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Larry LaRussoSeptember 9, 2016 0

How the SAS Global Forum Presenter Mentoring Program can help would-be presenters

For a SAS professional, presenting at SAS Global Forum 2017 can be a very rewarding. It can enhance your conference experience, help expand the knowledge of the broader SAS community, and advance your career by putting you on display as an expert SAS professional. It can also be a little

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Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerSeptember 7, 2016 0

Calculate a moving average using periodic operators in SAS Visual Analytics Designer

Analysts often use a simple moving average to get an idea of the trends in data. This is simply an average of a subset of time periods, and the size of the subset can differ depending on the application. The technique can be used with data based on time periods,

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Programming Tips

Teri PatsilarasSeptember 6, 2016 0

Steps to visualize cell phone data in SAS Visual Analytics: Can you hear me now?

For many people, building something from scratch, no matter how simple or complex, is fascinating. That’s why programs similar to How’s It Made are so appealing and, for me, addicting. And thus, the inspiration for this blog; I will walk you through building a set of graphs and how to

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonAugust 31, 2016 0

A quick way to update to SAS Studio 3.5

Update-in-place supports the ability to update a SAS Deployment within a major SAS release. Updates often provide new versions of SAS products. However, when using the SAS Deployment Wizard to perform an update-in-place you cannot selectively update a machine or product. As a general rule if you want to update

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Data Management

Helmut PlinkeAugust 30, 2016 0

Improve matching results with suggestion based matching in SAS Data Quality

Have you ever had problems matching data that has typographical errors in it? Because of the nature of arbitrary typos and incorrect spelled words a specific matching technique is required to tackle those cases. SAS Data Quality, with its traditional, in nature deterministic matching approach is by nature not best

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SAS Events

John AmrheinAugust 29, 2016 0

Present at SAS Global Forum 2017 – Call for content now open

Editor's note: This blog includes the Call For Content Announcement and Frequently Asked Questions. SAS Global Forum is the premier event for SAS users to learn, teach, and network with each other and SAS experts. SAS Global Forum 2017 takes place April 2-5 in Orlando, Florida, where you can join

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Richann WatsonAugust 26, 2016 0

MWSUG preview: When ANY Function will just NOT do!

When I attended my first SAS conference in 2003 I was not only a first-timer, I was a first time presenter. Needless to say I was a bit nervous. I did not know what to expect. Was my topic good enough for these savvy programmers and statisticians? Well my first

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Lavanya MandavilliAugust 23, 2016 0

Managing Server Access for SAS Mobile BI Users

Tablets, phablets, smartphones. These mobile devices not only travel to different corners of the earth with their owners; they participate in certain adventures that can result in an unexpected turn of events. Thanks to their mobility, these devices can be misplaced. And they could be found later. In rare cases,

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Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerAugust 22, 2016 0

Working with dates in SAS Visual Analytics: Comparing to the previous year

After posting a couple of blogs on the subject of dates and date formats in Visual Analytics Designer, I got a question from a user who wondered how to compare data for a selected date to data from the same day of the previous year. Here’s one way to do

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Programming Tips

Marcia SurrattAugust 19, 2016 0

MAPS, MAPSGFK and MAPSSAS, Oh my!

If you are using the second maintenance release of SAS 9.3 (TS1M2) or later, you might have noticed that you have several map-related libraries that are defined for you. The MAPS library contains the old map data sets that have been provided with SAS/GRAPH® software for many years. The source

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Teri PatsilarasAugust 15, 2016 0

Use Percent of Total and Reference Lines to ask better business questions

Reference lines on a visualization are used to help identify goals or targets, acceptable or unacceptable ranges, etc; basically any metric that puts a frame of reference around the values on the visualization. The Percent of Total of a metric is used to help identify a part-to-whole relationship. It answers

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleyAugust 10, 2016 0

Locating Modified Content

As a SAS administrator, you may face situations where you need to locate content that has been modified in the system since a given point in time. If the system has many content developers, discovering all of the folders, libraries, tables, reports, explorations, and similar items that have been modified can be

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Sunil GuptaAugust 9, 2016 0

Mastering SAS programming techniques at WUSS

When I think of the Western Users of SAS Software conference, I think of my first event in 1994. I was just starting to learn SAS and wanted to meet others in my region who were also excited about the software. Meeting and discussing SAS topics face to face at the

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Lavanya MandavilliAugust 8, 2016 0

Passcode security for SAS Mobile BI

Mobile devices travel with humans pretty much anywhere that humans want to go. Unlike desktop computers that stay fixed and grounded within brick and mortar walls, mobile devices are used in all sorts of locales – offices, homes, cars, planes, swimming pools, soccer fields, movie theaters – the list goes

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Mary BettsAugust 5, 2016 0

Who ya gonna contact? Customer Contact Center!

Do you need help finding product information or navigating the SAS website or options for getting started with SAS? Do you need, information about course availability and registrations, training discounts, and certifications? Would access to sample code be helpful? How about, event-related support, assistance identifying and connecting with the right person

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Margaret CrevarAugust 4, 2016 0

Testing EMC Storage and Veritas shared file systems

In my current role I have the privilege of managing the Performance Lab in SAS R&D. Helping users work through performance challenges is a critical part of the Lab’s mission. This spring, my team has been actively testing new and enhanced storage arrays from EMC along with the Veritas clustered

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SAS Events

Art CarpenterAugust 3, 2016 0

Tips for working with Color Names, Formats, Macros, ODS, Excel®, and PROC REPORT

Not too long ago I had a report generation request from an Alaska state agency. The request had some very specific requirements that detailed the use of user defined colors (by name), data driven control of the report, and Excel delivery using ODS and PROC REPORT. Along the way I had

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonAugust 2, 2016 0

Two steps to update your SAS License and check if it is updated

One of the jobs of SAS Administrators is keeping the SAS license current. In the past, all you needed to do was update the license for Foundation SAS and you were done. This task can be performed by selecting the Renew SAS Software option in the SAS Deployment Manager. More recently,

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SAS Events

Larry LaRussoJuly 27, 2016 0

Will your favorite Game of Thrones character survive next season?

First it was the patriarch of my favorite family. That shocking Red Wedding scene meant I could cross off several more characters I’d grown to love. When the season finale of Season 5 left me asking if we’d lost yet another one of my favorites, I wasn’t sure how much

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Nicolas RobertJuly 25, 2016 0

Four ways to conduct a web search for business terms with SAS Business Data Network

SAS Business Data Network is SAS’ solution for managing glossaries of common business terms. This is part of the SAS Data Governance offering as well as bundled with Advanced versions of all SAS Data Management bundles. One thing that is important regarding Data Governance in general, and this solution in

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Mary Kathryn QueenJuly 21, 2016 0

Using an alternate Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) in a DataFlux Data Management Studio data job

In DataFlux Data Management Studio, the predominate component of the SAS Data Quality bundle, the data quality nodes in a data job use definitions from something called the SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB). The QKB supports over 25 languages and provides a set of pre-built rules, definitions and reference data

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Programming Tips

Bari LawhornJuly 15, 2016 0

Build your PROC TEMPLATE muscles: Using the COMPUTE AS and TRANSLATE INTO statements

When you work out, you probably have a routine set of exercises that you do. But if you read health-and-fitness websites or talk to a personal trainer, you know that for optimal fitness, you should vary your workout routine. Not only does adding variety to your fitness regime help you

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Programming Tips

Rob CollumJuly 7, 2016 0

About LASR Load Balancing

The Distributed SAS 9.4 LASR Analytic Server provides a massively parallel processing solution for working very quickly with huge volumes of data. LASR was built from its earliest invocations to provide for incredible scalability and growth. One of the primary criteria which drives the considerations of scalability is load management.

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Margaret CrevarJune 30, 2016 0

15 top Global Forum 2016 papers for SAS administrators

I look forward to SAS Global Forum each year and this past conference ranked up that as one of the best I've ever attended. This year there were so many wonderful presentations, Super Demos and workshops on the topic of administration of SAS and the underlying hardware infrastructure needed for SAS

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Sam EdgemonJune 29, 2016 0

Great machine learning starts with resourceful feature engineering

I recently read an article in which the winner of a Kaggle Competition was not shy about sharing his technique for winning not one, but several of the analytical competitions. “I always use Gradient Boosting,” he said. And then added, “but the key is Feature Engineering.” A couple days later,

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Jan Gjestvang-LuckyJune 28, 2016 0

SAS Cares: help just a tweet, post, or click away

It’s no secret: here at SAS, we care about our customers. In fact, we care so much that we developed a program with that exact name: our SAS Cares program is here to help you with all things SAS! We know you may be so awesome that you never need

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Programming Tips

Chevell ParkerJune 24, 2016 0

Tips for reading XML files into SAS® software

XML has become one of the major standards for moving data across the Internet. Some of XML’s strengths are the abilities to better describe data and to be more extensible than any of its predecessors such as CSV. Due to the increased popularity of XML for moving data, I provide

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Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerJune 21, 2016 0

Need an aggregation of an aggregation? Use Visual Data Builder to pre-aggregate your data

Report designers often discover after aggregating data by groups in the Visual Analytics Designer that it would also be nice to see additional aggregations of the data, for example, a maximum or minimum of that sum across groups. This means creating an ‘aggregation of an aggregation.’ If you plan your report objectives in

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenJune 13, 2016 0

Auditing using the SAS Environment Manager Report Center– tips and tricks

As an addendum to my previous two blogs on using the SAS Environment Manager Report Center, this blog illustrates further tips and tricks you can use to help make the creation of your custom reports easier. The Ad-Hoc Reporting section of the Report Center is specifically designed to provide a

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