Contributed by SAS Publishing's Sandy Varner, Julie M. Platt, Mary Beth Steinbach, and Shelly Goodin Tuesday, February 15 Sandy Varner Being at the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference allows me to step away from the day-to-day work at SAS Publishing and take the 20,000 foot perspective of the publishing industry.
Contributed by Sean Gargan, Director of SAS Publishing Julie Platt, Editor-in-Chief of SAS Press Peggy Haas, Manager of Publishing Production and Pre-Media Services Upon returning from the exhilarating Digital Book World 2011 conference—and from being stranded in a New York snowstorm—SAS Publishing’s Sean Gargan, Julie Platt, and Peggy Haas thawed
As the new editor of SAS Publishing’s blog, I’m a bit nervous about this first post. Besides following in the footsteps of former blog editor and new SAS Social Media Manager Kirsten Hamstra, I’m attending the Blogging Success Summit 2011 presented by some of the best bloggers in the business.
Have you used multivariate procedures in SAS and wanted to save out scores? Some procedures, such as FACTOR, CANDISC, CANCORR, PRINCOMP, and others have an OUT= option to save scores to the input data set. However, to score a new data set, or to perform scoring with multivariate procedures that
I was building a nice little PDF report the other day. I love the way ODS PDF replicates the SAS Results window navigation structure as PDF bookmarks, but... I'd much rather write the text for the bookmarks myself. So, I decided to "use the SAS" and make ODS do my
In honor of World Statistics Day, I've been asking fans of the SAS Publishing Facebook page questions about statistics for the last two weeks. We've received lots of fun and interesting responses which I'd like to share here on Open Mic. If you're interested in celebrating with us today, join
Our last post, "Getting the most out of user group events," was a first for us here at Open Mic, as it was contributed by a SAS user, Dr. Bruce Stegner. I'm continually impressed by the passion, dedication and knowledge of our user base and would love to see more
In this next installment of our video series, SAS Authors Answer, I asked our authors what tips they could offer to new SAS users. If you're new to SAS, be sure to also check out our new user page that is a great introduction to our books, documentation and newsletters.
Contributed by Lou Metzger, Manager, SAS Publishing Sales The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. In my case, truer words were never spoken. When I was first married, I won a small sum and spent some of the winnings on an excellent cookbook for our new family.
Contributed by Michele Burlew, president of Episystems Inc. and SAS Press author My SAS writing adventure this summer is a new book that will cover hash object programming. It won’t be very long, maybe 100 pages, and it will have lots of examples. As a longtime SAS programmer, I was
