I had the opportunity to chat with Andy Diggelmann from SAS who explained how high performance analytics allows companies to innovate faster. He also talked about the benefits of attending the annual Analytics conference. tags: analytics confere…
Analytics 2013: How customers benefit from partnerships
We have a lot of global partners here at SAS and I had the chance to interview several of them at Analytics 2013 in London. Here’s my conversation with Justin Jones from IBM who discusses the partnership with SAS and Grid Computing. I also tal…
Analytics 2013: How not to do data visualization
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 […]