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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerNovember 15, 2016 0

Zodiac signs of US Presidents

Rick Wicklin showed us how to visualize the ages of US Presidents at the time of their inaugurations. That's a pretty relevant thing to do, as the age of the incoming president can indirectly influence aspects of the president's term, thanks to health and generational factors. As part of his

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Charu ShankarNovember 3, 2016 0

The difference between the Subsetting IF and the IF—THEN—ELSE—IF statement

My river walk last week turned into a spectacular fall show. But if it rains this week in San Antonio, like the weatherman predicts, what will I do? In the coming days, I’ll be presenting at two user groups, one in eastern Canada in Halifax, and the other all the

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Charu ShankarOctober 26, 2016 0

What comes shipped free with Base SAS 9.4?

Like unexpectedly seeing this beautiful bird in nature, SAS has tons of free goodies you might be surprised to encounter as you explore your software. A user asked me how to find products licensed at their workplace and that's how this informative blog got started. While individual organizations may have

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Stacey SyphusOctober 25, 2016 0

New features in SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1

SAS Enterprise Guide has come a long way since version 1.0 was released in 1999! Are any of you original users that remember the Help characters, Clippy, Peedy or Merlin? I was working as a statistician for another company that year, and I attended a SAS user group meeting where

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Samantha RowlandOctober 20, 2016 0

Which SAS course should I choose?

As an instructor for SAS, I receive a wide variety of queries before, during and after delivering my courses. Most frequently, I am asked questions such as: Should I learn SAS programming or a point and click tool instead? I know lots of code, should I go straight to the

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Ruth Dobson-TorresOctober 12, 2016 0

9 skills to become a more modern marketer

Editor's Note: SAS' e-book, Your guide to becoming a modern marketer, provides additional guidance on the skills you need to become a modern marketer. This e-book provides a plan of action and documents lessons we've learned at SAS while modernizing our marketing organization. Today, the need to take an analytical approach to business challenges no

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Natalie MendesOctober 4, 2016 0

Two tips for women starting a career in analytics

While men still outnumber women in the analytics field, there are plenty of opportunities available for women. At a recent Chief Data and Analytics forum, I was encouraged to see a well-balanced number of senior executives presenting about the business of analytics. Speakers included 12 women and 14 men, which indicates a

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Sian RobertsSeptember 30, 2016 0

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

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Mark ChiaSeptember 29, 2016 0

CIMB Data Science Challenge

Similar to hunting for Mewtwo (Pokémon), identifying and recruiting talented data scientists is just as elusive. CIMB decided that the best way would be to bring budding data scientist together for a challenge. This will provide candidates the opportunity to win cash prizes along with potential employment with CIMB’s Decision

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Michael A. RaithelSeptember 28, 2016 0

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

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Aubrey BarfieldSeptember 26, 2016 0

Free training course: SAS Programming for R Users

Are you ready to expand your programming skills and become a more versatile programmer? Then this new (and free!) course might be for you. SAS Programming for R Users is a free course aimed at helping R programmers who want to learn SAS. The goal is for you to be comfortable accomplishing

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Aaron HillSeptember 23, 2016 0

The evolution of support.sas.com

Every day, more than one hundred thousand SAS users visit our website looking for SAS information and resources. Given its importance to our user base, we’re constantly looking for ways to evolve the site. Over the next few months, you’ll notice changes to the support website, changes we believe will

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Stacey SyphusSeptember 22, 2016 0

What's your favorite function in SAS?

Last time I checked, there are well over 500 functions and call routines in SAS. I’ve taught SAS programming courses for 15 years, and I’ll admit that occasionally my students will ask me about a particular function that I have honestly never heard of. I remember the first time this

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Charu ShankarSeptember 21, 2016 0

Learn not one, not two, but four languages in SAS

I started young. Since I was 9 years old, I’ve always loved cooking delicious, tasty and healthy food, and feeding friends and family. My aunt still remembers the delicious chocolate soufflé that trembled and shook but would never collapse that I made for them when I was 18! Word spread.

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Sian RobertsSeptember 20, 2016 0

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

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Piotr BorowikSeptember 13, 2016 0

SAS Forum 2016 – SAS University Edition i inne materiały do nauki SAS-a

Nie tak dawno wypadła 25 rocznica uruchomienia Internetu w Polsce, SAS w tym roku obchodzi 40 rocznicę istnienia, a z moich rachunków wynika, że używam SAS-a dokładnie od 15 lat. Jak dla mnie, jedną z głównych zmian, która miała miejsce w tym czasie i była między innymi efektem rozwoju Internetu,

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Jeff ZeanahSeptember 9, 2016 0

You've got 10 minutes to present your analysis

A good data analyst has to be focused, methodical, creative, rigorous, analytical and more when doing their work. If that is not enough, when presenting their work the wisdom of a philosopher may be required. It seems the requirements do not stop. The analyst is wise to remember the words

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Piotr BorowikSeptember 6, 2016 0

SAS Forum 2016 – warsztaty z SAS

W kolejnym wpisie dotyczącym SAS Forum 2016 chciałbym pokazać trochę kuchni przygotowań do części technologicznej konferencji. Przez wiele lat organizowaliśmy sesję krótkich prezentacji narzędzi SAS, którą czasami tylko roboczo, a czasami oficjalnie, nazywaliśmy PowerPoint free. Podczas standardowych prezentacji na SAS Forum najczęściej pokazywaliśmy najnowsze wersje oprogramowania, nowe aplikacje albo ciekawe

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Piotr BorowikSeptember 2, 2016 0

SAS Forum 2016 – warsztaty z SAS dla programistów

Kto słyszał o SAS LASR Server? Pewnie wielu, bo w ofercie SAS jest on dostępny od kilku lat i jest jednym z głównych składników np. Visual Analytics. A kto słyszał o PROC IMSTAT? Tutaj odpowiedzi twierdzących będzie zapewne znacznie mniej. A kto napisał własny kod wykorzystując PROC IMSTAT? Moim zdaniem,

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Mike JanesAugust 23, 2016 0

Now is the time to get SAS certified

Yes, I read the baby books. I visited the websites. I swaddled a football. I was prepared. When my daughter came into the world last year there was a small comfort that I had done about all I could do to prepare for her arrival. I say a small comfort

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Maggie MillerAugust 17, 2016 0

The perfect classroom companion for teaching SAS

It’s back to school time again. If you’re working to get your lesson plans in place, we have something that might help you and your students - Exercises and Projects for The Little SAS Book. This book is perfect for instructors and students in a classroom setting, especially when used

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Rick WicklinAugust 8, 2016 0

Use SAS formats to bin numerical variables

SAS formats are flexible, dynamic, and have many uses. For example, you can use formats to count missing values and to change the order of a categorical variable in a table or plot. Did you know that you can also use SAS formats to recode a variable or to bin

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Samantha RowlandAugust 1, 2016 0

How can I learn SAS?

What would come to mind if you were told that you have to attend a SAS training course? Perhaps, you have a vision of an instructor sitting at the front of a classroom, endlessly reading PowerPoint slides verbatim in a monotonous voice while you sit there baffled, wondering what is

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Sian RobertsJuly 27, 2016 0

SAS Author Spotlight: David Dickey

In the spirit of our “40 and forward” theme to celebrate 40 years of SAS, this blog focuses on David Dickey, an accomplished SAS user since 1974 and a SAS instructor since 1981. He actually co-wrote the original Time Series SAS course in 1981, and helped with the most recent

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小林泉July 26, 2016 0

Jupyter and SAS

Jupyter Notebookとは？ Jupyter Notebookとは、ノートブック形式のインターフェースでコードの開発（記述や実行）ができるWebアプリケーションです。約50ほどの世の中のプログラミング言語に対応しています。 http://jupyter.org/ Jupyter and SASとは？ Jupyterの環境に、オープンソースのSAS kernel for Jupyterを追加することで、Jupyter Notebook上でSAS言語を使用（シンタックスのハイライト、実行、ログの確認、アウトプットの表示）することが可能になります。 Jupyter Notebookでは、作業の内容は、ノートブック（*.ipynb）形式で保存されます。Jupyter Notebookでは、SASコードや実行結果だけでなく、リッチテキスト形式で文章を記載することが可能です。ノートブックはHTML形式や、PDF、あるいはSASコードとして出力することも可能です。 SAS 9.4とLinux環境があれば、ほとんどの方が導入・ご利用いただくことが可能です。 Jupyter Notebookを開くと、Notebookダッシュボードが表示されます。ここに、ノートブックや他のファイルの一覧が表示されます。 SAS University Editionでも使えますか？ 2016の7月から、Jupyter NotebookとSAS Kernel for JupyterがSAS University EditionのvAppに含まれることになりました。従来、SAS University Editionのインターフェースは、SAS Studioのみでしたが、今後はJupyter Notebookもご利用いただくことが可能となります。 https://support.sas.com/software/products/university-edition/faq/jn_whatis.htm

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Rick WicklinJuly 25, 2016 0

Statistical model building and the SELECT procedures in SAS

Last week I read an interesting paper by Bob Rodriguez: "Statistical Model Building for Large, Complex Data: Five New Directions in SAS/STAT Software." In it, Rodriguez summarizes five modern techniques for building predictive models and highlights recent SAS/STAT procedures that implement those techniques. The paper discusses the following high-performance (HP)

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James EnochJuly 20, 2016 0

When I grow up, I want to be a data scientist

When I was growing up the term “data science” didn’t even exist, let alone dedicated “data scientist” roles. My friends and colleagues might argue that is because I am yet to grow up (!), but do not let this ruin my lead in to the fact that data science as

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Rick WicklinJuly 20, 2016 0

Do you write unnecessary SAS statements?

I'm addicted to you. You're a hard habit to break. Such a hard habit to break. — Chicago, "Hard Habit To Break" Habits are hard to break. For more than 20 years I've been putting semicolons at the end of programming statements in SAS, C/C++, and Java/Javascript. But lately I've been

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJuly 13, 2016 0

Build your Pokémon library using SAS and the Pokéapi

Today is #EmbraceYourGeekness day, and you are either reveling in this new crazy town inhabited by Pokémon GO, or you are hiding in your house trying to avoid all of the Pokémon GO zombies wandering around. But since I'm living in SAS these days -- not just the place (at

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Rick WicklinJuly 11, 2016 0

Break a sentence into words in SAS

Two of my favorite string-manipulation functions in the SAS DATA step are the COUNTW function and the SCAN function. The COUNTW function counts the number of words in a long string of text. Here "word" means a substring that is delimited by special characters, such as a space character, a

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