Robert Allison has given an excellent map example by SAS/GRAPH about the murder rates per 100,000 people in the major US cities. To emulate this map, we should annotate the cities and use the size of the bubbles to represent the murder rates…
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A weekend full of bad decisions
Most people try to hide the evidence of their bad decisions. But this weekend I decided to share mine to social media. I hope that it’s not a career-limiting move. Actually, I made quite a few good decisions as well, outnumbering the bad ones. Still, I had many missed opportunities, […]
NOTE: The OPEN Function (error trapping)
In my previous two posts on this topic (listed at the bottom of this post), I’ve described how to use the OPEN function (and its counterparts) to read data sets from macro code, and to read data sets within a DATA step without using the SET/UPDATE/MODI…
NOTE: Executing a PROC from a DATA Step, Revisited
Further to my post on Executing a PROC from a DATA Step, Quentin commented and drew my attention to a highly informative SAS Global Forum paper on the same subject by Mike Rhoads. I’m grateful to Quentin; Mike’s paper offers a lot of insight and expe…
How to Jump into SAS Data Integration Studio
This is for for SAS programmers who might be reluctant to check out a GUI tool like SAS Data Integration Studio (DIS for short, which is graphic tool to implement ETL processes: extract, transform, load). DIS translates all users dragged nodes, transformations and process into SAS codes which are traditionally written by SAS programmers. I […]
Quick Video from SAS Global Forum 2012
Here’s a quick video showing the opening ceremony from SAS Global Forum 2012 in Orlando.
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SAS Global Forum 2012 Opening Session
Quick clip of the SAS Global Forum 2012 amazing video introduction to the high performance analytics.
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Studyday calculation ( –DY Variable in SDTM)
USE OF THE “STUDY DAY” VARIABLES
The permissible Study Day variables (–DY, –STDY, and –ENDY) describe the relative day of the observation starting with the reference date as Day 1. They are determined by comparing the date portion of the resp…