During IFSUG yesterday, Sunil Gupta gave attendees to his presentation a special homework assignment. Look into the SAS Enterprise Guide task ‘Characterize Data’. Sunil suggested that this was a simple approach to quickly getting a summary of all the v…
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I’m the last person you’ll see at SAS Global Forum
A few years ago I had the privilege of presenting the last technical paper at SAS Global Forum. This year, conference chair Andy Kuligowski asked me to go one better than that, and present a talk at the official Closing Session. What will I talk about? That’s a mystery (maybe […]
SAS/IntrNet and IIS 7.5
First of all, I had to set up SAS/IntrNet recently. I do this at times and always struggle with security issues in IIS. Hence, I document it below.People may ask why use SAS/IntrNet anymore? Well, it is fast and is probably the fastest way to interact …
Quarterly TASS Meeting Hits All the Right Notes
Last Friday saw the return of TASS… and my premonition that it would be a well-attended, well-received meeting proved to be accurate. Almost 250 people attended the full-day session and it was great to see so many familiar faces after a few months ab…
A poor man’s approach to fuzzy data matching
Today at IFSUG, Chuck Patridge presented a wonderful talk about how to complete fuzzy matching using BASE SAS tools. Chuck has been programming SAS since 1979 and has been tasked multiple times with coming up with in-house solutions to address business…
What does it take to be a BI Dashboard Reporter?
At the IFSUG conference this week in Cary, NC I met Stephen Harris from Bank of America. Stephen gave the talk “Manage Your Partners Before You Manage Your Dashboards: Designing Great Dashboards” covering the business aspects of successfully implementi…
Be a code poet laureate
The next time you write a DATA step, try to express it in iambic pentameter. Or instead of a SAS macro function, how about a SAS macro sonnet? (Or, for the more base among you, a limerick?) That’s the spirit behind the code {poems} project. You write a poem in […]
NOTE: SGF 2012 Early-Bird Registration Ends March 19th
If you haven’t already registered for SAS Global Forum 2012 (SGF) you need to hurry-up because the early-bird discounts will end on March 19th.
If you’re not convinced of the value of attending, check-out last year’s best contributed papers to see the…