SAS Institute. The Power to Know

Knowledge Base

SAS Technical Papers » Data Mining and Text Mining

Papers Topic List 
Date Title File Size
April 2009 The Next Generation: SAS Enterprise Miner 6.1 (PDF)
SAS Enterprise Miner 6.1 includes a vast range of new features including integration with the SAS 9.2 System, extended data preparation, enhanced modeling capabilities, improved reporting, and new scoring alternatives. This paper provides an overview of the SAS Enterprise Miner 6.1new features and uses an example of mining data about charitable donations to illustrate some of these features.
403 KB
October 2008 Tune into the Voice of Your Customer with Voice Mining (PDF)
Analyzing audio data can help you identify the reasons for call spikes, the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, the competitors most mentioned by your clients, why certain products sell more than others, and predict the customer satisfaction level of every interaction.
924 KB
March 2008 Two-Stage Variable Clustering for Large Data Sets (PDF)
In data mining, principal component analysis is a popular dimension reduction technique. It also provides a good remedy for the multicollinearity problem, but its interpretation of input space is not as good. To overcome the interpretation problem, principal components (cluster components) are obtained through variable clustering, which was implemented with PROC VARCLUS.
155 KB