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As a tech junkie, people in the office often come by to ask for help with various software. As this is not a part of my job description and I have deadlines to meet, sometimes my response is “Press F1”. Of course, this will usually open the help file for that software.
Two weeks ago I upgraded SAS Enterprise Miner to 6.1 and SAS Text Miner to 4.2. Although painful to upgrade, it was worth it. The new TM has all new TM nodes and both products seem much more polished.
After spending all this time getting familiar with the old TM, I now needed to learn new TM functionality. I began to look for documentation since all of my books and training manuals were now partially out of date. I turned to the web which had virtually no helpful TM 4.2 documentation, I’m guessing because TM 4.2 is too new? (Or perhaps yours truly was googling with poor search terms).
Not sure where to turn, I walked over to the boss’s office. That’s when I got a taste of my own medicine. “Press F1”, he said.
Of all the help files I’ve ever seen, SAS help files are the most impressive. There’s about a hundred pages of in-depth descriptions for the new nodes plus examples of the TM process. Whoever at SAS writes these help files – Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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