Understand why managing your data is essential for analytics
SAS' Bari Lawhorn shows you how to access files you've stored with SAS® Studio.
SAS' Mark Jordan shows you how to modify data using PROC SQL, PROC DATASETS and SAS macros.
Leonid Batkhan introduces multipurpose TRIMS function that removes any leading, trailing or both leading and trailing characters from SAS strings.
Thousands of SAS users are migrating from SAS University Edition to SAS OnDemand for Academics (ODA). I thought I would share some of my thoughts, having just finished two books using ODA (Getting Started with SAS Programming: Using SAS Studio in the Cloud and A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using
SAS' Leonid Batkhan explains the data cleansing task of removing unwanted repeated characters in SAS character variables.
SAS' Leonid Batkhan reviews SAS functionality related to the character strings quoting/unquoting, then dives deep into unquoting SAS character variables.
SAS' Leonid Batkhan reveals how to change lengths for all character variables in a data set and all data sets in a data library to facilitate data migration to Unicode encoding environment.
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.
This article discusses how to use SAS to filter variables in a dataset based on the percentage of missing values or duplicate values. The missing value statistics can be implemented by either DATA step programming on your own or reusing the existing powerful PROC FREQ.
Think differently about using storage in the cloud with your SAS Grid jobs, and learn about SAS Cloud Data Exchange for security/caching strategies
