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Robert AllisonFebruary 9, 2017 3

Visualizing 100 years of US presidential pardons

A topic that's been in the news a lot lately is the presidential power to grant pardons, commutations, and such. But all the articles I've seen just quoted numeric totals - I haven't seen a graph of the data anywhere! So I set out to find the data and graph

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS

Robert AllisonFebruary 7, 2017 10

Using Chinese characters as labels on SAS Maps

Doing business in a global economy, have you ever found yourself wanting to show Chinese (or Korean, or Japanese) labels on a map? If so, then this blog is for you! Before we get started, here is a photo of some Chinese characters to get you into the mood. This

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Learn SAS

Jeff ThompsonJanuary 24, 2017 3

Step into the wonderful world of SAS Enterprise Miner

Editor's note (10/25/17): You can practice what you learned in class with 15 hours of Free virtual lab time when you attend the in-person or Live Web Applied Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner class. Register now. Are you interested in taking an advanced course on the machine learning topic of Neural Networks? Does text

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Learn SAS | SAS Events

Mark StevensJanuary 23, 2017 3

Kick off your SAS Global Forum journey with a SAS Certification

We are a few months away from SAS Global Forum in Orlando. You might think that the conference kicks off Sunday night at opening session, but there are plenty of weekend activities before then and I’d like to highlight one of them: SAS certification exam sessions. Isn’t now a great

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BrennaJanuary 6, 2017 7

11 new SAS Press titles for 2017

Whether your resolution is to get SAS certified or to become a more advanced SAS programmer, we’ve got you covered with these new titles and upcoming SAS Press books, many of which will be making their bookshelf debut at SAS® Global Forum 2017 in Orlando, FL! Want to be notified when a new book

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Ron CodyJanuary 3, 2017 3

Character to Numeric Conversion in SAS

How many of you have been given a SAS data set with variables such as Age, Height, and Weight and some or all of them were stored as character values instead of numeric? Probably EVERYONE! Yes, we all know how to do the old "swap and drop" (rename and convert), but

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

SAS JediDecember 28, 2016 6

SAS Jedi Christmas - SAS 9.4 M4 DS2 Do Loop Upgrade

This SAS Jedi is very excited about the SAS 9.4 M4 release, which brought many wonderful gifts just in time for Christmas. So in the interest of extending the Christmas spirit, I'm going to blog about some of my favorites! I've long loved the SAS DO statement variant which allows

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Ron CodyDecember 27, 2016 7

SAS Temporary Arrays, Not Just for Experts

SAS temporary arrays are an underutilized jewel in the SAS toolbox. I find that many beginning to intermediate SAS programmers are not familiar with temporary arrays. The good news is that there is nothing complicated about them and they are very useful. First of all, what is a temporary array?

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BrennaDecember 21, 2016 2

5 Benefits of writing a book with SAS Press

Editor's note: This series of blogs addresses the questions we are most frequently asked at SAS Press! Do you have a great book idea already in mind, or think you might want to write about an analytics or industry topic? Consider writing a SAS Press book or a SAS &

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Leo SadovyDecember 19, 2016 2

SAS Certification for the Non-Practitioner

Let me make this clear right from the start: I needed to answer 44 of the 62 exam questions correctly to earn my BASE SAS Programmer certification, and I got exactly 44 right. No margin of error. I never thought I’d be proud of a 70%, but I’m more than

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