Friday's Innovation Inspiration - That's a COPY

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|September 21, 2012

Diane Olson, from SAS, wrote a SAS Global Forum paper in 2011 that seems ready-made for this SAS user’s Post-It note. Olson wrote about PROC COPY and PROC APPEND. In her paper, she lets you in on the inside tricks on how to clone your data set to the same library, copy [...]

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Two MWSUG papers in review

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|September 18, 2012

Every fall (fall in the US, that is), I try to attend as many SAS Users Groups events as humanly possible. This year, I’m starting with the MidWest SAS Users Groups conference in Minneapolis, then SouthEast SAS Users Group conference in Durham, NC (my home base) and finishing the season [...]

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How to mimic the N function for character variables using Data Step, PROC SQL

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|June 26, 2012

Many of you know Mike Zdeb. He’s a long-time SAS user and frequent presenter at SAS conferences. Zdeb is also a reviewer of many SAS Press books and author of his own SAS book, Maps Made Easy Using SAS. Zdeb contacted me after he read the May SAS Tech Report [...]

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Something for nothing? Adding group descriptive statistics

Sunil Gupta
Sunil Gupta|June 20, 2012

Can you actually get something for nothing?  With PROC SQL’s subquery and remerging features, yes, you can. Often there is a need to add group descriptive statistics such as group counts, minimum and maximum values for further by-group processing.  Instead of first creating the group count, minimum or maximum values [...]

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Selecting all observations when any observation is of interest

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|April 30, 2012

Now, we all know by now that I’m not a programmer (that makes me very sad sometimes and may frustrate some of you at times), but I know a good paper and presentation when I see one. Christopher Bost knows how to teach a topic. I went to his Tuesday [...]

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Delta Air Lines uses SAS to prepare for an emergency

Anna Brown
Anna Brown|April 25, 2012

Disasters happen every day. Often times they occur at inconvenient hours and in remote locations. So it’s important to have a plan – before the emergency – to get qualified personnel to those locations in the most efficient way. Pilots are an example of qualified personnel who could act as [...]

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SAS users collaborating, improving SAS®

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|January 18, 2012

As many of you know, I’m also the Editor of the SAS Tech Report.  For those who don’t know what that is, the  SAS Tech Report is a free newsletter published once a month and sent straight to your email inbox. I gather SAS papers, tips and practical information about [...]

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Seven steps for avoiding (data) hangovers

Anne-Lindsay Beall
Anne-Lindsay Beall|November 7, 2011

In a production environment, where dozens of SAS programs are run in sequence, often monthly or quarterly, and where logs can span thousands of lines, it’s easy to overlook the small stuff that can cause data hangovers.  Recognize any of these? A temporary data set finds its way into subsequent [...]

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Five easy steps to write your presentation in SAS®

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|October 3, 2011

Most SUG presentations are written in PowerPoint – they may even be written in Word first, and then fancied up a bit in PowerPoint – but they are rarely written in SAS. But Louise Hadden, from Abt Associates Inc, had a need to produce a lot of PDF presentations. She [...]

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Running SAS PROCs on your Facebook friends

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|April 5, 2011

Contributed by Kirsten Hamstra, SAS Social Media Manager Prolific blogger and author of SAS for Dummies Chris Hemedinger knows maybe a little too much about his Facebook friends. Presenting his paper titled “Social Networking and SAS: Running PROCs on your Facebook Friends,” Chris shared basic techniques to analyze your friends [...]

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