Analytics 2013 kicked off today in London and I had the opportunity to chat with economist and journalist, Tim Harford, right after his presentation on “How Not to Do Data Visualization.” Here’s the video from our conversation: You can wat…
NOTE: Describe Your Table in SAS to Write the SQL Code
A week or so back I highlighted two best paper winners from this year’s SAS Global Forum – Steve Overton and John Heaton – and I then subsequently highlighted one of John’s papers. I thought I should do the same for Steve, but then I saw a blog post fr…
The US airports with most flight routes
The summer just begins and a lot of people start to experience flight delay. I am also interested in seeing which cites in the US are well connected by flights. The OpenFlights project provides free flight information. Then I used R to d…
How to build a correlations matrix heat map with SAS
If you’ve watched any of the demos for SAS Visual Analytics (or even tried it yourself!), you have probably seen this nifty exploration of multiple measures. It’s a way to look at how multiple measures are correlated with one another, using a diagonal heat map chart. The “stronger” the color […]
Real-world analytics for Analytics 2013!
You might have seen my previous blog, where I plotted some interesting tourist attractions on a geographical map of the British Isles (which may be of interest to Analytics 2013 Conference delegates)… Well this blog uses even more powerful analytics,…
Joie de vivre en Montréal: MONSUG User Group Meeting
Last week I had the pleasure of travelling to Montréal for their user group meeting. As a native Toronto-ite and unabashed hockey fanatic, I’ll admit to consistently having a bit of a nervous edge to me when I first arrive in the city… especiall…