As we get into springtime weather where I live (assuming it stops snowing today!), I’m planning to spend more time outdoors paying attention to the night sky. There are lots of cool apps these days to help you identify constellations, and track things …
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Where are opioids prescribed most, in North Carolina?
My buddy Rick Wicklin recently pointed me towards an animation of some opioid prescription rate data for Illinois. And, of course, I decided we needed a similar animation for North Carolina (with a few improvements…) Here’s the original, and here are…
Use R to interface with SAS Cloud Analytics Services
The R SWAT package (SAS Wrapper for Analytics Transfer) enables you to upload big data into an in-memory distributed environment to manage data and create predictive models using familiar R syntax. In the SAS Viya Integration with Open Source Languages…
What to do in Denver, during SAS Global Forum!
Are you going to Denver, Colorado, and wondering what fun/interesting/eclectic things you can do there? Then this is the map for you! For the past couple of years, I’ve made maps of the city SAS Global Forum is in, pointing out some of the attractions …
Converting your old SAS jobs to use the new GfK maps
Do you procrastinate and find excuses to delay doing certain things, even when you know they really ought to be done? And you probably realize that starting those projects is usually the hardest part, eh? Well, I finally started converting hundreds of …
SAS Data Science Academy creates modern Data Scientists : Experience Sharing
SAS Academy for Data Science has been churning out high quality of data scientists for a quite few years thereby full filling the demand supply gap that exists in the area. It enables career seekers to enhance their skills and known worldwide by obta…
Gartner’s 2018 Take on Data Science Tools
I’ve just updated The Popularity of Data Science Software to reflect my take on Gartner’s 2018 report, Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. To save you the trouble of digging though all 40+ pages of my report, … Continue reading →
Examining 200k+ Russian troll tweets
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably seen news reports that Russian trolls have been posting on social media to allegedly conduct what they called “information warfare against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towar…