San Francisco! The Bay Area and Silicon Valley: innovation, the brightest minds, creating, inspiring new technology and style. This city is known for its healthy food choices. For example, I spotted a homeless man on my way from the Westin St. Franci…
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NOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries – Updates at SGF 2013 #sasgf13
Back in November last year I mentioned Metadata-Bound Libraries. This v9.3 M2 (and above) functionality allows you to force access to your data through metadata libraries, thereby enforcing your metadata security plans.
One of the nuggets of informati…
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2014 #sasgf14
No sooner has SAS Global Forum 2013 finished than we get to see the 2014 web site. Next year’s conference is in Washington, D.C. between March 23rd and 26th.
I hear there are some changes afoot in the organisation of the conference. Along wit…
Finding the closest pair in a dataset using PROC MODECLUS
More often than not, the analyst wants to find the pair of observations that is closest in terms of certain metrics, such as Euclidean distance. For example, on the popular SAS-L archive group, Randall Powers posted such a question at here, but he …
Improve Your Mobile Typing (KALQ)
I didn’t see this paper presented at SAS Global Forum (!) but maybe I’d have benefited from having the associated software installed on my Android tablet whilst writing notes and blog posts.
It’s (yet another) alternative keyboard for mobile (phone and…
SAS, SPSS, Stata Users: Learn R from Home June 17
Has learning R been driving you a bit crazy? If so, it may be that you’re “lost in translation.” On June 17 and 19, I’ll be teaching a webinar, R for SAS, SPSS and Stata Users. With each R concept, … Continue reading →
NOTE: High-Availability Metadata #sasgf13
One of the most notable features of v9.4 wasn’t mentioned in the SAS Global Forum Technology Connection but I caught a paper by Bryan Wolfe on the subject. SAS v9.4 will remove SAS’s most notable “single point of failure” – the metadata ser…
SAS Enterprise Guide: for all of the hats that you wear, you’re covered
Even though it’s been around for well over a decade, SAS Enterprise Guide was still a hot topic among attendees at SAS Global Forum this year. In the Technology Connection — the big session on Monday morning — SAS R&D staff used the conference agenda content to demonstrate the power […]