How to conditionally execute SAS global statements
SAS' Leonid Batkhan reveals coding techniques that give you control of when and whether global statements are executed.
Tag: tips & techniques
Running SAS programs in parallel using SAS/CONNECT®
SAS' Leonid Batkhan demonstrates a popular "divide-and-conquer" efficiency strategy using SAS/Connect®.
2020 roundup: SAS Users YouTube channel how to tutorials
Find out the most popular SAS Users YouTube channel how to tutorials, and learn a thing or two!
Append and Replace Records in a CAS Table
In my previous blog post, I talked about using PROC CAS to accomplish various data preparation tasks. Since then, my colleague Todd Braswell and I worked through some interesting challenges implementing an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process that continuously updates data in CAS. (Todd is really the brains behind getting
Connect, learn and share during virtual SAS Global Forum 2021
If you’re like me and the rest of the conference team, you’ve probably attended more virtual events this year than you ever thought possible. You can see the general evolution of virtual events by watching the early ones from April or May and compare them to the recent ones. We
Splitting a data set into smaller data sets
SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to split a large data set into many by a subsetting by a number of observations to produce smaller, better manageable data sets.
How to save Jupyter notebooks in assorted formats
Learning never stops. When SAS had to change this year’s SAS Global Forum (SASGF) to a virtual event, everyone was disappointed. I am, however, super excited about all of the papers and stream of video releases over the last month (and I encourage you to register for the upcoming live
How to create and use SAS macro functions
SAS' Leonid Batkhan differentiates between SAS macro and programming languages, defines two types of SAS macros and much more.
Working remotely? A list of 5 ways to spend your down time
As many of us are learning to navigate the changing world we are living in amid the COVID-19 outbreak, and as we care for our loved ones, friends, and our community, many of us now find ourselves working and studying from home much more than we did before. As an
Extending Excel with Python and SAS
Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Excel is still a big hit in the data analysis world. From small to big customers, we still see fit for daily routines such as filtering, generating plots, calculating items on ad-hoc analysis or even running statistical models. Whenever I talk to customers,