Two weeks ago I was soaring towards British Columbia for a bit of work… and a bit of play as well. To be fair, even the work seems like play for me sometimes. It’s truly a blessing to be able to travel all over Canada and connect with friends and…
Analyzing Super Bowl tweets with SAS
Imagine millions of people tweeting about an event as big as the Super Bowl. How do you make sense of all that data without spending months reading them all? Mary Osborne, Dan Zaratsian and Justin Plumley have some answers in this video. Their paper Un…
NOTE: SAS Platform Administration – Information Sources
SAS platform administrators are the unsung heroes of many SAS sites. Most SAS users have no conception of the range and complexity of technology that sits below the user-facing SAS interfaces like Enterprise Guide, Web Report Studio and Visual Analyt…
Build your own SAS client app with Microsoft .NET
As part of my follow-up to SAS Global Forum 2013, I’ve posted a few articles about how to create your own client apps with SAS Integration Technologies. This article shows how to use Microsoft .NET — the same approach used for SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office […]
Use Google Trends and SAS to select movies to watch
The newest success story about data science is Google search predicts box office with 94 percent accuracy. I am a frequent movie theater goer, and it will be great if we can implement Google’s impressive research result.
There are quite a few…
NOTE: Best Contributed Paper Awards from SAS Global Forum 2013 #sasgf13
I continue to be foxed by the lack of a Closing Session at this year’s SAS Global Forum (SGF) in San Francisco. One of the highlights of each Closing Session at previous conferences was the presentation of Best Contributed Paper awards for each strea…