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Kathryn McLawhornJanuary 18, 2019 0

Navigating SAS documentation to find out about new, modified, and updated features

Learn about the latest product features, changes and upgrade information in new sections of SAS product documentation for SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Viya®. SAS' Kathryn McLawhorn tells us all about them.

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 17, 2019 0

Using International characters in a SAS graph

They say "The Sun never sets on the SAS Empire" ... and it's true! There are SAS users all over the world, and SAS output & results could be in any language. Therefore, if you're a SAS programmer, you might need to know how to create SAS graphs with international

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Chris HemedingerJanuary 17, 2019 0

Using built-in Git operations in SAS

SAS supports direct integration for Git from Base SAS (via functions), SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio, and SAS Data Integration Studio. Read this article to learn how to use Git more effectively in your SAS processes.

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Rick WicklinJanuary 16, 2019 0

Three ways to add a line to a Q-Q plot

A quantile-quantile plot (Q-Q plot) is a graphical tool that compares a data distribution and a specified probability distribution. If the points in a Q-Q plot appear to fall on a straight line, that is evidence that the data can be approximately modeled by the target distribution. Although it is

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonJanuary 15, 2019 0

Let's track the falling gasoline prices!

When I fill up my daily-driver Prius, the price of gasoline isn't that important. But when I occasionally take a trip in my V8 Suburban, I pay a lot more attention! Therefore I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that gasoline prices have been falling. How much have they fallen,

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Energy & Utilities | Travel

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Melanie CareyJanuary 14, 2019 0

How SAS Visual Analytics' automated analysis takes customer care to the next level - Part 3

In the second of three posts on using automated analysis with SAS Visual Analytics, we used the automated analysis object to get a better understanding of our variable of interest, X-Sell and Up-sell Flag, and how it is influenced by other variables in our dataset. In this third and final

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British Columbia with projected values on OpenStreetMap

Kelly MillsJanuary 10, 2019 0

Use PROC GPROJECT to Project Choromap Regions Successfully in PROC SGMAP

Sometimes it is difficult to know what parameters to use when projecting map data onto Esri or OpenStreetMaps in PROC SGMAP. The shapefile .PRJ file contains everything you need to set these parameters in PROC GPROJECT. In a previous blog, you saw how to lookup projections at a web site,

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Data Management | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 9, 2019 0

Simplify data preparation using SAS data templates

My New Year's resolution: “Unclutter your life” and I hope this post will help you do the same. Here I share with you a data preparation approach and SAS coding technique that will significantly simplify, unclutter and streamline your SAS programming life by using data templates. Dictionary.com defines template as

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Process flow diagram shows how to resample data to create a bootstrap distribution.

Rick WicklinJanuary 9, 2019 0

10 posts from 2018 that deserve a second look

Numbers don't lie, but sometimes they don't reveal the full story. Last week I wrote about the most popular articles from The DO Loop in 2018. The popular articles are inevitably about elementary topics in SAS programming or statistics because those topics have broad appeal. However, I also write about

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Melanie CareyJanuary 7, 2019 0

How SAS Visual Analytics' automated analysis takes customer care to the next level - Part 2

In the first of three posts on using automated analysis with SAS Visual Analytics, we explored a typical visualization designed to give telco customer care workers guidance on customers most receptive to upgrade their plans. While the analysis provided some insight, it lacked analytical depth -- and that increases the risk of wasting time, energy and

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Rick WicklinJanuary 7, 2019 0

Deming regression for comparing different measurement methods

Deming regression (also called errors-in-variables regression) is a total regression method that fits a regression line when the measurements of both the explanatory variable (X) and the response variable (Y) are assumed to be subject to normally distributed errors. Recall that in ordinary least squares regression, the explanatory variable (X)

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Melanie CareyJanuary 2, 2019 0

How SAS Visual Analytics' automated analysis takes customer care to the next level - Part 1

You're the operations director for a major telco's contact center. Your customer-care workers enjoy solving problems. Turning irate callers into fans makes their day. They also hate flying blind. They've been begging you for deeper insight into customer data to better serve their callers. They want to know which customers

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Communications

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Calibration plot for a misspecified logistic model

Rick WicklinJanuary 2, 2019 0

Top posts from The DO Loop in 2018

Last year, I wrote more than 100 posts for The DO Loop blog. Of these, the most popular articles were about data visualization, SAS programming tips, and statistical data analysis. Here are the most popular articles from 2018 in each category. Data Visualization Visualize repetition in song lyrics: In one

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Joe FurbeeDecember 21, 2018 0

SAS REST APIs: a sample application

This post rounds out the year and my series of articles on SAS REST APIs. The first two articles in the series: Using SAS Viya REST APIs to access images from SAS Visual Analytics and Using SAS Cloud Analytics Service REST APIs to run CAS Actions, examined how to use

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Sanjay MatangeDecember 20, 2018 0

A Graphical Journey

The ODS Graphics software, first released with SAS 9.2, supported creating graphs directly from statistical procedures. Prior to this, very few statistical procedures created graphs on their own, and in most cases creating graphs was a post process or creating the graphs from the saved data using SAS/GRAPH procedures. With

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Chris HemedingerDecember 20, 2018 0

Five SAS programming language features you should be using

Good news -- the SAS program that you wrote and put into production 10 years ago still works. Hey, it's SAS, so you probably take that for granted. But are those techniques from 2008 still the best way to accomplish your task? SAS 9.4, first released in 2013 and now

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Kim WilsonDecember 13, 2018 0

FAQs about SAS dates, arrays and managing local PC files

Every so often, SAS Technical Support highlights questions that come in on a regular basis. This is one of those times. Here Kim Wilson describes answers to questions covering SAS dates, arrays, and how to reference local PC files from SAS® Enterprise Guide® and SAS® Studio when those applications connect to a SAS® server in UNIX operating environments.

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Robert AllisonDecember 13, 2018 0

Examining data about North Carolina's absentee ballots

Certain North Carolina counties have been in the news lately, for suspected election fraud involving absentee ballots in the 2018 election. Let's analyze the voter registration and absentee ballot data, to see if we can detect anything suspicious! In order to definitively determine whether fraud & illegal activity occurred, investigators

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A bootstrap analysis (1) Starts with data, (2) resamples from the data many times to create bootstrap samples, (3) computes a statistic for each sample, and (4) uses the distribution of the bootstrap statistics to make inferences.

Rick WicklinDecember 12, 2018 0

The essential guide to bootstrapping in SAS

This article describes best practices and techniques that every data analyst should know before bootstrapping in SAS. The bootstrap method is a powerful statistical technique, but it can be a challenge to implement it efficiently. An inefficient bootstrap program can take hours to run, whereas a well-written program can give

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SGMAP SCATTER Data Limited by the GEODIST Function

Kelly MillsDecember 11, 2018 0

PROC SGMAP using CSV Files, GINSIDE and GEODIST to Plot Places of Interest

As mentioned in other PROC SGMAP blogs, several SAS/GRAPH procedures have been moved to 9.4M6 Base SAS to be used with PROC SGMAP. You can use these to create PROC SGMAP output even when using the free SAS University edition. In this blog you will use the: IMPORT procedure for

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Robert AllisonDecember 11, 2018 0

Plotting snow data for your area

We got our first 'big' snow of the season here at the SAS headquarters in Cary, NC ... therefore I thought this would be a great time to dig into some snow data! Follow along and pick up some tips & tricks as I plot our snow data - and

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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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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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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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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Robert AllisonDecember 4, 2018 0

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

It might snow this weekend here at the SAS headquarters! This would be the first snow of the season for us, and it got me thinking about snow again (see some of my previous blog posts about snow). Apparently these thoughts have manifested themselves in my computer graphics work ...

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Kelly MillsNovember 29, 2018 0

PROC SGMAP Series Plot – Importing Shapefiles and using PROC GPROJECT

In August 2018, Hurricane Florence came on shore in North Carolina. Much of the damage was from flooding because the storm moved slowly over North and South Carolina. Parts of North Carolina had over 30 inches of rain from the storm, and this caused many of North Carolina’s rivers to

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Chris HemedingerNovember 29, 2018 0

Using SAS to access and update files on Microsoft OneDrive

Learn how to use SAS code (PROC HTTP) to read and write files from your Microsoft OneDrive. You'll learn how to create a Microsoft Office 365 app, connect to it with SAS, and automate the integration with your office productivity environment.

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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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Rick WicklinNovember 28, 2018 0

Singular parameterizations, generalized inverses, and regression estimates

I remember the first time I used PROC GLM in SAS to include a classification effect in a regression model. I thought I had done something wrong because the parameter estimates table was followed by a scary-looking note: Note: The X'X matrix has been found to be singular, and a

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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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