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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![How to get N-grams and TF-IDF count from Chinese documents](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/07/ngram_feature-702x230.png)
SAS Visual Text Analytics provides dictionary-based and non-domain-specific tokenization functionality for Chinese documents, however sometimes you still want to get N-gram tokens. This can be especially helpful when the documents are domain-specific and most of the tokens are not included into the SAS-provided Chinese dictionary. What is an N-gram? An
![Key Value Object in SAS Visual Analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/06/18_Text-Example2_v2-702x336.png)
Introduced with Visual Analytics 8.2 is a new object named: Key Value. The intent of this object is call attention to an aggregated value for a measure, a category, or both. In this post you'll learn more about working with the Key Value Object in SAS Visual Analytics.
![A transcoding story (or, How Oliver S. Füßling lost his last name and comes to find it again)](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/05/ProblemSolvers_Graphic-400x336.jpg)
There are many ways to avoid transcoding problems when you have national language characters in SAS programs that you save from a SAS®9 (English) session and move to a UTF-8 environment. In this article, we'll share tips to help you avoid such issues.
![How to reference CAS tables using a one-level name](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/02/GridAbstract.jpg)
To reference CAS tables using a one-level name we will issue two statements that alter which libref houses the tables referenced as one-level names.
![SAS Viya connecting with SAS 9.4 One-Time-Passwords](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/06/ViyaAuth1-702x336.png)
This post addresses connecting to SAS Viya using a One-Time-Password generated by SAS 9.4. We'll learn more about SAS Viya connecting with SAS 9.4 and talk about how this authentication flow operates and when we are likely to require it.
![Threads and CAS DATA Step](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2018/06/cloud-icon-500x336.png)
Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) is really exciting. It’s open, multi-threaded and distributed. And, best of all for SAS programmers, it’s SAS. You can even run DATA Step in CAS. Here's more on how DATA Step work in a multi-threaded, distributed context.