The SAS Dummy
A SAS® blog for the rest of us![Ad-hoc reporting with SAS: Tips for the e-mail jockey](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2016/05/emailst1.jpg)
What's the most common data reporting mechanism? Is it web-based reporting? PDFs? How about spreadsheets? Maybe, but in my experience many reports are delivered using a less-scalable and transient mechanism: e-mail. I'm a data steward at SAS. Specifically, I look after the operational data around our blogging program and our
![How to run SAS programs in Jupyter Notebook SAS in Jupyter](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2016/04/sasinjupyter.png)
We've just celebrated Earth Day, but I'm here to talk about Jupyter -- and the SAS open source project that opens the door for more learning. With this new project on the github.com/sassoftware page, SAS contributes new support for running SAS from within Jupyter Notebooks -- a popular browser-based environment
![Boaty McBoatface is on the run](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2016/04/poppymai.png)
I know what you're thinking: two "Boaty McBoatface" articles within two weeks? And we're past April Fool's Day? But since I posted my original analysis about the "Name our ship" phenomenon that's happening in the UK right now, a new contender has appeared: Poppy-Mai. The cause of Poppy-Mai, a critically
![And it's Boaty McBoatface by an order of magnitude](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2016/03/boatfacefreq.png)
In a voting contest, is it possible for a huge population to get behind a ridiculous candidate with such force that no other contestant can possibly catch up? The answer is: Yes. Just ask the folks at NERC, the environmental research organization in the UK. They are commissioning a new
![Add files to a ZIP archive with FILENAME ZIP](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
In previous articles, I've shared tips about how you can work with SAS and ZIP files without requiring an external tool like WinZip, gzip, or 7-Zip. I've covered: How to create ZIP files with ODS PACKAGE ZIP (available since SAS 9.2) How to "unzip" and read ZIP files using FILENAME
![The zoomiest new feature in SAS Enterprise Guide 7.12](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2016/02/zoomcode.gif)
Have you ever been in a meeting in which a presenter is showing content on a web page -- but the audience can't read it because it's too small? Then a guy sitting in the back of the room yells, "Control plus!". Because, as we all know (right?), "Ctrl+" is