SAS Tech Report: Breakdown of Happiness

Featured visualization: The tragic events in the United States Capitol Hill have been in so many headlines since Jan. 6. Multiple law enforcement organizations work together to fight crime in the D.C. Metropolitan-area, and this SAS Visual Analytics report gives you an understanding of other local incidents that occurred between 2019 and 2020. It analyzes and maps over 60,000 violent and property crimes citywide. Data is provided by the DC Metropolitan Police Department.

Dear Reader,

Have you heard about the new global hackathons from SAS? People from different regions, backgrounds and skill levels will collaborate and develop applications and solutions using SAS® analytics, AI, cloud and open-source technology.

These applications will aim to solve big problems, from global humanitarian issues such as fighting the pandemic and addressing climate change to business-focused challenges such as helping a bank reduce fraud or a retailer improve its online customer experience. Applications and products may even become viable for the marketplace that SAS will assist in developing and commercializing.

Register your team for the first global hackathon by Feb. 14. You’ll need to provide a description of the real-world challenge – a business or humanitarian issue – that your team is going to tackle.

Thanks for reading,

Marinela Profi
Guest Editor, SAS Tech Report

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SAS® Tips and Tricks

Intro to SAS Intervals

Let Mr. Dates and Times, aka Derek Morgan, tell you all about SAS intervals – what they are and why you’d need to use them. He’ll show you examples of graphing with intervals, projecting dates with INTNX and calculating intervals with the INTCK function. Lastly, Derek clears up areas where SAS practitioners often get confused with intervals.

SAS Viya Release Highlights show on YouTube

Check out v1.0 of the SAS Viya Release Highlights show! This first episode covers Report Review and Export to Excel in SAS Visual Analytics, and the new SAS Conversation Designer (chatbots!). Subscribe to the channel to catch the show every month with all of the latest news on SAS releases. SAS Viya (and the show) keeps getting better!

Attend cloud virtual event on Feb. 11th

Get a read on trends in cloud computing, AI and predictive modeling during the Travel to Faster, Trusted Decisions in the Cloud virtual event on Feb. 11th. Technology experts, partners and analysts in the industry discuss what is taking off in the space and the latest release of SAS^® Viya^®.

Running SAS programs in parallel using SAS/CONNECT®

In this blog post, SAS’ Leonid Batkhan talks about the “filling up a swimming pool” math problem whereby two pipes filling up a swimming pool are faster than one. “The same principle of parallel processing (or parallel computing) is applicable to SAS programs (or non-SAS programs) by running their different independent pieces in separate SAS sessions at the same time (in parallel).  Divide and conquer,” he explains. Learn about how easily this can be done with SAS/CONNECT®.

The best way to generate dummy variables in SAS

SAS’ Rick Wicklin couldn’t make it clearer: the simplest and easiest way to generate dummy variables in SAS is to use PROC GLMSELECT. He tells you why, how and goes over a macro to generate dummy variables in this blog post.

Book: SAS® Graphics for Clinical Trials by Example

If you are a programmer working in the health care and life sciences industry and you want to create straightforward, visually appealing graphs using SAS, then this book by Kriss Harris and Richann Watson is designed specifically for you. Still not sure? The trailer may pique your interest.

Free Feb. 4th webinar: How do I migrate from one database management system to another?

If you’re looking to migrate data storage to less expensive and infinitely scalable environments, you’ll need to address certain considerations before getting started. Join this webinar to learn best practices to efficiently migrate from one database management system to another.

Free Feb. 25th webinar: How do you promote content between your SAS® Platforms?

Geared toward SAS Viya administrators, this webinar will teach steps of moving content within Viya (promoting content from SAS Viya dev, test to prod) and from SAS 9.4 to Viya using promotion tools.

For Developers

Why venue optimization is critical and how it works

As I watch sporting events during COVID, I often wonder how venues determine fan seating arrangements (if fans are allowed into the venue at all). SAS' Sertalp Cay wrote a fascinating post on maximizing seating charts in large venues, while adhering to attendance restrictions. It's a must read!

From SAS® Communities

Save the Date: Feb. 9th for SAS Bowl VII: The Matching Game

We learned about APIs, sang ABBA and stretched our Roman numeral knowledge in the last SAS Bowl VI: SAS APIs. Congrats to the top three winners: @elayne, @ProcWes and @snoopy369! Next up: SAS Bowl VII: The Matching Game. Do your homework and come out to play on Feb. 9th.

MLPA web application - accelerating the model lifecycle through APIs

MLPA, or Machine Learning Pipeline Automation, is one of the newest additions to the SAS Viya REST API stack. It extends SAS Viya capabilities to open-source developers for building custom applications and moves away from SAS UIs to leverage SAS as a back end. In this article, learn how to use the simple web application to explore, create, deploy and score a machine learning model that can solve any classification or regression problem, by simply uploading a data set.

SAS/CONNECT in SAS Viya 2020.1 (and later)

SAS/CONNECT is a client/server application that links a SAS client session to a SAS server session. It’s also versatile as it works across different releases and across different operating systems, including the new SAS Viya. For this reason, it is often used as a "bridge" when other connection or integration strategies do not work: If you can't connect, SAS/CONNECT! Read this article for more details.

News

SAS Global Forum 2021 will be held on May 18-20

Mark your calendar for a virtual experience that brings together the brightest minds in analytics. Interested in getting involved? Check out these engagement/volunteer opportunities.

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