+ Maggie Miller was formerly a communications specialist at SAS. You'll likely find her writing blogs, shooting videos and sharing it all on social media. She has nearly ten years of journalism experience that she brings to her writing to help you learn and grow with SAS. Follow on Twitter @maggiemiller0
This week’s author tip is from Michele Burlew and her new book SAS Macro Programming Made Easy, Third Edition. Burlew chose this tip because she says it’s important to understand how SAS determines where a macro variable reference starts and stops, and often a delimiter is needed to tell SAS
This week’s author tip is from Matthew Gillingham and his new book SAS Programming with Medicare Administrative Data. Gillingham has been programming in SAS for 15 years and has spent 10 of those years specifically dealing with health care use, cost and quality measurement. Here’s Gillingham’s tip for you: To
The SAS author’s tip of the week blogs are back! Sorry for the short break - I’ve been working to transition into my new role as editor of the SAS Bookshelf. We will continue to feature these helpful tips for our readers. Please let me know if there is any
This SAS tutorial video will show you how to generate plots for two continuous numeric variables with Base SAS. Basic scatter plots, linear or curvilinear regression lines, confidence intervals or ellipses, and multiple plot overlays are demonstrated. To learn more about this topic, check out our SAS Programming 1: Essentials
In this tutorial video, you will learn to print a simple listing with Base SAS. You see how to write a PRINT procedure step to display a SAS data set. You also see how to use statements and options to subset observations and variables and enhance the report. Learn
This SAS tutorial video will show you how to create a new variable with Base SAS. During the step-by-step video, you will see exactly how to create and modify numeric and character variables using assignment statements in a DATA step. Watch and learn… To learn more about the steps in
These two tutorial videos will show you how to filter and sort data in Base SAS. In this first video, you will learn to use a WHERE statement in Base SAS to filter or subset SAS data. Data sets can be very large and filtering data enables you to select
In this SAS tutorial, you will learn to import data from Microsoft Excel into SAS with SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files. Learn to read any sheet or named range from an Excel workbook as a data set or import any sheet or named range to create a SAS data set
Damir Olejar isn’t a superhero, but he accomplished quite a feat -- passing the SAS Certified Base Programmer credential in 25 days. Olejar was on the fast track because he needed the credential to satisfy a prerequisite for a job offer. However, he wishes he would have spent more time
