It was my pleasure to sit down and talk with Education Director Eric Rossland to get the inside scoop on our fast track courses. This is an intense training format that is offered in the Business Intelligence, Data Management and Administration curricula. The courses cover a hefty amount of content
In the course of my job, I get to have a lot of conversations with authors about their books. One of the aspects of those conversations I enjoy most is learning about their areas of expertise and knowledge—that could be certain SAS software or programming techniques, particular fields of analytics,
This week's SAS tip is from Frederick Pratter and his book Web Development with SAS by Example, Third Edition. Frederick is extremely knowledgeable and a popular speaker in the user community. His latest book is filled with a multitude of SAS Web programming tools. I hope that you'll find this week's
Do you use SAS for analytics and Microsoft Excel for graphs? Why not use SAS for your graphs too?!? Then you could completely automate the entire process in one SAS program, with no manual steps! A lot of people use Excel to create their graphs because "it's what they know." What if somebody
Leading up to the Analytics 2012 Conference, we’re going to explore the latest trends in analytics. For this, we reached out to several of our speakers and sponsors to get their take on what’s catching fire. The one we found on almost everyone’s list -- Big Data. “The hottest trend
With limited time and budget, you can still thoroughly test SAS reports built in SAS BI Dashboard and SAS Web Report Studio by considering how all the tools were used to build the end report. An understanding of the functionality within each part of the chain from raw data to
You may know that every year at the Analytics Conference, we offer pre-conference workshops and post-conference training courses. But, did you know that these offerings are significantly discounted? Come to Las Vegas for the Analytics Conference and make the most out of your week by attending training. You can view
As summer comes to an end, I find myself getting excited about some of the regional user group conferences that take place every fall. This year, I’ll be presenting a paper at WUSS (Western Users of SAS Software) in Long Beach, CA, in early September. About one week later, I’m
The SAS System provides users with the ability to create, store and access custom functions using the Function Compiler (FCMP) procedure. Once defined with PROC FCMP, a user-defined function can be used, or called, just like any other SAS function in the SAS System. This powerful capability gives users the
Everyone in the world has their attention turned towards the Olympics this week, so what better topic to tie in to a SAS/GRAPH blog than that?!?! I had seen a graph on the guardian website that I thought was interesting, so I decided to try to create my own (slightly different)
