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The one piece of advice everyone in analytics needs to hear

I was recently asked why I would recommend my new class, Explaining Analytics to Decision Makers:  Insights to Action.  The answer goes back to some great advice, a lunch of eggplant parmesan and in another more twisted way, to what was ironically affectionately known as the “bomb plant.” Early in […]

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Reading hierarchical data – Part 2

This post is the second in a series that illustrates three different solutions to “flattening” hierarchical data. Solution 1, from my previous post, created one observation per header record, summarizing the detail data with a COUNT variable, like this: Summary Approach: One observation per header record   Obs Family Count […]

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Reading hierarchical data – Part 1

A family and its members represent a simple hierarchy.  For example, the Jones family has four members: A text file might represent this hierarchy with family records followed by family members’ records, like this:   The PROC FORMAT step below defines the codes in Column 1: proc format; value $type […]

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Flexibility of SAS Enterprise Miner

Do you use an array of tools to perform predictive analytics on your data? Is your current tool not flexible enough to accommodate some of your requirements? SAS Enterprise Miner may be your solution. With growing number of data mining applications, having a tool which can do variety of analysis […]

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Getting SAS certified one credential at a time

Krystian Matusz is what I’d call a super SAS user. He currently holds seven out of the nine credentials SAS offers. SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9 SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 SAS Certified BI Content Developer for SAS 9 SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS […]

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Top 3 reasons to attend Analytics 2015 in Las Vegas

I’m not a big gambler, but there is something I would put my money on – analytics. Analytics is helping companies turn information into value. And yes, I mean money. If you want to learn about the latest analytics trends and get in on some of that “value” – attend […]

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SAS Enterprise Guide: Suppress Output Data tab when programming

Have you ever waited a bit for SAS Enterprise Guide to display the Output Data tab when submitting a SAS program that generates multiple output tables?  Or, perhaps your program only generates one big output table but it takes a little while for it to surface on the Output Data […]

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Ask the Expert: Creating custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide

If you have not yet discovered the new Ask the Expert series on the SAS Training site, you are missing out on a treasure. Visit the site right now and review all of the available topics, from “Newbie” to Analytics to Visualization to good ol’ SAS programming. Go on; I’ll […]

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