SAS University Edition has been available for free download for six months – in that time we’ve seen 50,192,670 PROCs or DATA steps executed globally – that’s almost 4,000 hours duration!

Now, we were founded on stats so we thought we’d bring you some of the key metrics we’ve discovered over the past six months.

• 50,192,670 PROCs/DATA steps executed
• 13,634,561 seconds of duration for all PROCs (3,787.38 hours)
• 40,403 unique systems have registered
• 22,629 unique systems that have reported usage (56% of all registered)

Top 20 PROCs executed

Did your favourite PROC make it into the list? Can't see it? Ask us in the comments below – we have more data! Or you can head on over to the SAS Analytics U online community to discuss.

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