introduction
At SAS Global Forum in 2012, SAS Institute CEO Dr. James Goodnight introduced an application that offered not only a way to quickly process data, but to make analytics approachable to business users. There was an industry revolution taking shape, and data was becoming a mainstream topic.
From a simple laptop at a small desk, Dr. Goodnight described the importance of speed in analysis, simplifying statistics, and producing data insights. The laptop was connected to the servers in Cary, NC, over 600 miles away. The dataset he had placed in the application contained billions of rows. Neither fact seemed to concern him. His focus was on the task at hand, which was discovering the mysteries within the data. With a few swift mouse maneuvers, ...
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