Category: SAS

Migrating from SAS BI Dashboards 4.2 to 4.3

There is a SAS note that will be very helpfull in understandong the differences between SAS BI Dashboards 4.2 and 4.3.
It also has links to other usage notes outlining some issues you might encounter.
Check out:  Usage Note 40474: SAS® BI Dashboard 4…

Why use SAS/GRAPH? Tips for beginners or refreshing hookups

The “SAS/GRAPH for beginners” presentation seemed homemade for me. And since many of the SAS Tech Report readers are interested in SAS/GRAPH, I decided to sit in on this NESUG 2010 presentation. The paper was written by George Obsekov and Jona…

How SAS engines can read a range of data in Excel

Japan has a superfast train called the Shinkansen. The first I heard of it was when my sister visited Japan on a scholarship. Engine-awestruck, we wanted a ride, but weren’t able to get to Japan. Nor, did we know the language. (With over 5000 ka…

SAS Goes To A Ceilidh (Sort Of)

My manager Wally Thiessen was lucky enough to travel to beautiful Halifax for the SHRUG user group meeting last week. I say ‘lucky’ through gritted teeth set in a face tinged by the horrible green of jealousy… I absolutely adore Halifax and Nova Scot…

SAS and R joins SAS-x

Tal Galili, organizer of the R-bloggers blog aggregator, has opened a new aggregator for people blogging about SAS. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, an aggregator is a single blog which republishes (with permission, in this case) the entries fro…

SAS-X Blog Aggregator

Tal Galili has started up a SAS blog aggregator. The more folks involved in SAS, the better, as far as I am concerned.You can find it at:SAS-X

The efficiency of five SAS methods in multi-dataset merging

Introduction: Merging two or multiple datasets is essential for many ‘data people’. Yes, it is a dirty and routine job. Everyone wants to get it done quick and accurate. Actually, SAS has many ways to tackle this job[3]. In two competing papers fro…

Web OLAP Viewer is dead (RIP)

I remember when SAS 9.1 was released and the new SAS Web OLAP viewer for Java (SWOVJ) was released. It was a great new interface to replace the old MRV. It went through a few iterations, but not a lot changed (although I was always confused about which version could only open Cubes and whihc could open […]