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Martin MinceySeptember 16, 2016 1

Do you need multiple graphs on a page? We have got you covered!

If you use SAS® software to create a report that contains multiple graphs, you know that each graph appears on a separate page by default. But now you want to really impress your audience by putting multiple graphs on a page. Keep reading because this blog post describes how to

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Mary Kathryn QueenSeptember 15, 2016 0

Using SAS Quality Knowledge Base Definitions in a SAS Event Stream Processing Compute Window

The SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) is a collection of files which store data and logic that define data cleansing operations such as parsing, standardization, and generating match codes to facilitate fuzzy matching. Various SAS software products reference the QKB when performing data quality operations on your data. One of

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoSeptember 9, 2016 0

Analytics in the Cloud gets a whole lot easier with SAS Analytics for Containers

If you’re doing data processing in the cloud or using container-enabled infrastructures to deploy your software, you’ll want to learn more about SAS Analytics for Containers. This new solution puts SAS into your existing container-enabled environment – think Docker or Kubernetes – giving data scientists and analysts the ability to

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Bobbie WagonerSeptember 7, 2016 1

Calculate a moving average using periodic operators in SAS Visual Analytics Designer

Analysts often use a simple moving average to get an idea of the trends in data. This is simply an average of a subset of time periods, and the size of the subset can differ depending on the application. The technique can be used with data based on time periods,

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Teri PatsilarasSeptember 6, 2016 0

Steps to visualize cell phone data in SAS Visual Analytics: Can you hear me now?

For many people, building something from scratch, no matter how simple or complex, is fascinating. That’s why programs similar to How’s It Made are so appealing and, for me, addicting. And thus, the inspiration for this blog; I will walk you through building a set of graphs and how to

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonAugust 31, 2016 6

A quick way to update to SAS Studio 3.5

Update-in-place supports the ability to update a SAS Deployment within a major SAS release. Updates often provide new versions of SAS products. However, when using the SAS Deployment Wizard to perform an update-in-place you cannot selectively update a machine or product. As a general rule if you want to update

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Richann WatsonAugust 26, 2016 2

MWSUG preview: When ANY Function will just NOT do!

When I attended my first SAS conference in 2003 I was not only a first-timer, I was a first time presenter. Needless to say I was a bit nervous. I did not know what to expect. Was my topic good enough for these savvy programmers and statisticians? Well my first

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Bobbie WagonerAugust 22, 2016 7

Working with dates in SAS Visual Analytics: Comparing to the previous year

After posting a couple of blogs on the subject of dates and date formats in Visual Analytics Designer, I got a question from a user who wondered how to compare data for a selected date to data from the same day of the previous year. Here’s one way to do

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Marcia SurrattAugust 19, 2016 0

MAPS, MAPSGFK and MAPSSAS, Oh my!

If you are using the second maintenance release of SAS 9.3 (TS1M2) or later, you might have noticed that you have several map-related libraries that are defined for you. The MAPS library contains the old map data sets that have been provided with SAS/GRAPH® software for many years. The source

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Teri PatsilarasAugust 15, 2016 0

Use Percent of Total and Reference Lines to ask better business questions

Reference lines on a visualization are used to help identify goals or targets, acceptable or unacceptable ranges, etc; basically any metric that puts a frame of reference around the values on the visualization. The Percent of Total of a metric is used to help identify a part-to-whole relationship. It answers

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