Category: SAS

Through the years: SAS Enterprise Guide versions

Last week Rick Wicklin posted a nifty chart that shows the timeline of SAS releases since Version 8. A few of you asked if I could post a similar chart for SAS Enterprise Guide. Here it is. Like Rick, I used new features in SAS 9.4 to produce this chart […]

Read what you need

With the pervasiveness of mobile devices, being able to read while “on the go” has been easier than ever. How many times have you found yourself in a situation where you pass the time waiting by reading something on your phone/iPad/tablet etc? With…

Jedi SAS Tricks: May the 4th be with you

May 4 is celebrated by some folks as “Star Wars Day”. Of course, this makes a SAS Jedi wonder “What is the SAS date of the next Star Wars Day”? Not being one to do things by hand, I’d rather program to find the answer. For this, I’ll use the […]

SAS Enterprise Guide versions and SAS 9.4: what’s supported

With the release of SAS 9.4 (which included SAS/STAT 12.3 and SAS Enterprise Guide 6.1), you might seriously consider hiring a Chief Versions Officer (CVO). Fortunately, most of the recent versions of SAS Enterprise Guide work with the different recent versions of SAS, so you have some flexibility as you […]

Record, Rewind, Replay

Sometimes you find yourself wanting to repeat a SAS® software installation or deployment with the same, or slightly different, options. Perhaps you want to start an installation again after realizing that you chose a wrong option the first time ar…

SAS Visual Analytics: Get Your Mobile BI Design Going

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During the middle of the year, I like to re-read the analysts predictions to figure out who know what they are talking about and who was just talking. For the Business Intelligence sector several folks [and vendors] were saying that Mobile BI was going to start driving the market this …

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Regularization adjustment for PROC SVM

SVM is a popular statistical learning method for either classification or regression. For classification, a linear classifier or a hyperplane, such as with w as weight vector and b as the bias, would label data into various categories. The geome…