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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

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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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

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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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

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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Learn SAS | SAS Events | Students & Educators

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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Analytics | Learn SAS

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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Learn SAS | SAS Events

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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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Events

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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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

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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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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BrennaJuly 6, 2016 0

SAS Author Spotlight: Derek Morgan

SAS Author Derek Morgan is a programming rock star… in more ways than one. Not only has he been a professional SAS programmer in the pharmaceutical industry for almost 30 years and written two editions of The Essential Guide to SAS® Dates and Times, Derek also plays electric bass in

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Maggie MillerJune 29, 2016 0

Let’s celebrate 40 years of SAS users

Let’s go back to 1976 for a moment. Did you know that was the year Muhammad Ali introduced a line of beauty products called “Knock Out?” And the hottest merchandise, including t-shirts, posters and even beanbags sported the character Arthur Fonzarelli (The Fonz) of TV’s “Happy Days.” But there was something

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Flow chart diagram for a switch statement (SELECT statement)

Rick WicklinJune 20, 2016 0

The SELECT statement in the SAS DATA step

Every beginning SAS programmer learns the simple IF-THEN/ELSE statement for conditional processing in the SAS DATA step. The basic If-THEN statement handles two cases: if a condition is true, the program does one thing, otherwise the program does something else. Of course, you can handle more cases by using multiple

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Maggie MillerJune 13, 2016 0

Analytics Experience – Maximize your conference trip

When I travel for work, I want to get the most out of my trip. So while I was in Las Vegas in April for SAS Global Forum, I used my free time to check out what’s in store for the Analytics Experience at the Bellagio, Sept. 12-14. Take a

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Jane EslingerJune 9, 2016 0

My one PROC REPORT wish

The one thing, above all others, that I wish PROC REPORT could do is know which observations from my data set that I want kept together on a single page of non-Listing output. This is problematic for two reasons. 1. PROC REPORT cannot read my mind! 2. PROC REPORT does

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJune 2, 2016 0

How SAS Support Communities can expedite your tech support experience

SAS Technical Support has earned a wonderful reputation for being friendly, knowledgeable, and thorough. Every customer that I talk to is delighted by the experience. That's why what I'm about to say might be heresy, but here it goes. If you have a question about how to accomplish a task

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Rick WicklinMay 31, 2016 0

Grids and linear subspaces

A grid is a set of evenly spaced points. You can use SAS to create a grid of points on an interval, in a rectangular region in the plane, or even in higher-dimensional regions like the parallelepiped shown at the left, which is generated by three vectors. You can use

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SAS JediMay 29, 2016 0

Are you a SAS Jedi? Why not share your knowledge?

Have you been kicking around ideas for a great SAS book, but don’t know how to get started? Don’t wait another day – connect with the Publish with SAS community and let those amazing folks at SAS Press help you get your project rolling. You won’t regret it! I’m SO

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanMay 23, 2016 0

Are you solving the wrong problem?

Being a SAS consultant is about solving problems. In our day-to-day work we solve myriads of all sorts of problems – technical problems, data problems, programming problems, optimization problems – you name it. And in the grand scheme of things we solve business problems. But without a well-defined business

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Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS $Fit a logistic model in SAS: ordinal regression, multinomial regression, Logistic model for longitudinal (or repeated measures) data, random effects models, conditional logistic regression, survey logistic regression, and fractional logistic models$

Rick WicklinMay 23, 2016 0

How to fit a variety of logistic regression models in SAS

SAS software can fit many different kinds of regression models. In fact a common question on the SAS Support Communities is "how do I fit a <name> regression model in SAS?" And within that category, the most frequent questions involve how to fit various logistic regression models in SAS. There

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Jeff ZeanahMay 13, 2016 0

What we can learn from popular science communicators

I recently had a chance to hear Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki on triple j radio in Australia. Known simply as Dr. Karl, he has a weekly national show answering science questions on an alternative rock radio station. Yes, science on rock radio. Yes, national. Yes, Thursday morning – when people are

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