Four more tips about hash tables
Now is your chance to learn even more about SAS hash tables with four additional articles on the subject.
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Favorite SAS Press books from a SAS Press author
Does this situation sound familiar? You have a complex analysis that must be finished urgently. The data was delivered late and its quality and structure are far from the expected standard. The time pressure to present the results is huge, and your SAS program is not giving you the expected
The Model Gift – Transforming Data into Actionable Insights!
SAS for Mixed Models: Introduction to Basic Applications takes you step-by-step through the journey of creating models, enabling you to transform scores of data into actionable insights.
Government Healthcare Data Ensemble Modeling
Joseph Woodside discusses the use of using ensemble modeling in SAS for fraud detection and readmissions.
Digital Disruption in Healthcare
Joseph Woodside discusses the evolution of digital transformation in healthcare in three eras.
SAS Press Is Recruiting Authors!
Learn how to become an author with SAS Press.
New technologies and new direction for SAS Press
SAS Press is changing to meet the needs of customers worldwide.
Three of My Favorite Programming Tips
I often get asked for programming tips. Here, I share three of my favorite tips for beginners. Tip #1: COUNTC and CATS Functions Together The CATS function concatenates all of its arguments after it strips leading and trailing blanks. The COUNTC function counts characters. Together, they can let you operate
Three Proc SQL Tips from Bestselling Author Kirk Paul Lafler
SAS Press author Kirk Paul Lafler's favorite tips using PROC SQL.
Speeding Up Your Analytics with Machine Learning (Part 2)
This blog post introduces the use of deep learning to train a deep neural network to further improve performance; and hybrid architectures.
New edition of the Cody classic: Learning SAS® by Example
Find out about the new edition of Ron Cody's latest best selling book.
Speeding Up Your Analytics with Machine Learning (Part 1)
Hybrid computers that marry CPUs and devices like GPUs and FPGAs are the fastest computers, but they are hard to program. This post explains how deep learning (DL) greatly simplifies programming hybrid computers.
What your favorite authors are reading: SAS Press authors highlight SAS Global Forum papers
Three bestselling SAS Press authors feature their favorite papers from SAS Global Forum 2018.
Five things you (probably) don’t know you can do with a hash table
Hash tables are a very powerful and flexible data structure. Most SAS applications of hash tables focus on just one of their many powerful facilities: table lookup. Hash tables are a fantastic table lookup tool and their use for that should never be diminished. However, hash tables can do so
Fun with Dots in PROC REPORT
You should play a little. Add dots. Add color. Your PROC REPORT output does not have to be boring. As a matter of fact, it can be both functional and appealing. Any Unicode value will do, but this blog shows how to use the Unicode value for a dot (filled
What DS2 can do for the DATA step
The Base SAS DATA step has been a powerful tool for many years for SAS programmers. But as data sets grow and programmers work with massively parallel processing (MPP) computing environments such as Teradata, Hadoop or the SAS High-Performance Analytics grid, the data step remains stubbornly single-threaded. Welcome DS2 –
Custom Style Templates: Start Small
SAS author Jane Eslinger shows give you tips for working with PROC TEMPLATE when diving into the Output Delivery System (ODS) world. Learn how to create a custom style template to get the stylized output you want.
Top 10 bestselling titles at SAS Global Forum 2018
In this blog post you'll find out the top 10 bestselling titles at SAS Global Forum 2018.
Jedi SAS Tricks: Transwarp Processing with DS2 in SAS® Viya®
When speed is required at scale, it's hard to beat parallel processing data in memory with DS2 and SAS® Viya® with the amazing Cloud Analytic Services (CAS)!
Authoring a data-driven book - yes, we do that!
At SAS we use data to accomplish many of our everyday tasks. At SAS Books, we have now even used data to create a data-driven book, An Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics.
Six new SAS books for 2018
Start off the New Year by brushing up your SAS programming skills! Begin your goal to become SAS certified or explore these New SAS books and other SAS Press titles, many of which will be making their bookshelf debut at SAS® Global Forum 2018 in Denver, CO! Want to be notified when a new book
8 new summer reads for SAS users
Summer is here, which means vacations and time at the pool with a good book. If expanding your knowledge is a goal of yours this summer, SAS has a shelf full of new titles becoming available over the next few months. From new editions of classics – such as SAS® for Forecasting
11 new SAS Press titles for 2017
Whether your resolution is to get SAS certified or to become a more advanced SAS programmer, we’ve got you covered with these new titles and upcoming SAS Press books, many of which will be making their bookshelf debut at SAS® Global Forum 2017 in Orlando, FL! Want to be notified when a new book
5 Benefits of writing a book with SAS Press
Editor's note: This series of blogs addresses the questions we are most frequently asked at SAS Press! Do you have a great book idea already in mind, or think you might want to write about an analytics or industry topic? Consider writing a SAS Press book or a SAS &
Move beyond the 'whys' of CDISC and bridge the gap between theory and practice
I am writing this post with the satisfaction of having Implementing CDISC Using SAS: An End-to-End Guide, Second Edition completed and on the shelf. Once again, it was my pleasure to collaborate with Chris Holland, and I am glad that we had a chance to update the book with current
Editing the SAS Code Generated by the One-Way Frequencies Statistics Task
Suppose you are using SAS Studio (perhaps with the University Edition) and the statistical task you need to perform is not a supported option or feature in SAS. I know that sounds almost impossible because the statistical tasks in SAS Studio are so awesome. But, just in case you need
SAS Jedi and DS2 Guru: Mark Jordan
Maybe programming isn’t quite as dangerous as a lightsaber battle, but if you think using SAS to turn data into action feels a little bit like magic, you should know that nobody is better at harnessing “the Force” of DS2 than SAS Jedi Mark Jordan. Mark has a resume that
Looking after your digital self
Jared Cohen, President of Jigsaw, formerly Google Ideas, and Chief Advisor to Alphabet Executive Chairman (former Google CEO) Eric Schmidt, presented a very interesting keynote at Analytics Experience this month. In it he mentioned the idea of a ‘digital self’. He explained most people have not one but numerous digital
SAS & bugs & rock & roll
SAS Programming Professionals, SAS & bugs & rock & roll? But, of course! SAS Because of its amazing versatility, SAS is indisputably the greatest software package currently in use anywhere within the Milky Way Galaxy. Can SAS input every type of flat file imaginable? Yes! Can SAS read and write
Free eBook: Discovering data science with SAS
Data science may be a difficult term to define, but data scientists are definitely in great demand! Wayne Thompson, Senior Product Manager at SAS, defines data science as a broad field that entails applying domain knowledge and machine learning to extract insights from complex and often dark data. To further