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Ways We Excrete Toxins You learned in the previous Chews Strategically post, Foods for Natural Detox, that certain foods provide important nutrients that assist the liver in transforming toxins so they can be excreted from the body. After the toxins are transformed into water soluble substances they are excreted through

360° Power für fundierte Entscheidungen. 2 Tage Analytics live erleben. Das ist das Motto auf dem SAS Forum 2013 vom 11. und 12. September in Mannheim. Damit die Besucher die 2-tägige Veranstaltung bestmöglich nutzen und ihre SAS Forum Teilnahme gezielt planen können, gibt es ab sofort die SAS Forum App für iOS (iPhone und iPad), Android

Scatter plots are probably the simplest kind of graph, and provide a great way to visually look for relationships between two variables. But, do you know (right off the top of your head) the simple SAS/GRAPH code you would use to create them? ... This tutorial leads you step-by-step through the

With registration for the Midwest SAS Users Group well underway, I reached out to conference chair George Hurley to get the scoop on what makes MWSUG a can’t-miss event for SAS users. As a veteran MWSUG attendee, he’s an absolute expert in what makes it such a rewarding opportunity for

Recently I wrote about how to determine the age of your SAS release. Experienced SAS programmers know that you can programatically determine information about your SAS release by using certain automatic macro variables that SAS provides: SYSVER: contains the major and minor version of the SAS release SYSVLONG: contains the
Recently my boss came across a graph where a time series plot was modified to include a "thickness" response. We wondered if this would be a good addition to the GTL / SG Series plot statement. What would the result look like, and what are the pros and cons? So, I took up

Over the past few releases, SAS has offered high availability for servers through various failover techniques. So I’ve been wondering how metadata clustering differs and why does SAS 9.4 provide it. The “why” is an easy question to answer. Today’s SAS software is used in a wide array of business-critical applications

Big Data ist in aller Munde und beflügelt vom aktuellen Hype werden damit hohe Erwartungen verknüpft. Das bloße Sammeln bzw. Speichern großer Datenmengen ist jedoch nicht zielführend. Obwohl viele Unternehmen heute über eine gewaltige Menge an Daten verfügen, steht deren effektive Nutzung oftmals erst am Anfang. Die zentrale Herausforderung besteht

Die Bedeutung von Daten und deren Auswertung wächst in jeder Branche – ebenso wie die Komplexität von Geschäftsprozessen und ihren wechselseitigen Abhängigkeiten zunimmt. Ob es um ein besseres Kundenverständnis geht, eine genauere Risikoberechnung oder eine Optimierung von Produktion und Logistik: der Erfolgsfaktor von morgen liegt in der Analyse der ständig
SAS 9.4 was released a month ago, and we are excited about all the new features in SG Procedures, GTL and Designer. I wrote an article on SAS 9.4 graph features last month, and promised more to come. What then could be better than this Tech Talk video hosted by our

Remember being young and bursting with anticipation of the next show and tell? You knew you had something really amazing to share, and you wanted your classmates to see or hear it. Get ready for that same feeling of excitement and anticipation. Because it’s back. On a much bigger, global

Even the best programmers make mistakes. For most errors, SAS software displays the nature and location of the error, returns control to the programmer, and awaits further instructions. However, there are a handful of insidious errors that cause SAS to think that a statement or program is not finished. For

Liebe Leser, als vertriebs- oder marketingorientierter Teilnehmer des SAS Forum 2013 sollten Sie sich das Fachpodium III vormerken: Die neue Customer Journey, Inbegriff des veränderten Kommunikations-, Mediennutzungs- und Kaufverhaltens der Konsumenten, steht im Mittelpunkt der interdisziplinär besetzen Diskussionsrunde, zu der ich Sie herzlich einladen möchte. Wir wollen uns mit der
I'm happy to announce the SAS Data Management support community has a new look and feel! And there’s lots of additional content and resources now too. The SAS Data Management community on support.sas.com is a central hub for anyone interested in SAS data access, integration, quality and governance. Community Manager

In SAS 9.4, the SAS programming language continues add new features by the truckload. I've already discussed PROC DELETE (which is actually an old feature, but like an 80s hit song it's now back with a better version). In this SAS Tech Talk video from SAS Global Forum 2013, I