A few months ago I released the Copy Files task for use with SAS Enterprise Guide. The task allows you to transfer any files between your PC and a SAS Workspace session, much like an FTP process. It doesn't rely on FTP though; it uses a combination of SAS code,
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Are you an NFL fan, or curious about analyzing social media data? -- Well, in either case, this blog's for you! I recently read a fascinating Facebook article that included a U.S. county map showing which NFL (U.S. football) team had the most 'likes'...
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I have referenced this paper many times. Great help in using the power of proc sql with macro variables. Great for building lists of values and dynamic code.
http://www.nesug.org/Proceedings/nesug97/coders/eddlesto.pdf
Syntax:
SELECT object-item ...
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I’ve already written about one highlight of SAS Global Forum 2013: the SAS Web Editor. Here are some more features that I think deserve mention. Please note that I make no claims about the comprehensiveness or completeness of this list. SAS 9.4 and Enterprise...
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SAS Global Forum ended two weeks ago. I thought by now someone would have written about SAS on the Mac and saved me the trouble, but since I don’t see much discussion of this in the blogosphere, here are my belated two cents. If...
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In my last post, I promised to lift the lid on British etiquette in time for your visit to the Analytics conference. Well, I’m going to be a bit more specific and focus my insight on London Etiquette, primarily, Greetings and Tube Etiquette. Greeting...
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I was pleased to be invited to present a paper on Visual Techniques for Problem Solving and Debugging at this year's SAS Global Forum (SGF) conference. I spoke about the importance of human interaction in solving complex issues; the process and peopl...
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Last week someone posted an interesting question to the SAS/IML Support Community. The problem involved four nested DO loops and took hours to run. By transforming several nested DO loops into an equivalent matrix operation, I was able to reduce the run time to...
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I recently updated my plots of the data analysis tools used in academia in my ongoing article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. I repeat those here and update my previous forecast of data analysis software usage. Learning to use … Continue reading...
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