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James GearheartJuly 14, 2020 3

Adjusting outliers with the 1.5 IQR rule

In my new book, End-to-End Data Science with SAS: A Hands-On Programming Guide, I use the 1.5 IQR rule to adjust multiple variables. This program utilizes a macro that loops through a list of variables to make the necessary adjustments and creates an output data set. One of the most

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Peter StyliadisJuly 7, 2020 0

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 3 - Loading a CAS Action Set

Are you looking for a specific CAS action to use in your project? Maybe you need to create a linear or logistic regression and can't seem to find the CAS action? In this post in the Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® series, we are going to look

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Ron CodyJune 24, 2020 2

Multi-way lookup tables

A lookup table is a programming technique where one or more values can be used to retrieve another value. For example, many years ago, I had benzene exposure estimates for 10 years (1940 to 1949) for each of five locations in a factory. Given a year and a job location,

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Kevin RussellJune 22, 2020 0

Partition your CAS tables to greatly improve performance

Kevin Russell of SAS Technical Support shows you how partitioning CAS tables speeds processing.

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Peter StyliadisJune 19, 2020 2

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 2 - Working with CAS Actions and CASResults Objects

In the second post of the Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® series we will learn about Working with CAS Actions and CASResults Objects. CAS actions are commands sent to the CAS server to run a task, and CASResults objects contain information returned from the CAS server. This

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Peter StyliadisJune 19, 2020 3

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Index

CAS Actions and Action Sets - a brief intro - A quick introduction about the distributed CAS server in SAS® Viya®. Index of articles on Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya. Making a Connection - An introduction to SAS Viya and the massively parallel processing CAS engine, and

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Elena ShternJune 17, 2020 2

How to access Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) with SASEFRED in SAS/ETS® software

SAS Public Sector's Elena Shtern is your guide as you extract data from the Federal Reserve Economic Data site using the SASEFRED interface engine, part of SAS/ETS® software.

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Susan SlaughterJune 11, 2020 3

What's wrong with this code?

Whether you enjoy debugging or hate it, for programmers, debugging is a fact of life. It’s easy to misspell a keyword, scramble your array subscripts, or (heaven forbid!) forget a semicolon. That’s why we include a chapter on debugging in The Little SAS® Book and its companion book, Exercises and

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Joe FurbeeJune 3, 2020 1

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

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Yinliang WuJune 2, 2020 4

Transform word vector tables from long to wide

In natural language processing, word vectors play a key role in making technologies such as machine translation and speech recognition possible. Let's talk about how to transform word vector tables from long to wide in SAS, so we can potentially get sentence vectors to process further.

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