Where to find what? A guide to SAS resources

Michelle Homes
Michelle Homes|June 27, 2012

Having recently written my first blog post on the SAS Users Groups blog with the QUEST to Learn SAS article I have become inspired to share more with the SAS community outside of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. At our last QUEST (Queensland Users Exploring SAS Technology) local SAS user group meeting [...]

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125 years of experience can't be wrong

Michele Reister
Michele Reister|April 22, 2012

Occasionally we see students in our more advanced courses who have skipped the Programming 1: Essentials class. Usually they are familiar with SAS or other programming languages. Sometimes they are even fluent and proficient in other programming languages. They feel comfortable skipping the basics and moving on to other classes, [...]

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What Didn't Stay in Vegas

Mike Kalt
Mike Kalt|April 12, 2011

Just flew back from Vegas, and boy, are my arms tired! (ba-dump) If you attended SAS Global Forum, you probably learned a lot of things you didn’t know. But if you were a SAS employee, you also learned a lot of things you didn’t know. One of the perks of [...]

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Weekday Morning Quick-trick: How to Score from PROC VARCLUS

Catherine Truxillo
Catherine Truxillo|December 2, 2010

Have you used multivariate procedures in SAS and wanted to save out scores? Some procedures, such as FACTOR, CANDISC, CANCORR, PRINCOMP, and others have an OUT= option to save scores to the input data set. However, to score a new data set, or to perform scoring with multivariate procedures that [...]

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To INDEX or not to INDEX...

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|November 24, 2010

Recently, a certification candidate asked me about indexes and how SAS decides whether to use one or not.  I don’t work with supper-large data sets and therefore haven’t been overly concerned with efficient coding techniques and consequently had no idea what an index was. So off to SAS 9.2 online [...]

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Short on time, but need to learn?

Mike Kalt
Mike Kalt|August 17, 2010

Those of you who have anxiously been awaiting the next installments in my “What is there to do in Cary?” series may have noticed a distinct lack of output over the last month or so. This is due to the fact that I have been forced to spend my time [...]

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Zero to SAS Certified Base Programmer in 3 months (Part II)

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|July 22, 2010

A few days after I posted part 1 of this blog post, an interesting message popped up on Twitter from @annmariastat: Confused. If you can get #SAS certification in 3 months what exactly are you being certified as? How much can anyone learn in 3 months? A fair question, and [...]

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Understand the Work

Cynthia Zender
Cynthia Zender|July 13, 2010

At the end of my first blog, I said I would explain more about those literature analyzing skills and what all that literature stuff has to do with SAS. I showed my “skills list” and discussed how learning to write a SAS program could be compared to analyzing a work [...]

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Zero to SAS Certified Base Programmer in 3 months (Part 1)

Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens|July 1, 2010

I’m happy to report that I have achieved my SAS Certified Base Programmer credential. w00t!. I took my first SAS programming course on March 10th and passed my exam on June 18th (so I guess a more accurate title would say 3 months and 8 days!). I thought I would [...]

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Literature and SAS: Or, How studying Melville has made me a better SAS user

Cynthia Zender
Cynthia Zender|June 2, 2010

I think this blog would be so much more literate, if I started it with a classic opening line, like “Call me Ishmael” or “riverrun, past Eve and Adams”. Those are the opening lines of Melville’s Moby-Dick and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, respectively. In Finnegans Wake, Joyce meant for the book [...]

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