Category: SAS

Learning SAS without access to the software at work or school

As you know, I use this blog space to answer some of the questions that are submitted in our feedback forms and surveys. There are many questions for which I have no answer. But, I’m a long-time SAS employee and that has its advantages. One of …

How to get the details of formats from the format libraries:

If you are like me wanted to get the details of formats stored in the format library, here are two easy ways ….Proc catalog or Proc format

Proc Catalog: Proc catalog will give us the details about name and type (numeric or character) of formats

Two webinars, two M2010 keynote speakers, free learning

I know that many of you will be traveling to Las Vegas in a couple of months to attend the annual Data Mining Conference. But, for those of you who won’t be attending, or for those who would love a sneak-peek beforehand, I’d like to share wit…

Predict 3G users for telecom by using SAS Enterprise Miner

Situation: For a telecommunication company, there are a training dataset of 18,000 customers and a scoring dataset of 2,000 customers.Task:Find potential 3G users from the existent 2G users to increase ARPU and MARPUAction: Trained models by decision …

A letter to my data

Dear Data,

You are immense. Too big for me to create summary reports that are useful, perform basic statistical analysis to draw meaningful conclusions and I can forget just looking at you directly.

I am going for help – to Las Vegas, in October…