Category Archives: Tools & Techniques

Choose the right analytics tool for your company

Posted on 27 Feb 2013 by Gaurav Vohra

There are hundreds of analytics tools available in the market. These tools have varied capabilities and they range from free tools to very, very expensive ones. If you are looking to drive analytics within your organization, you will face this …

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Using Vectorization in SAS IML to improve code performance

Posted on 31 Jan 2013 by admin

For an analyst, writing computationally efficient codes is extremely important. A computationally efficient code takes less time to compile and execute, as a result it reduces the running time of statistical models and reports. Hence it is essential that we …

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The Curse of the Bell Curve – Part 2

Posted on 16 Jan 2013 by Gaurav Vohra

This article was originally published in Data Science Central The ‘Bell curve’ or the ‘Gaussian bell curve’ is one of the fundamental concepts on which most of the statistical analysis is based. From social sciences to astronomy to financial services- most …

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Software in Analytics – the Changing Game

Posted on 23 Dec 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

We have discussed in an earlier post how the explosion of data (especially in terms of new variables) is leading to a huge requirement of Analytics professionals who can work on data mining and Visualisation / dash boarding. They say …

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Videos on R Training

Posted on 18 Nov 2012 by Gaurav Vohra

Over the last 6 months, we have been working on creating a new R training course. We are proud to say that we are now almost there. We will be rolling out the new course from 1st Jan 2013. The …

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What makes a good SAS course?

Posted on 15 Nov 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

Why would you do a SAS course? A majority of us want to improve our understanding of getting things done on software used by the largest section of the analytics fraternity. Why not use the web and other free resources …

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Analytics on Unstructured data – Twitter, Facebook and social media

Posted on 8 Oct 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

Quoting Wikipedia: – Unstructured Data (or unstructured information) refers to information that either does not have a predefined data model and/or does not fit well into relational tables. Unstructured information is typically text-heavy, but may contain data such as dates, …

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Excel 2010 – and the World of Analytics

Posted on 20 Sep 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

When we think of a career in analytics, we think if big data, SAS, SPSS, R etc. These are the illustrious stars in the galaxy of analytics. Does our mind consider the omnipresent excel in the same category? If you …

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New addition into Analytics DBMS – Hadoop as the ERP of web data and its Integration with SAS

Posted on 6 Sep 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

Big data and Apache Hadoop are mentioned in the same breath in conversations and industry practices. We have been talking about big data and unstructured data quite a lot recently. And then when the SAS blog reads in a March …

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An Application of Logistic Regression

Posted on 31 Aug 2012 by Gaurav Vohra

Here are some reactions to our latest analysis. Can you guess what the topic is? “This is awesome. Fascinating work! I always knew this intuitively but you gave it the statistical backbone. Superb work!” “OH NO. STOP THIS MEANING LESS …

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SAS Certifications – what are they all about?

Posted on 10 Aug 2012 by Gaurav Vohra

SAS Certifications – what are they all about? The SAS Foundation has been offering various certifications in SAS based analytics for many years now. Till date, the SAS certifications are the most recognised credential in analytics. There are many different …

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Learn SAS for free

Posted on 3 Aug 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

Quote – the best things in life are free! Do you agree? For education? With the subject being SAS? Yes the wonderful news is that the World Wide Web is practically free – save the browsing charges. And SAS users …

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How fast is R growing compared to other software in analytics?

Posted on 26 Jul 2012 by Ajay Ohri

Analytics consultant and author Bob Muenchen has analyzed a multiple number of benchmarks to compare analytics languages. Bob is the author of “R for SAS and SPSS users” and “R for Stata” and has worked with all these languages for …

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Big Data Management – the new buzz word in Analytics

Posted on 23 May 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

In information technology, big data consists of data sets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing. This trend continues because of the …

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Pricing for Analytical Tools in India

Posted on 9 Mar 2012 by Gaurav Vohra

SAS, IBM, Angoss, KXEN, Revolution Analytics, Statsoft, WPL I am amazed at the amount of time and effort one needs to spend just to find the pricing details for even the most well-known analytic tools. This is especially true when …

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Plotting Graphs with R

Posted on 17 Feb 2012 by Ajay Ohri

One of best features of the R Analytical Platform is the incredible way we can build publication ready graphs. Many other statistical platforms are good at data crunching, but their graphical abilities are so poor, a business analyst is forced …

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A Simple Analysis using R

Posted on 11 Feb 2012 by Ajay Ohri

This is part of series of article in which I demonstrate that R is quite easy to learn as it has tips, tricks, shortcuts and graphical user interfaces that can easily cut down your time to learn it, and adding …

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Tips for beginners in R

Posted on 2 Feb 2012 by Ajay Ohri

“Tips for beginners in R” is the second article in the series. The first article can be read here – Why every business analyst needs to learn R? In may last article, I mentioned R is the next big thing …

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SAS Training

Posted on 21 Dec 2011 by Ajay Ohri

In which Ajay talks about learning the SAS language and ensuring you have a job in a recession. The SAS language has been in existence since the last 4 decades, and it is increasingly looking like that learning the SAS …

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