How to Transform a Skewed Distribution to a Uniform Distribution

This post demonstrates how to rank data and how to place these ranks into roughly equal groups. There are certain variables, such as annual salary, that are highly skewed. There are many who earn between $50,00 and $150,000, but some who earn millions or hundreds of millions of dollars a […]

How to Transform a Skewed Distribution to a Uniform Distribution was published on SAS Users.

Classifying messy documents: A common-sense approach (Part I)

Unstructured text data is ubiquitous in both business and government and extracting value from it at scale is a common challenge. Organizations that have been around for a while often have vast paper archives. Digitizing these archives does not necessarily make them usable for search and analysis, since documents are […]

Classifying messy documents: A common-sense approach (Part I) was published on SAS Users.