Econometrics is all about explaining the “why” for companies. For example, companies may want to know, “why are my customers leaving?” so they can win them back. Ken Sanford of SAS, known as the econometrics evangelist, is presenting at Analyti…
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Presentation tip: using ZoomIt during software demos
I’m currently at the SESUG conference with hundreds of SAS users. I’ve presented a few talks, and I’ve attended a few more. The presentation rooms can be large and dimly lit, and the projectors at these conference hotels are not always the brightest nor are they exactly “high def”. To […]
SESUG 2013!
We are really enjoying SESUG this year. Great turnout and some great papers. Good job so far to everyone involved!!
Educating the next generation of analytics professionals
There’s a lot of talk about the gap between the demand for analytics talent and the short supply. Jennifer Priestley of Kennesaw State led a panel at Analytics 2013 to discuss how universities are minding the gap. I caught up with her to ask what sch…
Shouting From the Podium: Data Mining Takes Centre Stage
This past Wednesday, SAS Canada’s offices was once again pleasantly overrun by data mining practitioners. I often find myself wondering what the collective, cumulative experience of the attendees must be. Hundreds of years? It must be, at a minimum. On…
A custom task to check your data cardinality
The other day I showed how to check your data cardinality by using a simple SAS program. I also promised to provide a custom task that makes the process even easier within SAS Enterprise Guide. Today I’m delivering on that promise. I’ve just added the custom task to the support.sas.com […]
How to store data about your data in your data
Although the NSA and news media have given metadata a bad name in the popular press, the fact remains that information about the nature of your data is extremely valuable. For example, I posted an article yesterday about data cardinality. Cardinality measures the uniqueness of values in a variable. Cardinality […]
What R Has Been Missing
While R has more methods than any other analytics software, it has been missing a crucial feature found in most other packages. SPSS Modeler had it first, way back when they still called it Clementine. Then SAS Institute realized how crucial … Continue reading →