As I prepare for my stint on the SAS Programming “Roadshow,” it occurs to me that some performers get tired of performing their greatest hits over and over again. Not a problem for me, I love to sing those Programming 1 and 2 standards! As I look o…
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Playing "craps" with unfair dice
Last week I wrote a SAS/IML program that computes the odds of winning the game of craps. I noted that the program remains valid even if the dice are not fair. For convenience, here is a SAS/IML function that computes the probability of winning at craps, given the probability vector […]
Do you have a testing culture in your organization?
If you’re a marketing professional it doesn’t get much better than Andy Pulkstenis’ talk at Analytics 2012. Do You Know or Do You Think You Know: Creating a Testing Culture at State Farm documented the value of implementing experimental design in…
Analytics 2012 update – a fresh approach to predictive models
Here’s a quick update from the Analytics 2012 conference. I’ve seen lots of interesting talks. Frank Travisano and Hongsen Zhou from Chubb presented some of their work incorporating association rules into predictive models. The approach was fresh, usi…
Special automatic macro variables available in SAS Enterprise Guide
You might know about the many automatic macro variables that are available in SAS. They provide plenty of information about the SAS environment, such as the current user (SYSUSERID), the SAS version (SYSVER and SASVLONG), and the operating system where SAS is running (SYSCP and SYSCPL). That information is often […]
NOTE: Log Searching, Beyond the Basics With Enterprise Guide
I originally intended my Enterprise Guide “Beyond the Basics” series to have just two parts, but I just had to include two recent tips from Angela Hall. In “Always learning something new, two awesome Enterprise Guide tricks”, Angela relates two trick…
Powershell: Up to v3.0
Just update Windows Powershell to version 3.0 and I do like this new GUI (Integrated Scripting Environment, ISE) with a console, a script window and a command list (Powershell is a true Windows shell; you may try to type 1+2 in the old CMD console!): I also used a free Powershell GUI product, PowerGUI with […]
Inside Analytics 2012 – human capital analytics
Analytics 2012 is in full swing! I had the opportunity to interview Analytics 2012 presenter Gene Pease from Capital Analytics about the importance of human capital analytics and the tools for measuring it. If you’re in Las Vegas, be sure to check out …