If you’re a new starter, or somebody just gave you extra SAS administration responsibilities, you may be struggling to find your way around the new SAS environment. Brian Varney presented an insightful paper at this year’s South East SAS Users Group (S…
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NOTE: Getting Social With SAS Metadata
I noticed a most intriguing post on Paul Homes’s Platform Admin blog recently. Do you and your colleagues discuss your metadata often? Paul thinks you should, and I’m inclined to agree.
This isn’t a new or unique idea. SAS were talking about a coll…
Extract the Version of SAS and OS of a SAS Format or Macro Catalog: A Little Bit of Perl Regular Expression
SAS Sample 34444(Determine the operating system in which a format catalog was created) posts piece of codes to get the version of SAS and OS of a SAS format catalog. It is useful since a SAS catalog can be only read in the operating systems same to its source machine. 2 cents add to this […]
KNN Classification and Regression in SAS
kNN stands for k Nearest Neighbor. In data mining and predictive modeling, it refers to a memory-based (or instance-based) algorithm for classification and regression problems. It is a widely used algorithm with many successfully applications in medi…
Getting Social with your SAS Metadata
At Metacoda we’re passionate about SAS® metadata. We want to encourage everyone in an organization to take advantage of it and contribute to it. We’ve noticed how metadata is often disconnected from the discussions about it. Administra…
NOTE: Now I see Visual Analytics
I’ll confess that whilst there was a lot said about SAS Visual Analytics at this year’s SAS Global Forum, I came home with some confusion over its architecture, functionality and benefits. I was fortunate to spend some quality time with the software …
New features enhance problem tracking
~ Contributed by Roger Chenoweth, Technical Support, SAS ~ We have recently enhanced the application (the Tracks application) that enables you to check the status of problems and questions that you have submited to SAS Technical Support. I’d lik…
Mission: SAS certification in 25 days
Damir Olejar isn’t a superhero, but he accomplished quite a feat — passing the SAS Certified Base Programmer credential in 25 days. Olejar was on the fast track because he needed the credential to satisfy a prerequisite for a job offer. However, he …