Okay – not exactly Hollywood – but it’s only 30 minutes away – so you could visit during the evening or stay the weekend after the conference to do some star-sightings. Long Beach is outside of Los Angeles and close to Hollywood! It’s not too late to sign up for the Western Users of SAS Software (WUSS) conference in Long Beach, CA the same week as Labor Day (Sept 5 -7). Early registration ends August 6, but for a few extra dollars you can register anytime this month. I spoke with Scott Leslie, the Academic Program Chair, earlier this week and it’s excited about the conference and reminded me of all the great things going on. I had a few questions for him. Will Captain Kirk be There? Scott could not confirm if Bill Shatner or Leonard Nimoy would make an appearance but SAS Institute is sending some of their superstars. You can see complete details at the SAS Presenter’s page – here’s some highlights: Diane Hatcher is presenting information about how to set up a report approval process using the new SAS® 9.3 Integration Technologies. Allison Booth provides some tips for using Proc Report. She’s a great speaker and don’t […]
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I Git Busy
While I was on vacation, I got a friendly email reminding me that my WUSS 2012 paper was due July 30th. Yikes! I had exactly one week to get home and write it. My mother calls it procrastinating. I prefer to think of it as Lazy Loading.
So I w…
Top 10 reasons to get SAS certified
Since 1999, the SAS Global Certification program has helped thousands of SAS professionals achieve their career goals. In today’s busy world, it’s hard to add something else to our already full plates, but personal development can payoff. Here’s …
SAS BI: Easy Customizations for SAS Portal and SAS Web Report Studio
Last week I talked about how you could customize the style sheet for Web Report Studio. One reader, Kushal Ramani, a SAS consultant from Epoch Research India, suggested that I list some other items that you can easily change in Web Report Studio and SAS Portal. All of these changes require access to SAS Management Console – so if you don’t have that access you will need to work with your SAS site administration. Also I’m using SAS 9.3 – if you are using a previous version then your windows or these locations may be slightly different. Change the SAS Portal Banner Title You can make a small tweak to the SAS Information Delivery Portal to replace your organization’s name with the word “SAS Portal” as shown in the following figure. It’s actually a change so simple it should probably be a sin. You can find complete details in the SAS Usage Note 37734. Just open up SAS Management Console and do the following: In the Plug-ins tab, go to Application Management > Configuration Manager. Locate the Information Delivery Portal item in the list. Right-click Information Delivery Portal 4.3 and select Properties. From the Advanced tab, change the Portal.Banner.Title value […]
Calculate Net Promoter Score in PROC TABULATE
This demonstrates an easy way to calculate the Net Promoter Score, a measure of customer loyalty, in SAS’s PROC TABULATE. I prefer to use PROC TABULATE because of its power for various summaries. In the example we repeated the Net … Continu…
Visualizing evidence of a black hole, with a gif animation
Hopefully you know that a gif animation can be used for more than just showing a cartoon animal doing cute tricks! Being a savvy data-meister, I’m sure you are also aware that you can use gif animations to see how data changes over time. But perhaps…
Gearing up for the Analytics 2012 Conference
We’re kicking off a series of blogs to get people ready for the Analytics 2012 Conference. If you’re not familiar with the conference, it’s an annual event that attracts 1,000 analytics professionals for two days of learning and networking. It’…