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Waynette TubbsMay 18, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Jenine Milum creates a report

At SAS Global Forum, one of the most difficult areas for me to show to you are the poster presentations. This year, I asked Steve Polilli, a colleague who is great with a Flipcam, to video a few for me. I picked out three that I will use in the

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Waynette TubbsMay 17, 2012 0

So long from SAS Global Forum 2012

Here is the last video from the last day at SAS Global Forum 2012. This one is great! Make sure you stay in there long enough to watch the outtakes: they are so funny!

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Waynette TubbsMay 16, 2012 0

SAS User Feedback Award Winner: Pete Lund

Annette Harris spends several minutes during this video extolling many of the high-performance virtues of Pete Lund, Information Systems Manager, Looking Glass Analytics. One thing she didn't mention (it was mentioned to me later) is that Pete is a long-time member of SAS-L. Do you know how many other SAS

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Waynette TubbsMay 14, 2012 0

SESUG junior professional grants

SESUG (Southeast SAS Users Group Conference) is an annual conference held in the Southeast US - typically in September or October. This year, the conference will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham, North Carolina, October 14-16. According to Peter Eberhardt, SESUG 2012 Academic Chair, the

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Waynette TubbsMay 11, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - High schoolers analyzing high schoolers

Part of what captivated me about this paper and poster presentation were the presenters - these guys are high school kids using SAS to do a visual analysis of Internet use by high schoolers. The idea was so compelling that Anna Brown and Inside SAS Global Forum went to talk

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Julie PetlickMay 10, 2012 0

SESUG student grants: Apply now

The semester is coming to an end and summer break is just around the corner, so why should you be thinking about conferences and grant opportunities? Conferences like SESUG provide a lot of great benefits to students.

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Waynette TubbsMay 9, 2012 0

How the Orlando Magic relies on SAS Analytics

So, when you go to the game, do you buy a hot dog, a beer and a banner before the first quarter? Do you buy them all from the same vendor? Do you go back during the half? Does the score impact how much money you spend on concessions? All

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Waynette TubbsMay 8, 2012 0

How to be a SAS mentor

Stanley Fogleman says that SAS can be hard to learn on your own - not because it is a difficult language - but because of the various business requirements. In fact, even college students entering the workforce are often ill-prepared in some ways. That's why Fogleman believes that a SAS mentoring program

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Waynette TubbsMay 7, 2012 0

SAS has amped up mobile

SAS already has some cool mobile Business Intelligence apps. Now, Scott McQuiggan tells Anna Brown, in this Inside SAS Global Forum interview, that you can view the really cool high-performance analytics reports that you've created on your desktop - right from your mobile device. Check this out!!

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Iain BrownMay 4, 2012 0

Sentiment analysis: Mining the hearts and minds

It is becoming more and more apparent that social media is a gold mine of unstructured data that is just waiting to be analysed so that the nuggets can be extracted. At SAS Global Forum, I was particularly impressed with the diversified use of sentiment analysis and the exploration that

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Waynette TubbsMay 4, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - A trend, fraud sniffer

Jenn Sykes (you probably remember her from this great sentiment analysis post last year about American Idol), presented Predicting Electoral Outcomes with SAS® Sentiment Analysis and SAS® Forecast Studio at SAS Global Forum 2012. In addition to predicting elections, Sykes tells Anna Brown from Inside SAS Global Forum, that there is a lot of unstructured data

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Waynette TubbsMay 2, 2012 0

Congratulations Best Contributed Papers at SAS Global Forum

Congratulations to all of you who presented at SAS Global Forum. It takes a lot of hard work to put together the research, write a paper and presentation, and then stand on stage and present to a crowd of people you have never met. You are amazing. From all of

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Waynette TubbsMay 1, 2012 0

Statistician: The sexy job of the next decade

Google's Chief Economist Hal Varian says the sexiest job of this decade will be statistician. Anna Brown interviewed George Hurley, a Senior Research Manager, to find out what the big deal is. Take a look at his answer and then tell me why you think being a statistician is the hot

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Andrew KuligowskiApril 30, 2012 0

SAS Global Forum Chair Andrew Kuligowski: Just another face in the crowd

Waynette is exhausted after everything she did at SAS Global Forum, so she asked me to write a blog post for her so she can take some time to rest up. ??? Hey, Waynette, like you think I’m a bundle of energy after chairing the event ??? I mean, I

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Tricia AanderudApril 30, 2012 0

Four tips for surviving SAS Global Forum

Each time I attend the SAS Global Forum, I learn some tricks and this year was no different. Here're 4 tips that you might find useful for the conference next year and please leave yours in the Comments Section.

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Waynette TubbsApril 30, 2012 0

Selecting all observations when any observation is of interest

Now, we all know by now that I'm not a programmer (that makes me very sad sometimes and may frustrate some of you at times), but I know a good paper and presentation when I see one. Christopher Bost knows how to teach a topic. I went to his Tuesday

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imagine what it be like *without* makeup

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerApril 29, 2012 0

The makeup of SAS Global Forum

Question: What do John Travolta, Gina Davis, and I all have in common? (I mean, besides the obvious fact that we are all awesome dancers.) Answer: We have all had makeup applied by artist Roxie Stice. I was the host for two SAS Tech Talks, which were broadcast via Livestream

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Chris BattistonApril 27, 2012 0

SAS Communities Meetup: An insider's view

In some weird twist of fate, I have gone from being anti-social media to blogging on SAS Canada and now to blogging on the SAS Users Groups blog. Crazy world! A little about myself first: I am married, been using SAS for about a year and a half, work for

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Julie PetlickApril 27, 2012 0

Educators get hands-on experience, teaching tips at SAS Global Forum

Like many SAS Global Forum attendees, I took the opportunity to attend several speaker presentations, spend time at the poster session, and visit the Demo Hall each day. The activities I attended did not disappoint, and the hands-on workshop I had been looking forward to was no exception. I have to

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Waynette TubbsApril 27, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - One step ahead of fraudsters

As always, SAS Global Forum holds a wealth of inspiration. The conversations that I have with you guys while I'm there almost always start with, "I just heard/saw/read the coolest thing. I can't wait to get home and get started using this!" For those of you who missed this year's

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Gordon CoxApril 26, 2012 0

My SAS Global Forum 2012

I had an amazing time at SAS Global Forum this year, from the Tweet Up/Geek Out on Saturday night to the closing session where Chris Hemedinger cloned himself for a high-performance speech. I had the great fortune of presenting a pre-conference workshop with Greg Nelson of Thotwave. If you are

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Waynette TubbsApril 26, 2012 0

SAS R&D Senior Director on 'seeing' trends in big data

You saw Justin Choy and Dr. Goodnight demonstrate the amazing capabilities of SAS Visual Analytics on stage during Opening Session and the Technology Connection at SAS Global Forum. I heard a lot of ooohs and ahhhs (Some were from me, I'll admit.). I also had conversations with SAS users later

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Alli SouleApril 26, 2012 0

SAS Dummy to SAS Global Forum attendees: You don’t have to go home …

Chris Hemedinger, Principal Technical Architect and veritable SAS celebrity, shared observations from his many years participating in SAS Global Forum as well as his favorite moments from this year’s event in a rousing keynote during a packed Closing Session yesterday. His presentation, “You don’t have to go home … but

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Anna BrownApril 25, 2012 0

Delta Air Lines uses SAS to prepare for an emergency

Disasters happen every day. Often times they occur at inconvenient hours and in remote locations. So it’s important to have a plan - before the emergency - to get qualified personnel to those locations in the most efficient way. Pilots are an example of qualified personnel who could act as

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Waynette TubbsApril 25, 2012 0

SAS Talks - What's new in business intelligence?

Reducing the data gatekeeper role helps people at all levels of the organization quickly interact with data and uncover significant value. That's business intelligence in a nutshell, but what's new with BI these days?

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Waynette TubbsApril 25, 2012 0

Congratulations SAS-L award winners!

SAS-L isn't a 'community' in the way that the social media world typically defines community. You won't find Tweating or blogging in SAS-L, and there's no profile to build. But for those who use SAS-L, it is undeniably a community.

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Waynette TubbsApril 24, 2012 0

SAS Global Forum Tech Talks II

In this second Tech Talks chat, Chris Hemedinger talked with R&D staffers about SAS Visual Analytics Explorer, SAS iPad apps, and some really cool "From the labs." Check out his talk with Nascif Abousalh-Neto, Manager of SAS BI Visualization R&D; Scott McQuiggan, Manager of SAS BI Mobile R&D; and

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Waynette TubbsApril 24, 2012 0

Beep, beep, beep, back it up! Archiving without copying

A basic tenet in any profession - whether you're a statistical programmer, developer or blogger - is save your work. For statisticians, saving is important, but archiving is KING! You never know when your client may want you to roll back to a previous version or when someone else may

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