Thanks to Andy Ratcliffe for adding platformadmin.com to his blog roll on NOTE:. This was a timely reminder for me to add a blog roll to this platformadmin.com blog, something I had been meaning to do for some time now, and so I was prompted to make a start on it. You can find the […]
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1: it’s not dead yet
Are you up to date on your hotfixes for SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1? If you’re not certain of the answer, you’ll find out next week when you might see this message appear:
This version of SAS Enterprise Guide will expire on December 1st, 2010.
If yo…
NOTE: SAS TALKS Celebrates One Year
At the same time as we mark the passing of Benoît Mandelbrot, SAS TALKS is celebrating its first birthday.
SAS TALKS is a series of free webinars offered by SAS and featuring SAS technical experts. You can watch any of the last year’s ten webinars fr…
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924 – 2010)
I was saddened to see reports of the recent death of Benoît Mandelbrot. I’m not clever enough to understand much of his work, but I do understand that his pioneering work on fractals (fractal geometry) led not only to some beautiful images but a…
Proc Arboretum: a secret weapon in decision tree
Introduction: Decision tree, such as CHAID and CART, is a power predicative tool in statistical learning and business intelligence. Starting from SAS®9.1, the ARBORETUM procedure provided facilities to interactively build and deploy decision tress. …
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