A lot of times when I am working with interactive SAS, I find myself staring at a SAS date that has not been formatted. The quickest way to see the actual date was to go to my “scratch” enhanced editor and write a quick data _null_ to put it to the log…
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NOTE: Testing (Presenting the Results)
The preceding two articles in this series on testing presented a simple, generic macro for testing and recording test results. All that remains now is for us to tidy-up some loose ends.
Firstly, the macro assumes data set work.results already exists. …
NOTE: Advent Calendar 2011
Today is 1st December, and that can mean only one thing: time to turn to the traditional SAS Professionals advent calendar! There will be prizes every day throughout December, so make sure you visit http://www.sasprofessionals.net/ every day.
And if …
HUG-ging It Out
Yes, this blog post is well overdue… a week and a half to be exact. And there are so many things I want to share! To be honest, I’ve been quite busy over the last fortnight with one of my other passions; helping out my alma mater, George Brown Coll…
Big Data in the News
As a SAS programmer, the idea of Big Data is nothing new to me. Decades have passed since I first wrestled with the special challenges of making sense out of huge data sets. Some things have changed, of course. A million records doesn’t seem as remarkable now as it did 20 years ago, but the […]
When Google Analytics meets SAS
Thanks to Tricia’s introduction, I recently realized that Google Analytics is such a powerful tool for web analytics or business intelligence. It will fit the special needs if we use SAS to analyze the well-structure users’ data accumulated in Goog…
What’s a good first SAS® training course?
SAS curriculum includes more than 100 SAS, JMP and statistical courses offered in the traditional classroom setting, on-site at your location, in the Live Web classroom, or Self-Paced e-Learning, all aimed at improving user performance and skills using…
Just-in-time data prep in SAS Enterprise Guide
On this blog, I’ve delivered a few tips about using SAS formats to stratify your data values “in place” without having to actually change your data. The most recent example addressed date and datetime variables. My previous examples included simple SAS programs that you can run in SAS display manager […]