Category: SAS

NOTE: Animated Graphics, Courtesy of V9.4 SAS/GRAPH

There’s so much of interest in Rob Allison’s recent SAS Training Post blog article Create animations like Hans Rosling! that I don’t know where to start!

Rob’s reference relates to the subject of a 2010 post from me (originally highlighted by a twee…

NOTE: Release Management and Version Control

Yesterday I mentioned SAS platform administrators and how their work and their value can be overlooked. My post related to an article on the SAS Users Groups blog. Last week I saw another SAS Users Groups blog entry about something else that is often o…

Analyzing Super Bowl tweets with SAS

Imagine millions of people tweeting about an event as big as the Super Bowl. How do you make sense of all that data without spending months reading them all? Mary Osborne, Dan Zaratsian and Justin Plumley have some answers in this video. Their paper Un…

NOTE: SAS Platform Administration – Information Sources

SAS platform administrators are the unsung heroes of many SAS sites. Most SAS users have no conception of the range and complexity of technology that sits below the user-facing SAS interfaces like Enterprise Guide, Web Report Studio and Visual Analyt…

Build your own SAS client app with Microsoft .NET

As part of my follow-up to SAS Global Forum 2013, I’ve posted a few articles about how to create your own client apps with SAS Integration Technologies. This article shows how to use Microsoft .NET — the same approach used for SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office […]

Use Google Trends and SAS to select movies to watch

The newest success story about data science is Google search predicts box office with 94 percent accuracy. I am a frequent movie theater goer, and it will be great if we can implement Google’s impressive research result.

There are quite a few…