Who says anyone is an expert at something? I definitely do not when it comes to SAS (well, anything for that matter). Each time I sit through a presentation at a conference I learn something new. During the SAS Western Users Conference, fondly know as WUSS, this month I learned
Ron Cody’s newest book, Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them, is already getting high marks from early reviewers. Gerry Hobbs (West Virginia University), says, “This is an excellent book that deserves a place on every SAS professional’s bookcase.” Long-time SAS user Andrew T. Kuligowski
Manfred Kiefer is a Globalization Specialist for SAS and the author of SAS Encoding: Understanding the Details. This week's tip is from his new book. In a review, Edwin Hart said "This book provides a very readable description of a topic that has long needed exposure: Why do my characters get
Michele Burlew’s new book, SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy takes users through the newest look-up technique from SAS, one that has many still shaking their heads. “Not many DATA step programmers have used hash objects much,” Burlew says. “They seem scary because they operate a little differently from the SAS
SAS users world-wide have turned to Susan Slaughter, Lora Delwiche, and The Little SAS Book to learn SAS programming. This week's SAS tip is from their bestselling fourth edition of the book (the fifth edition is now available for preorder). Whichever version of The Little SAS Book you use, you'll benefit from the friendly
Edward Vonesh is a managing member of Vonesh Statistical Consulting, LLC, as well as a part-time employee of Northwestern University, where he supports research in his capacity as professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine. Needless to say, he knows a thing or two about generalized linear and nonlinear models.
This week's SAS tip is from A. John Bailer and his book Statistical Programming in SAS. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, John has been using SAS for 30 years. He's also Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at Miami University. To read a free chapter and user reviews
Facebook has millions of users, and therefore when people share an interesting graph on Facebook it can "go viral" and millions of people might see it. Some of the graphs are obviously a bit biased - especially ones that are trying to sway your opinion one way or another on a topic
One of my students emailed me, asking how to easily reset SAS system options. He was looking for a one-liner solution, just like you get with graphic options: GOPTIONS RESET; While there isn't a RESET keyword for the OPTIONS statement, you can save your options settings before making changes using
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,
