SAS Tech Report: Conference Content

Featured visualization: In this #D3Thursday community article, SAS' Ryan West teaches us how to create a 3D residual plot in SAS Visual Analytics using the popular 3D graphics library, Three.js.

Oct. 2019, SAS Tech Report

Dear Reader,

It's never too early – in fact it's exactly the right time now – to start planning your trip to SAS Global Forum next year. Held in Washington, DC, from March 29 – April 1 (a month earlier than this year's!), you can now register to reserve your seat. With over 700 breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, a bustling demo hall and an amazing kick-back party, you don't want to miss out.

To get a feel for the team that puts on this massive show, check out the "Meet the Conference Team" LinkedIn article series by SAS Global Forum Conference Chair 2020 Lisa Mendez. If you're new to SAS or have newbie SAS friends, let 2019 New SAS Professional Award Winner Jenna Cody give you 11 reasons to apply for the New SAS Professional Award.

And for presenters: take advantage of the Presenter Mentoring Program, detailed by Conference Content Delivery Team member Scott Bass. "You, the SAS end user, are the main source of content for the conference. Presenting a paper is a way for you to share your SAS knowledge and give back to the SAS community," says Bass.

Stay in the know on all things #SASGF by following the Twitter discussion, and leading up to the event, you'll see tons of chatter from fellow attendees on the this community group. Happy DC-trip planning! Register now.

Anna Brown
Editor, SAS Tech Report
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SAS® Tips and Tricks

Tutorial: Interpreting Machine Learning Models in SAS

Did you know about the model interpretability tools in SAS^® Viya^®? In this tutorial, SAS' Ari Zitin uses SAS Model Studio to read and interpret Partial Dependence Plots (PD), Individual Conditional Expectation Plots (ICE), and Local Interpretable Model Agnostic Explanations (LIME).

Conditionally append observations to a SAS data set

In this blog post, SAS' Rick Wicklin shows how to use the DATA step to determine whether to append data and append data in the same DATA step. This is especially useful if the values for the new observations depend on the data that you scanned. Get the details.

Best practices in migrating SAS^® Code to leverage CAS

Watch this webinar to learn SAS^® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) terminology and processes, CAS' sweet spot, challenges in migrating SAS code to Viya^®, workarounds, coding examples and case studies.

How to publish to a Microsoft Teams channel using SAS

Is your organization going "all in" on Microsoft 365? Find out how to integrate SAS with Microsoft Teams through sending an old-fashioned email or APIs. The result? A rich, automated and integrated experience that your colleagues will thank you for.

SAS® Grid Manager – Best practices for SAS Intelligence Platform

This paper addresses some best practices for how to approach testing and benchmarking I/O performance with SAS in a grid. While it focuses on the SAS Intelligence Platform, you can apply these grid executions to other SAS solutions like SAS^® Cloud Analytic Services Data Integration Studio and SAS^® Enterprise Miner ™.

For IT – What to know about computer vision and GPUs

Hear from an IT director about the technical requirements and major considerations for deploying and supporting computer vision. Specifically, you'll find out how those technical requirements affect: computing policies and standards, data management, processes, staffing and training, privacy and security, open source software accommodation and cloud-based solutions for storage or processing.

For Developers

Tutorial: Python Integration with Viya^®

In this tutorial, SAS' Ari Zitin explains in detail how Python users can easily integrate with SAS. For more information about coding in Python on Viya^®, see this post on the SAS Dummy blog.

From SAS® Communities

Containers and Viya^® (hosted by SUGA)

Learn what an admin should know when using containers with Viya^®. Join Erwan Granger from SAS as he shares the pros, the cons and things to watch out for when considering containers. This event is part of the SAS Users Group for Administrators (SUGA). Learn more about SUGA here.

Azure Quickstart for Viya^® 3.4

Are you looking use the Azure Quickstart for Viya^®? This community article discusses the Quickstart and includes a video on the Viya^® Quickstart Template for Azure.

Four rules to understand CAS management of in-memory data

Get a brief, but illustrative, guide to the inner workings of how data is managed in memory in CAS. SAS' Rob Collum outlines four rules that describe the majority of situations in this article.

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