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9 skills to become a more modern marketer

Today, the need to take an analytical approach to business challenges no longer only applies to traditional, data-driven functions of a business, like IT, but is becoming more and more relevant to every part of an organization, including the marketing function. Employers tasked with staffing modern marketing teams are facing […]

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Where did Hurricane Matthew drop the most water?

This past weekend, Hurricane Matthew came through the Carolinas. Some areas had record flooding, while other areas didn’t. I was anxious to get back to work today, so I could use SAS software and create a custom map showing who got how much rain. But before we get to the official […]

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Digging deeper into weather data, with custom SAS Analytics!

When you were growing up, did you ever imagine that the most popular show on TV would be 24-hour coverage of a storm?!? Yes, for better or for worse, the weather has become our new reality TV. And as you watch the weather coverage, you probably see all the weather reporters showing the […]

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Introducing SAS Studio to SAS programmers

Over the past 40 years, SAS programmers have used several different methods and interfaces for writing and submitting SAS code. Have you heard about SAS Studio? It is the future of SAS programming! SAS Studio is a web-based application that allows you to access your data, write your code and look at your […]

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SAS Visual Analytics: Design Versus Reality

Recently, Alan Hjemsted Muller from Denmark contacted me with some additional ideas about he had with solving dashboard issues. He provided a gorgeous dashboard that is used in the Elsinore Municipality.

This dashboard (in Danish) – it is about a kindergarten.  He offered to send it in English but I like it in Danish. It allows you to focus more on the design because your eyes are …

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Will Hurricane Matthew follow in its predecessors’ footsteps?

Like many words, if you just say “Cat 5” different people might think you’re talking about different things. Computer geeks might assume you’re talking about category 5 network cabling. But around this time of the year, most people in the southeast US will probably assume you’re talking about a category […]

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Looking after your digital self

Jared Cohen, President of Jigsaw, formerly Google Ideas, and Chief Advisor to Alphabet Executive Chairman (former Google CEO) Eric Schmidt, presented a very interesting keynote at Analytics Experience this month. In it he mentioned the idea of a ‘digital self’. He explained most people have not one but numerous digital […]

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CIMB data science challenge

Similar to hunting for Mewtwo (Pokémon), identifying and recruiting talented data scientists is just as elusive. CIMB decided that the best way would be to bring budding data scientist together for a challenge. This will provide candidates the opportunity to win cash prizes along with potential employment with CIMB’s Decision […]

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