Category: Technology Deep Dives

Customers who are opting for the new SAS® Analytics Pro offering may experience some confusion when they receive the license for the product. When viewing the order information, customer’s will see that the product is licensed to run on the Linux operating system however they may be using Microsoft Windows on their desktop.  Further to […]

Data analytics is a necessity in the modern business landscape. Whether large or small, all businesses rely on relevant streams of data to make good decisions across every function including sales, marketing, production, finance, and human resources. Today, there are many traditional ways of carrying out data analysis, including mathematical methods and modern data analysis […]

In the modern business environment, data analytics is the backbone of many businesses.  Today, it is the enabler of the managerial decision-making process; every decision you make, ranging from what to produce to how distribution channels should be set up, is based on insights produced by data analytics solutions. Your organisation, therefore, needs to invest […]

In a previous blog post, we talked about feature scaling techniques and implemented this in Base SAS using SAS Macros. However, in this blog post, we are going to focus on feature scaling and transformation techniques using SAS Macros. Here I will explain what they are and the scenarios they are best applied to. 5. […]

1. One Hot Encoding There are many different definitions for one-hot encoding on the internet. In general words, it is the process of converting categorical variables into binary form (1’s and 0’s), which can be fed into machine learning, deep learning, and statistical algorithms to make better predictions or improve the efficiency of the ML/DL/Statistical […]

SAS analytics is a command-driven statistical software used to collect and analyse data.  At this point, we have an idea of what SAS can do. It draws up visual depictions of large data groups  for analysis. Furthermore, the analytics platform can access raw files from an external database, manage and analyse data to generate useful […]