Finishing up my second paper for WUSS next month and I have been thinking about the usefulness of character functions in a world where it sometimes seems like everyone is just put on this earth to irritate the hell out of me. Take this problem, for example, In analyzing the data for our games, we…
The second time I taught statistics, I supplemented the textbook with assignments using real data, and I have been doing it in the twenty-eight years since. The benefits seem so obvious to me that it’s hard to believe that everyone doesn’t do the same. The only explanation I can imagine is that they are not…
If I had a clone, all of my code would be beautiful. Last week, I was a speaker at the Tribal Disability Conference in Turtle Mountain, where I spoke on starting a business. Then, I went for a site visit at Spirit Lake Vocational Rehabilitation followed by another talk on self-employment at the Tribal Disability…
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,…
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…
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…
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….
A few years ago, when I was at USC, I tried to get a desktop version of Enterprise Miner to run on a virtual machine on my Mac and that never happened, although I did get it working on a Windows machine I had at home. Last week, I wrote about my failed attempt to…
New semester coming up when I will be teaching data mining. Because I never do anything at the last minute, I’m registering my course and testing the SAS on-demand for Enterprise Miner now. I have learned from experience not to ignore it when the instructions say to check your configuration. You should find how to…