One of the most important skills for data scientists and business analytical professionals is communications. If decision makers and managers don’t understand what the numbers mean — results won’t turn into action. Jeff Zeanah, President of Z Solutions, Inc. has been presenting on the topic of speaking “analytics” for many […]
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I’m gearing up to teach the next “DS2 Programming Essentials with Hadoop” class, and thinking about Warp Speed DATA Steps with DS2 where I first demonstrated parallel processing using threads in base SAS. But how about DATA step processing at maximum warp? For that, we’ll need a massively parallel processing […]
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I recently came across some very interesting data on serial killings … but it was in tabular/text form. This seemed like an invitation for me to create some graphs that make it easier to understand the data. It seems many people have a morbid curiosity about serial killers. For example, some […]
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Bald eagles, the national bird of the United States, came perilously close to becoming extinct here, but are now making a comeback! Let’s look at the data with a SAS map! When I was growing up in the 1970s & 80s here in North Carolina, I spent a lot of time […]
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I’ve seen some crazy process flows in SAS Enterprise Guide. Crazy-big, and crazy-complex, used by real customers to accomplish real work. But while these process flows represent a ton of work, this is usually a calculated investment to automate processes that would be difficult to capture in another way. For […]
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As you travel around the world, do you know where English, French, Spanish, and Arabic are spoken? This blog will help you quickly answer that question, with some cool SAS maps! But first, here’s a picture of my friend Joy posing beside an interesting sign during one of her international […]
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A friend who recently moved to North Carolina from the west coast asked, “What’s there to do around here for the July 4th holiday?” So I created a fireworks map, showing the locations of many of the celebrations around the state! Here’s a snapshot of my map – click on it to […]
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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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