We have a lot of global partners here at SAS and I had the chance to interview several of them at Analytics 2013 in London. Here’s my conversation with Justin Jones from IBM who discusses the partnership with SAS and Grid Computing. I also tal…
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Analytics 2013: How not to do data visualization
Analytics 2013 kicked off today in London and I had the opportunity to chat with economist and journalist, Tim Harford, right after his presentation on “How Not to Do Data Visualization.” Here’s the video from our conversation: You can wat…
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 […]
Real-world analytics for Analytics 2013!
You might have seen my previous blog, where I plotted some interesting tourist attractions on a geographical map of the British Isles (which may be of interest to Analytics 2013 Conference delegates)… Well this blog uses even more powerful analytics,…
Analyzing Super Bowl tweets with SAS
Imagine millions of people tweeting about an event as big as the Super Bowl. How do you make sense of all that data without spending months reading them all? Mary Osborne, Dan Zaratsian and Justin Plumley have some answers in this video. Their paper Un…
Build your own SAS client app with Microsoft .NET
As part of my follow-up to SAS Global Forum 2013, I’ve posted a few articles about how to create your own client apps with SAS Integration Technologies. This article shows how to use Microsoft .NET — the same approach used for SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office […]
Interesting & quirky tourist attractions near London and Analytics 2013
Are you going to Analytics 2013 in London?!? And if so, have you found any fun/interesting/touristy things to do while you’re there? … Being an analytics conference, I thought it would be good to apply some “analytics” to the task! So I took some…
How to find the ENGINE name for a SAS library
One of the great things about SAS libraries is that you can write your programs to read and write data without having to worry about where the data lives. SAS data set on a file system? Oracle table in a database server? Hadoop data in Hive? For many SAS applications, […]