Category: SAS

Parade Held in Montréal for the Business Analytics Forum!

OK, so that’s wishful thinking. The truth is that the Forum analytique d’affaires SAS de Montréal happened to coincide with the victory parade for the back to back champion Montréal Alouettes. They were wending their way through the heart of downto…

NOTE: I’ve won a prize!!

I’ve just been informed that I am one of the winners from day #1 of the SAS Professionals advent calendar. I’ve won a copy of the book Scoring Points! The book tells how two of the UK’s biggest SAS customers (Tesco supermarkets and Dunnhumby customer i…

Blogger’s paradise!

Recently i was invited to join a website named http://www.sas-x.com/ by  Tal GaliliI suggest everyone to subscribe to this feed. It has the aggregation of many big names in SAS blogging like  Chris Hemedinger, Mark Stevens, Jared Prins, …

Weekday Morning Quick-trick: How to Score from PROC VARCLUS

Have you used multivariate procedures in SAS and wanted to save out scores? Some procedures, such as FACTOR, CANDISC, CANCORR, PRINCOMP, and others have an OUT= option to save scores to the input data set. However, to score a new data set, or to p…

Find the ‘right’ SAS functions

How many functions SAS has? Well, it sounds like a job interview question. For SAS 9.2, by querying the system dictionary (sashelp.vfunc or dictionary.functions), the exact answer is 946, including all functions and call routines. There are two types -…

Certifiable: An Adventure in Pursuing SAS Certification

Those of you currently studying for the SAS Base Programming exam might enjoy this 9 minute video interview with Stacey Hamilton and Christine Kjellberg,
two employees from SAS publishing who recently challenged the exam.
Over the past year, the…

Aggregating assault: SAS blogs are everywhere!

Last week I was invited to join the growing list of SAS blogs in the new sas-x.com aggregator. I was happy to add my blog there — anything that I can do to help this content get to a wider audience. If you have a SAS-related blog, I encourage y…