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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Using Data Views in SAS Visual Analytics SAS VA data views](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/07/vadataviews-702x336.png)
In SAS Visual Analytics 8.3, a Data View is a reusable and shareable template for a data source. That means that the data view is tied to the data source, and not to the report. Here's how to use them.
![Keeping the top frequency count (n) for each character variable in a SAS data set](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/05/ProblemSolvers_Graphic-400x336.jpg)
Which character variables have the highest frequency count? You can easily determine this using a variety of procedures that calculate frequency count. For example, the FREQ Procedure or the MEANS Procedure. This blog post illustrates this process through two examples.
![How to sample textual data with SAS Donut chart of cluster samples](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/07/donut_cluster-702x336.png)
See how to sample unstructured (text) data using SAS Viya and CAS actions. This post includes complete code to cluster the text documents via k-means, and treats the cluster memberships as strata for analysis.
![SAS administrators tip: Automatically deleting old SAS logs](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/07/SAS-admin-tip_Automatically-deleting-old-SAS-logs-702x336.jpg)
SAS batch jobs can generate many log files that accumulate over time. In this post, we present a SAS program that cleans up old log files on your system.
![How to calculate Word Mover's Distance with SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/07/Word-Movers-Distance-1.png)
Word Mover's Distance (WMD) is a distance metric used to measure the dissimilarity between two documents, and its application in text analytics was introduced by a research group from Washington University in 2015. The group's paper, From Word Embeddings To Document Distances, was published on the 32nd International Conference on Machine
![No typical SAS user: how three professionals prep data using SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/07/sas-data-preparation-data-sources-profile-data-702x336.png)
Did you know that 80 percent of an analytics life cycle is time spent on data preparation? For many SAS users and administrators, data preparation is what you live and breathe day in and day out. Your analysis is only as good as your data, and that's why we wanted