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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Natalie MeyerJune 24, 2013 0

Dreading code reviews? Don’t be!

Every programmer may dread the thought of a colleague peeking over his or her shoulder, double-checking code, but SAS Global Forum paper winner David Scocca has offered his tips for making code reviews a painless process. His paper, Communicating Standards: A Code Review Experience, is a must-read. Here’s a peek

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Natalie MeyerJune 17, 2013 0

Had a bad date? Here’s the solution

Everyone may find bad dates in their data set from time to time, but it’s often difficult to tell if they’re mere annoyances or indicative of a larger problem. Luckily, Lucheng Shao has come to the rescue in his SAS Global Forum winning paper, Don’t Let a Bad Date Ruin

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Natalie MeyerJune 10, 2013 0

Congratulations to the Best Contributed Paper winners at SAS Global Forum

First of all, congratulations to everyone who presented at SAS Global Forum 2013. Your hard work and contributions are what make it a success each year. Even though SAS Global Forum 2013 has come and gone, all of the papers and presentations are still available online. Out of this fantastic

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJune 9, 2013 0

Build your own SAS client app with Microsoft .NET

As part of my follow-up to SAS Global Forum 2013, I've posted a few articles about how to create your own client apps with SAS Integration Technologies. This article shows how to use Microsoft .NET -- the same approach used for SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

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Viji IyerMay 20, 2013 0

Pot of gold at the end of each SAS user conference

Every time you see a rainbow, do you look to see where it begins and where it ends? Legend has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of each rainbow with leprechauns guarding it. While this might be popular Irish folklore, and you may not find

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Robby PowellMay 17, 2013 0

Why is SAS 9.4 a big deal?

SAS Global Forum 2013 is a couple weeks in the past, but the feedback and anticipation shared by customers as they heard about SAS 9.4 are still fresh in our minds here at SAS. As we put the final touches on the June release, the excitement we felt in San

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May 15, 2013 0

Top 3 reasons to learn PROC TEMPLATE

We’re just coming back from SAS Global Forum, and what a show! SAS Books was there to provide users with the highest-quality resources for learning SAS, and our users were there to tell us what new books they were most looking forward to reading. Kevin Smith's PROC TEMPLATE Made Easy:

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Viji IyerMay 13, 2013 0

Conference with a heart!

Ever heard your grandmother say when you were little: If you have your heart set in the right place, you can achieve anything you set out to do! That’s what SAS users tried to do at SAS Global Forum 2013 held at Moscone West, San Francisco. The conference had a

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Waynette TubbsMay 10, 2013 0

3 of 30: Tricks for reducing CPU time

Do you remember when CPU time was a high-priced commodity? "Today, if you are any good at what you do, the constrained resource is you," says Timothy Berryhill from Wells Fargo. Berryhill has years of experience with SAS on "many platforms and operating systems." He says there are several things

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Waynette TubbsMay 8, 2013 0

Taking business intelligence mobile

In today's fast-paced, jam-packed work day, many people answer email and read reports after business hours. And more and more, they're doing those things on a smartphone or tablet. How are your users accessing and using your reports? Statistics South Africa has found that their end-users would prefer a mobile

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerMay 7, 2013 0

SAS Enterprise Guide: for all of the hats that you wear, you're covered

Even though it's been around for well over a decade, SAS Enterprise Guide was still a hot topic among attendees at SAS Global Forum this year. In the Technology Connection -- the big session on Monday morning -- SAS R&D staff used the conference agenda content to demonstrate the power

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Data Visualization | SAS Events

Christina HarveyMay 3, 2013 0

Watch Now: “Google - Like” Maps in SAS®

Google holds the gold standard for maps and we have heard our users loud and clear. SAS will introduce enhanced mapping features in SAS Visual Analytics Explorer, SAS/GRAPH®, and other products.

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Christina HarveyMay 2, 2013 0

Watch Now: What’s New in SAS® Enterprise BI

Rick Styll from SAS presents the latest features of SAS® Enterprise Business Intelligence which include improved dashboards, navigation and better integration with Excel and email clients.

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Christina HarveyMay 2, 2013 0

Watch Now: Escape from Big Data Restrictions

Stephen Overton from Overton Technologies, LLC discusses the features of OLAP technology in business intelligence reporting.

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Waynette TubbsMay 1, 2013 0

Text mining: Understand what your customers are saying

According to research, less than half of an organization's data is structured data; nearly 80 percent is unstructured data that may come from social media, customer letters, web pages, invoices and freeform survey answers. Getting the information you need from that data can be a quick and automated experience or

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Data Visualization | SAS Events

Christina HarveyMay 1, 2013 0

Watch Now: Best Practices in Democratized Analytics

Justin Choy from SAS presents an overview of best practices for providing data to clients and users while also maintaining analytic integrity of models and processes.

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Christina HarveyMay 1, 2013 0

Watch Now: The Power of Hash Tables

Learn how to leverage the power of hash tables for sentiment analysis with David J. Corliss from Magnify Analytic Solutions.

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Christina HarveyMay 1, 2013 0

Watch Now: Selecting the Best Players for the Indian Premier Cricket League

Imagine using software to build the perfect sports team. That’s exactly what an Indian cricket league did using SAS® Enterprise MinerTM! Pankush Kalgotra tells us how he used predictive modeling to select the best players for the Indian Premier Cricket League on the SAS Global Forum livestream: sasglobalforum on livestream.com.

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Christina HarveyMay 1, 2013 0

Watch Now: Using Text Mining to Analyze Country Music Lyrics

American country songs are known for topics such as mama, trucks, trains, heartbreaks and drinking. How many of these topics are included in the top country songs over the past 25 years? Deovrat Kakde of Kavi Associates used SAS Text Miner to find out! He shares some of his more

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Christina HarveyMay 1, 2013 0

Watch Now: Use a SAS® Stored Process

Tricia Aanderud from And Data and Angela Hall from SAS share the advantages of SAS® Stored Processes with the SAS Global Forum! In this discussion, you will learn tips and tricks for using stored processes within SAS BI clients. Watch their presentation, "Stop Your "Wine"ing: Use a Stored Process", now

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Christina HarveyApril 30, 2013 0

Watch Now: Finding Gold in Your Data

What is data mining and how do you find those golden chunks of information that transform your business? David Dickey from NC State University gives examples of how tools such as SAS® Enterprise Miner™ can help in his presentation "Finding the Gold in Your Data: An Overview of Data Mining"

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Christina HarveyApril 30, 2013 0

Watch now: 2013 SAS Global Forum Faculty and Student Scholars

Fify students are presenting papers at SAS Global Forum 2013. Many of these students are SAS Global Forum Scholar winners and from the SAS Student Ambassador Program. Students Aude L. Pujula, David Isaias Maradiaga Pineda, Elizabeth Leslie and Mantosh Kumar Sarkar talk about how they use SAS and why it

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Christina HarveyApril 30, 2013 0

Watch Now: Data Mining in Forecasting Problems

Timothy Rey from The Dow Chemical Company describes how to get the most value from your data using mining techniques specific to data collected over time.

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Waynette TubbsApril 29, 2013 0

Closing the distance using SAS® Enterprise BI

Managers, boards of directors, executives - everyone needs up-to-date information for decision making. And today that often means they need it in real-time. James Beaver and Tobin Scroggins from Farm Bureau Bank give their users the option of emailed reports for this real-time or near real-time information, or the users

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Lane WhatleyApril 29, 2013 0

User Feedback winner helped improve SAS High-Performance Analytics

It was a packed house at the Moscone West Center in San Francisco last night as more than 4,000 SAS users and employees from around the world gathered together to officially kick off SAS® Global Forum. Following the live software demos from customers and SAS development teams, Technical Support Vice

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Christina HarveyApril 29, 2013 0

Watch Now: What are the next big trends in statistics?

Big data, social, Bayesian techniques, and new methods being developed every day, according to Jennifer Waller of Georgia Regents University. Watch this Inside SAS Global Forum interview for details. Be sure to check out the ending.

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Christina HarveyApril 29, 2013 0

Watch Now: Tyler Smith on the Year of Statistics

Anna Brown talks to Tyler Smith of National University about the International Year of Statistics and why it's important for businesses to use statistics when making decisions. He also talks about the role of statistics in the health industry. Watch it now on the SAS Global Forum livestream: sasglobalforum on

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Christina HarveyApril 29, 2013 0

Watch Now: SAS Global Forum 2013 Technology Connection

SAS presenters highlight software features built on SAS 9.4 platform and share the 2013 product release roadmap for these technology themes: high-performance analytics business visualization data management decision management cloud sasglobalforum on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerApril 29, 2013 0

SAS Global Forum shows "Strength in Numbers"

What a conference so far... SAS Global Forum is now in full swing, and the two big sessions (Opening Session last night, and the Tech Session this morning) have been packed with impressive material. The attendees I've spoken with have been suitably impressed and enthused. You can view the sessions

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Christina HarveyApril 29, 2013 0

Watch Now: SAS Global Forum Opening Session

Jim Goodnight kicks off SAS Global Forum with a look back the first SAS visit to San Francisco in 1982 - when everything was big including hair, cell phones and computers! Now, small computers deliver big data and we can access that data on even smaller devices such cell phones

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