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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Anonymization for analysts, report designers and information owners](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/07/ukan.png)
This is my second blog on the topic of anonymization, which I’ve spent some time over the past several months researching. My first blog, Anonymization for data managers, focused on the technical process. Now let’s dive into the role for analysts, report designers and information owners. To analysts and reporting
![Anonymization for data managers](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/07/anonymization_1.jpg)
I’ve spent some time over the past couple of months learning more about anonymization. This began with an interest in the technical methods used to protect sensitive personally-identifiable information in a SAS data warehouse and analytics platform we delivered for a customer. But I learned that anonymization has two rather different meanings; one in the
![How sentimental of you! Enabling sentiment analysis in a SAS Visual Analytics word cloud Word cloud in SAS Visual Analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/05/WordCloud_1.png)
Word clouds have been available in SAS Visual Analytics for a while now, but recently, sentiment analysis was added to their functionality. For those of you not familiar with word clouds, a word cloud, also known as a tag cloud, is a visual representation of text data. You are probably
![What’s new for SAS Global Forum 2016](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/06/Lanyon-System-Header_PaperMgtBanner-FINAL-2.png)
Hello, I’m Jennifer Waller, your SAS Global Forum 2016 conference chair. This is the first of several blogs I’ll be writing to help keep you informed about the conference and ways you can get involved. Because of my background in education, I’m especially excited about a new initiative at this
![Can you Lag and Lead at the same time? If using the SAS DATA step, yes you can](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/02/ProblemSolvers.jpg)
Within the SAS DATA step, the LAG function is provided to return a variable’s value from a previous data set observation. With certain data criteria, sometimes there is a need to look ahead at the next observation and you would expect to use a LEAD function, but this does not
![Recent improvements to SAS automated migration tools SAS Migration Utility output showing two errors encountered during analysis phase](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/05/tools1.png)
Recent updates to SAS 9.4 have introduced some nice improvements in support of automated migration using the SAS Migration Utility and SAS Deployment Wizard. SAS has been working hard to make the migration experience more user friendly and less error prone. Changes have focused on making errors easier to identify