Tag: business analytics

How to build a correlations matrix heat map with SAS

If you’ve watched any of the demos for SAS Visual Analytics (or even tried it yourself!), you have probably seen this nifty exploration of multiple measures. It’s a way to look at how multiple measures are correlated with one another, using a diagonal heat map chart. The “stronger” the color […]

How to get the statistics you need from SAS Enterprise Guide

If you need to calculate the mean, sum, standard deviation, or frequency count for a variable, you’ll find it pretty easy to accomplish in SAS Enterprise Guide. The corresponding tasks in the menus have names like “Summary Statistics” or “One-way Frequencies”. Obvious, right? Often, researchers or students have a quest […]

SUNZ 2011 – a great conference

Well the New Zealand SAS User group (SUNZ) is over for another year, with over 250 people attending last Thursday. The presentations will be up soonish, but mine is up early here “Delivering Data Quality in the Real Word – A case study using SAS Dataflux” The main theme I got from the conference was the move […]

Smart Cats with blogs on stats

Let’s face it: ever since cats learned how to access the Internet, they’ve managed to besmirch their prestigious status as the “smarter-if-a-bit-aloof” pet. They’ve starred in many demeaning YouTube videos, bringing shame to their species for the…

Delivers the Right Toys and Goodies to the Right Boys and Girls: Story of Santa and SAS

How to know the boys and girls’ real demands around the world? and how to predict their demands in next Christmas?
How to purchase toys and goodies with a balance of costs and profits? and how to deliver them more efficiently?
There are lots of questions in the list of Santa, CEO of Santa’s Workshop. SAS’s marketing […]