SAS author's tip: Using PROC MEANS to create a data set containing summary information

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|May 24, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his latest book Cody’s Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them. Learn more about this esteemed user and his many bestselling SAS books–as well as get additional bonus content on his author page. The following excerpt is from [...]

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Wearing two hats at SAS Global Forum

Kathy Council
Kathy Council|May 14, 2013

The annual conference in SAS Francisco is now a pleasant memory. And what a pleasant one it was!  I saw so many of my user friends and met some new ones too. When I attend this conference I wear at least two hats. The first is that of a SAS [...]

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New programs, new products, new opportunities

Sean Gargan
Sean Gargan|May 3, 2013

These activities may have been announced at SAS Global Forum, but they apply to a much broader audience!  And you can take advantage of them today.  New Program:  Publications is pleased to announce that you can now use Training Points to buy books.  Training Points (previously known as EPTO’s) is [...]

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SAS author's tip: Inputting data using text value positioning

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 19, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Phil Mason and his ever-helpful book In the Know…SAS Tips and Techniques From Around the Globe, Second Edition. When the book released in 2006, it received a lot of praise from the user community. This quote from SAS user Ron Fehd is a personal favorite: “Phil Mason, one of the SAS [...]

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SAS author's tip: Turning off output to the results window

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 29, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Lauren Haworth, Cynthia L. Zender, and Michele Burlew’s book Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond. This monumental guide is packed with a wide-array of techniques and examples. As SAS programmer Christine Iodice said, “This book is one-stop shopping for all your ODS needs!” [...]

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Working on “stuff that matters”

Julie Platt
Julie Platt|March 25, 2013

“It’s not about how much money you make but to work on stuff that matters,” according to Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media. At the recent Tools of Change conference, Tim O’Reilly mentioned during his keynote that writers tend to be motivated to work on “stuff that matters.” Through SAS [...]

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SAS author's tip: Structured thinking about writing programs

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 15, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from A. John Bailer and his book Statistical Programming in SAS. A SAS user for over 30 years, John is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Society for Risk Analysis–and a member of the International Biometric Society and the International Statistical Institute. The following [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using a MODIFY statement to update a master file from a transaction file

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 1, 2013

This week’s SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his new book Cody’s Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them. If you’re a SAS user and haven’t explored Ron’s work, you’re missing out! Visit Ron’s author page to view his extensive list of SAS books, user [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using JMP to conduct a significance test

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|February 22, 2013

This week’s tip is from Robert Carver and his book Practical Data Analysis with JMP. If you’re a JMP user, be sure to take a look at additional bonus content from the book. The following excerpt is from SAS Press author Robert Carver and his book “Practical Data Analysis with JMP”. Copyright © 2010, SAS [...]

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The book writing business: Sanjay Matange explains how becoming an author helped his career

Shelley Sessoms
Shelley Sessoms|February 18, 2013

Last month, I talked to Emmett Cox about finding time to write his Wiley and SAS Business Series book.  Like Emmett, many of our authors were already tops in their field when they became a SAS Press author. Sanjay Matange, Senior Software Manager in SAS R&D, was already quite well-known [...]

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