Category: SAS

What you don’t see is right in front of you

SAS campus has this great art installation titled Frightened Deer by Richard Rothschild. (That’s it in the picture below.) As you can see, this is a large art installation. I run or drive by these deer almost every day. Most days I am oblivious…

New forum addresses text and data mining

We’re on a roll with discussion forums. We launched yet another customer-requested forum this week; it focuses on data mining and text mining. Mining is all about digging through vast amounts of data to find trends that enable creating predictiv…

Blogging by SAS Users

I was reading Alison’s Friday Fast Links post in the sascom voices blog and was amazed at the growing list of blogs by SAS users. If you are interested in what other SAS users are doing with SAS, be sure to check out the running list of blogs tha…

Using SAS to call Twitter

Contributed by Richard Foley, Product Manager, SAS
Twitter, a microblogging platform, has become all the rage. Companies are using Twitter to inform and market to customers and the world. People use it as a way to keep in touch and let others q…

SAS goes with sparse matrices

SAS has introduced experimental procedure HPMIXED (High Performance MIXED) in version 9.2. This is a welcome addition and now SAS could probably solve the problem I encountered lately with a large mixed model described here. I really like R and its com…

Forums Come and Forums Go

Social media and community experts write tomes full of advice for how to foster conversations with and between your customers. The best advice is “be where they are.” In other words, have the conversation in a place where your audience already ha…

Watching a forum

You can read the forums by visiting support.sas.com/forums, you can subscribe to any or all forums via RSS (look for the orange icon on the page), or you can set a watch that will deliver forum content to you via e-mail.

To set a watch, you must …

Did you know… that you can search all papers and proceedings

The Proceedings from SUGI 24 forward are available on support.sas.com. You can browse the table of contents for the Proceedings or search the Proceedings collection by visiting the SAS Global Forum site at support.sas.com/events/sasglobalforum/pr…