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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Lise CragenOctober 17, 2012 0

Encore! Encore! The SAS Training Roadshow continues

Program update for 2013! The SAS Training Roadshow is back on tour. This year, we’re heading out to six rockin’ cities. We’d love to see you there. Cleveland - St. Louis – Portland - San Jose - Indianapolis - Las Vegas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In my previous post, I revealed my top

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Rick WicklinOctober 17, 2012 0

Specify the colors of groups in SAS statistical graphics

Sometimes a graph is more interpretable if you assign specific colors to categories. For example, if you are graphing the number of Olympic medals won by various countries at the 2012 London Olympics, you might want to assign the colors gold, silver, and bronze to represent first-, second-, and third-place

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SAS Events

Waynette TubbsOctober 16, 2012 0

Let's play a game

Do you finish the Word Search in the Sunday paper? Several years ago, Robert Matthews decided to design a word search to help his kids in their school work. Matthews wanted to be able to put in the words of his choice and provide difficulty levels so that game users could

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SAS Events

Christina HarveyOctober 16, 2012 0

Macro headaches? Learn how to prevent them

The Macro facility is a powerful and flexible tool, but sloppy techniques can make macros one of your biggest headaches. Poorly handled macros may run without error but leave your users with unexpected results and litter your system with unwanted files and variables.

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Analytics

Melissa SavageOctober 15, 2012 0

Take me out to the ball game, with transportation analytics

Living in the Washington, D.C. area I expect the morning news shows to spend a lot of time reporting on traffic. Crashes on the beltway, downed power lines delaying train service…that’s a normal day. D.C. is the most congested city, according to the Texas Transportation Institute’s annual report.). Commuting to

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerOctober 15, 2012 0

Unconventional typographical conventions

I've been finishing up just a bit of the "boilerplate" content for my forthcoming book about custom tasks. One of the final tasks is to write the introduction, also known as the "About this Book" section. SAS Press offers a template with examples of a few essential topics to address

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Angela HallOctober 15, 2012 0

Go on a date with SAS BI Dashboard, part 2

Last week I provided the steps for how to go on a date, at least by using dynamic prompts in BI Dashboard. Now that you have seen how to create them, lets discuss making them smarter. For this example, the customer is asking for two prompts to affect a single

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New York Times graphic

Rick WicklinOctober 15, 2012 0

Women and jobs: Redesigning a New York Times graphic

The New York Times has an excellent staff that produces visually interesting graphics for the general public. However, because their graphs need to be understood by all Times readers, the staff sometimes creates a complicated infographic when a simpler statistical graph would show the data in a clearer manner. A

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Polly Mitchell-GuthrieOctober 12, 2012 0

Is experimental design the red-headed stepchild of modeling?

Andy Pulkstenis of State Farm thinks it is, stating that this red-headed stepchild among modeling technques is where predictive modeling was ten years ago. He opened his talk, "Do You Know or Do You Think You Know? Creating a Testing Culture at State Farm," at the A2012 conference in Las Vegas with

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Data for Good | Data Visualization

Robert AllisonOctober 12, 2012 0

Building a better meningitis map

You've all heard about the recent meningitis outbreak, right? Being a data-guy and a map-guy, I went looking for maps related to the outbreak. I found the following map on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website. It shows the states that received the recalled drug used in epidurals (for back

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Waynette TubbsOctober 12, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Bank of America case study

Jessica Dunn, a Bank of America Vice President, helps coordinate the planning, forecasting and performance of the bank's credit card services. In January 2010, the credit card services division began investigating new business intelligence products to help provide more efficient forecasting and more informed business decisions in general. The decision

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SAS Events

Waynette TubbsOctober 11, 2012 0

Thinking about SESUG 2012

Have you registered for the 20th annual SouthEast SAS Users Group conference (SESUG) yet? NO? What are you waiting for? I've heard it going to be a real party, so come help us celebrate SESUG's 20th birthday (hmm ... SESUG isn't even old enough to drink). The last time I went was

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Analytics

Chuck EllstromOctober 11, 2012 0

Big Bird's salvation? Apply analytics to Medicaid

Sunny days, keeping the clouds away, can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?? Oops, sorry, was just day dreaming about younger days and the magic of an eight foot talking yellow bird. How great was Sesame Street? I learned counting, my abc’s, sharing, diversity,

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Learn SAS

Larry StewartOctober 11, 2012 0

SAS Education: Helping to fill the talent gap in analytics

The Analytics conference has just concluded and the unofficial theme of the final day was Big Data. It began with our very first talk, a keynote presentation delivered by Will Hakes, CEO and co-founder of Link Analytics. Will spent the first part of his talk outlining the current state of

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Programming Tips

Lise CragenOctober 10, 2012 0

On the Roadshow again

Program update for 2013! The SAS Training Roadshow is back on tour. This year, we’re heading out to six rockin’ cities. We’d love to see you there. Cleveland - Portland - San Jose - Indianapolis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As I prepare for my stint on the SAS Programming "Roadshow," it occurs to

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Work & Life at SAS

Ashley Bailey, MS, RDN, LDN, IFNCPOctober 10, 2012 0

Don't Spill the Beans!

Beans aren’t just good for your heart; they’re affordable, convenient, and packed with nutrients that have a wide range of health benefits including lowered LDL cholesterol, blood sugar control, weight management, and more. Beans are an excellent plant-based source of protein and fiber and are rich in minerals such as

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SAS Events

Waynette TubbsOctober 10, 2012 0

Happy 25th birthday NESUG!

~ Lisa Pyle and Rob Russell, NESUG 2012 Conference Co-chairs Can you believe it?! In just a few weeks we will all be together at NESUG's 25th conference! We are looking forward to all the presentations and workshops we have planned and to seeing all our old friends and meeting some new ones too.

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Advanced Analytics

Rick WicklinOctober 10, 2012 0

Playing "craps" with unfair dice

Last week I wrote a SAS/IML program that computes the odds of winning the game of craps. I noted that the program remains valid even if the dice are not fair. For convenience, here is a SAS/IML function that computes the probability of winning at craps, given the probability vector

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerOctober 9, 2012 0

Special automatic macro variables available in SAS Enterprise Guide

You might know about the many automatic macro variables that are available in SAS. They provide plenty of information about the SAS environment, such as the current user (SYSUSERID), the SAS version (SYSVER and SASVLONG), and the operating system where SAS is running (SYSCP and SYSCPL). That information is often

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Analytics

Krisa TailorOctober 8, 2012 0

Analytics: The game changer in health reform

As SLG’s health policy specialist, I’m chartered with developing novel ways to apply data analytics to our state government health systems. If you ask me, it’s the perfect blend of technology and policy - two of my favorite things. However, I sometimes find it challenging to identify the areas within

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Advanced Analytics | Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Angela HallOctober 8, 2012 0

Go on a date with SAS BI Dashboard, part 1

Don't give up on the dating game. Just because there is no prompt type specifically for dates, it can still be accomplished with some stored process matchmaking. BI Dashboard offers a dynamic prompt indicator which provides the ultimate flexibility in developing prompt based reports and dashboards. The dynamic prompt indicator

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Rick WicklinOctober 8, 2012 0

Generate uniform data in a simplex

It is easy to simulate data that is uniformly distributed in the unit cube for any dimension. However, it is less obvious how to generate data in the unit simplex. The simplex is the set of points (x1,x2,...,xd) such that Σi xi = 1 and 0 ≤ xi ≤ 1

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Data Visualization

Sanjay MatangeOctober 7, 2012 0

Scatter plot matrix with a twist

The Scatter Plot Matrix statement supports a couple of different configurations. The basic is the N x N panel of cells, with each cell showing scatter plots plot for a pair of variables at a time. Here is an example of a 3 x 3 scatter plot matrix for the

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Radhika KulkarniOctober 5, 2012 0

An invitation to look inside advanced analytics at SAS

A year ago I set out to periodically blog from my perspective of leading R&D for our advanced analytics software. I invited SAS colleagues who also work in various areas of advanced analytics to blog on their own interesting conversations with each other and with customers about the intersection of

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Programming Tips

Robert AllisonOctober 5, 2012 0

Custom SAS graphs = competitive advantage

SAS/GRAPH gives you the ability to customize your graphs (or even create totally new types of custom graphs) ... and it is my firm belief that it gives you a competitive advantage by allowing you to "make sense" of your data in ways your competitors can't. Most of the examples in

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Advanced Analytics

Waynette TubbsOctober 5, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - BUBBLE option?

I have to say that I've never heard of the Bubble option, so I looked it up on support.sas.com (my go-to place for searches on customer problems or to simply to learn something about SAS). The search led me to documentation for the statement options in SAS ODS Graphics. So, I assume the

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Analytics

Bill ColemanOctober 4, 2012 0

How can local governments add clarity and confidence to budgeting?

As much as I enjoy dramatic reinterpretations, for this blog post I’m just going to talk to you about the complex challenges municipal organizations face in setting spending priorities. The complexity stems from competing aspects of the various projects vying for funding. Some of these factors are related to the

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Learn SAS

Maggie MillerOctober 4, 2012 0

Grid computing: What you need to know

Right now, grid computing is one of the hottest topics here at SAS. To get more information about the technology and how people can get trained in it, I talked to Nancy Goodyear who manages e-Learning products at SAS. What is grid computing? Grid computing is a type of computing

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Advanced Analytics

Rick WicklinOctober 4, 2012 0

Dice probabilities and the game of "craps"

Gambling games that use dice, such as the game of "craps," are often used to demonstrate the laws of probability. For two dice, the possible rolls and probability of each roll are usually represented by a matrix. Consequently, the SAS/IML language makes it easy to compute the probabilities of various

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SAS Events

Michael SmithOctober 3, 2012 0

Get in gear for SAS Global Forum

It may only be early October, but now is the ideal time to plan, save and prepare for SAS Global Forum 2013, scheduled for April 28 – May 1 in San Francisco. Three Quick Recommendations 1. Check out the pre- and post-conference classes – The topics are great and the

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