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Matt ScicchitanoMay 2, 2017 0

Do SAS Big Data credentials equal big professional value?

When I first wrote this blog post in early May 2017, it was to ask SAS users holding SAS “Big Data” certifications to participate in the CertMag Salary Survey Plus Big Data Edition. The response was overwhelming and thanks to all of you that participated. Now that the results are in, I wanted

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Dr. Sunil BhardwajApril 30, 2017 1

Cracking SAS Data Scientist Certification Code

The SAS Data Scientist Credential SAS Data Science Academy brings in a complete set of certifications which enables somebody to be qualified as “Data Scientist”. There is full training support , blended mode of learning , case studies, projects and practice exams by the academy. By successfully passing certification exams,

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Kirk Paul LaflerApril 25, 2017 8

Determining the size of a SAS data set

When developing SAS® data sets, program code and/or applications, efficiency is not always given the attention it deserves, particularly in the early phases of development. Since data sizes and system performance can affect a program and/or an application’s behavior, SAS users may want to access information about a data set’s

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Robert AllisonApril 21, 2017 2

Your mapping toolkit tip #6 - Geocoding your addresses

You've got a database containing the addresses of all your customers ... but how can you plot them on a map or analyze them spatially? First, you'll need to convert the address into a numeric coordinate (latitude & longitude). SAS can do that ... with Proc Geocode! But before we

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Jane EslingerApril 18, 2017 21

How to control the name of Excel sheets when they are all created at once

Ok, so you know how to create multiple sheets in Excel, but can anyone tell me how to control the name of the sheets when they are all created at once? In the ODS destination for Excel, the suboption SHEET_INTERVAL is set to TABLE by default. So what does that

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Robert AllisonApril 17, 2017 1

Your mapping toolkit tip #5 - determine which sales region your customers are in

A new prospective customer enters their personal information on your web page, and they want to have a sales rep contact them ... but you need to know which sales region they're in, so you can assign them to a sales team. Now, multiply that by thousands of prospective customers!

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Robert AllisonApril 13, 2017 4

Your mapping toolkit tip #4 - importing maps into SAS

SAS provides a map for each country, but there are likely other maps you want to use that SAS does not provide. If you have other maps in the Esri shapefile format, you're in luck - you can import those maps and use them! In this blog post I share

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Susan SlaughterApril 12, 2017 10

What’s your SAS interface?

I recently asked a SAS user, “Which interface do you use for SAS?” She replied, “Interface? I just install SAS and use it.” “You’re using the SAS windowing environment,” I explained, but she had no idea what I was talking about. This person is an extremely sophisticated SAS user who

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Robert AllisonApril 6, 2017 7

Drawing paths on a map using SGplot

For those of you who don't have SAS/Graph's Proc GMap, I recently showed how to 'fake' a variety of maps using Proc SGplot polygons. So far I've written blogs on creating: pretty maps, gradient shaded choropleth maps, and maps with markers at zip codes. And now (by special request from

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Ron CodyMarch 31, 2017 1

Capturing output from any procedure with an ODS OUTPUT statement

There's an old song that starts out, "You Can Get Anything You Want at Alice's Restaurant." Well, maybe you are too young to know that song, but if you’re a SAS users, you’ll be glad to know that you can capture anything produced by any SAS procedure (even if the

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