patient outcome facilitated by the use of computer vision.

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Alison BolenDecember 18, 2019 0

Our top 10 data visualizations of 2019

From sports and health data to environmental and policy data, our data visualization experts have used SAS technologies to explore and present analyses on hundreds of topics throughout the year. We've selected some of the best in this end-of-year roundup to showcase their skills and SAS technologies, and to demonstrate

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Energy & Utilities | Government | Sports & Entertainment

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Data for Good

Briana UllmanDecember 18, 2019 0

How drones and computer vision helped boost clean energy production

How can a solar farm ensure peak energy production? And what factors can be adjusted to optimize production throughout the day, the week and season-by-season? These are just some of the questions that a team of data scientists have asked and answered about the SAS solar farm using data, drones

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning

Wayne ThompsonDecember 16, 2019 0

Why you should add statistical learning to your machine learning tool kit

Data scientists naturally use a lot of machine learning algorithms, which work well for detecting patterns, automating simple tasks, generalizing responses and other data heavy tasks. As a subfield of computer science, machine learning evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence. Over time, machine learning has borrowed from many

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Work & Life at SAS

Alyssa GrubeDecember 16, 2019 0

Our Storytellers: Andrew Magee

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 to work, one answer

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Analytics | Data Visualization

Rick WicklinNovember 27, 2019 0

Evaluate a function on a linear subspace

This article discusses how to restrict a multivariate function to a linear subspace. This is a useful technique in many situations, including visualizing an objective function that is constrained by linear equalities. For example, the graph to the right is from a previous article about how to evaluate quadratic polynomials.

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Students & Educators

Jen SabourinNovember 26, 2019 0

Hour of Code 2019: CodeSnaps and the Sustainable Development Goals

This year the Hour of Code theme is #CSforgood, with a focus on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We're very excited about this theme because we believe computer science and technology play an important role in solving the world's biggest problems. But the first step in empowering the

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Analytics | Data Management

Jim HarrisNovember 25, 2019 0

Top 5 ways business glossaries make analytics better

A business glossary improves data quality – one of the top five ways it makes analytics better.

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Machine Learning

Jordan BakermanNovember 21, 2019 0

A crash course on deep learning in the cloud

Jordan Bakerman's session at ODSC Europe inspired this post, which provides an overview of deep learning and how factorization machines work.

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Analytics

Sarah GatesNovember 18, 2019 0

Resources to help you conquer the 'last mile' of analytics

Getting value from analytics is becoming top of mind for businesses. Organizations have invested millions of dollars in data, people and technology and are looking for a return on their investment. That requires  operationalizing analytics so that it can be used for strategic decision making -- often referred to as

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Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Tom WrigginsNovember 15, 2019 0

Fighting fraud in the new world of Value-Based Payments

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Value-Based Payments (VBP), health care’s new magic, “silver bullet” that will solve all our fraud problems. Last month, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release entitled, “HHS Proposes Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Reforms to Support Value-Based and

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Government | Health Care

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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Government

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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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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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

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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Education

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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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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