Last week I provided the steps for how to go on a date, at least by using dynamic prompts in BI Dashboard. Now that you have seen how to create them, lets discuss making them smarter. For this example, the customer is asking for two prompts to affect a…
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Women and jobs: Redesigning a New York Times graphic
The New York Times has an excellent staff that produces visually interesting graphics for the general public. However, because their graphs need to be understood by all Times readers, the staff sometimes creates a complicated infographic when a simpler statistical graph would show the data in a clearer manner. A […]
Programming, Social Media & JMP: Calgary User Group Covers the Bases
As I sit at the airport in Calgary, I find it very easy to write about the wonderful experience I had at today’s user group meeting. What a great community to visit: a more engaged, inquisitive and knowledgeable SAS group would be hard to find……
Building a better meningitis map
You’ve all heard about the recent meningitis outbreak, right? Being a data-guy and a map-guy, I went looking for maps related to the outbreak. I found the following map on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website. It shows the states that r…
SAS Code: Show the Values of All Macro Variables in Your SAS Session
SAS Business Intelligence applications use global macro variables to store information about the environment as well as prompt values entered by a user. When developing a Stored Process it is often helpful to review the values of these macro variables….
SAS Perl Regular Expression (PRX) Take in the forthcoming SESUG 2012
Research Triangle will host SouthEast SAS Users Group (SESUG) 2012 conference (October 14-16, Sheraton Imperial Hotel, Durham, NC; back to the home of SAS!). It will be my first regional SAS user conference and I will have a talk on SAS Perl Regular Expression(PRX), in the morning of next Monday, Oct 15. SAS PRX is […]
Boldly Moving Forward in Edmonton
Yesterday marked the start of a brave new adventure for the Edmonton SAS User Group. Yes, eSUG was boldly going where (few) men had gone before… they were expanding their meeting to a full day session in the tradition of the Ottawa and Toronto user g…
SAS Education: Helping to fill the talent gap in analytics
The Analytics conference has just concluded and the unofficial theme of the final day was Big Data. It began with our very first talk, a keynote presentation delivered by Will Hakes, CEO and co-founder of Link Analytics. Will spent the first part of hi…