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I'd be interested in a version that included SAS. Is SAS ever used outside of academia?
by thatcat 7y ago
I'd be interested in a version that included SAS. Is SAS ever used outside of academia?
- s_Hogg 7y agoYes, though at least where I am it tends to be a legacy system these days. So that means governments and large corporations might reasonably feature some use of it somewhere within their walls.
- randomvectors 7y agoSAS is still used by companies who don't want to use open source tools and would rather pay a lot of money for an established product name and have a support line that they can call if anything goes wrong. Understandably, it's slowly dying out.
- tomrod 7y agoSupport, and also indemnification. SAS lives on borrowed time.
- hobofromabroad 7y agoSAS ist still quite a big thing in the insurance sector, at least in Europe. But the more Data Science focused roles (vs. Pure actuarial roles) are going more and more with R or Python.
- anthony_doan 7y agoYes. I've seen pharma, nonprofit cancer organization, kaiser permanente hospital, State government (epidemiology), etc...