SAS Tech Report: Virtual SAS Global Forum

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April 2020, SAS Tech Report

Dear Reader,

Welcome to a special SAS Global Forum edition of the Tech Report! Today officially marks the start of boatloads of virtual SAS Global Forum content available to you on the SAS Users YouTube channel. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the channel to get updates.

Wondering where to start your SAS video binge? Dive into what interests you through six focus areas, accessible through individual video playlists:

I’ve highlighted a few videos below to get you started.

Don’t forget to bookmark the SAS Global Forum 2020 proceedings and reference them as you view the presentations. Lots to soak up here, lots to learn. Enjoy sharpening your SAS skills virtually – #SASGF style – this year.

Anna Brown
Editor, SAS Tech Report
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SAS Global Forum Virtual Highlights

Migrating from SAS® 9.4 to SAS® Viya®

SAS® Viya® brings with it a wealth of new analytic and data management capabilities, as well as a resilient, scalable, and open architecture. SAS 9.4 users need an easy path to migrate their workloads to SAS Viya to leverage these capabilities. In this presentation, we discuss options for adopting SAS Viya to complement, and in some cases replace, a SAS® 9.4 environment. The options fall into three general categories: interoperability, content promotion, and replacement.

Author: Mark Schneider, SAS

Incorporating Python into your SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning Pipeline

Learn how to use Python code in your SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning pipeline in Model Studio, including how to call Python installed on a remote system. You may also be interested in this related tutorial on Python integration with SAS.

Author: Jagruti Kanjia, SAS

A Hands-On Introduction to SAS® DATA Step Hash Programming Techniques

SAS® software supports a DATA step programming technique known as hash that enables faster table lookup, search, merge/join, and sort operations. This hands-on workshop reviews match-merge and join techniques, introduces what a hash object is, how hash objects work, and the hash object syntax required to take advantage of the speed that available memory offers.

Author: Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation

How to Access and Manage Microsoft Azure Cloud Data Using SAS®

Get an overview of how to use SAS to access and manage data in Azure Storage, in addition to SAS best practices and options to work with big data and relational databases in Azure Storage.

Author: Kumar Thangamuthu, SAS

Deploying Computer Vision by Combining Deep Learning Action Sets with Open-Source Technology

With the desire for applying computer vision in ever more general and flexible contexts, the challenge arises on how we can push image processing models to production in a robust way. This presentation focuses on doing Automated Meter Reading (AMR) using customer-submitted photos of their meters. You'll see how SAS and open-source tools can be used together to provide a consistent approach both to creating as well as managing and deploying models.

Author: Duncan Bain, Scottish Power Ltd

What's New in SAS® Data Management

The latest releases of SAS Data Management software provide a comprehensive and integrated set of capabilities for collecting, transforming, and managing your data. This presentation provides an overview of the latest features of the SAS Data Management product suite and includes use cases and examples for leveraging product capabilities.

Author: Nancy Rausch, SAS

Stepping Up Your SAS® Output Delivery System Graphics Game

This presentation provides ideas for combining tables, charts, and formatting elements to step up your ODS Graphics game. It demonstrates how SGPLOT procedure output can be combined with REPORT procedure output into a single visual element and gives examples of how SGANNOTATE functions can enhance standard graphs.

Author: Sara Richter, Professional Data Analysts

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