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Learn SAS | Students & Educators

Prepping for certification? Test your knowledge with a practice exam.

Matt ScicchitanoMay 17, 2022 0

Access for success: SAS Certification practice exams now offered for free

Here at SAS, we understand the importance of having access to cutting-edge professional resources. That’s why, for more than 40 years, we’ve provided individuals in programming, data management and analytics fields with low-cost and no-cost materials that promote success in their educational and professional journeys. And today, as the demand

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Machine Learning

Conor HoganMay 16, 2022 0

ModelOps in practice: How to call SAS models from Microsoft Power BI, part 4

Just getting started with this series? Make sure to explore the earlier posts Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Up until now, you have seen how ModelOps can solve your biggest machine learning challenges and that SAS and Microsoft, together, can help you deploy, govern and monitor your models

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SAS Administrators

Stuart RogersMay 4, 2022 0

Configuring authentication for SAS Viya multi-tenancy: A 3-part series

The SAS Viya LTS 2021.2 release supports application multi-tenancy. This 3-part series reviews how authentication can be configured.

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Machine Learning

Conor HoganMay 3, 2022 0

5 best practices for optimizing ModelOps with SAS® Model Manager and Azure Machine Learning, part 3

Just getting started with this series? Make sure to explore Part 1 and Part 2. There are different ways you can use these two tools to accelerate model building, deployment and monitoring. Figure 1 summarizes best practices for conducting ModelOps using SAS Model Manager and Azure Machine Learning. Best practice

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Programming Tips

Peter Styliadis

Peter StyliadisApril 20, 2022 0

CAS-Action! Create Columns in CAS Tables - Part 2

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. This post builds upon CAS-Action! Create Columns in CAS Tables - Part 1 by showing how to add formats and modify the length of computed columns. I'll start by building off the following code where I

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Machine Learning

Conor HoganApril 19, 2022 0

How Microsoft empowers your ModelOps steps, part 2

Just getting started with this series? Make sure to read part 1: How ModelOps addresses your biggest Machine Learning challenges. SAS and Microsoft make it easier for companies to address the challenges of machine learning model deployment, monitoring and governance. Specifically, SAS and Microsoft have built integrations between SAS® Model

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Programming Tips

Martin MinceyApril 18, 2022 0

Getting started using SASPy® and the SAS® kernel for Jupyter Notebook

SASPy and the SAS kernel for Jupyter Notebook enable you to connect to SAS® 9.4 and the SAS® Viya® compute server from your client machine. You can then interact with SAS and SAS Viya via Python. If you are not familiar with SASPy and the SAS kernel, this article provides an introduction.

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Programming Tips

Peter Styliadis

Peter StyliadisApril 13, 2022 0

CAS-Action! Create Columns in CAS Tables - Part 1

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. I've broken the series into logical, consumable parts. If you'd like to start by learning a little more about what CAS Actions are, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro. Or if you'd

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Programming Tips

Peter Styliadis

Peter StyliadisApril 11, 2022 0

CAS-Action! Filtering Rows in CAS Tables

Welcome back to my SAS Users blog series CAS Action! - a series on fundamentals. I've broken the series into logical, consumable parts. If you'd like to start by learning a little more about what CAS Actions are, please see CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro. Or if you'd

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Learn SAS

Yinliang WuApril 6, 2022 0

Zebra Puzzle Terminator: A general automatic reasoning system solving method

By starting from a set of purely declarative statements, any zebra puzzle with limited constraints can be tagged and solved quickly in the same way without changing any code.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

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Nicole BallApril 5, 2022 0

The AggregateTable operator… It’s the bee’s knees!

Have you ever heard something referred to as the bee’s knees? Most likely the person uttering that expression meant that it was truly amazing and extraordinary. Maybe you stopped and pondered the origin of the phrase. Well wonder no more! In the 1920s in the United States, people were obsessed

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Machine Learning

Conor HoganMarch 31, 2022 0

How ModelOps addresses your biggest machine learning challenges

Editors note: This is the first in a series of articles. According to the Global McKinsey Survey on the State of AI in 2021, the adoption of AI is continuing to grow at an unprecedented rate. Fifty-six percent of all respondents reported AI adoption – including machine learning (ML) –

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Programming Tips

Ron CodyMarch 22, 2022 0

Fun with Ciphers (Part 2)

In my previous blog, you saw how to create a Beale cipher. In this blog, you will see a program that can decode a Beale cipher. As a reminder, here is a list of numbers that you can use as a substitute for a letter when creating your cipher. Now,

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Programming Tips | Students & Educators

Leonid BatkhanMarch 14, 2022 0

Calculating circle areas and sphere volumes without π

For Pi Day, veteran SAS user Leonid Batkhan reveals a pi paradox.

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Programming Tips

Ron CodyFebruary 17, 2022 0

Fun with Ciphers (Part 1)

This blog serves two purposes: the main purpose is to show you some useful SAS coding techniques, and the second is to show you an interesting method of creating a Beale cipher. TJ Beale is famous in Virginia for leaving behind three ciphers, supposedly describing the location of hidden gold

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanFebruary 16, 2022 0

SAS open-source treasures from around the world: SASjs

Veteran SAS user Leonid Batkhan introduces you to open-source SASjs framework.

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Artificial Intelligence | Data Visualization | Programming Tips | Students & Educators

Yinliang WuFebruary 15, 2022 0

Solve the Missionaries and Cannibals Problem with SAS

The Missionaries and Cannibals Problem (MCP) is a classic river-crossing logic puzzle. With SAS, we can solve this problem, visualize the solutions with SAS NETDRAW procedure and generate steps for any MCP problems.

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Data Management | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Bari LawhornFebruary 14, 2022 0

Where are the files that you have access to through SAS® Studio?

SAS' Bari Lawhorn shows you how to access files you've stored with SAS® Studio.

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Data Management | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

SAS JediFebruary 11, 2022 0

Jedi SAS tricks: resizing, renaming and reformatting your data

SAS' Mark Jordan shows you how to modify data using PROC SQL, PROC DATASETS and SAS macros.

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Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Nicole BallFebruary 1, 2022 0

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks… or can you?

When we moved out to the country with our two dogs, our oldest dog Todd suddenly decided he liked to howl…. And he would do so every time we left the house. Maybe it was the country air? Maybe it was a time-lapse gene? Maybe he just wanted to learn

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Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Programming Tips | Students & Educators

Yinliang WuJanuary 28, 2022 0

Solve "A Puzzle for Pirates" with SAS

This article introduces how to solve the pirate game with a recursive solving algorithm in SAS, and how to analyze and visualize the law behind the complex logic of the pirate game. If you join in a pirate game next time, you can know your destiny ahead of time to reap the benefits and avoid getting killed.

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Programming Tips

Ron CodyJanuary 27, 2022 0

How to use the SAS Auto Call facility

Many SAS programmers use macros. I have seen students in my SAS classes use several methods to activate their macros. One way is to load the macro in the Display manager or editor in SAS OnDemand for Academics and submit it. Another technique is to use the statement %Include macro-name.

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Programming Tips

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SAS JediJanuary 18, 2022 0

Jedi SAS Tricks: GIT my macros

I use macros extensively in my SAS programs, and over the years have accumulated a few that I find quite useful. The integration of GIT and SAS Studio has made it easy to build a re-usable macro library, so I've put some of the more polished macros I've written in

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Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 13, 2022 0

Calculating the overlap of date/time intervals

Leonid Batkhan describes and discusses pros and cons of 3 different algorithms and SAS code implementations to calculate length of overlap of date/time intervals and integer intervals in general.

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Programming Tips

Ron CodyJanuary 11, 2022 0

Two macros for detecting data errors

Last year, I wrote a blog demonstrating how to use the %Auto_Outliers macro to automatically identify possible data errors. This blog demonstrates a different approach—one that is useful for variables for which you can identify reasonable ranges of values for each variable. For example, you would not expect resting heart

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SAS Administrators

SAS SoftwareJanuary 7, 2022 0

Updates on the Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability

Read this bulletin for the SAS response to CVE-2021-44228, the Apache Log4j vulnerability.

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Programming Tips

Peter Styliadis

Peter StyliadisJanuary 7, 2022 0

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 6 - Descriptive Statistics

Welcome to the sixth installment in my series Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya. In previous posts, I discussed how to connect to the CAS server, how to execute CAS actions, and how to work with the results. Now it's time to generate simple descriptive statistics of a CAS table. Let's begin

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Programming Tips

Yinliang WuDecember 23, 2021 0

SAS financial functions review and mortgage payment analysis

Let's take a look at the design and implementation of SAS functions in financial calculations. We'll do this through examples calculating and analyzing the monthly payment, interest, and principal for CPM/CAM mortgages.

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