As I have told you all week – Angela and I will be participating in e-chat at AllAnalytics.com today at 2 PM. The agenda is wide open! It would be great to chat with you – I have certainly appreciated the emails! Here is some of the feedback and photos (click to see larger...
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I have been calling us data geeks – but turns out our new name is actually the more respectable data scientist. Wonder if we get white lab coats with our names over the pocket? That would be so cool. You know you want one also! Anyway, check out AllAnalytics.Com – there is a community...
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Last week I was interviewed in an e-chat with Shawn Hessinger, AllAnalytics.Com, about deploying BI tools to help build your business. It was a great interview and lots of amazing discussion with some really smart people. He summarized the discussion in this article: 6 Steps to a Successful BI Deployment. [If you visit the site...
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Since September, Angela and I have been actively posting on this blog about the SAS Business Intelligence toolset. It has been a lot of fun and thanks to all of your encouragement and kind comments. I’ll share some stats with you data geeks today! (I know it’s like Christmas all over!!) BI-Notes Blog Traffic...
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I love to read and when I’m researching a subject, I go through books like a kid in a candy store. Recently I started reading some of the general Business Intelligence books. What I find is that you need these books when you are preparing presentations or sometimes just to have read the same...
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We can’t adequately convey how exciting and satisfying it is to get the Building BI With SAS book to this final stage! After awaiting feedback from reviewers, implementing the majority of suggested changes, and retaking all of the 500+ images, the CD is burned and ready for drop off. SAS Press will now take...
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Building Business Intelligence Using SAS Book SAS Business Intelligence (BI) package provides an interface for multiple audiences to dissect, discover, and decide on what the data means to their organization. This book shows you the SAS business intelligence capabilities, features, and contains the most sought after tips and tricks to bring a novice user up...
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We are now in the External Review Process!! The SAS Press external review process takes 6 weeks. It includes internal SAS employees who were tasked with reviewing our first 3 chapters as well as several external reviewers. They are all tasked with reviewing the content for accuracy and relevance. In the meantime, Tricia and I are...
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Tricia and I are planning our final all-day working session, scheduled for this Sunday, to complete the final internal author review cycle. If all goes well, on Monday we will be handing the book off to the external reviewers for their 45-day review window! Writing this book has been a great learning expeirence. Not just...
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The big news from the SAS Press front is that our book cover is now finalized!
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