Category: SAS

I am a 20% SAS Nerd!

Kirk Paul Lafler drafted a checking list for identifying a SAS nerd (or geek, in its positive ways) in one of his intriguing papers:
You Could be a SAS® Nerd If . . .

Here I’m glad to find that I am roughly a 20% SAS nerd (12 matched in all 57 lists):
8. You blog SAS-related […]

NOTE: Keyboard Shortcuts in the SAS Enhanced Editor

I was recently looking at a long piece of macro code where each level of indentation only used one space. It was very difficult to see where some of the %do / %end blocks began or ended. I was reminded that there’s a keyboard shortcut for jumping be…

NOTE: Keyboard Shortcuts in the SAS Enhanced Editor

I was recently looking at a long piece of macro code where each level of indentation only used one space. It was very difficult to see where some of the %do / %end blocks began or ended. I was reminded that there’s a keyboard shortcut for jumping be…

New 9.3 Framework Data Server

Just got some time to begin playing with the 9.3 Enterprise Business Intelligence installation on my SAS laptop. As I was testing out the web applications, SASWebDoc opened but I couldn’t get to the SAS login screen up to access the SAS Stored Process…

Data mining in the financial services industry

The Analytics Conference is coming up soon (October 24-25, Orlando)!  To refresh your memory, the Analytics Conference Series is a merger of three annual educational conferences: the data mining conference, the business forecasting conference and the …

Automatic program execution

Dear Miss SAS Answers, We recently upgraded to SAS 9.2 (PC Version) and now when I double click on the SAS icon on the desktop, the program automatically executes rather than simply opening in the program editor. How do I change this so that double-cli…

Predictive Modelling Competition

One of my clients is running a predictive modelling competition. The competition is free to enter and has a $10,000 prize fund. Interested? Read on…

The competition is being hosted at Kaggle. It’s very simple to register and to enter. The challenge …

Predictive Modelling Competition

One of my clients is running a predictive modelling competition. The competition is free to enter and has a $10,000 prize fund. Interested? Read on…

The competition is being hosted at Kaggle. It’s very simple to register and to enter. The challenge …