I continue to be foxed by the lack of a Closing Session at this year’s SAS Global Forum (SGF) in San Francisco. One of the highlights of each Closing Session at previous conferences was the presentation of Best Contributed Paper awards for each strea…
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NOTE: Reporting Horizontally (WRS tabs)
I recently spotted a neat tip from Tricia Aanderud on the BI Notes blog. In the article Web Report Studio: Switch Report Sections to Tabs in Snap! Tricia provides us all with a reminder of the ability to create tabs in our Web Report Studio reports a…
Interesting & quirky tourist attractions near London and Analytics 2013
Are you going to Analytics 2013 in London?!? And if so, have you found any fun/interesting/touristy things to do while you’re there? … Being an analytics conference, I thought it would be good to apply some “analytics” to the task! So I took some…
How to find the ENGINE name for a SAS library
One of the great things about SAS libraries is that you can write your programs to read and write data without having to worry about where the data lives. SAS data set on a file system? Oracle table in a database server? Hadoop data in Hive? For many SAS applications, […]
Werken Met SAS
One thing that impressed me about SAS Global Forum 2013 was the number of international attendees–28 percent! While SGF (and it’s predecessor SUGI) always claimed to be the worldwide SAS conference, only recently has this actually become true. One longtime international attendee is the SAS author, Erik Tilanus, who hails from the Netherlands. Erik works […]
Webinar: Managing Data with R
Before you can analyze data, it must be in the right form. Join Revolution Analytics and me this June 21st for a 4-hour webinar that shows how to perform the most commonly used data management tasks in R. We will work through … Continue reading →
The benefits of operationalizing analytics
I recently interviewed SAS project manager, Jonathan Wexler, who will be speaking at Analytics 2013 in London on June 19. His topic will be operationalizing your data and he’s breaking it down into three main points: Big data trends SAS tools you can…
Create animations like Hans Rosling!
They say “Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery”… Therefore when I imitate Hans Rosling’s famous world-data animation, it’s not that I’m jealous, but that I’m paying homage to him! (OK, and maybe also a little bit jealous! LOL) Well, anywa…