Last week I awoke to an email saying that a respected friend and colleague in Belgium had had an injury and was not well enough to give his talks at the Analytics conference in London. “Can you hop a plane out here and cover six talks?” A trip to Londo…
Use doParallel for rolling regression in R
Rolling regression for a large data set costs lots of resources. There are a few strategies to speed up this process. For example, in R, there is a rollapply function in the dynlm package. In SAS, PROC FCMP is one of the…
NOTE: Agile Developments at SAS
Seek and you shall find. Isn’t Google wonderful? I’m a keen proponent of Agile software development practices and processes. I’ve long been curious to know more about the software development processes used within the various teams at SAS. Jason Burke …
Tips for Starting Your Dashboard Layout
When planning a dashboard sometimes the biggest obstacle is just layout. I might be over generalizing here but I suspect most SAS BI Developers do …
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What’s the big idea? Big graphs, for bigger data!
Not everyone agrees on a definition of “big data” — but you’ll probably agree that the amount of data available today is a lot bigger than in the past, eh?!? … so let’s just call it “Bigger Data”! 🙂 And you might have noticed that some of your ol…
Going for gold using analytics
How do analytics and Olympic training go together? Olympic gold medalist, Greg Searle, explained how analytics has changed his approach to training in our one-on-one interview. For more videos from the Analytics 2013 conference, check out our Yo…