Category: SAS

Are you too good for code reviews?

The recent issue of InformationWeek features a Q&A session with Ken Thompson, one of the creators of the Unix operating system. (He collaborated with Dennis Ritchie, of C language fame. Since much of SAS is written in C, I daresay there are a few c…

Dive into CDISC Express (5): Generate and Validate SDTM domains and define.xml

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory
Dive into CDISC Express (2): Create a New Study
Dive into CDISC Express (3): Navigate mapping file

Dive into CDISC Express (4): Data manipulation techniques

A more friendly PDF version of these all CDISC Express series is also available in
http://jiangtanghu.com/docs/en/CDISCExpress.pdf

The following tasks, such as generating SDTM domains and define.xml, need just some clicking […]

NOTE: SAS-Themed Crosswords

I’ve just been having a bit of fun with a couple of the SAS-themed crosswords I created a long while ago (circa 2003); so long ago that I couldn’t remember the answers! Great fun, and I was struck by the difficulty of the two prize-crosswords. Repeated…

NOTE: SAS-Themed Crosswords

I’ve just been having a bit of fun with a couple of the SAS-themed crosswords I created a long while ago (circa 2003); so long ago that I couldn’t remember the answers! Great fun, and I was struck by the difficulty of the two prize-crosswords. Repeated…

SAS 9.3 – Released 12 July 2011?

Just had a comment added from Gady Kotler to one of my blog posts stating: “In a SAS confernece held last week in Israel Mark Torr has officialy approved SAS 9.3 will be relaesed on July,12 this year” So if its true the count down is almost there.  

Example 9.1: Scatterplots with binning for large datasets

Scatterplots can get very hard to interpret when displaying large datasets, as points inevitably overplot and can’t be individually discerned. A number of approaches have been crafted to help with this problem. One approach uses binning. This approa…

Example 9.1: Scatterplots with binning for large datasets

Scatterplots can get very hard to interpret when displaying large datasets, as points inevitably overplot and can’t be individually discerned. A number of approaches have been crafted to help with this problem. One approach uses binning. This approa…

Example 9.1: Scatterplots with binning for large datasets

Scatterplots can get very hard to interpret when displaying large datasets, as points inevitably overplot and can’t be individually discerned. A number of approaches have been crafted to help with this problem. One approach uses binning. This approa…