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Teri PatsilarasSeptember 6, 2016 0

Steps to visualize cell phone data in SAS Visual Analytics: Can you hear me now?

For many people, building something from scratch, no matter how simple or complex, is fascinating. That’s why programs similar to How’s It Made are so appealing and, for me, addicting. And thus, the inspiration for this blog; I will walk you through building a set of graphs and how to

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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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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonAugust 31, 2016 0

A quick way to update to SAS Studio 3.5

Update-in-place supports the ability to update a SAS Deployment within a major SAS release. Updates often provide new versions of SAS products. However, when using the SAS Deployment Wizard to perform an update-in-place you cannot selectively update a machine or product. As a general rule if you want to update

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Richann WatsonAugust 26, 2016 0

MWSUG preview: When ANY Function will just NOT do!

When I attended my first SAS conference in 2003 I was not only a first-timer, I was a first time presenter. Needless to say I was a bit nervous. I did not know what to expect. Was my topic good enough for these savvy programmers and statisticians? Well my first

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerAugust 25, 2016 0

ERROR 180-322: The story of an error message

First, if you landed on this topic because you encountered this SAS message: ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order. ...then I'll tell you right now: you've probably left off a semicolon in one of your SAS statements. If you're lucky, the SAS

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Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerAugust 22, 2016 0

Working with dates in SAS Visual Analytics: Comparing to the previous year

After posting a couple of blogs on the subject of dates and date formats in Visual Analytics Designer, I got a question from a user who wondered how to compare data for a selected date to data from the same day of the previous year. Here’s one way to do

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Programming Tips

Marcia SurrattAugust 19, 2016 0

MAPS, MAPSGFK and MAPSSAS, Oh my!

If you are using the second maintenance release of SAS 9.3 (TS1M2) or later, you might have noticed that you have several map-related libraries that are defined for you. The MAPS library contains the old map data sets that have been provided with SAS/GRAPH® software for many years. The source

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Teri PatsilarasAugust 15, 2016 0

Use Percent of Total and Reference Lines to ask better business questions

Reference lines on a visualization are used to help identify goals or targets, acceptable or unacceptable ranges, etc; basically any metric that puts a frame of reference around the values on the visualization. The Percent of Total of a metric is used to help identify a part-to-whole relationship. It answers

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerAugust 12, 2016 0

How to send a text message with SAS

A colleague approached me with this very important business problem: Every Friday at SAS HQ, SAS cafe staff provides a breakfast goodie in our breakrooms. Often the supplied goodie is delicious, but sometimes it's more...well...healthy. I want to know whether I should eat my breakfast before I leave home on

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleyAugust 10, 2016 0

Locating Modified Content

As a SAS administrator, you may face situations where you need to locate content that has been modified in the system since a given point in time. If the system has many content developers, discovering all of the folders, libraries, tables, reports, explorations, and similar items that have been modified can be

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Sunil GuptaAugust 9, 2016 0

Mastering SAS programming techniques at WUSS

When I think of the Western Users of SAS Software conference, I think of my first event in 1994. I was just starting to learn SAS and wanted to meet others in my region who were also excited about the software. Meeting and discussing SAS topics face to face at the

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Warren F. KuhfeldAugust 8, 2016 0

Outline cells in a table using a heat map

There are many ways to use a heat map. For big data sets, heat maps provide a substitute for scatter plots. Heat maps can also be used to enhance small tables. Several of my colleagues (Sanjay Matange, Pratik Phadke, Rick Wicklin, Chris Hemedinger, and probably others) have posted about using

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonAugust 2, 2016 0

Two steps to update your SAS License and check if it is updated

One of the jobs of SAS Administrators is keeping the SAS license current. In the past, all you needed to do was update the license for Foundation SAS and you were done. This task can be performed by selecting the Renew SAS Software option in the SAS Deployment Manager. More recently,

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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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Data Management | Programming Tips

Nicolas RobertJuly 25, 2016 0

Four ways to conduct a web search for business terms with SAS Business Data Network

SAS Business Data Network is SAS’ solution for managing glossaries of common business terms. This is part of the SAS Data Governance offering as well as bundled with Advanced versions of all SAS Data Management bundles. One thing that is important regarding Data Governance in general, and this solution in

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJuly 22, 2016 0

How to publish to a Slack channel with SAS

Slack is a tremendously popular app for team collaboration. At its core, it's an open messaging app that allows team members to communicate with each other in real time. It works well with "startup"-style teamwork, which requires constant communication among people who aren't always located together. I've heard a lot

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Mary Kathryn QueenJuly 21, 2016 0

Using an alternate Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) in a DataFlux Data Management Studio data job

In DataFlux Data Management Studio, the predominate component of the SAS Data Quality bundle, the data quality nodes in a data job use definitions from something called the SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB). The QKB supports over 25 languages and provides a set of pre-built rules, definitions and reference data

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Programming Tips

Bari LawhornJuly 15, 2016 0

Build your PROC TEMPLATE muscles: Using the COMPUTE AS and TRANSLATE INTO statements

When you work out, you probably have a routine set of exercises that you do. But if you read health-and-fitness websites or talk to a personal trainer, you know that for optimal fitness, you should vary your workout routine. Not only does adding variety to your fitness regime help you

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJuly 12, 2016 0

How to read the contents of a file into a SAS macro variable

I've been working on a SAS program that can add content to the SAS Support Communities (more on that in a future post). Despite my 20+ years of SAS experience, there are a lot of SAS programming tricks that I don't know. Or that I use so infrequently that I

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Programming Tips

Rob CollumJuly 7, 2016 0

About LASR Load Balancing

The Distributed SAS 9.4 LASR Analytic Server provides a massively parallel processing solution for working very quickly with huge volumes of data. LASR was built from its earliest invocations to provide for incredible scalability and growth. One of the primary criteria which drives the considerations of scalability is load management.

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJune 27, 2016 0

Video: Demonstrating the new features in SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1

Would you like to see the latest features of SAS Enterprise Guide in action? Of course you would! That's why it's well worth the 12 minutes of your time to watch this video from SAS Global Forum 2016. In the video, Casey Smith (SAS' R&D manager of the SAS Enterprise

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Programming Tips

Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerJune 24, 2016 0

Assign a SAS library to a different path depending on your OS

One thing that we have a lot of at SAS: installations of SAS software that we can run. I have SAS for Windows on my laptop, and I have access to many centralized instances of SAS that run on Linux and Windows servers. (I also have access to mainframe SAS,

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Programming Tips

Chevell ParkerJune 24, 2016 0

Tips for reading XML files into SAS® software

XML has become one of the major standards for moving data across the Internet. Some of XML’s strengths are the abilities to better describe data and to be more extensible than any of its predecessors such as CSV. Due to the increased popularity of XML for moving data, I provide

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Programming Tips

Bobbie WagonerJune 21, 2016 0

Need an aggregation of an aggregation? Use Visual Data Builder to pre-aggregate your data

Report designers often discover after aggregating data by groups in the Visual Analytics Designer that it would also be nice to see additional aggregations of the data, for example, a maximum or minimum of that sum across groups. This means creating an ‘aggregation of an aggregation.’ If you plan your report objectives in

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenJune 13, 2016 0

Auditing using the SAS Environment Manager Report Center– tips and tricks

As an addendum to my previous two blogs on using the SAS Environment Manager Report Center, this blog illustrates further tips and tricks you can use to help make the creation of your custom reports easier. The Ad-Hoc Reporting section of the Report Center is specifically designed to provide a

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Programming Tips

DS2 DATA program output

SAS JediJune 6, 2016 0

Jedi SAS Tricks: Writing to Text Files from DS2

A reader posed a question in the comments to an earlier Jedi SAS Trick, asking how to write the results of a DS2 DATA _NULL_ program to a text file. It's an interesting question, as DS2 currently has no text file handling statements or capabilities. Take, for example, this traditional

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Mary Kathryn QueenJune 3, 2016 0

Using Multiple Quality Knowledge Base Locales in a DataFlux Data Management Studio Data Job

In DataFlux Data Management Studio, the data quality nodes (e.g., Parsing, Standardization, and Match Codes) in a data job use definitions from the SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB). These definitions are based on a locale (Language and Country combination). Sometimes you would like to work with multi-locale data within the

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Edoardo RivaMay 26, 2016 0

Seven of my favorite big data presentations from SAS Global Forum 2016

Nowadays, nearly every organization analyzes data to some degree, and most are working with “Big Data.” At SAS Global Forum 2016 in Las Vegas, a vast number of papers were presented to share new and interesting ways our customers are using data to IMAGINE. CREATE. INNOVATE., as this year’s conference tagline

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Programming Tips

Teri PatsilarasMay 25, 2016 0

Use a stack container to pick your category in SAS Visual Analytics Reports

Pick your category? If this title seems familiar, that’s because in my last blog, Use parameters to pick your metric in VA Reports, I covered how to use parameters to allow your users to pick which metric they want to view in their visualizations. This is a great technique that

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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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