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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kathryn McLawhorn. Suppose that you want to know the value of a character variable that has the highest frequency count or even the top three highest values. To determine that value, you need to create an output data set and sort the data by the descending Count or _FREQ_ variable. Then you need to print the top n observations using the OBS= option, based on the number of values that you want to see. You can do this easily using any of a variety of procedures that calculate a frequency count (for example, the FREQ Procedure ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Page Cvelich. "First, be calm, be calm, be calm. Anger can cloud your ability to communicate with your teen and communication is going to be critical in addressing the problem. So if you are really angry or really emotional, it is not the moment to try to talk about it.  Wait a few minutes or a few hours, if needed, because you need all your wits about you when you address this highly volatile issue with your teen, and starting out calm is the best way to navigate that." Patty Stetson, CCS, CSAC, is fully credentialed ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Olga Lucia Baquero. Transformación digital con analítica La Cuarta Revolución Industrial, el Internet de las Cosas y la Inteligencia Artificial son conceptos que hacen parte de la transformación digital, y tienen el poder de cambiar los modelos de negocios de una organización. Para que esta era ayude a que las empresas sigan el ritmo de las demandas emergentes de sus clientes, es importante que éstas adopten un pensamiento diferente sobre el rol que los datos pueden tener en sus estrategias. Cuando una compañía empieza a integrar la cultura analítica en sus diferentes áreas, contribuye, entre muchas ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Suneel Grover. In a previous posting, SAS Customer Intelligence 360 was highlighted in the context of delivering relevant product, service, and content recommendations using automated machine learning within digital experiences. Shifting gears, SAS recognizes there are different user segments for our platform. This post will focus on building custom analytical recommendation models for delivering customer personalization. (Image 1: SAS Customer Intelligence 360 - User personas) Competition in customer experience management has never been as challenging as it is now. Customers spend more money in aggregate, but less per brand. The average size of a single purchase ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Emily Gao. Last year when I went through the SAS Global Forum 2017 paper list, the paper Breaking through the Barriers: Innovative Sampling Techniques for Unstructured Data Analysis impressed me a lot. In this paper, the author raised out the common problems caused by traditional sampling method and proposed four sampling methods for textual data. Recently my team is working on a project in which we are facing a huge volume of documents from a specific field, and we need efforts of linguists and domain experts to analyze the textual data and annotate ground truth, so ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Thorsten Hein. This is the third blog post in a series on IFRS 17 implementation and what insurers need to consider. This one discusses questions about architecture and the importance of a systems approach to provide end-to-end coverage. Getting the architecture right for IFRS 17 implementation will need strong collaboration between different departments, including policies, actuaries, accountants and IT. There are a number of areas of interpretation of the IFRS 17 principles, and they need to be carefully integrated. Insurers also need to determine how to apply IFRS 17. Its principle-based approach requires some time to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. This article shows how to implement balanced bootstrap sampling in SAS. The basic bootstrap samples with replacement from the original data (N observations) to obtain B new samples. This is called "uniform" resampling because each observation has a uniform probability of 1/N of being selected at each step of the resampling process. Within the union of the B bootstrap samples, each observation has an expected value of appearing B times. Balanced bootstrap resampling (Davison, Hinkley, and Schechtman, 1986) is an alternative process in which each observation appears exactly B times in the union of ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Ada Lopez. Open communication between school and home is essential to student learning. Traditionally, a parent-teacher conference is scheduled between report cards to provide parents with updates on their child’s progress. But the focus and the work is on the parents and the teacher. How do we shift the focus to the student? One solution is student-led conferences, which enable students to take ownership of their learning experience. These four simple steps will help you plan your first student-led conference. Step 1: Use assessments to set goals Many school districts prescribe beginning-of-year tests, benchmark assessments, and ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leonid Batkhan. Attention SAS administrators! When running SAS batch jobs on schedule (or manually), they usually produce date-stamped SAS logs which are essential for automated system maintenance and troubleshooting. Similar log files have been created by various SAS infrastructure services (Metadata server, Mid-tier servers, etc.) However, as time goes on, the relevance of such logs diminishes while clutter stockpiles. In some cases, this may even lead to disk space problems. There are multiple ways to solve this problem, either by deleting older log files or by stashing them away for auditing purposes (zipping and archiving). One ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. Read about SAS Event Stream Processing and the benefits of streaming analytics. On a recent hiking trip, I was reminded of the growing importance of real-time data and streaming analytics. One of the downsides to hiking in the rural mid-western United States is spotty cell reception. The positive spin is you get to spend time in nature without the constant distractions of checking emails, text messages or Facebook status updates. On the negative side, you can lose GPS location tracking and directions, and you can't send texts or calls if someone gets lost or ... Read More