Announcing the 2024 SAS Customer Recognition Awards
Accomplish something great with SAS software? Enter the 2024 SAS Customer Recognition Awards contest through Jan. 19.
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Director, SAS User Engagement
Director, SAS User Engagement
+Chris Hemedinger is the Director of SAS User Engagement, which includes our SAS Communities and SAS User Groups. Since 1993, Chris has worked for SAS as an author, a software developer, an R&D manager and a consultant. Inexplicably, Chris is still coasting on the limited fame he earned as an author of SAS For Dummies.
What's next for SAS 9 and SAS Enterprise Guide?
SAS announces continued support and releases for SAS 9 and a new role for SAS Enterprise Guide with SAS Viya.
Celebrate your inner nerd at SAS Explore with Don McMillan
Don McMillan - America's top nerdy comedian -- is a featured entertainer at SAS Explore, Sept 11-14 in Las Vegas.
SAS Customer Recognition Awards – It’s time to vote!
Entries are in. Now it’s your turn to cast your vote for the best in each category.
Bring your expertise to SAS Explore 2023
SAS Explore 2023 is open for your ideas and submissions! Bring your content ideas to the conference -- your experience and expertise is needed!
Announcing the SAS Customer Recognition Awards
SAS' Chris Hemedinger announces the SAS Customer Recognition Awards, which applaud SAS customers and partners helping us change the world through analytics.
Inclusive language: in coding, in your wardrobe, in life
SAS is inclusive as a community, as a company, and as a technology. I'll wear the message loud and proud -- and you can too.
SAS 9.4 Maintenance 8 is available
SAS 9.4M8 is available. Its focus is on security and updates to third-party technologies. It also updates the supported OS environments.
ChatGPT brings AI into popular culture
ChatGPT from OpenAI has changed how the general public thinks about AI. What does this mean for analytics practitioners?
Programming the Wordle game in SAS
One approach to creating the Wordle game in the SAS programming language. Ready to play?
How to work with emojis in SAS
Emojis are showing up in our data. Here's what you need to know when working with emojis in your SAS code.
Visualizing our Netflix Trip through "The Office"
Over 57 billion minutes of The Office was streamed in 2020. My family bears some responsibility. Here's our activity visualized -- using SAS.
How to organize your SAS projects in Git
As you begin managing your SAS code and projects in Git, here are a few guidelines for how to organize your work and collaborate with others.
Using SAS to convert IP addresses into numerical IP values
As citizens of the Internet, we are all familiar with IP addresses -- probably more so than our Internet founding fathers had ever intended. These addresses are typically represented in a 4-piece segmented list of numbers separated by dots. Here is an example: "149.173.5.120". Each segment is called an octet
Through the years: SAS Enterprise Guide versions
My colleague Rick Wicklin maintains a nifty chart that shows the timeline of SAS releases since Version 8. A few of you asked if I could post a similar chart for SAS Enterprise Guide. Here it is. Like Rick, I used new features in SAS 9.4 to produce this chart
Using SAS with Microsoft 365 (OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint)
Learn how to use SAS code (PROC HTTP) to read and write files from your Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Teams or SharePoint Online. You'll learn how to create a Microsoft Office 365 app, connect to it with SAS, and automate the integration with your office productivity environment.
How to copy files in SAS Enterprise Guide
One of the problems that trips up experienced SAS users when they begin to use SAS Enterprise Guide is a result of simple geography. The SAS Enterprise Guide application runs here, on your desktop. The SAS Workspace session (which accesses data and cranks through your analysis) runs over there, on
How to share your SAS knowledge with your professional network
SAS Global Forum 2020 is not the conference experience we thought it would be. Thousands of us had planned to gather in person to share our enthusiasm and knowledge about SAS and power of data and analytics. We were going to combine our skills and knowledge to inspire one another
Tricks for importing text files in SAS Enterprise Guide
I'm a big fan of the Import Data task in SAS Enterprise Guide, especially for its support of text-based files (CSV, tab delimited, fixed width, and more). There's no faster method for generating SAS code that reads your data exactly the way you need it. I use the tool so
Viewing SAS macro variables in SAS Enterprise Guide
If you use SAS macro variables in your programs (who doesn't?), then the SAS Macro Variable viewer is immensely useful to see current macro var values.
How to publish to a Microsoft Teams channel using SAS
If you use Microsoft Teams for collaboration, you should use it for operational messages too. You can use SAS to automate tailored notices to your Teams Channel.
A skeptic's guide to statistics in the media
News outlets share stats and graphs that they source from public data. It takes data literacy skills to critique the stats you see, and investigate more.
Building a recommendation engine with SAS
How we built a recommendation engine for new topics on communities.sas.com. We used data, machine learning, and DevOps to build a scoring engine with SAS.
Deeper enjoyment of your favorite shows -- through data
By using data provided by a Game of Thrones fan, we use SAS to look at screen time for scene locations and characters in this crazy popular show.
Read RSS feeds with SAS using XML or JSON
This blog post could be subtitled "To Catch a Thief" or maybe "Go ahead. Steal this blog. I dare you."* That's because I've used this technique several times to catch and report other web sites who lift the blog content from blogs.sas.com and present it as their own. Syndicating blog
Convert a text-based measurement to a number in SAS
Regular expressions are a powerful method for finding specific patterns in text. The syntax of regular expressions is intimidating, but once you've solved a few pattern-recognition problems with regex, you'll never go back to your old methods.
Using built-in Git operations in SAS
SAS supports direct integration for Git from Base SAS (via functions), SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio, and SAS Data Integration Studio. Read this article to learn how to use Git more effectively in your SAS processes.
Five SAS programming language features you should be using
Good news -- the SAS program that you wrote and put into production 10 years ago still works. Hey, it's SAS, so you probably take that for granted. But are those techniques from 2008 still the best way to accomplish your task? SAS 9.4, first released in 2013 and now
Does SAS support Microsoft Office 365?
Have you adopted use of Microsoft Office 365? How has working "in the cloud" affected your integration with SAS applications? SAS product management wants to hear from you.
Create newline-delimited JSON (or JSONL) with SAS
JSON is a popular format for data exchange between APIs and some modern databases. It's also used as a way to archive audit logs in many systems. Because JSON can represent hierarchical relationships of data fields, many people consider it to be superior to the CSV format -- although it's