Three's the charm with Ron Cody

Sandy Varner
Sandy Varner|February 28, 2012

Three is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4. Earth is the third planet in its local Solar System. Humans perceive white light as the mixture of the three additive primary hues: red, green, and blue. Genetic information is encoded in DNA and RNA using a triplet codon system. [...]

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3 SAS books win STC awards

Mary Beth Steinbach
Mary Beth Steinbach|January 10, 2012

As we wrapped up 2011 and began preparing for 2012, we were notified by the Society for Technical Communication, Carolina Chapter, that three SAS Press books received awards in the 2011-2012 competition. We submitted these three entries this past November, and are thrilled that all three submissions won awards. Multiple [...]

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SAS author's tip: computing a new variable with PROC REPORT

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|December 23, 2011

Ron Cody and his supremely helpful book Learning SAS by Example close out our weekly SAS Author’s Tip of 2011. Ron Cody is a household name in the SAS user community. And he deserves the moniker on his license plate of “SASMAN”. Just mentioning Ron’s name at user conferences incites awe. Sometimes [...]

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Ron Cody is giving me homework

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|September 30, 2011

On the SAS Dummy blog, I often receive questions that smack of homework assignments. After all, SAS programming is taught in universities (and even high schools) around the world. So I didn’t consider it unusual when I received this question recently: Write a short DATA _NULL_ step to determine the [...]

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Ron Cody's new book SAS Statistics by Example

John West
John West|September 28, 2011

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Ron Cody for a number of years and I’ve always been amazed by Ron’s enthusiasm for just about everything he does, from Geocaching,  scuba diving, cooking, playing the piano, biking, traveling the world, teaching SAS classes, and writing SAS Press books! He’s quite a prolific [...]

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SAS student ambassador and one of her favorite books

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|September 19, 2011

In honor of last night’s 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, I thought it would be fun to unveil a recent SAS Publishing video featuring SAS user and student ambassador Isabel Perry.  I had the good fortune of being introduced to Isabel at SAS Global Forum 2011, thanks to colleague and master of connections Elizabeth Ceranowski, after [...]

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SAS author's tip: SPEDIS and fuzzy matching

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|August 15, 2011

This week’s featured SAS author’s tip comes from SAS user extraordinaire Ron Cody.  Honestly, because Ron has written so many SAS books, I could probably feature a year’s worth of tips from his work alone. To find something useful in any of Ron’s books, one merely needs to let the [...]

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The Power of the Backlist

Sandy Varner
Sandy Varner|April 13, 2011

In today’s changing environment the hype seems to focus on new, updated, latest release, newly developed, cutting edge and so on. With so many new SAS books to choose from, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at our most popular backlist titles (books that were published [...]

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INTCK and INTNK functions

Christine Kjellberg|June 25, 2010

This week’s assignment? Become masters of SAS Functions! Or at least understand the basics of the most popular ones. Chapter 14 is all about Transforming Data with SAS Functions. We decided to divide this chapter in half due to the length of the chapter and things in our study session [...]

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The Daunting Delimiter and the Intriguing Informat

Stacey Hamilton
Stacey Hamilton|December 4, 2009

You may (or may not) have noticed, but we took the week off from our rigorous blogging schedule (and, frankly, from studying for the certification exam) to celebrate Thanksgiving. The tryptophan-filled turkey would have probably made me nod off in the pages of my certification guide anyway. My holiday was [...]

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