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Larry LaRussoDecember 10, 2018 0

Navigating the Candy Wall of SAS Support Resources

While support.sas.com remains the holy grail of SAS support resources, there are so many good choices, it can sometimes be hard to know where to start. That’s why we’ve put together a new guide to make things easier for new SAS users: the SAS Starter Kit.

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Rick WicklinDecember 10, 2018 0

Visualize Christmas songs

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! -Buddy in Elf In the Christmas movie Elf (2003), Jovie (played by Zooey Deschanel) must "spread Christmas cheer" to help Santa. She chooses to sing "Santa Claus is coming to town," and soon all of New

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Sanjay MatangeDecember 7, 2018 0

The SGPIE Procedure - Part 2

The SAS 9.4M6 software includes a new SGPIE procedure (preproduction) as introduced in the recent article - The SGPIE Procedure.  In that article, I described the basic features of the two statements supported in the procedure, the PIE and the DONUT, with some examples. It is my humble opinion that

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Analytics | Learn SAS

James Ochiai-BrownDecember 5, 2018 0

The Analytics Platform seen through Enterprise Architecture

Analytics is on every agenda – including Enterprise Architecture Data analytics and AI is now on the agenda of every organisation. After years of being the back-room preserve of analysts, it is now out in the open, in the boardroom and being proclaimed as central to business strategy and transformation.

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Joseph M. WoodsideDecember 5, 2018 0

Government Healthcare Data Ensemble Modeling

Joseph Woodside discusses the use of using ensemble modeling in SAS for fraud detection and readmissions.

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Rick WicklinDecember 5, 2018 0

When is a histogram not a histogram? When it's a table!

Recently a SAS programmer wanted to obtain a table of counts that was based on a histogram. I showed him how you can use the OUTHIST= option on the HISTOGRAM statement in PROC UNIVARIATE to obtain that information. For example, the following call to PROC UNIVARIATE creates a histogram for

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Rick WicklinDecember 3, 2018 0

5 tips for customizing legends in PROC SGPLOT in SAS

When a graph includes several markers or line styles, it is often useful to create a legend that explains the relationship between the data and the symbols, color, and line styles in the graph. The SGPLOT procedure does a good job of automatically creating and placing a legend for most

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Charu ShankarNovember 28, 2018 0

3 things you need to know about SAS Global Forum 2019 from the conference chair

Find out what SAS Global Forum 2019 conference chair MaryAnne DePesquo says about the upcoming conference in Dallas.

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Marcia SurrattNovember 28, 2018 0

Making great graphs even better with ODS Graphics

This blog post shows a few samples of graphs and explains how you can use new functionality in ODS Graphics to make your old graphs look new again. And, ODS Graphics is part of Base SAS, which means that all of these techniques work in SAS University Edition.

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Gerhard SvolbaNovember 27, 2018 0

The Danube and Vienna: Big Data Deluge and Data Science Paradise

Vienna and the Danube River. Numerous songs, stories and movies document the strong and lovely connection between Vienna and its river. This has, however, not always been the case. Over centuries the river remained a big threat for the city, and it took a lot of engineering to convert it

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Sanjay MatangeNovember 26, 2018 0

The SGPIE Procedure

The 6th maintenance release of SAS 9.4 is now available for users.  Along with it comes a new SG procedure - the SGPIE procedure (pre-production). The primary audience for the SG procedures has been the analytical user, for creating effective displays of analytical data.  However, the rich feature set of these

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Joseph M. WoodsideNovember 26, 2018 0

Digital Disruption in Healthcare

Joseph Woodside discusses the evolution of digital transformation in healthcare in three eras.

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Rick WicklinNovember 21, 2018 0

Generalized inverses for matrices

A data analyst asked how to compute parameter estimates in a linear regression model when the underlying data matrix is rank deficient. This situation can occur if one of the variables in the regression is a linear combination of other variables. It also occurs when you use the GLM parameterization

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Rick WicklinNovember 19, 2018 0

Select ODS tables by using wildcards and regular expressions in SAS

You might know that you can use the ODS SELECT statement to display only some of the tables and graphs that are created by a SAS procedure. But did you know that you can use a WHERE clause on the ODS SELECT statement to display tables that match a pattern?

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Sanjay MatangeNovember 16, 2018 0

Waterfall Graph with more data for subject - Part 2

A few days back I published an article on including more subject data in a Waterfall graph.  This was motivated by the desire from many users to view more data in the same graph, thus avoiding the need to refer to different graphs for the relevant information.  In this case,

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Suzanne MorgenNovember 16, 2018 0

SAS Press Is Recruiting Authors!

Learn how to become an author with SAS Press.

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Joseph M. WoodsideNovember 14, 2018 0

Big Data in Healthcare

Joseph Woodside shares examples of applied experimental learning in healthcare from his book, "Applied Health Analytics and Informatics Using SAS".

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Learn SAS | Students & Educators

Mike JanesNovember 13, 2018 0

Check out the SAS Student Series during winter break

SAS is launching the SAS Student Series, which bundles thousands of dollars’ worth of training and certification materials into an affordable package for university students and recent graduates.

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Data Visualization | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Sanjay MatangeNovember 12, 2018 0

Waterfall Graph with more data for subject

Previously, I have written articles on how we could display more subject response data along with the traditional WaterFall graph showing the best  "Change from Baseline".  This is in response to the desire to see data like treatment duration for each subject in the same graph.  Otherwise, investigators have to

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Chiara MigottoNovember 12, 2018 0

5 data visualisation questions to take your dashboard from good to great

Did you know that the human attention span is eight seconds, which is a second shorter than that of a goldfish? About eight seconds is all you have to capture your viewer’s attention and create a reason to stay on your dashboard. Therefore, having a great dashboard, and not just

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Rick WicklinNovember 12, 2018 0

Define custom color ramps by using the RANGEATTRMAP statement in GTL

The SGPLOT procedure enables you to use the value of a response variable to color markers or areas in a graph. For example, you can use the COLORRESPONSE= option to define a variable whose values will be used to color markers in a scatter plot or cells in a heat

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Ken GahaganNovember 7, 2018 0

3 questions about implementing SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya

Migration, version road maps and configurations were the themes of several questions that came up in a recent webinar about combining SAS Grid Manager and SAS Viya. This blog post gives the answers.

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Steffen StahlNovember 6, 2018 0

First SAS User Group Meetup: "Inspired users can go to work the next day and start right away"

A few weeks ago, the first German SAS® user group meetup took place in Berlin. I had a chance to talk to Igor Khorlo, Senior Statistical Programmer at Syneos Health Germany GmbH and founder of the SUGG, about his motivation to constitute this group. What I experienced was a fascinatingly

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Rick WicklinNovember 5, 2018 0

Fit the Pareto distribution in SAS

Will the real Pareto distribution please stand up? SAS supports three different distributions that are named "Pareto." The Wikipedia page for the Pareto distribution lists five different "Pareto" distributions, including the three that SAS supports. This article shows how to fit the two-parameter Pareto distribution in SAS and discusses the

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Gerhard SvolbaNovember 2, 2018 0

Mein Vater hat den spannendsten Job der Welt, denn er ist ein Data Scientist!

Mein Name ist Daniel und ich bin in der vierten Klasse. Diese Woche wurden die Eltern in meine Schule eingeladen, um uns etwas über ihre Arbeit zu erzählen. Und mein Vater war mit dabei. Am Anfang war ich etwas unsicher, ob ich mich darüber freuen sollte. Denn wenn sein Vortrag

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Sanjay MatangeNovember 1, 2018 0

Text plot can do that

The TEXT plot was introduced with SAS 9.4M2 to facilitate placement of text strings in a graph.  This replaces the MARKERCHAR feature of the SCATTER plot statement, which is still available, but it is better to use TEXT plot in most cases.  The syntax is: text x=column y=column text=column </

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Adam BullockNovember 1, 2018 0

How to automate a data download with PROC HTTP

SAS Technical Support has had several requests from customers who want to use SAS® software to help download their files from a website when there is no application programming interface (API) to do it. This post shows how to automate downloads using PROC HTTP and DATA step, and how to use the HTTP DEBUG statement.

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Rick WicklinOctober 31, 2018 0

A trick to plot groups in PROC SGPLOT

A useful feature in PROC SGPLOT is the ability to easily visualize subgroups of data. Most statements in the SGPLOT procedure support a GROUP= option that enables you to overlay plots of subgroups. When you use the GROUP= option, observations are assigned attributes (colors, line patterns, symbols, ...) that indicate

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Steffen StahlOctober 30, 2018 0

Erstes SAS User Group Meetup: „Am besten gehen die User am nächsten Tag zur Arbeit und legen direkt los“

Vor ein paar Wochen hat das erste deutsche SAS User Group Meetup in Berlin stattgefunden. Dort hatte ich die Gelegenheit, mit Igor Khorlo, Senior Statistical Programmer bei Syneos Health Deutschland und Gründer der SAS User Group Germany (SUGG), über seine Motivation zu sprechen, die Gruppe ins Leben zu rufen –

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Rick WicklinOctober 24, 2018 0

Bootstrap regression estimates: Case resampling

If you want to bootstrap the parameters in a statistical regression model, you have two primary choices. The first is case resampling, which is also called resampling observations or resampling pairs. In case resampling, you create the bootstrap sample by randomly selecting observations (with replacement) from the original data. The

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