Category: SAS

Welcome to the World SAS 9.4!

sas 9.4 visual analytics 6.2

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I’m excited that SAS 9.4 and Visual Analytics 6.2 has arrived.  Last night at the SAS Campus, I attended a Welcome to the World party at the SAS Campus. (Check all the photos at my BI Notes flickr photo stream).  The staff was really excited about the release.  Everyone loves to …

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Catch Up with SAS

SAS 9.3 was released at July 2011 when I former company just successfully launched an upgrading to  SAS 9.2.  SAS 9.2 came to life at March 2008 (it’s a big leap) and at that time I played with SAS 9.1.3 heavily. Yesterday(10Jul2013) was the official release day for SAS 9.4 while I just got my […]

Power Calculation

Example of finding power of a balanced one way ANOVA:proc power;        onewayanova test = overall        groupmeans = 59 | 66 | 42        std = 5 …

Using an Autocall Macro Library in SAS BI

Macro Library

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 a SAS programmer, I am dependent on my SAS autocall macro library.  It stores a bunch of utility macros that I use on a daily basis. When I started learning about stored processes and other BI tools, one of my first thoughts was “How can I access all of my …

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Why sometimes use DATA Step instead of PROC SQL

A question

There is an interesting thread about the efficiency of PROC SQL on Mitbbs.com.

Both datasets have1 and have2 have few variables, but many observations. Very simple program, but without any result after running it for a whole afternoon.

Smooth sailing (and smooth lines!) in SAS 9.4 gif graphs

SAS 9.3 already has smooth (anti-aliased) lines in SAS/GRAPH device=png output, and in SAS 9.4 you will also get smooth lines in your device=gif output (and gif animations)!  Woo-hoo!!! Here are a couple of simple examples to demonstrate: The firs…

PROC DELETE: it’s not dead yet

The DELETE procedure is probably the most well-known and most-used SAS procedure that isn’t actually documented or officially supported. That is, that was the case before the release of SAS 9.4, when PROC DELETE returns with more features than ever — including a production-quality status. In his SAS Global Forum […]

Five myths about unstructured data and five good reasons you should be analyzing it

“How can we begin to make sense of the unstructured data, when we still don’t make the most of our structured data?” said the exasperated senior manager from a large retail firm. One of the great pleasures of my job is the relationship with stude…