You’ve known it, you’ve loved it. Your copy’s pages are worn, torn, or coffee-stained, and yet it’s still as beloved as ever. It’s your Little SAS Book. It belongs on every SAS programmer’s bookshelf, and it’s now even better. Susan Slaughter and Lora Delwiche have worked to help you improve
BASE SAS users are already familiar with the autoexec file. This is a .sas file that typically resides in the installation folder of the SAS executable. Instructions for setting it up in UNIX, Windows, and other environments is readily available on the SAS website. In SAS BI configurations there are
This week's tip is from Professor Willbann D. Terpening and his book Statistical Analysis for Business Using JMP. If you're intrigued by the following excerpt, visit Terpening's author page for additional bonus book content. And take a look at his previously featured tip The Student t-distribution, on this blog: The following excerpt is from
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
