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What’s your opinion on daylight saving time?
Is daylight saving time the ultimate in efficiency, or is it living a lie? Here are some graphs that might help facilitate a discussion on this topic … With daylight saving time (DST), a whole geo/political area (such as a country) decides to set their clocks forward an hour during […]
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Data Super Savers vs Data Science
“Dear Cat, I got an email from my IT department that says: [We are nearing capacity on the Flotsam Drive. Please clear data from any folders you are no longer using so we can save disk space. Thanks, The IT Department] Doesn’t this strike you as a bit old-fashioned? I […]
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Project Reviewer task and Copy Files task: refreshed for v7.1
Two popular SAS custom tasks have recently been updated for SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1. Most custom tasks that I’ve shared will work without modification across releases, but these two required a special rebuild due to some internal product API changes. The Project Reviewer task allows you to see a detail […]
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List Manipulations Made Easy (and little bit of UGLY): the New DOSUBL Function
Typically, SAS list manipulations needs bunch of SAS I/O functions which are not necessarily well known to all SAS programmers. The new DOSUBL function makes this technique much more easier and little bit of ugly I must admit: %MACRO ExpandVarList(data=_LAST_, var=_ALL_); %if %upcase(%superq(data)) = _LAST_ %then %let data = &SYSLAST; %let rc […]
SAS 9.4 crash with MySQL ODBC pass-through queries
SAS 9.4 (TS1M2) on X64_DS08R2 (Windows Server 2008 64-bit) always crashes with certain pass-through queries using MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.4. When it crashes, the SAS log shows some red messages, but SAS closes immediately. The crash is not reproduc…
SAS Coding: Use Flowcharts to Learn Inherited SAS Code
I’m a visual person – I always need a picture. As a consultant, many times I’m given a thumb drive full of code and asked to make modifications. When you are on a project with me, you’ll grow weary of hearing me say “Can you draw it?” Something magical happens for me when I see a flow or see an idea.
One of the most confusing projects I …
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Socio-Economic Indicators around the World
This Tableau viz shows the various Indicators around the world as of June 2014…Please feel free to play around with All the tabs up top and browse through the data….The data is interesting, I will follow up with BRICS as the focus.Source Link : Th…