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Customer Intelligence | SAS Events

Emanuela Sferco

Emanuela SfercoSeptember 28, 2016 0

Analytics Experience 2016: la cultura analitica è di scena a Roma

Per tre giorni, la capitale italiana ospiterà Analytics Experience, evento in cui professionisti IT, figure accademiche, business user ed executive da tutto il mondo si riuniscono con l’obiettivo di approfondire lo stato dell’arte degli analytics. Un mix di keynote strategici, storie di successo internazionali, corsi di formazione, certificazione SAS, update

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Kirk Paul LaflerSeptember 26, 2016 0

SAS performance tuning - A little bit goes a long way

Over the past 37 years I've had the good fortune to be able to attend and present at hundreds of in-house, local, regional, special-interest and international SAS events. I am a conference junkie. I've not only attended thousands of presentations, Hands-On Workshops, tutorials, breakout sessions, quick tips, posters, breakfasts, luncheons,

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Deanna Schreiber-GregorySeptember 20, 2016 0

Multicollinearity and MWSUG – a beautiful match

I started out as a Psychology major. During my third year as an undergraduate, I was hired on as a research assistant for my advisor in her cognitive psychology lab. Through this and progressively more complicated psychological research experience, I quickly grew to love statistics. By the end of that

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Data for Good | SAS Events

Becky GraebeSeptember 19, 2016 0

'Data for good is in the DNA of this organization'

Wheat rust. You may have never heard of it, but in a matter of days, this fast-moving, silent-killing plant disease can completely annihilate a critical wheat farm in Ethiopia. Wheat rust’s newest nemeses? A legion of volunteer superheroes in the Data for Good movement. When Jake Porway, Founder and Executive

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Anjelica CummingsSeptember 19, 2016 0

What’s your big data problem?

Analytics Experience 2016 featured more than 100 breakout sessions and talks covering numerous topics in big data. You can watch many of those talks from our Analytics Experience 2016 video portal, where select keynote and session talks are archived. To give you a taste of the content you'll find there, here’s a

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Advanced Analytics | Fraud & Security Intelligence | SAS Events

SAS PolandSeptember 15, 2016 0

SAS® Visual Investigator – nowy wymiar użycia zaawansowanej analityki SAS

W obecnych czasach temat wykrywania nadużyć w obszarach finansów, usług dla obywateli oraz bezpieczeństwa narodowego staje się coraz większym wyzwaniem dla firm prywatnych i instytucji państwowych. Powszechność dostępu do Internetu, gwałtowny rozwój handlu elektronicznego i rosnące ilości danych przetwarzanych w usługach „w chmurze” powodują konieczność zastosowania zaawansowanych narzędzi informatycznych. SAS®

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Data for Good | Fraud & Security Intelligence | SAS Events

Anjelica CummingsSeptember 15, 2016 0

What’s your digital health care plan?

Historically, generations could expect to experience one – maybe at best – major technology disruption or transformation in their lifetime. That’s simply not the case today. Today it is more difficult than ever before to know what will transform the technology landscape in the next month or the next year.

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Machine Learning | SAS Events

Anjelica CummingsSeptember 14, 2016 0

An analytics revolution underway: Insights from Analytics Experience 2016

“What we are experiencing from analytics today is nothing short of a revolution,” said CEO Jim Goodnight, who spoke at Analytics Experience 2016 and set the stage for the conference’s executive panel. “Right now, my primary mission is to ensure people understand the limitless possibilities that lie before us, given

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Learn SAS | SAS Events | Students & Educators

Piotr BorowikSeptember 13, 2016 0

SAS Forum 2016 – SAS University Edition i inne materiały do nauki SAS-a

Nie tak dawno wypadła 25 rocznica uruchomienia Internetu w Polsce, SAS w tym roku obchodzi 40 rocznicę istnienia, a z moich rachunków wynika, że używam SAS-a dokładnie od 15 lat. Jak dla mnie, jedną z głównych zmian, która miała miejsce w tym czasie i była między innymi efektem rozwoju Internetu,

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning | SAS Events

Polly Mitchell-GuthrieSeptember 13, 2016 0

Machine learning fun at KDD

Who says machine learning can't be fun? A crew of us from SAS went to San Francisco for the recent KDD conference, which bills itself as "a premier interdisciplinary conference, [which]brings together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data." We brought

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events | Students & Educators

Elaine KearneySeptember 9, 2016 0

The Internet of medical things and of intern things

The internet of medical things, spurred by the advent of wearable sensors, has dramatic consequences in industry, healthcare, and analytics, just as the advent of the internet of things and analytics has consequences in education. When I began my internship at SAS in May, I knew little about the internet of

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoSeptember 9, 2016 0

Analytics in the Cloud gets a whole lot easier with SAS Analytics for Containers

If you’re doing data processing in the cloud or using container-enabled infrastructures to deploy your software, you’ll want to learn more about SAS Analytics for Containers. This new solution puts SAS into your existing container-enabled environment – think Docker or Kubernetes – giving data scientists and analysts the ability to

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Larry LaRussoSeptember 9, 2016 0

How the SAS Global Forum Presenter Mentoring Program can help would-be presenters

For a SAS professional, presenting at SAS Global Forum 2017 can be a very rewarding. It can enhance your conference experience, help expand the knowledge of the broader SAS community, and advance your career by putting you on display as an expert SAS professional. It can also be a little

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning | SAS Events

Namita LokareSeptember 8, 2016 0

Time series machine learning techniques in healthcare

Time series machine learning techniques show great promise for the analysis of health care wearable data. As our busy lifestyles render continuous monitoring more and more essential, the need to analyze data to find correlations between these data streams becomes even more important, because they can provide important cues to

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Learn SAS | SAS Events

Piotr BorowikSeptember 6, 2016 0

SAS Forum 2016 – warsztaty z SAS

W kolejnym wpisie dotyczącym SAS Forum 2016 chciałbym pokazać trochę kuchni przygotowań do części technologicznej konferencji. Przez wiele lat organizowaliśmy sesję krótkich prezentacji narzędzi SAS, którą czasami tylko roboczo, a czasami oficjalnie, nazywaliśmy PowerPoint free. Podczas standardowych prezentacji na SAS Forum najczęściej pokazywaliśmy najnowsze wersje oprogramowania, nowe aplikacje albo ciekawe

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Events

Piotr BorowikSeptember 2, 2016 0

SAS Forum 2016 – warsztaty z SAS dla programistów

Kto słyszał o SAS LASR Server? Pewnie wielu, bo w ofercie SAS jest on dostępny od kilku lat i jest jednym z głównych składników np. Visual Analytics. A kto słyszał o PROC IMSTAT? Tutaj odpowiedzi twierdzących będzie zapewne znacznie mniej. A kto napisał własny kod wykorzystując PROC IMSTAT? Moim zdaniem,

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Data for Good | SAS Events

Maggie MillerSeptember 1, 2016 0

Learn more about data for good at Analytics Experience

SAS was founded on the principal of using analytics to change the world. From fighting cancer and researching the Zika virus to changing the lives of Ghana women by teaching them how to code, SAS has remained committed to helping solve critical humanitarian issues using data and analytics. What SAS has been

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Bobby GutierrezAugust 29, 2016 0

Is Poker a Skill Game? A Panel Data Analysis

The annual SAS Analytics Conference is upon us again. This year it is known by a different name, Analytics Experience 2016, but the location, Las Vegas, is the same as it has been the previous two years. Just like last year, I will be attending and presenting on analytics for panel

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SAS Events

John AmrheinAugust 29, 2016 0

Present at SAS Global Forum 2017 – Call for content now open

Editor's note: This blog includes the Call For Content Announcement and Frequently Asked Questions. SAS Global Forum is the premier event for SAS users to learn, teach, and network with each other and SAS experts. SAS Global Forum 2017 takes place April 2-5 in Orlando, Florida, where you can join

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Richann WatsonAugust 26, 2016 0

MWSUG preview: When ANY Function will just NOT do!

When I attended my first SAS conference in 2003 I was not only a first-timer, I was a first time presenter. Needless to say I was a bit nervous. I did not know what to expect. Was my topic good enough for these savvy programmers and statisticians? Well my first

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Guohui WuAugust 23, 2016 0

Spatial econometric modeling using PROC SPATIALREG

In our previous post, Econometric and statistical methods for spatial data analysis, we discussed the importance of spatial data. For most people, understanding that importance is relatively easy because spatial data are often found in our daily lives and we are all accustomed to analyzing them. We can all relate to

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Advanced Analytics | Data for Good | Machine Learning | SAS Events

Polly Mitchell-GuthrieAugust 12, 2016 0

The benefits of artificial intelligence

Asking about the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning reminds me a little of the transition to suitcases with wheels. Do you remember lugging around those old suitcases? If not, good for you - this original advertisement from US Luggage will take you back! Thank Bernard Sadow for persistence with his

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Advanced Analytics | Machine Learning | SAS Events

Jorge SilvaAugust 10, 2016 0

Machine learning applications for NBA coaches and players

Machine learning applications for NBA coaches and players might seem like an odd choice for me to write about. Let us get something out of the way: I don’t know much about basketball. Or baseball. Or even soccer, much to the chagrin of my friends back home in Europe. However,

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Sunil GuptaAugust 9, 2016 0

Mastering SAS programming techniques at WUSS

When I think of the Western Users of SAS Software conference, I think of my first event in 1994. I was just starting to learn SAS and wanted to meet others in my region who were also excited about the software. Meeting and discussing SAS topics face to face at the

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Art CarpenterAugust 3, 2016 0

Tips for working with Color Names, Formats, Macros, ODS, Excel®, and PROC REPORT

Not too long ago I had a report generation request from an Alaska state agency. The request had some very specific requirements that detailed the use of user defined colors (by name), data driven control of the report, and Excel delivery using ODS and PROC REPORT. Along the way I had

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Larry LaRussoJuly 27, 2016 0

Will your favorite Game of Thrones character survive next season?

First it was the patriarch of my favorite family. That shocking Red Wedding scene meant I could cross off several more characters I’d grown to love. When the season finale of Season 5 left me asking if we’d lost yet another one of my favorites, I wasn’t sure how much

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Internet of Things | SAS Events

Maggie MillerJuly 22, 2016 0

Getting started with IoT

The Internet of Things (or IoT, as some like to call it) holds a number of benefits for many organizations: revenue growth, smarter decision making and efficiency. Experts are predicting anywhere from 20 to 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020. That’s almost here! Are you

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Margaret CrevarJune 30, 2016 0

15 top Global Forum 2016 papers for SAS administrators

I look forward to SAS Global Forum each year and this past conference ranked up that as one of the best I've ever attended. This year there were so many wonderful presentations, Super Demos and workshops on the topic of administration of SAS and the underlying hardware infrastructure needed for SAS

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJune 27, 2016 0

Video: Demonstrating the new features in SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1

Would you like to see the latest features of SAS Enterprise Guide in action? Of course you would! That's why it's well worth the 12 minutes of your time to watch this video from SAS Global Forum 2016. In the video, Casey Smith (SAS' R&D manager of the SAS Enterprise

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