While you’re at SAS Global Forum (or any conference) in Las Vegas, you might have a bit of spare time to do some sightseeing. Therefore I’ve put together a list & map of interesting things you might want to experience! Below is a snapshot of my map – click it […]
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The journey continues as we hear from the instructors for each of the courses being offered on Thursday and Friday, April 21 and 22 after SAS Global Forum. Next up is Mark Jordan who developed and will teach the Introduction to DS2 and Hadoop course. Why should people get excited […]
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The Analytics conference series is getting a modern makeover. And it’s not just a new name. The Analytics Experience, Sept. 12-14 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, is bringing thought leaders and analytics gurus together for one big event. So whether you’re a geek or a suit you can create […]
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Lately I’ve seen several articles about drug overdose deaths being on the increase. But I didn’t really like the graphs in those articles, so I tried to create some better ones using SAS … For example, here’s a map from the National Center for Health Statistics website (see the 3rd dashboard/tab […]
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SAS Global Forum 2016 is just over 2 weeks away, and I’m really excited about showing a Permissions Tracer feature we’ll be releasing in the next version of our Metacoda Security Plug-ins. Metacoda is a SASGF sponsor again this year and we’ll be showing a preview of this new version at our Metacoda stand in … Continue reading “Tracing Permissions for SAS Metadata Security”
The journey continues as we hear from instructors for each of the courses being offered on Thursday and Friday, April 21 and 22 after SAS Global Forum. Our next stop is with instructor David Ghan who is teaching the Using SAS® Programs to Execute Pig and HiveQL in Hadoop and […]
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“What’s in a name?” asked Juliet. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” What if it’s not roses we’re after, but variable names which hold the values needed for a calculation? Here is an example of the data set: The task was to […]
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In a voting contest, is it possible for a huge population to get behind a ridiculous candidate with such force that no other contestant can possibly catch up? The answer is: Yes. Just ask the folks at NERC, the environmental research organization in the UK. They are commissioning a new […]
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