There’s a new video series launching in the SAS Education department unlike anything that’s ever been done before. It’s called Stat Wars. Here’s how it works… two SAS instructors go head-to-head and battle it out over a statistics challenge…
Kaggle Digit Recoginizer: SAS k-Nearest Neighbor solution
Kaggle is hosting an educational data mining competition: Kaggle Digit Recognizer, using MNIST data. Handwritten digit recognition is one of the few applications that kNN classifier performs well. Of course, the benchmark kNN classifier provided …
Use D3.js to draw pie chart instead of PROC GCHART
Is the pie really round?
Commonly the PIE statement in the PROC GCHART produces the pie charts. Given the shortcoming of the pixel based Gxxxxxx procedures, the boundary of the pie is not very clear. I always feel that the resulting pie is not …
Example 10.8: The upper 95% CI is 3.69
Apologies for the long and unannounced break– the longest since we started blogging, three and a half years ago. I was writing a 2-day course for SAS users to learn R. Contact me if you’re interested. And Nick and I are beginning work on the second…
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Tis the season of repeating holiday specials. Each brings its own message of hope, love, and personal growth. If you get sucked into these shows — like I often do — you realize that they really do mimic life. Take Fred Claus. In this holiday special,…
Web Report Studio: Update Resources to Fix Your Report
Is there a worse way to start your day than someone calling to tell you that your marvelous Web Report Studio report is not working? Yes, this means the world is being denied a viewing of your stunning visual design efforts about last quarter’s s…