Category: SAS

Designing Dashboards: Finding the Fantastic Five Colors

Color may have the most impact on your design. People react strongly to color either through culture values or personal choices. As with fonts, color is another element of style. And just like fonts, colors communicate meaning as well. [Read: Understan…

Creating a Web Analytics Report in SAS Visual Analytics 8.1

Recently I was asked to create a Web Analytics dashboard on spec. I decided to use the latest version SAS Visual Analytics 8.1 so I could review the new features. When we wrote the Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics book, we were using beta versions of the application. Here’s some of the process I used while working on creating the Web Analytics report.

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Map: Median age by country

If countries have a similar median age, does that mean they are also similar in other ways? My best guess at an answer is – probably. Perhaps if we plot the data on a map, we’ll be able to see the answer more clearly. I first started thinking about thi…

Bilingual job opportunities in the U.S.

When I was in college, I lived in the Alexander dorm, where each room had an American student and an International student. I learned a lot about the rest of the world, and I also heard a lot of different languages being spoken. I’m really impressed wh…

CNTK integrated into Keras

Keras is a very convenient tool to build your deep learning model from scratch, it is so easy to use that it almost becomes the de-facto deep learning modeling framework in Kaggle competition.Keras used to support only TensorFlow and Theano, now, CNTK,…