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Joe FurbeeApril 13, 2020 1

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various storage options available in Microsoft Azure. Access

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Lucas de PaulaApril 2, 2020 5

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,

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Martin MinceyMarch 20, 2020 1

How to debug 5 common SAS® software font issues

Martin Mincey of SAS Technical Support shows you how to debug when listing registered SAS fonts, registering new fonts, getting SAS SG procedures to use a new font and more.

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Suzanne MorgenMarch 19, 2020 0

Free e-book: SAS Programming for R Users

At SAS Press, we agree with the saying “The best things in life are free.” And one of the best things in life is knowledge. That’s why we offer free e-books to help you learn SAS or improve your skills. In this blog post, we will introduce you to one

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Daria RostovtsevaMarch 16, 2020 5

Challenge accepted: Learning data prep in CASL

As a long-time SAS 9 programmer, I typically accomplish my data preparation tasks through some combination of the DATA Step, Proc SQL, Proc Transpose and some housekeeping procs like Proc Contents and Proc Datasets. With the introduction of SAS Viya, SAS released a new scripting language called CASL – a

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Leonid BatkhanMarch 10, 2020 12

Automating SAS variable labels creation

SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to automate creation of SAS variable labels so tables and reports are easier to read.

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Susan SlaughterMarch 10, 2020 6

Accessing Excel files using LIBNAME XLSX

If you have been using SAS for long, you have probably noticed that there is generally more than one way to do anything. (For an example, see my co-author Lora Delwiche’s blog about PROC SQL.) The Little SAS Book has long covered reading and writing Microsoft Excel files with the

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Suzanne MorgenMarch 5, 2020 0

Learn about new data mining and machine learning procedures in SAS Viya

Have you heard that SAS offers a collection of new, high-performance CAS procedures that are compatible with a multi-threaded approach? The free e-book Exploring SAS® Viya®: Data Mining and Machine Learning is a great resource to learn more about these procedures and the features of SAS® Visual Data Mining and

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Suzanne MorgenFebruary 26, 2020 0

Propensity Score Estimation with PROC PSMATCH and PROC LOGISTIC

Do you wish you could predict the likelihood that one of your customers will open your marketing email? Or what if you could tell whether a new medical treatment for a patient will have a better outcome than the standard treatment? If you are familiar with propensity modeling, then you

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Lora D. DelwicheFebruary 18, 2020 4

Test your SAS skills with the newest edition of Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book

In case you missed the news, there is a new edition of The Little SAS Book! Last fall, we completed the sixth edition of our book, and even though it is actually a few pages shorter than the fifth edition, we managed to add many more topics to the book.

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