We previously looked at SAS Grid Manager for Hadoop, which brings workload management, accelerated processing, and scheduling to a Hadoop environment. This was introduced with the m3 maintenance release of SAS v9.4. M3 also introduced support for using…
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Tales from SAS author, Ron Cody
It was about 30 years ago that I wrote my first book, Applied Statistics and the SAS® Programming Language. It was written on a PC with two floppy disk drives (one for the operating system, the other for my document) using a word processing software called WordStar. It was all […]
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NOTE: Visual Analytics V7.3 Has Arrived
Maintenance release 15w33 of SAS v9.4 arrived in August and it included a new version of Visual Analytics – version 7.3. This new release doesn’t offer significant new features over its previous releases but I did notice that Visual Analytics Viewer’s …
Gotcha with SAS, regular expressions, and end-of-line matching
Regular expressions are essential for sophisticated text processing, and it is generally easy to transfer knowledge of Perl regular expressions to the SAS functions prxparse, prxmatch, prxposn, etc. However, use caution with the end of line character …
Reading Hierarchical Data – Part 3
This post is the third and final in a series that illustrates three different solutions to “flattening” hierarchical data. Don’t forget to catch up with Part 1 and Part 2. Solution 2, from my previous post, created one observation per header record, with detail data in a wide format, like […]
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SASTechies 2015-08-31 14:31:00
Hey All,Today I happened to read this good presentation about the Data Visualization Best Practices in Business Intelligence reports…There is a excellent graphic referenced here which summarizes which type of data visualization Graphic would be bette…
SAS Visual Analytics: Get to the Point with a Geo Coordinate Map
Perhaps you’ve heard people talk about tornado alley – it’s an area down the middle of the US where tornadoes occur. Tornadoes are powerful storms – capable of sending a 2×4 wood board through a car door – scary. In the first post of this series, I noted that successful geospatial data visualizations have geography as a character in the data story. If we wanted …
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The one piece of advice everyone in analytics needs to hear
I was recently asked why I would recommend my new class, Explaining Analytics to Decision Makers: Insights to Action. The answer goes back to some great advice, a lunch of eggplant parmesan and in another more twisted way, to what was ironically affectionately known as the “bomb plant.” Early in […]
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