I’ve recently written about how much new functionality is getting released by SAS on an almost monthly basis without much fanfare, and I’ve also written about how Hadoop is becoming a new “operating system” and we should expect to see Grid and LASR run…
Explaining analytics with Jeff Zeanah
One of the most important skills for data scientists and business analytical professionals is communications. If decision makers and managers don’t understand what the numbers mean — results won’t turn into action. Jeff Zeanah, President of Z Solutions, Inc. has been presenting on the topic of speaking “analytics” for many […]
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NOTE: HTML 5 is in VA Hub Already!
Aside from comments about my SAS Enterprise Guide vs SAS Studio article, Metacoda’s Michelle Homes (@HomesAtMetacoda) was quick to write a comment about my Flash & SAS Visual Analytics (VA) article and to point out that HTML5 is already an option f…
NOTE: Your Response: EG & Studio
As Mark Twain is oft (incorrectly) quoted as saying: “Reports of my death are much exaggerated”. I didn’t say that Enterprise Guide (EG) was anywhere close to death when I (contentiously) wrote NOTE: What is SAS Studio? RIP Enterprise Guide? but I…
Jedi SAS Tricks – Maximum Warp with Hadoop
I’m gearing up to teach the next “DS2 Programming Essentials with Hadoop” class, and thinking about Warp Speed DATA Steps with DS2 where I first demonstrated parallel processing using threads in base SAS. But how about DATA step processing at maximum warp? For that, we’ll need a massively parallel processing […]
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Analysis of serial killings in the US
I recently came across some very interesting data on serial killings … but it was in tabular/text form. This seemed like an invitation for me to create some graphs that make it easier to understand the data. It seems many people have a morbid curiosity about serial killers. For example, some […]
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