SAS and R
Ajay Ohri posted part 2 of his interview with Anne Milley. It was interesting to read about SAS’s use of open source software: Open source software provides many options and benefits. We see many (SAS...
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SAS user groups
How many SAS® users do we have? Looking at the number of licenses we have tells only part of the story, the tip of the iceberg. I work for a company that is a national subsidiary of a continental...
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R – first steps
I talked a little while ago about downloading R. Time to update you on progress since I ran through some of the sample code in the Introduction to R. Well, I couldn’t quite believe how simple the...
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Wolfram|Alpha banned…
… just imagine having access to Wolfram|Alpha in a physics (or any other?) exam! Any ideas for more imaginative, or non-intuitive uses? How about proc alpha; q=''; run; Technorati Tags: alpha, SAS,...
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Open source data mining
Browsing around I stumbled across an old post on Knowledge Integrity, Inc.’s site about weka and their work on an open source data mining tool. It looks as if we might have quite a basket of products...
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Sorting: bufsize and sortsize
Initial results for sorting data suggest that a small sortsize improves sortation, whilst the time taken is largely independent of the buffer size (bufsize) used to create the file. These are only...
View ArticleSAS Global Forum, at one remove
What a day (yesterday was)! A flurry of press releases from SAS®. Two caught my eye: SAS to offer R integration to support analytical innovation, and SAS and Teradata Announce Availability of Analytic...
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Which papers are you reading?
The SUGI SAS Global Forum 2009 Proceedings papers have been available on-line for a week now. I’ve skimmed the titles and there are a few that I’ve earmarked for further study, see below; sadly some of...
View ArticleWolfram and The Power to, …, erm
In a few weeks Wolfram|Alpha will finally be unveiled and we will see if it can live up to its promise. There was a great article on hplus magazine by Rudy Rucker, whose life seems to have been...
View ArticleSAS bashing
A number of recent posts have been towards the critical end of the scale with regards to SAS®. This seems a little unfair given my recent experience of working with them in the design phase of a...
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