It's gone by many names in the past, SUGI, SAS Global Forum, SAS Explore, but this year we're continuing our annual conference, SAS Innovate. The event is a data and AI experience for business leaders, technical users and SAS partners. The conference is scheduled for May 6-9 in Orlando, FL. We're dedicating the March edition of the SAS Bowl to get you prepared for the event. We'll also travel back to past events and dig up some highlights.   Game Details The SAS Support Community trivia event, SAS Bowl XLIX, SAS Innovate 2025 is scheduled for Wednesday, March 12, at 10 a.m. ET. Register for the event and receive an invite to a Microsoft Teams meeting and a calendar event. On game day, join the Teams meeting and access the game here.   More on SAS Innovate At SAS Innovate, there's something for everyone and every role – from top executives to data scientists, engineers, and analysts to our partners across industries. Whether you’re flying solo or heading to Orlando with your entire team, it's a no-risk, all-reward opportunity to learn how to succeed with AI and analytics. Give us four days at SAS Innovate, and we know you’ll be all in on AI, too. Here are some resources to learn more about SAS Innovate to prepare for the SAS Bowl. SAS Innovate 2025 home page SAS Innovate 2025 Communities page Meet our inspiring keynote speakers at SAS Innovate 2025 More resources coming soon   SAS Bowl and event details For those who may be new to the SAS Bowl, you can find game history and specifics in this Community memo. There you'll also find links to previous events, which include recordings.   Register for the event and receive an invite with game details and a Teams meeting link. On game day, Join the TEAMS meeting to play, and show off your SAS and worldly knowledge while competing for bragging rights and SAS Community game gear. ... View more

Models and data analytics are at the heart of what SAS does. We'll focus on all things models, including general model knowledge, SAS Model Studio and Model Manager, as well as the new lightweight, packaged AI models for February's edition of the SAS Bowl.   Game Details The SAS Support Community trivia event, SAS Bowl XLVIII, All Things Models is scheduled for Wednesday, February 19, at 10:00 AM ET. Register for the event and receive an invite to a Microsoft Teams meeting and a calendar event. On game day, join the Teams meeting and access the game here.   More on Models Yes, this is a broad topic. In this session we'll discuss various aspects of modeling and how SAS leads in this technology. SAS Model Studio can be used with SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, SAS® Visual Forecasting, or SAS® Visual Text Analytics. With SAS you can create you own models using SAS Model Studio. You can then register and deploy the SAS model in SAS Model Manager. You can also bring your own open source model and enjoy the same experience under the SAS Model umbrella.   Below are portal-related resources we'll use to create questions for the game.   How to Deploy Models in SAS - SAS Users YouTube tutorial by @AriZitin  SAS Viya: Machine Learning - Doc site SAS Visual Forecasting - Doc site SAS Visual Text Analytics - Doc site Creating a Model Nutrition Label: Model Cards for SAS Model Studio Models -  SAS Communities article by @SophiaRowland  End-to-End Guide: Building and Deploying Machine Learning Models in SAS Model Manager - SAS Communities article by @rehab  Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solutions - AI Models Product Page   SAS Bowl and event details For those who may be new to the SAS Bowl, you can find game history and specifics in this Community memo. There you'll also find links to previous events, which include recordings.   Register for the event and receive an invite with game details and a Teams meeting link. On game day, Join the TEAMS meeting to play, and show off your SAS and worldly knowledge while competing for bragging rights and SAS Community game gear. ... View more

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS FOR 10:30, NOT THE USUAL 10 AM SLOT. Augment human efforts to analyze unstructured text with AI using a variety of modeling approaches with SAS Visual Text Analytics. Experience the combined power of natural language processing, machine learning and linguistic rules. We'll focus on the SAS platform for January's edition of the SAS Bowl   Game Details The SAS Support Community trivia event, SAS Bowl XLVII, SAS Visual Text Analytics is scheduled for Wednesday, January 15, at 10:30 AM ET. Register for the event and receive an invite to a Microsoft Teams meeting and a calendar event. On game day, join the Teams meeting and access the game here.   More on SAS Visual Text Analytics Use SAS Visual Text Analytics to ingest, cleans and transform data for analysis, easily accepting multiple file formats through local or remote file systems, relational databases and cloud storage. The platform provides automatic topic discovery using two unsupervised machine learning methods – singular value decomposition and latent Dirichlet allocation – to group documents based on common themes. Relevance scores calculate how well each document belongs to each topic, and a binary flag shows topic membership above a given threshold.   Below are portal-related resources we'll use to create questions for the game.   Behind the Scenes with SAS Visual Text Analytics - SAS Communities articles - Part 1 | Part 2 Analysis of Movie Reviews using Visual Text Analytics - SAS Users blog post Approaches to Enhancing your Natural Language Processing - SAS Webinars - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3  Natural Language Processing: An Introduction - SAS Global Forum video Using machine learning in SAS Visual Text Analytics to analyze human trafficking reports - SAS Data Scientist blog post Building a cultural wordbook via SAS Visual Text Analytics - SAS Users blog post   SAS Bowl and event details For those who may be new to the SAS Bowl, you can find game history and specifics in this Community memo. There you'll also find links to previous events, which include recordings.   Register for the event   and receive an invite with game details and a Teams meeting link. On game day, Join the TEAMS meeting to play, and show off your SAS and worldly knowledge while competing for bragging rights and SAS Community game gear. ... View more

Well, a new SAS developer portal may not be on the top of your Holiday wish list; however, fear not, it’s there! Earlier this year SAS released a new version of developer.sas.com. Please feel free to check it out.    You'll notice that the SAS Viya API documentation is front and center (as should be the case with any developer portal). But wait, there's more. We scoured SAS digital resources and have identified over 200 developer- and API-related use cases. If you're an open source developer, we've got assets to help get you started and interface with SAS Viya.   SAS programmers, you're covered as well. We have a section on the page dedicated to our various SDKs. Further, we have added resources for SAS solutions and technologies which covers things like SAS Viya Workbench, Trustworthy AI, and Customer Intelligence 360, all geared towards developers. Finally, we have links to the Developers Community and the sassoftware resources on GitHub. It's truly one stop shopping.   We have received very positive feedback from both SAS employees and our users. It let’s us know our hard work is paying off.   This is only the beginning though and we will continue to refine the user experience, add content, and one day have an interactive “Try It” button for our APIs. We are striving to deliver an award worthy product! ... View more

Each year after the SAS Hackathon, I generate and distribute a follow-up survey to participants. Based off the feedback, we make changes for the next year's hackathon to improve an already awesome event. Through the software we use to distribute the survey, I export the data to an Excel file, import the file to SAS Viya, and create a series of reports.   Concatenate Columns There are certain instances when I use several columns of data to represent one question. For example for the question of "Which SAS products did you use during the SAS Hackathon?" I have four columns: a premade list, a text-based freeform option, and mobile versions of each, all of which are comma separated lists. I've attached the spreadsheet containing the data. For the report I first need to combine these columns, keeping the comma separated delimiter. I use the following code for the concatenation.   /* Program to concatenate open source fixed and open source freeform columns*/ /* Make CAS connection */ options cashost="sas-cas-server-shared-main-client" casport=5570; cas mySession sessopts=(caslib=casuser timeout=1800 locale="en_US"); /* Create SAS library from a caslib */ libname hack24 cas caslib="SAS Hackathon (DNFS)"; proc datasets lib=hack24;run; /* Concat product list columns */ data concatproducts24(keep=productsconcat sasProductsList sasProductsList_14_TEXT mobleSASProductList mobleSASProductList_14_TEXT); set hack24.SASHACKATHON2024; sp = ','; productsconcat=catx(sp, of sasProductsList sasProductsList_14_TEXT mobleSASProductList mobleSASProductList_14_TEXT); run; /* Print resulting table */ proc print data=concatproducts24; run; /* Upload data back to CAS */ proc casutil incaslib="SAS Hackathon (DNFS)" outcaslib="SAS Hackathon (DNFS)"; droptable casdata="concatproducts24" quiet; load data=work.concatproducts24 casout="concatproducts24" promote; save casdata="concatproducts24" casout="concatproducts24" replace ; run; quit; cas mySession terminate;   This results in the following table. The last column is the sum of the other four columns.     Parse Columns Now that we have a table with a column containing the entire list, I need to split up the comma delimited list. I achieve this with the following code.   /* Program to parse the open source used column*/ /* Make CAS connection */ options cashost="sas-cas-server-shared-main-client" casport=5570; cas mySession sessopts=(caslib=casuser timeout=1800 locale="en_US"); /* Create SAS library from a caslib */ libname hack24 cas caslib="SAS Hackathon (DNFS)"; proc datasets lib=hack24;run; proc print data=hack24.concatproducts24; var productsconcat; title 'Original data'; run; /*Parse column*/ data parse_products24 (keep=obsno products i num_comma num_products); set hack24.concatproducts24; num_comma = count(productsconcat,','); num_products = num_comma+1; where productsconcat is not null; do i = 1 to num_products by 1; obsno= _n_; products = scan(productsconcat,i,','); output; end; run; /* Print resulting table */ proc print data=parse_products24 noobs; title 'After splitting with SCAN function'; var obsno products i num_comma num_products; run; /* Upload data back to CAS */ proc casutil incaslib="SAS Hackathon (DNFS)" outcaslib="SAS Hackathon (DNFS)"; droptable casdata="parse_products24" quiet; load data="parse_products24" casout="parse_products24" promote; save casdata="parse_products24" casout="parse_products24" replace ; run; quit; cas mySession terminate; This result is a parsed table.   Finally, I move to SAS Visual Analytics and use the data from the parsed table and add it to my report.   A big thank you to @Cynthia_sas for the assistance in writing the code.   ... View more

With SAS Visual Analytics everyone can easily discover and share powerful insights that inspire action with a single application for reporting, data exploration and analytics. One of SAS's most popular products is the feature for November's SAS Bowl.   Game Details The SAS Support Community trivia event, SAS Bowl XLV, SAS Visual Analytics is scheduled for Wednesday, November 13, at 10 AM ET. Register for the event and receive an invite to a Microsoft Teams meeting and a calendar event. On game day, join the Teams meeting and access the game here.   More on SAS Visual Analytics With SAS Visual Analytics you can create interactive reports and dashboards. You use it to quickly summarize key performance metrics and share them via the web and mobile devices. Executives and front-line staff can quickly interact with and collaborate on insights, slice and dice them to find their own answers, and better understand business performance.   Below are portal-related resources we'll use to create questions for the game.   Tricks for SAS Visual Analytics Report Builders - SAS Communities library article series SAS Visual Analytics Stories Are Data With a Soul - SAS Ask the Expert webinar SAS Visual Analytics Gallery - SAS Communities board featuring images from SAS Visual Analytics Unveiling Oceanus: Harnessing SAS Visual Analytics to combat illegal fishing networks - SAS Blog post   SAS Bowl and event details For those who may be new to the SAS Bowl, you can find game history and specifics in this Community memo. There you'll also find links to previous events, which include recordings.   Register for the event   and receive an invite with game details and a Teams meeting link. On game day, Join the TEAMS meeting to play, and show off your SAS and worldly knowledge while competing for bragging rights and SAS Community game gear. ... View more