Hi VA Community,   Get a taste of what SAS Visual Analytics 7.5 has to offer from SAS R+D Director @JeffDiamond at SAS Global Forum 2019. Set to become available in late May, there are three main points to call out:   1) It's completely HTML-based, so no more flash technology. IT looks almost exactly like VA version 8.x. 2) SAS Visual Analytics Explorer, Designer and Visual Statistics are now melded into a single app: Visual Analytics. 3) There are over 100 new features that have been incorporated in SAS VA 8.x, including two net new features.   Watch to learn more.     Shout out to @RickStyll_SAS for filming this video! ... View more

A circle packing graph is a unique way to visualize results of your cluster models, explains @RyanWest in the latest #D3Thursday article, Visualizing nested data with a circle packing graph in SAS Visual Analytics with #D3Thursday.   SAS Global Forum 2019 Circle Packing Graph   Check out the related SAS Global Forum 2019 paper, Kustomizing Your SAS Viya Engine Using SAS Studio Custom Tasks and D3.js, by @RyanWest, @OliviaWright and @ElliotInman_SAS. And in case you missed them, read the other #D3Thursday posts on this research.  ... View more

Hi SAS Data Management Community,   Are you going to SAS Global Forum 2019 in Dallas, TX, April 28-May 1? Allow me to share the SAS Data Management-related presentations to help build your agenda. If you're presenting, share your session on this thread to make this listing more complete.   And if you haven't already, be sure to join the SAS Global Forum 2019 group here on the community. There's lots of chatter over there from cool swag you can earn to what to wear.   Now back to the sessions:   Database-related Boop-Oop-A-Doop! It’s Showtime with SAS on Hadoop! - Cecily Hoffritz Execution of user-written DS2 programs inside Apache Spark™ using SAS® In-Database Code Accelerator - David Ghazaleh So your data is in Amazon Web Services (AWS), how to you access it with SAS? – Lou Galway Sparking Your Data Innovation: SAS® Integration with Apache Spark - Kumar Thangamuthu Accessing Your Favorite Database with SAS and JDBC - Salman Maher   Data Prep Be Prepared: An Introduction to SAS® Data Preparation - Mary Kathryn Queen Data Preparation in the Analytical Lifecycle - Ivor Moan   Deployment and Governance Data Quality Programming Techniques with SAS Cloud Analytic Services - Nicolas Robert Adding data to real-time decision making with SAS Decision Manager on Viya - Ernest Jessee Understanding, Tracking, and Visualizing Decisions with SAS Viya - Carl Sommer Cows or Chickens - How you can make your models into containers - Hongjie Xin The Aftermath. What Happens After you Deploy your Models and Decisions - David Duling Data Governance: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Vincent Rejany   Emerging topics What's New in SAS Data Management - Nancy Rausch Benefiting from AI: Leveraging Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Data Management - Nancy Rausch No time to create an Enterprise Data Warehouse? No problem, blockchain to the rescue! - Angela Hall Data Management for Modern Data Architectures - Ron Agresta Unlocking Your Data with SAS/ACCESS to Salesforce - Mason Morris World Wide Wrangler: How to create SAS® datasets from HTML tables in seconds - Ed Summers   Anna ... View more

Hi there,   If you're going to SAS Global Forum 2019 in Dallas, TX next month, you may be interested in this pre-conference tutorial: Introduction to Modern Machine Learning Techniques in SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning on Sunday, April 28 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. @Funda_SAS will cover fundamental concepts of machine learning algorithms, and how to apply modeling techniques to SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning.     Check out the full description and register.   Anna ... View more

  In case you missed these recent Asked & Answered articles over in the SAS Communities Library, I wanted to call them to your attention. Thanks @WendyCzika for posting these!   How to create plots in the SAS Code node in Model Studio How to run SAS Enterprise Miner batch processing code in Model  ... View more