The Analytics 2011 Conference, taking place Oct. 24-25 in Orlando, FL, is quickly approaching. Larry Seligman, a session speaker at the conference, recently took the time to answer some questions about his presentation and what he is looking forward to…
Calling Windows PowerShell from SAS: a simple example
As I mentioned in my introductory post about Windows PowerShell, you can use PowerShell commands as a simple and concise method to collect data from your Windows systems; information that is ripe for analysis within SAS. In this example, I’ll show a technique for using a SAS program to call […]
Web Report Studio: Yellow Icons with !
When you start a new report in Web Report Studio, you may notice that yellow icons with an exclamation point (!) appear in the work area. This happens when you have not added any data to the objects. In the example below, the first capture shows th…
Increasing the web timeout intervals
I’ve been spending my weekends developing a SAS Publishing book proposal. (For those interested, it involves learning how to fully leverage SAS Stored Processes as a beginning programmer.) Creating examples and jumping between coding, testing and then …
An Analytical Valley: Big Data and Data Scientists (and SAS Programmers)
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google, Facebook, eBay, LinkedLn all have strong presences in analytics. Besides such predominant companies, I’d also like to add Yahoo to the list although Yahoo is no longer in its peak. Yahoo is the largest sponsor […]
Predictive Modelling Competition Ends Soon
Back in August I mentioned that one of my clients was running a predictive modelling competition with a $10,000 prize fund. The competition closes on Friday September 30th, just a couple of weeks away, so if you intend to enter but haven’t done so yet,…