Analytics 2012 is in full swing! I had the opportunity to interview Analytics 2012 presenter Gene Pease from Capital Analytics about the importance of human capital analytics and the tools for measuring it. If you’re in Las Vegas, be sure to check out …
Top 4 recommendations when using segmentation
According to David Liebskind of GE Capital, segmentation tells you “What to do” and predictive modeling tells you “Whom to Target.” In his featured presentation “Using Segmentation and Predictive Analytics to Combat Attrition,” the Top Four…
Learning from our students – Insights from Analytics 2012
For a service organization like SAS Education, there are few things more valuable than feedback from our users. Sunday, in advance of our 15th annual Analytics conference, we were fortunate enough to spend three hours meeting with some of SAS Education…
Example 10.5: Convert a character-valued categorical variable to numeric
In some settings it may be necessary to recode a categorical variable with character values into a variable with numeric values. For example, the matching macro we discussed in example 7.35 will only match on numeric variables. One way to conve…
Go on a date with SAS BI Dashboard, part 1
Don’t give up on the dating game. Just because there is no prompt type specifically for dates, it can still be accomplished with some stored process matchmaking. BI Dashboard offers a dynamic prompt indicator which provides the ultimate flexibility in …
Generate uniform data in a simplex
It is easy to simulate data that is uniformly distributed in the unit cube for any dimension. However, it is less obvious how to generate data in the unit simplex. The simplex is the set of points (x1,x2,…,xd) such that Σi xi = 1 and 0 ≤ xi ≤ 1 […]