As SAS Instructors we travel fairly frequently, and like most of you we have friends scattered throughout the country. High school friends, college friends, family we like (or pretend to). And if I’m on a business trip, I like to see if they are avai…
SAS BI Dashboard Rocks My Google Analytics Data Analysis
I have to say I’m in love with the new SAS BI Dashboard and it’s many features. It really brings the Google Analytics to life and helps me understand how the Website traffic changed over time along with the key influences. The following figure gives you an idea of how you can integrate dashboard indicators for an interactive user experience. The best part is how easy it is. Once I understood the how the feature worked, this indicators below took less than an hour to setup and most of that was deciding what data I wanted to see. [More articles about Google Analytics here.] Quick Dashboard Tour This dashboard has two indicators, a line graph that shows the traffic over time and a spark table that contains specific data about site visitors. As the user drags the slider and clicks, the data in spark table updates. I left the Week variable in the Spark Chart to help you understand what was happening. Also in the Last Wk Delta, New Visitors (%) and New Visitor Delta columns, you can see the various gauges available. Creating an Interactive Dashboard For several weeks I’ve been discussing using Google Analytics with the SAS […]
Multi-Threaded Principle Component Analysis
SAS used to not support multithreading in PCA, then I figured out that its server version supports this functionality, see here. Today, I found this mutlithreading capability is finally available in PC SAS v9.22.
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6 questions with data mining expert, John Elder
John F. Elder IV, Ph.D., is President of Elder Research Inc. (ERI), a data mining consulting team. He has authored innovative data mining tools, is a frequent keynote speaker and was co-chair of the 2009 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conferenc…
Business Intelligence and Data Management Resources
Last week I was interviewed in an e-chat with Shawn Hessinger, AllAnalytics.Com, about deploying BI tools to help build your business. It was a great interview and lots of amazing discussion with some really smart people. He summarized the discussion in this article: 6 Steps to a Successful BI Deployment. [If you visit the site please leave a comment about how smart the discussion sounded ] AllAnalytics has a lot of great information about managing data, using business intelligence and just general analytics topics. It’s a data geek’s paradise – and you know who you are! Also – in my BlogRoll (right corner, near the bottom) I note a lot of other awesome blogs and sites with yummy information for you.
"The Delegator" – Positive or Negative Epithet?
In a recent meeting, an action arose and I asked one of my team (PJ) to catch it and complete it. He (tongue in cheek) commented to all those at the meeting that I was “the best delegator” he’d ever worked with. His humorous implication was that I don’…