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.
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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.
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.
Programming the Wordle game in SAS
One approach to creating the Wordle game in the SAS programming language. Ready to play?
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
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.