According to David Liebskind of GE Capital, segmentation tells you “What to do” and predictive modeling tells you “Whom to Target.” In his featured presentation “Using Segmentation and Predictive Analytics to Combat Attrition,” the Top Four…
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Learning from our students – Insights from Analytics 2012
For a service organization like SAS Education, there are few things more valuable than feedback from our users. Sunday, in advance of our 15th annual Analytics conference, we were fortunate enough to spend three hours meeting with some of SAS Education…
Example 10.5: Convert a character-valued categorical variable to numeric
In some settings it may be necessary to recode a categorical variable with character values into a variable with numeric values. For example, the matching macro we discussed in example 7.35 will only match on numeric variables. One way to conve…
Go on a date with SAS BI Dashboard, part 1
Don’t give up on the dating game. Just because there is no prompt type specifically for dates, it can still be accomplished with some stored process matchmaking. BI Dashboard offers a dynamic prompt indicator which provides the ultimate flexibility in …
Generate uniform data in a simplex
It is easy to simulate data that is uniformly distributed in the unit cube for any dimension. However, it is less obvious how to generate data in the unit simplex. The simplex is the set of points (x1,x2,…,xd) such that Σi xi = 1 and 0 ≤ xi ≤ 1 […]
Welcome to fabulous Analytics 2012 Las Vegas
This week I am in Las Vegas at the Analytics 2012 conference. If you’re here too, find me and say hello! I love conferences, especially SAS-related conferences. Someone usually presents a clever SAS trick or a cool way to explain something (I am alwa…
SAS and VBA (7): calculate running total
This is a simple routine for a lot of reporting work. Many people tend to do it in Excel by dragging the range after entering the formula in the 1st cell. However, coding in VBA and SAS will usually do it in more prompt and safe way.
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Custom SAS graphs = competitive advantage
SAS/GRAPH gives you the ability to customize your graphs (or even create totally new types of custom graphs) … and it is my firm belief that it gives you a competitive advantage by allowing you to “make sense” of your data in ways your competitors c…