Kudos to several of our readers, who suggested simpler ways to craft the graphical display (combination dotplot/boxplot) from our most recent example.Yihui Xie combines a boxplot with a coarsened version of the PCS scores (using the round() function) u…
Game-changing Analytics
The M2010 Data Mining Conference team has arrived in Las Vegas and we’re getting ready to host the 750+ analysts, statisticians and database managers who will be ascending upon Sin City this weekend for our 13th annual conference.
Before we lef…
PROC REPORT versus TABULATE: two SAS heavyweights
The question came up on the SAS Enterprise Guide discussion forum: which do you prefer, List Report Wizard (PROC REPORT) or Summary Tables (PROC TABULATE)?
And as with most SAS-related questions, the proper response is: “it depends.” If you put …
NOTE: Just 3 Days to Submit Your SGF 2011 Paper!
I just finished fettling my SAS Global Forum 2011 paper submission and I have submitted it. My fingers are crossed.
The deadline for papers is Monday October 25th. Have you submitted yours yet?
Demystifying how text analytics can detect cyberbullying
Facebook now uses technology to help detect instances of cyberbullying before it gets out of hand. I heard this report on CNN last week, and the Facebook spokesman described their detection techniques as “background technology that I can’t really…
Stand & Be Counted: Data Miners Weigh In On the Long-Form Census Debate
I had high hopes for the Data Mining Forum on Wednesday, and I wasn’t disappointed. I was absolutely fascinated by Stephane McGee and Obaid Rahman’s presentation on how statistics are used in the insurance industry: incredibly appropriate fare for Worl…