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The International Institute for Analytics and Talent Analytics, Corp. have co-designed a …

This is our new batch of popular discussions. Some are forum questions asking for member feedback. One is controversial blog posts that will make most people laugh except Americans. Comments are also very interesting to read.…

The SAS BI web clients each have their own link (or URL).  When working across many customer sites or even just using my own demo sites –  there can be a lot of links to track (BI Dashboard, Portal, WRS, etc). Certainly I can add bookmarks to my browser –  but when moving to different systems I found it’s easier to just have a little .HTML file that I can edit as needed.

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If you are not sure what I’m trying to describe –  the following…

For years, the data business has relied on “data specialists”.  These experts understand data, and business leaders have to know who they are if they are to find answers to their questions.  My friend Howard Dresner, who coined the term “Business Intelligence”, used to call this phenomenon the “black market of information”.  These experts had all types of names from…

First, you can now browse our Data Science eBook online on Data Science Central. We are in the process of adding a lot of new material and expect to reach 140 pages by the end of the month.

We also invite you to read our weekly featured…

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I trust this e-mail finds you well! You are receiving this e-mail because of your expertise in the field of data mining and its applications in social network analysis and fuzzy systems. As such, I would like to cordially invite you to consider…

While at the SAS Global Forum, someone said to me – “You cannot write code in SAS Enterprise Guide.”  It was a little shocking to me that the person thought SAS Enterprise Guide was all wizards, flow diagrams, and magic. After talking to a few other folks I have found that it is a common myth.  

News Flash!  You can just code in SAS Enterprise Guide!  Today I’ll show you how I pull data from Outlook into SAS Enterprise Guide to create a tweet.  And I’m just going to…

Hi All,

Could anyone please explain me that how to identify the distribution pattern of a variable...Lets suppose we have a data set and we want to know the distribution pattern (e.g - binomial , gama or any other distribution pattern) of a particular variable ...

Poor marketing dashboards and enterprise reporting presentations result in indecision. Marketing managers intuitively know when they are dealing with information that is of little value, but is presented as their only solution because of inexperienced practitioners and inflexible enterprise reporting strategies.

Gain incredible insights, lead the…

In this post we explore a handy technique used here at BigML for understanding numeric data.

If you are familiar with the MapReduce paradigm, you've probably seen the word count example. It's a simple, distributed way to reduce a large set of words…

This article is part of our series on new startup ideas.

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A controversial use of big data by Yahoo and Google to try to change voters opinions, for the presidential elections. Do you think that a rogue candidate would be ready to run large click fraud campaigns to deplete their opponents advertising budgets?

Here's the article:…

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Buzzwords don't come any bigger than "Big Data," which promises to…

Steve Overton shares this information with us:

Collecting ARM logs can be extremely useful when tuning OLAP cubes for faster response.  The ARM log (which stands for Application Response Measurement) collects vital usage information for OLAP cubes using the SAS OLAP Server logging facility.  SAS OLAP Cube studio can analyze these logs to assist with aggregation building to make OLAP cubes return faster results.  Angela Hall discusses…

Inform your marketing team as to which set of features to highlight, within a product, on a product conversion campaign for current customers or prospects. This design can be extended for copy and image influence before campaign targeting.

When we are done you will be able to simulate the response rate to a campaign as a function of how you mix together emphasis…

Target your Net Promoters with a fun modeling project and CRM initiative. So here is a little trick for smart people who use "little" data with advanced research designs who parter the rest of us who use big data. Use this as a mentoring opportunity to show that database marketing is here to stay and has applications in building models for social media referrals to up and coming social media gurus. 

Results:

Once all is said and done, you will have a few…