SAS Introduces the Visual Analytics Solution | Business Intelligence Notes for SAS® BI Users
NOTE: A Big Data Announcement (Hadoop)
There was a time when SAS practitioners merely needed to have knowledge of SAS DATA Step and PROC syntax plus a smattering of good data practices and IT practices. Over the years, SAS/ACCESS products gave access to data in other systems without the S…
SAS Introduces the Visual Analytics Solution
Last Friday, SAS introduced the Visual Analytics solution. Last fall, I saw the demo of this tool and I have to say it’s really cool! It’s part of their High Performance Analytics (HPA) product family. I’m curious to see it in my own environment and start showing you guys some of it’s cool features. For now … check out this great video about the tool. Some cool things about it … This tool allows users to visually explore data based on any variety of measures – on the Web or an iPad. This tool quickly handles large volumes of data Some of the more notable features are the auto-charting and geographical analysis. Data Preparation Wizards Enables users to join data, create custom calculations and load massive amounts of data into the SAS® LASR™ Analytic Server. You can use Hadoop with it. Auto-chartingTool selects the best chart based on the user selected data. Plus – shown in figure above – the tool scales the image to help the user see smaller chunks. For instance, the above data has the years 1980 thru 2011 – but it’s too much to display at once. the chart is showing 1989 to 20111. Smart! […]
SAS communities are growing and changing
I don’t have first hand experience with painful growth spurts because it seems to be a phenomenon experienced mostly by boys in their early teens. I’ve heard stories about kids who are visibly taller in the morning than they were when they went to bed …
US Post Beats Menu Cost
One of the interesting observations in my first few months in US: there is no price printed in the new mail stamps! It is interesting because as a former student of economics, I think US Post system did a nice attempt to beat the so called “menu cost” which should honor to Harvard economist Mankiw. […]
What’s in a name – SQL Join or SET?
Did that set off a trigger for you? It did for my SAS SQL 1: Essentials class, packed with SQL and SAS programmers alike. To clarify matters I pulled up some examples to help get the differences quickly. Set operators and Joins are similar in that th…