Tomorrow I’ll be taking a few hours away from work to build something important: the self-esteems of a handful of middle-school-aged children.
I’m volunteering as a judge in a middle-school science fair. And even though I’m not a scientist (“com…
Category: SAS
Greatest Hits of 2010
I should have posted this a couple weeks ago, but I’ve been hard at work writing papers for SAS Global Forum (more about that in future posts!). These were the popular posts and pages on AvocetSolutions.com in 2010. 1) What can I use SAS for? 2) Top 10 Reasons to Use SAS Enterprise Guide 3) […]
SAS Web Report Studio In-Process Scheduling Port Allocations for Lev1, Lev2 …
Today I was installing SAS 9.2 with the latest 4.3 web apps on Linux 64-bit (from a very new 920_11w03 depot). After successfully setting up a Lev1 environment I then went on to create a Lev2 environment (on the same machine). All was going ok until I got to the page in the SAS Deployment […]
Is your Portal Content playing peek-a-boo in 9.2
Saw this interesting SAS Support note “Problem Note 36697: Group member cannot see shared group content in SAS® Information Delivery Portal“ referenced in a discussion on the SAS Support Discussion forums. It seems a change has been made to make the SAS Portal pages load faster in SAS 9.2 (good!) But the trick for your players is that […]
SAS Enterprise Miner, Delivers the goods but needs makeup (or makeover)
I was reading this interesting blog here from Jiangtang Hu, where he compares SAS Enterprise Miner with IBM’s Intelligent Miner and SPSS Clementine (interesting he didn’t compare Oracle’s Data Mining offering) His outcome was SAS EM wins on most areas except the User Interface. I must say that after doing an upgrade for a client […]
Example 8.21: latent class analysis
Latent class analysis is a technique used to classify observations based on patterns of categorical responses. Collins and Lanza’s book,”Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis,” provides a readable introduction, while the UCLA ATS center has an o…
FCMP: BKf_GateKeeper Function
By Eli Kling using sas V9.2/BaseFrom time to time the developers in Cary make an addition that excites even sas–dinosaurs like myself. Not everyone sees the potential of, or even the need for proc FCMP. However, I think it signals a major change in…
Allowing direct access to OLAP Cubes & Data Tables from Web Report Studio 4.3
New in 4.3, Web Report Studio users can directly report on data from OLAP cubes and data tables without the previously required information map. However, by default advanced users can only access OLAP cubes and information maps. Allowing direct access …