Category: SAS

Breaking Bad (data) with SAS!

In the Breaking Bad TV series, Walter White has an impressive lab where he secretly makes the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth). Wouldn’t it be cool to use SAS to show the locations of all the clandestine meth labs in the US?!? Let’s do it!… In thi…

SAS BI Training Online

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SAS Tutorial: Import Microsoft Excel Files into SAS

In this SAS tutorial, you will learn to import data from Microsoft Excel into SAS with SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files. Learn to read any sheet or named range from an Excel workbook as a data set or import any sheet or named range to create a SAS data…

Adding some culture to your SAS Enterprise Guide prompts

My teenage daughter is a self-appointed anglophile. She’s a big fan of British movies and TV shows such as Doctor Who and Sherlock, and although she has not yet visited the UK (an injustice for which she blames her father), she considers the place to be her homeland. In an […]

Making sense of text analytics

With all of us blogging, emailing and posting updates on social media, the amount of textual data is growing fast. So how do you make sense of all that big data? Dr. Goutam Chakraborty teaches a Business Knowledge Series course, Text Analytics and Sent…

SAS Global Forum 2014 for Platform Administrators

SAS Global Forum 2014 is just around the corner and I’m getting really excited about it. There is so much content for SAS platform administrators this year. I had been thinking of posting a list of admin related papers I was keen to see, but then I saw that Greg Nelson from ThotWave wrote a […]

Example 2014.3: Allow different variances by group

One common violation of the assumptions needed for linear regression is heterscedasticity by group membership. Both SAS and R can easily accommodate this setting. Our data today comes from a real example of vitamin D supplementation of milk. Four sup…