Category: SAS

Become SAS certified at PharmaSUG and save 50% on the exam cost

If you’re one of the hundreds of SAS users registered for PharmaSUG, scheduled for May 17-20 in Orlando, you should give extending your stay some serious thought.  In just a few hours, you can set yourself apart with a professional certification from SAS! SAS is offering something no theme park […]

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Where do you e-learn SAS?

We’re celebrating the student in all of us and you’re invited. Tweet us your best shot using #SASworldclass! Our planet-friendly training is available worldwide, wherever you may be. Show us your interpretations of “the world is your classroom.” Riding a camel? Show us. Surfing – don’t forget your waterproofing! The […]

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More free SAS on Amazon!

Now that SAS’ clever R&D developers have created SAS Studio (a DMS-like interface to SAS that runs in a web browser) “the sky’s the limit” for deploying and accessing SAS software easily. Last year, we made available a SAS image you could download and run in a virtual environment on […]

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A closer look at the U.S. income inequality graphs

I’ve seen a lot of recent news articles purporting income inequality in the U.S. (“the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer”) … and I wondered if the graphs were a true/unbiased representation of the data. For example, I recently saw a couple of graphs in an article on the […]

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sklearn DecisionTree plot example needs pydotplus

In Python, sklearn (scikit-learn)’s DecisionTree example uses pydot for plotting the generated tree: @here.But for Python 3, pydot has some issues with the string from dot_data.getvalue(), for example it will report “TypeError: startswith first arg mus…

Jedi SAS Tricks: Warp Speed DATA Steps with DS2

I remember the first time I was faced with the challenge of parallelizing a DATA step process. It was 2001 and SAS V8.1 was shiny and new. We were processing very large data sets, and the computations performed on each record were quite complex. The processing was crawling along on […]

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Technical experts on hand at SAS Global Forum

The SAS Training and Certification groups are excited to participate in SAS Global Forum 2015! We’ll have a booth in the Quad where you can stop by to ask questions, talk to your favorite instructor and register to win an iPad! We offer courses on almost every SAS product so to […]

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