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’…
Random Number Seeds: NOT only the first one matters!
Today, Rick (blog @ here) wrote an article about random number seed in SAS to be used in random number functions in DATA Step. Rick noticed when multiple random number functions are called using different seeds, only the first one matters.
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Login Reviewer: Finding Accounts with Stored Passwords
In a previous post I mentioned how the Accounts tab in SAS® Management Console 9.3 now displays a blank in the password field when logins don’t have a stored password, and only displays ******** when there is a stored password. Compare this …