I was pleased to see a number of papers at this year’s SAS Global Forum that dared to focus on topics outside of SAS technology and syntax. Two papers that particularly caught my interest were How to Create a Business Intelligence Strategy by Guy Garre…
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The makeup of SAS Global Forum
Question: What do John Travolta, Gina Davis, and I all have in common? (I mean, besides the obvious fact that we are all awesome dancers.) Answer: We have all had makeup applied by artist Roxie Stice. I was the host for two SAS Tech Talks, which were broadcast via Livestream […]
Taking the storyboard approach
A storyboard is a blueprint of drawings/ideas in a specific sequence to illustrate a story. Let’s take the Pixar film Toy Story as an example (I have a two-year-old and admittedly have watched this movie more than the hairs on my head). Before th…
The things I missed at #SASGF12
Unfortunately, my clone attempt didn’t work like Chris Hemedinger’s did. With all my papers, presentations, and demo hall duties, I realized yesterday that I certainly missed a lot. Included is my to-do list for items to watch and catch up on this week…
10 keywords taken out from SAS Global Forum 2012
1. In-memory
SAS is famous for hitting hard disk at every operation, which is a proved strategy to save memory. To speed up the processing of ‘Big Data’, SAS at the server side will aggregate memories, load data into memory and then deal w…
Web Report Studio: Adding a Confidentiality Disclaimer
Adding disclaimers to SAS Web Report Studio tables and graphs is sometimes necessary for confidentiality purposes. You can do this easily by using the Configuration Manager available in SAS Management Console 9.2 and up. This is shown to the right. Adding a Table Disclaimer Through SAS Management Console SAS Support provides official documentation for adding disclaimers in SAS 9.3 as well as SAS 9.2. To add the disclaimer, simply find the “Web Report Studio 4.3″ application under the Configuration Manager through SAS Management Console. Right click and go to the “Advanced” tab and add the property as shown below. Downsides The major downside is the disclaimer gets inserted on every single table and chart produced going forward. Web reports can get very cluttered with the same message. As an alternative I would recommend building a Web Report Studio template with the security message as a footer. Report writers can be educated to always use this template to enforce security policies. I noticed a reference to an XHTML fragment in the LocalProperties.xml file for Web Report Studio… Not sure how this works, but if anybody has any ideas please share! Related content: MDX: Dynamically Hiding Measures for Compliance
"Easy button" for ESTIMATE statements
My previous blog demonstrated the most difficult type of ESTIMATE statement to write—a two-way (or higher) ANOVA with interactions. An “easy button” for ESTIMATE statement comes by having a simpler model. Models with only main effects and no interact…
Trying Out WordPress
I’ve had my site http://r4stats.com on Google Sites for a few years now and it’s time to try something new. Most of the articles there are not very blog-like. For example, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software is an article … Continue reading →