Category: SAS

An assortment of activity at Global Forum

This year at SAS Global Forum, the theme is “Strength in Numbers” and SAS Education is offering a number of training and certification opportunities to strengthen your SAS knowledge. We hope that you will take advantage of this unique chance to tak…

A Holistic View of SAS: Health User Group

Last Friday, the SAS Health User Group (HUG) took place in Toronto. I am consistently in awe of this amazing group of professionals… perhaps even over-awed to the point of intimidation, if I’m to be honest. It’s amazing for me to listen to talk…

Getting Started with SAS – now available for viewing

Getting Started with SAS — a free webinar for new SAS users — is now available for on-demand viewing. During this SAS Talks session, Stacey Syphus and I review the basics of what SAS is, what people use it for, and what you can expect to see as a new […]

Tell Me about those Pesky CLASS Variables, Part 3: Effect Coding

In the previous blog on CLASS variables, we developed the idea of creating design variables and examined GLM and reference coding. Another coding scheme, known as ‘Effect Coding’ or ‘Deviation from the Mean Coding’ is also commonly used. Consid…

Are You a SAS BI Geek Seeking Visual Analytics Answers at #SASGF13?

SAS Global Forum 2013 is fast approaching so I realized I better plan my schedule. While I enjoy the social events the most, the other …

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e-Courses have gone mobile so you can too! Try the new e-Courses and register for a free IPad® at SAS Global Forum

We’ve gone mobile so you can too. Come see us at SAS Global Forum  and be one of the first to try our new e-Courses on the tablet!  SAS Programming 1 and SAS Programming 2, soon available on your tablet devices, also feature free access to the SAS …

Two Tips for Getting Your SAS Data Into Excel

In this previous blog, I conducted a Q&A interview with SAS instructor Theresa Stemler about the new Exporting SAS Data Sets and Creating ODS Files for Microsoft Excel course that she recently developed.  Since teaching the new course, Theresa has…