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If you live in the US, do you remember the Dunkin Donuts commercial from about 30 years ago. It opens with a devoted donut maker climbing out of bed, saying "It's time to make the donuts." (Donut makers have to get up early so that you and I can have
Following up on the theme of graphs commonly used in many applications, here is another one that displays a horizontal bar chart with multiple data columns aligned with the bars. Recently at WUSS, a user stopped by asking how to create just such a graph. While this user wanted something more complex
Early in the new year, many of us make decisions designed to make our lives simpler, more meaningful, and less costly. So selecting 2012's first weekly tip was actually quite easy. Phil Holland's revered guide Saving Time and Money Using SAS is a natural fit. I've featured a few excerpts from Phil's work in the past
In the immortal words of Britney Spears: Oops! I did it again. At least, I'm afraid that I did. I think I might have helped a SAS student with a homework assignment, or perhaps provided an answer in preparation for a SAS certification exam. Or maybe it was a legitimate
SAS Publishing is pleased to announce that both the Base and the Advanced SAS Certification Prep Guides are now available as eBooks in the Apple iBookstore. In these guides, you’ll find affordable self-study materials to help you prepare for the SAS® 9 exams. Prepare yourself to achieve certification using your favorite
Happy New Year, everyone! It’s that wonderful time of the year when people start anew and we all start making promises to ourselves about the things we want to accomplish in the year ahead. If you’re looking for some ways to ramp up your personal and professional expertise this year,
Local governments are not immune to the rising demand for more accountability in government run services and programs, and the expenditure of public funds. Elected officials and citizens alike want to know what these programs accomplish for the public investment made. To date, the response to these questions and demands has been
Happy New Year! As we begin 2012, I think we can all agree there is no question that the explosion of digital technology over the past few years has redefined the relationship between vendor and customer. With so much product and vendor information just a click or a tap away,
Let us ring in the new year with something simple and useful. A recent question by a user over the holidays motivated this article on what is likely a commonly used graph. We want to compare the preformance of two categories along with a third measure. This could be something like "How
Today, every organization is running on too few resources - getting it done with fewer people, a reduced budget and less time. Grid computing enables SAS to automatically use a centrally managed grid infrastructure to achieve workload balancing, high availability and parallel processing. Do what once took days in minutes
It’s a time for excitement, laughter, getting together with friends and family, and best of all cookie exchanges! It’s kind of sad that in a few days it will all be over. Does it have to end? Can’t another holiday or event bring about the same feelings? How about SAS
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
According to Wikipedia, marketing with music can roughly be traced back to 1923 with the dawn of commercial radio broadcasting. What we now know as a "jingle" first aired on Christmas Eve in 1926, touting the merits of General Mills' Wheaties cereal. As we all know, musical messages have since become a staple for advertisements on
As you probably remember, this innovation series is really Brainstorming 2.0. I've taken the Post-It Notes that SAS users put on the Innovation Wall and reposted them here to help spark new ideas for using SAS. I'm also adding posts here and there when I have an interview with a customer
When I give presentations on using the SG procedures, I try to describe how you can take simple plots and layer them to create more complex graphs. I also emphasize how you must consider the output of each plot type so that, as you overlay them, you do not obscure