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David SternJuly 7, 2015 1

Anonymization for analysts, report designers and information owners

This is my second blog on the topic of anonymization, which I’ve spent some time over the past several months researching. My first blog, Anonymization for data managers, focused on the technical process. Now let’s dive into the role for analysts, report designers and information owners. To analysts and reporting

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David SternJuly 2, 2015 7

Anonymization for data managers

I’ve spent some time over the past couple of months learning more about anonymization. This began with an interest in the technical methods used to protect sensitive personally-identifiable information in a SAS data warehouse and analytics platform we delivered for a customer. But I learned that anonymization has two rather different meanings; one in the

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Marjorie ShelleyJune 29, 2015 6

How sentimental of you! Enabling sentiment analysis in a SAS Visual Analytics word cloud

Word clouds have been available in SAS Visual Analytics for a while now, but recently, sentiment analysis was added to their functionality. For those of you not familiar with word clouds, a word cloud, also known as a tag cloud, is a visual representation of text data. You are probably

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Ginny PiechotaJune 19, 2015 11

Can you Lag and Lead at the same time? If using the SAS DATA step, yes you can

Within the SAS DATA step, the LAG function is provided to return a variable’s value from a previous data set observation. With certain data criteria, sometimes there is a need to look ahead at the next observation and you would expect to use a LEAD function, but this does not

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SAS Migration Utility output showing two errors encountered during analysis phase

Gerry NelsonJune 17, 2015 0

Recent improvements to SAS automated migration tools

Recent updates to SAS 9.4 have introduced some nice improvements in support of automated migration using the SAS Migration Utility and SAS Deployment Wizard. SAS has been working hard to make the migration experience more user friendly and less error prone. Changes have focused on making errors easier to identify

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John HallJune 10, 2015 2

Evaluating tradeoffs when designing storage for SAS applications

Recently my wife and I took our annual anniversary trip – this time we went to the Grand Canyon, staying in Las Vegas. In researching our options to fly from Raleigh-Durham (RDU) to Las Vegas (LAS), we had several different selection criteria: what time we wanted to leave what time

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Sample of Google map with embedded SAS ODS output

Leonid BatkhanJune 5, 2015 11

SAS ODS destination - Google maps

➤ DISCLOSURE! In June 2018 Google introduced changes to the way it handles its Maps platform. They now require API key in order to embed a map, plus Google Maps "projects" must now be associated with a billing account. Unless these new Google rules are met, Google maps described in

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Dave NadenJune 3, 2015 0

SAS Environment Manager: Importing events

An important goal of SAS Environment Manager is to communicate with existing software systems. This capability includes not only monitoring other non-SAS platform resources, but also means having the ability to respond to events from outside the SAS platform. We’ve seen how SAS Environment Manager can generate an event for external consumption (see Scott McCauley’s

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Rob CollumMay 29, 2015 16

How SAS gets to data in Hadoop

SAS offers a rich collection of features for working with Hadoop quickly and efficiently. This post will provide a brief run-through of the various technologies used by SAS to get to data in Hadoop and what’s needed to get the job done. Working with text files Base SAS software has the

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Bari LawhornMay 20, 2015 2

ODS PDF destination in SAS 9.4: Come take a look under the hood!

If you have programmed with SAS in the last 15 years, you have probably had a reason to share your SAS results in PDF format. The ODS PDF destination, much like a well-designed car, has evolved over the years, offering progressively nicer features like security, enhanced image formatting and embedded

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