The yearly US News best college ranking is an important tool in comparing schools for students and their eager parents. The latest data is publicly available (paying 20 bucks would get full access) [Ref.1]. And the methodology is easy to find and expla…
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Six reasons to love summer in Canada
Walking to work this sign caught my eye. I was moved as I’m sure you will be too – to see the lot of students universally. Like most folks, I’ve played different roles in life. Of them I would say that my part-time student role was the most chall…
Six reasons to love summer in Canada
Walking to work this sign caught my eye. I was moved as I’m sure you will be too – to see the lot of students universally.
Like most folks, I’ve played different roles in life. Of them I would say that my part-time student role was the m…
NOTE: Writing Your Own Functions
Did you ever hear of PROC JLAUNCH? No, neither did I until I tried the FCmp Function Editor. And, if you didn’t know, the FCmp Function Editor is an interactive tool for exploring and maintaining functions created with PROC FCMP. There are a lot of goo…
Platform Suite for SAS – Dev/Test/Prod Tips
Here are some of my tips for using the Platform Suite for SAS when you have Development, Test and Production environments to support your SDLC.Install and configure one instance of Platform LSF and Platform Process ManagerIf you have separate machines …
A new message for SAS programmers: give SAS Enterprise Guide a second look
SAS Technology Practice team member Anand Chitale has been analyzing how traditional SAS users typically work in the programming world.
He recently took the time to produce a demo that describes why experienced SAS programmers who may have shied…
Top 10 head scratchers for DATA step programmers
When I encounter an ERROR, WARNING, or NOTE in my SAS log that I don’t understand, my first recourse is to ask my friend (we’ll call him “Google”) what it could mean. I copy the entire message (or at least 5 or 6 consecutive words from it) into t…
SAS Altlog option
If you run a production SAS environment or even a development environment for that matter, it is nice to have a specific location for all logs to be written and managed. ALTLOG helps achieve this. The ALTLOG option can be set numerous ways, but we typically utilize 2. 1. As an option on the command […]