by Ian J. Ghent | Jul 25, 2022 | Apache Spark Cafe, Cloud Computing, Python, SAS
It seems like everything these days is only for rent. The way we consume movies, music, books, computing, even the features in our cars, have all moved to be subscription model services, not products you buy and own. Pay once, own forever has increasingly become pay...
by Ian J. Ghent | Mar 18, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Cloud Computing, Python, SAS
What an absurd title! A strange twist on the “working hard or hardly working” cliché, but read on and I promise it will all make sense. Here’s a tale of a court jester and his great invention. Long ago in a vast and complex kingdom, there lived a great king. The...
by Ian J. Ghent | Mar 1, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, R, SAS
Back in 2015, when we set out to build SPROCKET, the World’s only SAS modernization solution, one key design question plagued our thoughts. Scalable, simple, fast and open-source, it was obvious from the early days of Apache Spark that it was analytics platform...
by Ian J. Ghent | Jan 28, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, SAS
Not to date myself, but I’ve been using SAS for over 25 years. I’ve worked at banks like Capital One and Citibank, Telecom companies like Verizon and Bell Canada, government institutions like Statistics Canada, and the company behind the SAS language. In all my years...
by Terry Swaren | Jan 17, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Customer Experience, SAS, Solutions
During engagements with our clients I am often asked what is our definition of automation. Understanding the options that are available on the market today to help with a SAS code conversion can be challenging. We often hear and use the terms brute force, manual,...
by Gurpinder Khaira | Jan 10, 2022 | Apache Spark Cafe, SAS
SAS is the Kapil Dev(Cricket) of computer programming languages. For my non cricket friends, what I mean is it was the best alrounder of its time. Google says ‘SAS language is a computer programming language used for statistical analysis’ but I bet someone has used it...
