With the upcoming appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice, I wondered just how liberal and conservative previous justices have been. I found some data, and tried my hand at creating a graph to help visualize it… In my quest for data, I came upon an article on the NYTimes […]
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Have you ever been in a meeting in which a presenter is showing content on a web page — but the audience can’t read it because it’s too small? Then a guy sitting in the back of the room yells, “Control plus!”. Because, as we all know (right?), “Ctrl+” is […]
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When I was a kid, I remember being fascinated by the first moon landing. I probably won’t ever get to explore the moon in person, but perhaps creating an interactive moon map is the next best thing! Before we get started, I wanted to share a couple of photos my co-worker […]
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In “Explaining statistical methods to the terrified & disinterested: A focus on metaphors”, I discuss the usefulness of metaphors for explaining abstract statistical concepts to non-technical readers. This is an approach taken in my new SAS Press book, Business Statistics Made Easy in SAS®, since many readers of this level […]
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Here is the widely-used ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format for use in SAS. It is commonly called the two-letter country code format.
The PROC FORMAT code generates a character format, so where the raw data contains a code, such as US, it expands it to the pretty name, such as United States. As with any SAS format, applying the format does not change the underlying data.
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If you’re a worrier, you know there’s a chance you could get bitten by a shark, or hit by a piece of falling satellite debris – these events are both possible, but not probable. Getting injured by a lawn mower, on the other hand, is something that could easily happen. With […]
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The IT research firm, Gartner, Inc. has released its February 2016 report, Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms. The report’s main graph shows the completeness of each company’s vision plotted against its ability to achieve that vision (Figure 1.) I … Continue reading →
Last week I described how to use PROC IOMOPERATE to list the active SAS sessions that have been spawned in your SAS environment. I promised that I would share a custom task that simplifies the technique. Today I’m sharing that task with you. How to get the SAS Spawned Processes […]
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