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SAS vs. SPSS 13 Replies

Comparing SAS and SPSS is an age old question between analytics professionals as both of these are one of the longest running statistical softwares in the world. While SAS is on version 9 + and has…

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Deepika Nahata Dec. 28, 2009.

Analytics 3.0. What is it? What are the risks and opportunities?

What is it? Software accessible online, via your web browser, instead of available as a package installed on your desktop or on your company's network. Also, software accessible online that can run…

Started by Sun Dec. 26, 2009.

Being a Statistician\ Statistical Programmer in Africa 8 Replies

The level of knowledge and understanding of Statistics as well as Statistical programming is woefully low in Africa, As a Ghanaian and a Statistician, I found it very intrigueing to see university un…

Started by Kwaku Damoah. Last reply by Biswajit Nayak Dec. 23, 2009.

Alternatives to SAS Enterprise Miner 1 Reply

See interesting discussion on LinkedIn. I have been using SAS Enterprise Miner for data mining, which I like. I wondered what products others are using, including open-source and how do they compar…

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Ralf Klinkenberg Dec. 21, 2009.

What are the SAS procedures that you use most in your daily work? 17 Replies

Which modules? Which procedures? What is your industry?

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Serena Chiarle Dec. 10, 2009.

At a Software Powerhouse, the Good Life Is Under Siege 2 Replies

What do you think about the article below, about SAS, in the New York Times? A TOUR of its carefully tended, 300-acre corporate campus here leaves little doubt why surveys, year after year, rate the…

Started by Sun. Last reply by Ramani Natarajan Nov. 29, 2009.

Modeling when only event data is available

Hi, I need to make a response model for a marketing campaign. But I do not have a set of customers whoc responded and did not respond. All I have is the set of customers who responded and another s…

Tagged: Modeling

Started by Rahul V Nov. 23, 2009.

Mobile CDR

any idea what we can do with mobile call detail record??

Started by hafiz kashif munir Nov. 12, 2009.

[Courses] SAS Business Knowledge Series Jan-June 2010

Advanced Analytics for Customer Intelligence Using SAS® Cary, San Francisco, New York Advanced Analytics Using the MIXED Procedure New York, Boston, Live Web Applying Survival Analysis to Business Ti…

Started by Sun Nov. 11, 2009.

Web 3.0 of SAS Programming - write SAS programs from your iPhone 2 Replies

SAS programming has changed and adapted to the fast changing computing environments. When I first started programming SAS years ago, I had used editors such as VI on Unix and TPU on VMS among a myria…

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Sy Truong Nov. 8, 2009.

New Entry Level SAS Analyst -Richmond, Virginia - Contract -2 - Hire

The Richmond, Virginia market currently has multiple openings for one of our large financial clients for SAS Analysts. These are contract-to-hire opportunities involving Quantitative Analyst and Deve…

Tagged: SAS, Virginia, Richmond

Started by Justin Harding Nov. 4, 2009.

Silicon Valley Data Mining Camp, Nov 1, Mountain View (free)

Un-Conference, Free Event http://www.sfbayACM.org/?p=894 LOOKING FOR SPONSORS LOGISTICS: • Date: Sunday, November 1 • Time: 12:30 to 7:00 pm • Location: Hacker’s Dojo 140A South Whisman Rd Mountain…

Tagged: clustering, computing, Netflix, collaborative, filtering

Started by Greg Makowski Oct. 18, 2009.

WPS Language Compatibility with SAS 3 Replies

By Phil Rack, President of MineQuest, LLC. One of the questions almost everyone seems to ask me is, “How compatible is WPS with the SAS language?” That’s a good question to ask because anyone who is…

Started by Sun. Last reply by Sandro Saitta Sep. 28, 2009.

A SAS social media update and overview

From the SASCOM blog published by SAS -- http://blogs.sas.com/sascom/ How is SAS approaching social media? If you've wondered, or if you work for a company that's also exploring the social media ter…

Started by Vincent Granville Sep. 26, 2009.

How to run a Perl script from within SAS 2 Replies

I need to do heavy parsing / text processing / text mining, and I was wondering how you can call a Perl script from within SAS. Thanks, Vincent

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Vincent Granville Sep. 16, 2009.

Five best SAS books 6 Replies

According to Michael Raithel from WeStat.com (Source: SAS-L) 1. Tuning SAS Applications in the MVS Environment, by Michael A. Raithel 2. Tuning SAS Applications in the OS/390 and z/OS Environment,…

Tagged: sas, books, sas books

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Urko Aug. 11, 2009.

Question on using SAS to make an 80% match 2 Replies

I'm trying to match off names between 2 bases. I essentially need to find all situations where there is an 80% match off between names. Does anyone know how to do this? If not, can you please tell me…

Started by Sumanth Suri. Last reply by timothy vogel Jul. 24, 2009.

I've added 7 new SAS jobs on the SAS Jobs Blog 2 Replies

Click here for details.

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Rudra Jul. 15, 2009.

KDD Panel Report - Open Standards and Cloud Computing

If you were able to attend KDD in Paris this year, you probably had a chance to participate on the panel on open standards and cloud computing. Now, if you did not have a chance to enjoy the Parisia…

Tagged: KDD, Computing, Cloud, Standards, Open

Started by Alex Guazzelli Jul. 9, 2009.

seeking a credit risk analyst in nyc metro area

The primary purpose of a Credit Risk Analyst is to be responsible for performing data analysis, forecasting and predictive modeling in support of one or more Credit Risk disciplines which focus on th…

Started by Laura Gleason Jun. 24, 2009.