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Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Teri Patsilaras. Designing interactive reports can be a fun and unique challenge. As user interface experience designers can attest, there are several aspects that go into developing a successful and effective self-service tool. Granted I’m not designing the actual software, but reports require a similar approach to be sure that visualizations are clear and that users can get to the answers they are looking for. Enter prompts. Reports prompt users to better understand trends, how their data points compare to the whole, and to narrow the scope of data. Being able to pick the placement of ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Alyssa Grube. Brooke Fortson, Marketing Manager, Fraud and Security Intelligence We’re proud of our unique company culture that spans across offices, divisions and geographies. It’s one of the reasons SAS was recently named among the top workplaces in the world by Fortune’s Great Place to Work! If you’re curious about what it is that makes SAS such a great place to work, one answer always rises to the top – our people. The people who work here are some of the best and brightest – not to mention the most passionate, accountable, authentic and curious people ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Ashley Bailey, MS, RDN, LDN. With the holidays quickly approaching, many of us have quite a bit of travel ahead and/or overall increased busyness running around from here to there. When you’re on the go, it can be difficult to continue to eat nutrient dense, healthy foods. However, with a little planning (and patience!) you can eat healthy wherever you are with these snacks on the go! On the go? Trying to eat well? These two goals can go together with these healthy #snack ideas that can be enjoyed anytime, anywhere! #saslife Click To TweetCheck out ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. Biplots are two-dimensional plots that help to visualize relationships in high dimensional data. A previous article discusses how to interpret biplots for continuous variables. The biplot projects observations and variables onto the span of the first two principal components. The observations are plotted as markers; the variables are plotted as vectors. The observations and/or vectors are not usually on the same scale, so they need to be rescaled so that they fit on the same plot. There are four common scalings (GH, COV, JK, and SYM), which are discussed in the previous article. This ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joao Oliveira. Companies are increasingly recognising that getting value from the Internet of Things (IoT) requires analytics on the edge – specifically, artificial intelligence-powered analytics. It is, however, not as simple as that. Getting the most out of analytics on the edge requires the right  platform. Based on my experience with analytics, AI and/or decision models on the edge, I have outlined a number of important requirements for your platform below. Getting the most out of analytics on the edge requires the right  platform. Data management Delivering trustable decisions requires good data management. This includes accessing ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lisa Allred. This is an issue I hear about from parents all of the time.  Sometimes the disagreements are small, and sometimes they are very significant.  As your child ages, the stakes become even higher when parents can't get on the same page.  Here are a few common ways that parents find themselves on different pages.  If you find yourself unable to work through these challenges, I encourage you to consult with a child therapist who can help you! Inconsistency:  Inconsistency happens when you get tired or busy or stressed.  It is easy for a single parent ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Ron Cody. The t-test is a very useful test that compares one variable (perhaps blood pressure) between two groups. T-tests are called t-tests because the test results are all based on t-values. T-values are an example of what statisticians call test statistics. A test statistic is a standardized value that is calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test. It is used to determine whether there is a significant difference between the means of two groups. With all inferential statistics, we assume the dependent variable fits a normal distribution. When we assume a normal distribution exists, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Vanessa Hurhangee. In my previous blog post, I looked at complaints data within financial services and how it can be difficult to elicit a clear picture of what is really happening from top-line information alone. Text can be hard to interpret compared to numbers. But one way of extracting more clarity and granularity is through the use of text analytics. In my second post, I will look at this in more detail and share some real-life examples of how it can help organisations. Do you know what your customers are saying about you? Data scientist vs ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Trent Smith. Veterans programs offer valuable work experience to students or graduates who are transitioning from the military into the civilian tech workforce US military veterans are mission-focused, team-oriented and natural leaders that benefit any organization that hires them. Many of today's veterans organizations use data and analytics to help transition military members and their spouses find rewarding civilian careers. SAS supports those efforts and we're also proud to offer many programs to help US military veterans find jobs within the company and elsewhere. Understanding veterans demographics can boost salaries Hire Heroes USA has helped more ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Patricia Neri. Because of their brevity, tweets can be difficult to analyze. In this blog, I used SAS Visual Text Analytics (VTA) 8.4 to analyze 40,000 tweets posted from September 20, 2019 to September 27, 2019. At least 7 million people, mostly youth, in more than 700 cities across the globe, demanded the world to act to combat global warming. Specifically, I used the machine learning algorithms for Fact Rule Autogeneration to see people’s specific demands. On Friday, September 20, 2019, an estimated 4 million youth and kids in 165 countries participated in the first leg ... Read More