This post demonstrates how to rank data and how to place these ranks into roughly equal groups. There are certain variables, such as annual salary, that are highly skewed. There are many who earn between $50,00 and $150,000, but some who earn millions or hundreds of millions of dollars a […]
How to Transform a Skewed Distribution to a Uniform Distribution was published on SAS Users.
I’m excited to curate a series of posts focused on CAS Actions. However, before I dive into details and code, I thought I’d take a moment to lay a foundation for a better understanding of CAS and CAS actions. I’ll cover things here at a high level as there’s quite […]
CAS Actions and Action Sets – a brief intro was published on SAS Users.
I’m excited to bring a series of posts centered on CAS Actions. The topics in the list below will be covered in posts set to publish in the next few weeks. Please check back often for new releases. CAS Actions and Action Sets – a brief intro CAS-Action! fetch CAS, […]
CAS Action! – a series on fundamentals was published on SAS Users.
Unstructured text data is ubiquitous in both business and government and extracting value from it at scale is a common challenge. Organizations that have been around for a while often have vast paper archives. Digitizing these archives does not necessarily make them usable for search and analysis, since documents are […]
Classifying messy documents: A common-sense approach (Part I) was published on SAS Users.
Thousands of SAS users are migrating from SAS University Edition to SAS OnDemand for Academics (ODA). I thought I would share some of my thoughts, having just finished two books using ODA (Getting Started with SAS Programming: Using SAS Studio in the Cloud and A Gentle Introduction to Statistics Using […]
Migrating from SAS University Edition to SAS OnDemand for Academics was published on SAS Users.
When using ordinary least squares regression (OLS), if your response or dependent attribute isn’t close to a normal distribution, your analysis is going to be affected and typically not in a good way. The farther away your input data is from normality, the greater the impact on your model will […]
An analytic transform for cantankerous data was published on SAS Users.
In the past, the COMPRESS function was useful. Since SAS version 9, it has become a blockbuster, and you might not have noticed. The major change was the addition of a new optional parameter called MODIFIERS. The traditional use of the COMPRESS function was to remove blanks or a list […]
The Amazing COMPRESS Function was published on SAS Users.
SAS’ Ben Yarbrough reveals the four questions to answer and four steps to take as you transition to SAS Viya.
How to use the SAS® 9 Content Assessment Tool was published on SAS Users.