Maybe this is obvious, but I have often found that what is obvious to some people is not so obvious to others, so here are a few random tips. 1. Enterprise Miner can take a REALLY long time to load during which you wonder if anything is happening at all. Open up the task manager…
After all of the effort to get Enterprise Miner installed, I thought it better do something good. It is interesting to use. Unlike programming where you can get a program to run but give you errors or unexpected results, so far (key phrase!), with Enterprise Miner I have found the problem to be knowing exactly…
Most likely, you,too, have experienced homicidal urges when confronted with a problem you have spent five hours trying to solve on your computer, only to call tech support and have them report, Well, it works fine on my computer. You’d think if that solved the problem that they would offer to box up their computer and send…
Thank you to Jason Kellogg from SAS Technical Support, SAS On-Demand Enterprise Miner is now running on my Mac using Windows 8.1 with boot camp. Here were his instructions. Note, this is after you have a SAS profile, registered a course, changed the security settings in Java, now you are here The steps are: 1….
A few years ago, when I was at USC, I tried to get a desktop version of Enterprise Miner to run on a virtual machine on my Mac and that never happened, although I did get it working on a Windows machine I had at home. Last week, I wrote about my failed attempt to…
New semester coming up when I will be teaching data mining. Because I never do anything at the last minute, I’m registering my course and testing the SAS on-demand for Enterprise Miner now. I have learned from experience not to ignore it when the instructions say to check your configuration. You should find how to…
During the time since I started this series of posts on a little thing I knocked out one evening to illustrate long division, I’ve probably done a dozen other somewhat interesting pieces of code – I am sad that Java has co-opted the use of the word codelet because it is such a nice term for…
Yesterday I posted the code to get the problem, now here is where we check it. As I said yesterday, may way of programming is to knock out something that works and then go back and make it work better, like a first draft for a journal article. So, this is my first draft. Keep…
You’d think it would be easy to find source code for a simple applet to demonstrate long division with a one-digit divisor and two-digit quotient. I wanted it to show the steps in long division, with the product for the first digit in the quotient shown, then that subtracted from the dividend, and the next…
Getting ready to teach a data mining course at the end of the year, I started looking through data sets I have on my desktop. Not sure what I will end up using. My first lesson, no matter what, is going to be on data quality. The very first thing I did was a series…