These are some of my favourite papers from SAS Global Forum 2012 last month. I didn’t to get to see as many papers in person as I’d originally planned; we were very busy at our Metacoda stand. So it was great that the papers had already bee...
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One of the best things about attending the SAS Global Forum is all the brilliant people you get to meet. Guy Garrett’s presentation about planning a BI strategy was quiet popular and I have to say he was very witty. Turns out implementing a BI strategy is similar to dating – who knew? Anyway...
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SAS Global Forum 2012 was a success! After a whirlwind week of activities followed by a vacation and week of rest – I’m ready to give you some highlights. It was a lot of fun! Tip: Click on any picture to enlarge it. Day 1 – Saturday Ready for the Tweet-Up The biggest drama...
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Have you ever had a requirement to display additional details about data in a report but couldn’t find a good way to do so? Showing OLAP Member Properties in a SAS Web Report could be a useful way to sneak more details about data into a crosstab table. Crossing Multiple Dimensions with High Cardinality...
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Question: What do John Travolta, Gina Davis, and I all have in common? (I mean, besides the obvious fact that we are all awesome dancers.) Answer: We have all had makeup applied by artist Roxie Stice. I was the host for two SAS Tech Talks, which were broadcast via Livestream
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A storyboard is a blueprint of drawings/ideas in a specific sequence to illustrate a story. Let’s take the Pixar film Toy Story as an example (I have a two-year-old and admittedly have watched this movie more than the hairs on my head). Before th...
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April. What a month it has been and it isn't over yet. At the beginning of the month, we launched a new and very different communities.sas.com. Just yesterday, the SASware Ballot moved from its traditional voting application to the community. ...
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SAS Global Forum 2012 starts this coming Sunday in the happiest place on earth – Disney World. I’m so excited. You may have already read some of things I’m planning to do and papers I’m planning to see and even some background on the SAS BI and Google Analytics paper that Angela and I are...
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