Every BI architecture needs a business layer of some kind. I think the business layer actually is the key to a successful BI system because it enables the business users to query and analyse the valuable data using their own terminology rather than the…
Category: SAS
SAS Grid – Documentation
SAS Documentation http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/gridmgr/index.html Grid Computing in SAS 9.2, Third Edition http://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/grid_testingbench.pdf http://blogs.sas.com/supportnews/index.php?/archives/126-Demystifying-SAS-Grid-Computing.html Code Snippets SAS Technical Notes SAS Forum Papers Paper 098-2009 – Data Integration in a Grid-Enabled Environment Cheryl Doninger, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC Nancy Rausch, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC Paper 001-2009 – Achieving High Availability in a SAS ® Grid Environment Daniel Wong, Platform Computing Inc., Markham, Canada
Using the SG Procedures to create and enhance scatter plots
These are the slides for a talk at New York Area SAS Users’ Group on June 2, 2011. NYASUG2011
another look at CRAN Task Views
We’ve been impressed with how helpful the CRAN Task Views are in guiding us in R as we wend our way through the huge number of add-on packages (3021 as of May, 2011). These are web pages that are maintained by volunteers with expertise in a specified …
SAS Platform Object Framework MakeFolder Metadata Utility
Back in July last year I posted MKDIRMD Macro: Creating Tree Folders in Metadata about a SAS macro I wrote to create tree folders in a SAS metadata repository using the SAS Open Metadata API. Just recently I discovered an alternative method using a utility already present in a SAS 9.2 installation: MakeFolder. I stumbled […]
SAS Enterprise Guide options: my favorite 5
SAS Enterprise Guide has about 150 options that you can customize in the Tools->Options window. With each release, the development team adds a few more options that have been asked for by customers, and they rarely decommission any existing optio…
It’s the Search
My friend Leslie posted this comment as her Facebook status: “There are no answers, just the search.” At first I thought, “Now that is just silly. Of course there are answers.” Then I thought about it a little more. Maybe she is right.
The Cu…
Semiparametric method in predicting loss given default
Sparse data is a big concern in building models for loss given default (LGD) for corporate risk. For LGD, most predictors are instrument-related, firm-specific, macroeconomic and industry-specific variables, while the costs to collect such data may be…