Following March 6th’s announcement of SAS support for Hadoop (for massively parallel access to massive volumes of data) came March 22nd’s announcement of SAS Visual Analytics, a new, in-memory tool with a highly visual interface.
The Visual Analytics …
Steve Overton recently posted a tip on the excellent BI-Notes blog about maintaining space within your WORK library. The WORK library is a key resource and is typically shared by all SAS users, so its smooth operation is crucial for maintaining …
SAS Introduces the Visual Analytics Solution | Business Intelligence Notes for SAS® BI Users
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…
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! […]
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 …