Find out about the changes and enhancements to the best-selling book, The Little SAS Book.
The Little SAS Book 6.0: The best-selling SAS book gets even better was published on SAS Users.
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Machine learning with SASPy: Exploring and preparing your data (part 2)
This article continues a series that began with Machine learning with SASPy: Exploring and preparing your data (part 1). Part 1 showed you how to explore data using SASPy with Python. Here, in part 2, you will learn how to begin to prepare your data to use it within a […]
Machine learning with SASPy: Exploring and preparing your data (part 2) was published on SAS Users.
Data and Analytics Innovation using SAS & Spark – part 2
In part 1 of this post, we looked at setting up Spark jobs from Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) to load and save data to and from Hadoop. Now we are moving on to the next step in the analytic cycle, scoring data in Hadoop and executing SAS code as a […]
Data and Analytics Innovation using SAS & Spark – part 2 was published on SAS Users.
SAS Press Author Derek Morgan on Timetables and Model Trains
Posted on behalf of SAS Press author Derek Morgan. I was sitting in a model railroad club meeting when one of our more enthusiastic young members said, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we could make a computer simulation, with trains going between stations and all. We could have cars and […]
SAS Press Author Derek Morgan on Timetables and Model Trains was published on SAS Users.
Summer reading – Book recommendations from SAS Press authors
One of my favorite parts of summer is a relaxing weekend by the pool. Summer is the time I get to finally catch up on my reading list, which has been building over the year. So, if expanding your knowledge is a goal of yours this summer, SAS Press has […]
Summer reading – Book recommendations from SAS Press authors was published on SAS Users.
“CAS Stored Process” with my Favorite Action Hero runCasl
In his article How to use CASL to develop and work with user-defined CAS actions, Brian Kinnebrew defines CASL as “a language specification used by the SAS client to interact with and provide easy access to Cloud Analytic Services (CAS). CASL is a statement-based scripting language with many uses and […]
“CAS Stored Process” with my Favorite Action Hero runCasl was published on SAS Users.
Understanding Item Response Theory with SAS
What is Item Response Theory? Item Response Theory (IRT) is a way to analyze responses to tests or questionnaires with the goal of improving measurement accuracy and reliability. A common application is in testing a student’s ability or knowledge. Today, all major psychological and educational tests are built using IRT. […]
Understanding Item Response Theory with SAS was published on SAS Users.
Interview with new SAS Press authors: Jim Blum and Jonathan Duggins
Want to learn SAS programming but worried about taking the plunge? Over at SAS Press, we are excited about an upcoming publication that introduces newbies to SAS in a peer-review instruction format we have found popular for the classroom. Professors Jim Blum and Jonathan Duggins have written Fundamentals of Programming […]
Interview with new SAS Press authors: Jim Blum and Jonathan Duggins was published on SAS Users.