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Melanie CareyMay 31, 2018 1

Exploring interactive reports with SAS Visual Analytics

Interactive reports with SAS Visual Analytics allow you to access the interface and product instantly. Simply choose a report to navigate and explore in our SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 viewer. There are reports for warranty analysis, retail insights, water consumption and quality, banking and risk and network performance.

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Leonid BatkhanMay 30, 2018 58

Are you developing foolproof solutions?

It is imperative for developers, whether hardware or software engineers, to foresee unintended (probable or improbable) system usages and implement features that will make their creations foolproof, that is protected from misuse. Learn more about developing foolproof solutions with this old Russian anecdote.

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Martin MinceyMay 18, 2018 16

How to change your working directory for SAS® with the DLGCDIR DATA step function

Learn how to change your working directory for SAS. Beginning with SAS® 9.4 TS1M4, you can use a new DATA step function, DLGCDIR, to change the location of your working directory.

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Leonid BatkhanMay 7, 2018 16

SAS tools for GDPR privacy compliant reporting

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect on 25 May 2018 pertains not only to organizations located within the EU; it applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location. Here are four selected SAS tools for GDPR that allow you to protect personal data in SAS reports by suppressing counts in small demographic group reports.

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Russ TyndallApril 20, 2018 0

How to expand the number of available SAS functions within the macro language

The %SYSFUNC macro function allows you to access most SAS® functions. In this blog post, I demonstrate how %SYSFUNC can help in your programming needs when a macro function might not exist. I'll also share the formatting feature that is built in to %SYSFUNC and introduce the %QSYSFUNC that masks the returned value.

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Steven SoberApril 18, 2018 0

How to Emulate DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS® Viya™

DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS Viya

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Andrew KramerMarch 29, 2018 0

Implicit SQL Pass-through to Hive in SAS Viya

With the release of SAS Viya 3.3, you now have the ability to pass implicit SQL queries to a variety of SQL data sources, including Hive. Here's what happens as users write SAS compliant SQL code.

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Chevell ParkerMarch 21, 2018 2

The many faces of HTML

Generating HTML output might be something that you do daily. After all, HTML is now the default format for Display Manager SAS output, and it is one of the available formats for SAS® Enterprise Guide®. In addition, SAS® Studio generates HTML 5.0 output as a default. The many faces of

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Mary Kathryn QueenMarch 16, 2018 0

SAS Data Studio Code Transform (Part 1)

SAS Data Studio is a new application in SAS Viya 3.3 that provides a mechanism for performing simple, self-service data preparation tasks to prepare data for use in SAS Visual Analytics or other applications. It is accessed via the Prepare Data menu item or tile on SAS Home. Note: A

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Lavanya MandavilliMarch 2, 2018 2

Is it sensitive? Mask it with data suppression

Report data shared by educational institutions, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and human resource departments can contain sensitive or confidential data. Data in such reports are suppressed selectively to protect the identities of individuals or to prevent the report’s audience from easily inferring individual values. The Data Suppression feature in SAS

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