It’s not easy to justify time away from the job, but what if you could realize the benefits of attending the world’s premier Data Mining conference and also take on the challenge of a SAS certification exam at the same time? Many M2010 Dat…
What Exactly Does SAS In-Database Really Mean?
Editor’s note: David Pope is a SAS Solutions Architect and is helping to support SAS at the M2010 Data Mining Conference working in the SAS/Teradata partner booth, highlighting our partnership and how SAS and Teradata work together.
The Teradat…
The 7 Deadly Sins of Data Mining and How To Avoid Them
Our M2010 Data Mining Conference keynote speaker, Dick De Veaux from Williams College just finished his entertaining and informative presentation. He thoughtfully noted that our location (Las Vegas) is very appropriate for the subject of his pre…
Adventures in SAS Installations
Installing SAS 9.2 TS2M3 on four computers running two operating systems took six days and one tracking number. Not bad, not bad at all considering my experiences with other recent releases. When Enterprise Guide 4.3 was released at the end of August, I was eager to try out the new features for programmers. The only […]
A Counter-intuitive Approach to FICO Scorecarding
M2010 Data Minining Conference session speaker David Gumpert-Hersh from Wescom Credit Union explains a new approach for examining FICO score data that reveals risks not exposed by scorecarding.
Moving OLAP Cubes (Part 1 – It’s all between the schemas)
SAS recommends building OLAP Cubes on a separate ‘non-production schemas’ because cube building can be resource intensive and time consuming. Each OLAP Server can be defined to one & only schema at a given time, therefore you will need to setup the…