Tag: SAS

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Katie Seavey Pegoraro. For the last two months I’ve seen commercial after commercial with smiling faces, catchy tunes, and kids running around houses full of good food, presents, and family. This season, we’re encouraged to remember what “matters”. Here’s something else to remember: the goal of these commercials is for the company to sell whatever product or service they offer. These holiday commercials can cut right to our emotions, to our memories, to our insecurities, to our longings. An ad can do much more to your psyche than capture your attention for a few seconds. You ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Nelson Grajales. Parts 1 and 2 of this blog post discussed exploring and preparing your data using SASPy. To recap, Part 1 discussed how to explore data using the SASPy interface with Python. Part 2 continued with an explanation of how to prepare your data to use it with a machine-learning model. This final installment continues the discussion about preparation by explaining techniques for normalizing your numerical data and one-hot encoding categorical variables. Normalizing your data Some of the numerical features in the examples from parts 1 and 2 have different ranges. The variable Age spans ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Nelson Grajales. Bringing the power of SAS to your Python scripts can be a game changer. An easy way to do that is by using SASPy, a Python interface to SAS allowing Python developers to use SAS® procedures within Python. However, not all SAS procedures are included in the SASPy library. So, what do you do if you want to use those excluded procedures? Easy! The SASPy library contains functionality enabling you to add SAS procedures to the SASPy library. In this post, I'll explain the process. The basics for adding procedures are covered in the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Andrea Deinert. Die Data Science Szene teilt sich auf in Startups und Corporates – ist das wirklich so? Die Antwort hängt davon ab, wen man fragt. Startups sind sich sicher (Interview mit Johannes Fuhr von predict42), dass Corporates nicht aus ihren proprietären Strukturen rauskommen (wollen). Dass sie gar nicht auf die Idee kämen, ihre Data Science Community andernorts als auf klassischen Konferenzen zu suchen. Corporates hingegen sagen, das stimme gar nicht. Diese Differenz in der Wahrnehmung hat uns interessiert. Wir sprachen also mit Helmut Linde von Merck, einem leidenschaftlichen Meetup-Gast. Der globale Head of Data Science ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jen Sohl-Marion, MPH, RDN, LDN. Who says that holidays have to be stuffed with belly-stuffing traditions? While the average American gains about one to two pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, weight gain, indigestion and post-meal sluggishness do not have to be on your wish list. There’s nothing wrong with a little indulgence here and there, but when a splurge turns to overindulgence, you can be left feeling crummy and guilty. Pick a couple strategies that will keep you from overdoing it. Here are a few ideas you could try: Decide ahead of time if ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jeff Stander. Read about the 5 D's of data preparation. Without a steady supply of relevant, high-quality data that’s ready for analytics, data scientists can’t use analytics to its greatest potential. In the worst cases, organizations that are not equipped to be data-driven will fail to innovate and thrive. How can you ensure that a steady supply of analytics-ready data is available at your organization? Start by understanding the different approaches to preparing data so you can choose the option that’s best for each situation you encounter. There are three overarching approaches to preparing data for ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Silia Sideri. Advanced analytics is transforming the process of innovation. But what is the level of awareness and management of the process? I caught up with Ioannis Tsiliras, Consumer CRM and Channel Management Director at OTE-COSMOTE, to discuss innovation, real-time requirements and customer contact. What is your most recent experience of innovation? Our most recent innovation is in the customer experience area. We are using technology to industrialize quality assurance in product development as a way to manage customer relationships when things go wrong. We have developed a new app with a partner, which has been ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. Binary matrices are used for many purposes. I have previously written about how to use binary matrices to visualize missing values in a data matrix. They are also used to indicate the co-occurrence of two events. In ecology, binary matrices are used to indicate which species of an animal are present in which ecological site. For example, if you remember your study of Darwin's finches in high school biology class, you might recall that certain finches (species) are present or absent on various Galapagos islands (sites). You can use a binary matrix to indicate ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. As we're getting into December, and the weather is getting colder, I thought it would be cool to plot some Antarctica data. You might remember I did this about 1.5 years ago, using good-old Proc Gmap, a special projection, and lots of tricky annotation. Well, this time let's use the "easy button" and do it with the new Proc SGmap! The Data A map isn't too exciting without some data on it, so let's use the locations where they might be doing research, such as ice core drilling. data locations;input lat long name $ ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Andrea Deinert. Next meetup with PyData Südwest at SAS on 9 January 2020. The presenter will be Jeremy Tuloup. He will talk about Voilà, which is one of the latest additions to the Jupyter ecosystem and can be used to turn Jupyter notebooks into standalone web applications and dashboards. Built upon Jupyter standard protocols and file formats, Voilà works with any Jupyter kernel (C++, Python, Julia), making it a language-agnostic dashboarding system. Voilà also supports Jupyter interactive widgets, including the roundtrips to the kernel. Jeremy will introduce Voilà and its execution model, as well as typical ... Read More