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Charu ShankarOctober 1, 2012 7

"I want everything!" said a student when I paused to ask my SAS Programming 1 class what else they wanted to learn. Seriously! You want me to share everything I know in three days? The student came back with... "Well okay, what about those freebies you mentioned?" That’s how it all

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Shelly GoodinSeptember 21, 2012 0

SAS author's tip: The problem with generating valid HTML

This week's SAS tip is from Don Henderson and his book Building Web Applications with SAS/IntrNet. A SAS user since 1975, Don was one of the original developers for the SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher. The following excerpt is from SAS Press author Don Henderson and his book "Building Web Applications with SAS/IntrNet: A Guide to the

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Julie PlattSeptember 20, 2012 0

Have it your way—all or part of Carpenter’s Guide to Innovative SAS Techniques

You may have received the announcement that Carpenter’s Guide to Innovative SAS Techniques has just released as an eBook through the Apple iBookstore. Over the years, we’ve received feedback from SAS users that they would like more flexibility in how they purchase their SAS Press content. With Art’s book, we’re

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Shelly GoodinSeptember 14, 2012 11

SAS author's tip: Encoding of external files

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

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Shelly GoodinSeptember 7, 2012 0

SAS author's tip: Creating a data object from a SAS/IML matrix

This week's SAS tip comes from superstar blogger Rick Wicklin and his book Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software. You can learn more about Rick, read user reviews of his book and a free chapter, as well as sign up to receive notification of availability of his forthcoming book Simulating Data with SAS --by visiting his author page.

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Shelly GoodinAugust 31, 2012 0

SAS author's tip: Reading multiple observations per line of raw data

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

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Charu ShankarAugust 30, 2012 14

Why SAS skills are more in demand than ever before

Wondering why technology is such a big deal and why working with SAS will be in demand forever? The great blackout of Toronto in 2003 proved that so well. We could barely survive without electricity for a whole day. While breakdowns make us acutely aware of our dependence, technology also

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Kathy CouncilAugust 29, 2012 7

Help us innovate

According to Wikipedia, "Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments, and society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas

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Shelly GoodinAugust 24, 2012 1

SAS author's tip: Using PROC PRINT to list observations in a data set

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

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Shelly GoodinAugust 17, 2012 2

SAS author's tip: Converting SAS/ACCESS view descriptors to SQL views

This week's SAS tip is from master user Phil Holland and his popular book Saving Time and Money Using SAS. If you're not yet familiar with Phil and his extensive work in the user community, start out by visiting his author page. If you're on LinkedIn, look for him on SAS Professional Forum

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