Dear Data, You are immense. Too big for me to create summary reports that are useful, perform basic statistical analysis to draw meaningful conclusions and I can forget just looking at you directly. I am going for help - to Las Vegas, in October. Yep, and when I return you
SAS allows for three different cube storage mechanisms: 1. MOLAP The traditional SAS OLAP Cube will all aggregations / nway stored on a physical file structure accessible by the SAS OLAP Cube Server. 2. ROLAP A relational OLAP cube - where no aggregations are stored and SAS points to the
Those of you who have anxiously been awaiting the next installments in my "What is there to do in Cary?" series may have noticed a distinct lack of output over the last month or so. This is due to the fact that I have been forced to spend my time
Dr. Goutam Chakraborty is a professor of marketing and founder of the SAS and OSU Data Mining Certificate Program at Oklahoma State University. He has been involved with the annual data mining conference for five years and also teaches a Business Knowledge Series course, "Getting the Most Out of Testing
The ODS ExcelXP tagset is pretty powerful stuff. Hidding columns, changing the print layout to landscape, updating the spreadsheet names, defining the default column width and row height, etc - it's all available using options within the ExcelXP setup. So the best thing to do is grab some documentation. Fortunetly,
I just returned home from Vancouver, British Columbia, where I attended the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). I heard that more than 5,300 statisticians attended this year, including about 40 or so from SAS. I stayed busy. I gave a presentation on techniques for visualizing time series, gave a two-hour
Editor’s Note: Meet Rick Cornell, SAS Training Course Development Manager. In a multi-part series, Rick will tell us about how a SAS training course is born. In this first installment, learn where a course comes from, what new courses are in the works and Rick’s desert island list of albums.
"Goals are dreams with deadlines." Diana Scharf Hunt If you had told me a year ago at this time that I was would be training for triathlons and studying for the Base SAS Certification test, I probably would have said you’re crazy. But, late last summer a good friend of
If repeats are sweet, then the SAS Education e-Learning Technology team is running on a sugar high that would make Willy Wonka (and my young daughters) envious. Not only did it just earn honors from the Society for Technical Communication’s (STC) international competition for the second consecutive year; it took
Last week, I got a chance to meet up with authors and San Francisco JMP colleagues Curt Hinrichs and Chuck Boiler while they were in Cary, NC, on business. Despite their super hectic schedules, they kindly agreed to get together at 8 a.m. in the lobby of the swanky Umstead
