Our story so far … I suggested that people with disabilities who are successful in education, jobs or self-employment don’t define themselves as disabled, and neither do the people around them. It can’t be that simple, right? Have a positive attitude, look on the sunny side of life and next thing you know, people are…
I’m looking forward to speaking at the Turtle Mountain Disabilities Conference and not just because they have one of the best conference logos I have ever seen. This topic reminds me of a joke my friend told me. His specialty is geriatrics and one day one of his patients came to him and…
More notes from the text mining class. … This is the article I mentioned in the last post, on Singular Value Decomposition ftp://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/EMiner/TamingTextwiththeSVD.pdf Contrary to expectations, I did find time to read it, on the ride back from Las Vegas and it is surprisingly accessible even to people who don’t have a graduate degree in statistics,…
Hot tip: If you are a professor, you have access to some major benefits from SAS. The main ones that jump to mind are: Free classes that are worth FAR more than you paid for them. Free software via SAS On-Demand. Free books – up to two per semester. Free teaching materials You can get…
Maybe this is obvious, but I have often found that what is obvious to some people is not so obvious to others, so here are a few random tips. 1. Enterprise Miner can take a REALLY long time to load during which you wonder if anything is happening at all. Open up the task manager…
After all of the effort to get Enterprise Miner installed, I thought it better do something good. It is interesting to use. Unlike programming where you can get a program to run but give you errors or unexpected results, so far (key phrase!), with Enterprise Miner I have found the problem to be knowing exactly…
I’m putting this here for my students this fall, but I’m sure there are two or three other people in the world who would like to know how to use Enterprise Miner. I’m assuming you read some of my other posts or received an email from your professor or in other ways got Enterprise Miner…
Most likely, you,too, have experienced homicidal urges when confronted with a problem you have spent five hours trying to solve on your computer, only to call tech support and have them report, Well, it works fine on my computer. You’d think if that solved the problem that they would offer to box up their computer and send…
A while ago, I posted about Women in Tech, the double standard where women have to be twice as outstanding to be a keynote speaker, for example. The past year, I’ve been really cutting down on travel, for example, I didn’t go to either SAS Global Forum or the Joint Statistical Meetings, because I’m focusing…
Thank you to Jason Kellogg from SAS Technical Support, SAS On-Demand Enterprise Miner is now running on my Mac using Windows 8.1 with boot camp. Here were his instructions. Note, this is after you have a SAS profile, registered a course, changed the security settings in Java, now you are here The steps are: 1….