When you start a new report in Web Report Studio, you may notice that yellow icons with an exclamation point (!) appear in the work area. This happens when you have not added any data to the objects. In the example below, the first capture shows th…
Category: SAS
Increasing the web timeout intervals
I’ve been spending my weekends developing a SAS Publishing book proposal. (For those interested, it involves learning how to fully leverage SAS Stored Processes as a beginning programmer.) Creating examples and jumping between coding, testing and then …
An Analytical Valley: Big Data and Data Scientists (and SAS Programmers)
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google, Facebook, eBay, LinkedLn all have strong presences in analytics. Besides such predominant companies, I’d also like to add Yahoo to the list although Yahoo is no longer in its peak. Yahoo is the largest sponsor […]
Predictive Modelling Competition Ends Soon
Back in August I mentioned that one of my clients was running a predictive modelling competition with a $10,000 prize fund. The competition closes on Friday September 30th, just a couple of weeks away, so if you intend to enter but haven’t done so yet,…
Predictive Modelling Competition Ends Soon
Back in August I mentioned that one of my clients was running a predictive modelling competition with a $10,000 prize fund. The competition closes on Friday September 30th, just a couple of weeks away, so if you intend to enter but haven’t done so yet,…
Info Map: I want an Average not a Sum!
In Information Map Studio, you can easily set the default measure for a data item in the Properties area.
(1) Use the Default aggregate function drop-down to select the default. When you set this item to AVERAGE, the data item defaults to Average t…
Scheduling Jobs
We’ve been on overload the last week with urgent requests as the big yearly meeting looms in the not so distant future. Unfortunately, this means that every single employee is frantically pulling data and hammering the db2 server with requests. I’ve been working around the noticeable slowness by either shortening my date ranges but I […]
What’s our sign?
Rick Wicklin and I are engaged in an arms race of birthday-related blog posts. To recap: Rick analyzed national data about births in the USA and what time of year they are most likely to occur. I responded by analyzing the birthdays of my Facebook friends. Rick responded by analyzing […]