It’s PlatformAdmin.com’s 2nd birthday this week! The past 2 years have gone very quickly I must say. I set out with a goal of writing a least 1 post every month. Not very ambitious I know, but realistic for me nonetheless! I’ve never …
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SAS BI Dashboard: User Adoption Is Biggest Challegne
Today I’m blogging at the All Analytics site about how you encourage users to adopt your dashboard (or really any reporting tools). Join the Dashboard E-Chat Tomorrow When I was at the IFSUG conference, I attended a presentation by Stephen Harris, a senior VP at Bank of America. He discussed very thoroughly the issues he had getting users to accept the BI Dashboard as a reporting tool and the methodology he later developed to overcome the issues. There’s an E-Chat with him tomorrow at 3 PM EST where he will be discussing some of the issues and providing advise. It’s a great chance for you to “speak” directly with an industry expert. If you cannot attend the e-chat – just leave a question here (quick site registration required) and then you can check back afterwards for his answer. Facebook and Privacy Plus … check out my All Analytics vblog about the data Facebook shares with other sites when you use the quick log-in features. Please join the conversation – I would love to know what you think. Now I have to go get ready for my red carpet interviews … <ha ha>! Related content: SAS® Global Forum: Is Google […]
SAS Introduces the Visual Analytics Solution
Last Friday, SAS introduced the Visual Analytics solution. Last fall, I saw the demo of this tool and I have to say it’s really cool! It’s part of their High Performance Analytics (HPA) product family. I’m curious to see it in my own environment and start showing you guys some of it’s cool features. For now … check out this great video about the tool. Some cool things about it … This tool allows users to visually explore data based on any variety of measures – on the Web or an iPad. This tool quickly handles large volumes of data Some of the more notable features are the auto-charting and geographical analysis. Data Preparation Wizards Enables users to join data, create custom calculations and load massive amounts of data into the SAS® LASR™ Analytic Server. You can use Hadoop with it. Auto-chartingTool selects the best chart based on the user selected data. Plus – shown in figure above – the tool scales the image to help the user see smaller chunks. For instance, the above data has the years 1980 thru 2011 – but it’s too much to display at once. the chart is showing 1989 to 20111. Smart! […]
SAS Global Forum 2012: Will I See You There?
Check out the results of my SAS Enterprise Guide code – 41 days til SAS Global Forum 2012 in Orlando, Florida! I’m excited – I can’t wait to meet some of my Web friends face-to-face finally! Oh and also catch up with some of my old buddies! Why Should I Attend SAS Global Forum? Here’s the reasons I like to attend: Like Minded PeopleWorking in smaller organizations, I was sometimes was one of a handful of data geeks running loose in the halls. It’s great to meet 3,000+ others who actually know what “code or let SAS EG do it?” means. The SAS users are one of the things that make this a great product to use. There are several meetups planned (think it use to be called Birds of a Feather) – I want to check out the joint SAS-L, SASCommunity, and SAS Discussion meetup. Plus after you arrive there are others – for instance, new SAS users, SAS BI users, etc. Oh and the .. Kick Back Party … you know you want to show off all your groovy dance moves! Don’t worry I’ll have my camera! Exchange of IdeasEach time I attend – I come away with […]
Love Our Readers!
As I have told you all week – Angela and I will be participating in e-chat at AllAnalytics.com today at 2 PM. The agenda is wide open! It would be great to chat with you – I have certainly appreciated the emails! Here is some of the feedback and photos (click to see larger version) we have received – thanks! Our Readers are the Best! We have really been overwhelmed by the readers of the blogs who have reached out to say they could not wait to get the book. One person gave his son a copy so he could get started early! Join E-Chat Today … Discussing SAS BI Tools, Book Publishing … Do you have a burning question about the SAS BI toolset? Maybe you are considering a purchase and you want some advise? Maybe you are just getting started and have an issue that is stumping you? It’s going to be a fun e-chat! I know the readers are active and curious – certainly keep us on our toes! SAS Press guided the process and worked with us every step of the way. If you are curious about the steps involved in the process, then ask some questions! […]
Ready for the Next Generation of SAS?
There’s so much excitement about big data, data scientists, and all things that mean you need some serious SAS BI skills. On Monday I was discussing the Kinsey Insitiute projections for data related jobs, but even the New York Times ran The Age of Big Data an article about it. Appears everyone is talking about it! oooh … Buzz! I love it. SAS BI Developer Demand is Growing The past December, BusinessIntellience.Com, reported that SAS Business Analytics SMB Sales Jumped 42 Percent and went on to comment that ”[this] jump demonstrates that enterprises of all sizes are seizing business analytics as a vital competitive tool.” Last week, the same webzine was reporting that SAS in Leaders Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms according to the Gartner Inc report. As SAS Institute sells more SAS BI solutions, naturally more SAS BI Developer jobs become available. On the Indeed.Com you can search out job trends to determine which fields seem to be growing. [Disclaimer! These figures are based on Indeed.Com job postings and I have no idea what their counting rules are – so I realize this could be that more recruiters use Indeed or Indeed has a better aggregation methodology.] With that said, check out the SAS BI […]
Reporting 101: Lessons Learned
Wow – it’s a very exciting time to have an analytics career! You may have read the Preparing Yourself for Analytics Job Tsunami post at BeyeNetwork last week, which basically said we are headed for a shortage of analytics or data-minded people. Oh … music to my little analytic-trained, big-data-lovin’ ears! The article was pointing to the McKinsey & Company thoughts from last May about the arrival of big data and what it would mean. I liked this particular point: “There will be a shortage of talent necessary for organizations to take advantage of big data. By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts with the know-how to use the analysis of big data to make effective decisions.“ -McKinsey Global Institute May 2011 Analysts with the Know-How to use the Analysis My favorite moment with customers is when I show them their data as a chart or graph and they say something like ”This is what I’ve been trying to say!” or “No wonder this situation is happening.” Suddenly, the issue they have been having with employee productivity, another department, or […]
On Unpublished Software
sciseekclaimtoken-4f343317d3d60 I ran across this post at The Tree of Life entitled ‘Interesting new metagenomics paper w/ one big big big caveat – critical software not available”. The long and short of it? Paper appears in Science, has fancy new methodology, lacks the software for someone else to use their methodology. Blog author understandably annoyed. But I […]