Jean Paul Isson (Global Vice President of Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics, Monster Worldwide, Inc.) and Jesse Harriott (Chief Analytics Officer, Constant Contact) know a thing or two about business analytics. With almost 40 years of experience between them, they've handled it all—from web mining solutions to business intelligence, predictive
Categorical Data Analysis Using SAS has been a favorite among SAS Books readers for quite some time, both as a useful discussion of categorical data analysis techniques as well as an invaluable aid in applying these methods with SAS. Maura Stokes is lead author of the recently published third edition. I
In my previous blog post, I mentioned that I love the power of the SAS macro language and the power of my yellow Corvette. Now, I want to tell you how to avoid a major pitfall along the “macro programming road.” At the risk of dating myself, you may recall
Last week I provided the steps for how to go on a date, at least by using dynamic prompts in BI Dashboard. Now that you have seen how to create them, lets discuss making them smarter. For this example, the customer is asking for two prompts to affect a single
You've all heard about the recent meningitis outbreak, right? Being a data-guy and a map-guy, I went looking for maps related to the outbreak. I found the following map on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website. It shows the states that received the recalled drug used in epidurals (for back
SAS/GRAPH gives you the ability to customize your graphs (or even create totally new types of custom graphs) ... and it is my firm belief that it gives you a competitive advantage by allowing you to "make sense" of your data in ways your competitors can't. Most of the examples in
In this SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office Tip, instructor Rob McAfee teaches how to save steps with Task Templates. Using Task Templates saves you time and ensures consistency when you are creating several similar reports and analysis. A Task Template allows you to easily save task options and settings and
Ron Cody’s at it again. It’s like he just can’t help himself; he knows SAS and wants to help others know it too. His new book, Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them gathers often-used programming tasks and techniques in one handy volume, allowing users
By now, most of you probably already know how to add drill downs and hover text to your SAS graphs. But did you know you can add pop-up images and graphs? Here are a couple of examples ... In this first example, when you hover your mouse over each state, you
Dear Miss SAS Answers, I have read through a few Dear Miss SAS Answers blog posts, but I cannot seem to find what I am looking for. I need to extract only the second duplicate from a whole list of duplicates per account number. Is there a way to
