Category: SAS

WUSS 2012 Long Beach Paper

I have posted my paper (An Introduction to Git Version Control…) at my sas-resources.com site:
http://www.sas-resources.com/recipes/an-introduction-to-git-version-control-for-sas-programmers

Thanks to everyone at WUSS who attended, everyone who aske…

Example 10.1: Read a file byte by byte

More and more makers of electronic devices use standard storage media to record data. Sometimes this is central to the device’s function, as in a camera, so that the data must be easy to recover. Other times, it’s effectively incidental, and the devi…

NOTE: New Ways in Means

There aren’t many SAS programmers who haven’t used PROC MEANS (or its alter ego PROC SUMMARY) to aggregate (summarise) their data. PROC MEANS is a familiar tool for most SAS programmers, and the process of subsequently selecting specific values of _TYP…

NOTE: True Self-Service BI With Futrix

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve featured a couple of 3rd-party SAS-related products (Metacoda security plug-ins and Phil Holland’s Ebook/apps). I’ve said how much I support 3rd-party products. So, I couldn’t let this unintentional mini-series end …

What cities have the worst (and best) commute to work?

A while back, I had seen the following map on the CEOs for Cities website.  It seemed like an interesting topic and an interesting map, but I just couldn’t grok what their map was saying … So I decided to download the data and create my own map wit…