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SAS Events

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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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerApril 26, 2013 0

The important people you meet at SAS Global Forum

Editor's note: this article was originally published on The SAS Dummy blog. In the SAS User Groups LinkedIn group, some generous "old timers" offer tips to the potentially shy newcomers for connecting with other SAS professionals at SAS Global Forum. Perhaps these folks remember their own introverted natures, and they

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Christina HarveyApril 25, 2013 0

Inside SAS Global Forum: the video series!

There's nothing like SAS Global Forum and no place like San Francisco! Everyone around me is packing up cameras and notebooks, including SAS' roving reporter Anna Brown. For those who can't make it this year, Anna's Inside SAS Global Forum video series is the next best thing to being there.

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerApril 24, 2013 0

SAS Global Forum Take-Out: Fast food for your SAS appetite

SAS Global Forum is like a BIG buffet of SAS knowledge, all served up in just a few days. There are so many good presentations and activities, but you cannot fit them all on your plate. You have to choose. To make the choices easier, the SAS Global Forum committee

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerApril 23, 2013 0

SAS Tech Talks: Watch them live during SAS Global Forum

Even if you cannot attend SAS Global Forum next week, you can experience it virtually via the Livestream sessions. This year I will reprise my role as host of SAS Tech Talks, a pair of live webcasts that feature SAS R&D professionals and their latest technological wares. Click "play" on

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Viji IyerApril 23, 2013 0

VIP seats for SAS Global Forum Livestream

True to its central theme "Strength in Numbers", SAS Global Forum 2013 is opening conference doors even wider this year and welcoming the SAS community to participate wherever you are. So sit back and enjoy the show!

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Kathy CouncilApril 22, 2013 0

Headed to SAS Global Forum

It’s that time of year again, where I make my plans to head to SAS Global Forum. This year, the meeting is in San Francisco and, since I love this city, it makes me more excited than ever to meet with SAS friends. This user conference is planned and organized

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Gail BakerApril 18, 2013 0

SAS Global Forum: Focus on Data Management

I’ve attended many trade shows and conferences in my career, but there is nothing like a user conference. I feel that way because I’ve been working with SAS and DataFlux users for over eight years. Or maybe it’s because I helped plan the DataFlux users event again and again. Nonetheless,

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Christina HarveyApril 17, 2013 0

SAS Global Forum: Focus on SAS administration

If you're a SAS administrator and haven't registered or planned your agenda for SAS Global Forum 2013, here are a few key happenings to tempt you!

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerApril 16, 2013 0

The important people you meet at SAS Global Forum

In the SAS User Groups LinkedIn group, some generous "old timers" offer tips to the potentially shy newcomers for connecting with other SAS professionals at SAS Global Forum. Perhaps these folks remember their own introverted natures, and they want to encourage attendees to get the most out of their conference

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Rick MitchellApril 16, 2013 0

Gearing up for the SAS Global Forum excitement

The conference is less than a month away and I am excited to travel to SAS Global Forum. It seems like just yesterday when I accepted the responsibility of being the conference chair, I was full of ideas and aspirations for what I envisioned at this conference. Fortunately, all these

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Aubrey BarfieldApril 16, 2013 0

An assortment of activity at Global Forum

This year at SAS Global Forum, the theme is “Strength in Numbers” and SAS Education is offering a number of training and certification opportunities to strengthen your SAS knowledge. We hope that you will take advantage of this unique chance to take a class, get SAS certified and attend the

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Charu ShankarApril 16, 2013 0

10 presentation tips from a first-timer

Well really, the gumption, you’re probably thinking—sharing tips with seasoned SAS Global Forum participants! I’m excited beyond measure, thrilled and a little nervous to be presenting in San Francisco. Yes, I know I’m a Global Forum first-timer, but with your permission, I’d like to offer some tips that I've found

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Nancy GoodyearApril 15, 2013 0

e-Courses have gone mobile so you can too! Try the new e-Courses and register for a free IPad® at SAS Global Forum

We’ve gone mobile so you can too. Come see us at SAS Global Forum and be one of the first to try our new e-Courses on the tablet! SAS Programming 1 and SAS Programming 2, soon available on your tablet devices, also feature free access to the SAS Practice editor

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Andrew HowellApril 11, 2013 0

Know your audience -- and plan a few work-arounds

As a SAS consultant, trainer and regular presenter at local user groups, I (think I'm) fairly comfortable presenting to SAS users, managers, stakeholders and others of varying numbers. Following on from Tricia Aanderud's Presentation Horror Storiesd I'm reminded why this is one of my favorite tips: Know your audience.

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Tricia AanderudApril 8, 2013 0

When bad things happen to good speakers

A sugar packet at a local Chinese restaurant had this wisdom to share, “Experience is what you get, when you don’t get what you want.” With that profound thought in mind, I’m sharing some of my worse speaking experiences so you can make your SAS Global Forum presentation better.

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Shelley Sessoms

Shelley SessomsApril 4, 2013 0

Learn how to become a published author at SAS Global Forum

Where do you go when you want to mix and mingle with like-minded folks? Where do you go when you want to share best practices and talk about the latest advances in software? If you’re a SAS user, the answer is SAS Global Forum in San Francisco. And while in

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerApril 2, 2013 0

Using Windows PowerShell to download a file from a SAS Workspace session

In a previous article, I described how to use Windows PowerShell to connect to a remote SAS Workspace, run a SAS program, and retrieve the results. In that example, the only results I retrieved were the SAS log and SAS listing (text) output, if any. When you run a SAS

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Sara Jones, CMPApril 2, 2013 0

Top 3 style trends for SAS Global Forum 2013

The Data Scientist has been called the sexiest job of the 21st century. And, 2013 is the International Year of Statistics. With all this focus and attention, it’s no longer What NOT to wear at SAS Global Forum but WHAT DO YOU WEAR? Fashion trends for 2013 have been getting

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