Category: SAS

Your million and one uses of SAS

As many of you know, I write the SAS Tech Report. In that capacity, I have had the great opportunity to meet some very interesting SAS users at our user events and through e-mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. It seems that every interesting SA…

Tuning OLAP Cubes

Included are two quick references to tuning OLAP Cubes:

Server Tuning Information ~ http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/biasag/61237/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a003145996.htm

Cube Tuning Information ~ http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en…

There and Back Again

I must offer apologies to J.R.R. Tolkein for appropriating the title of the book authored by his character Bilbo Baggins as my own. However, I think it’s appropriate for a few reasons. This has indeed been a whirlwind trip to Québec City for the last …

so what is a SAS OLAP N-WAY anyway?

In SAS OLAP, you have the ability to choose whether to not create the N-WAY & as I highlighted in a prior post, not creating it changes your OLAP type to either a HOLAP or ROLAP. But the real question is what the heck is this N-WAY thingy anyhow? F…

See You in San Diego

Tomorrow I will head off to San Diego for the annual Western Users of SAS Software conference.  If you are going, please look for me.  At the conference, I will present a class and a hands-on workshop. Half-day Class: Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide Wednesday November 3, 8:30-11:30 AM There is a charge for this […]

Example 8.12: Bike ride plot, part 1

The iPhone app Cyclemeter uses the phone’s GPS capability to record location and other data, and infer speed, while you ride. I took a ride near my house recently, and downloaded the data. I’d like to examine my route and my speed. A simple plot of …

NOTE: Multiple KPIs in HTML

One of the most popular posts of all time on NOTE: is PROC GKPI Does Dashboards. I was recently alerted to some interesting further information by a tweet from @Technolero (Fred Janssen). In the tweet, Fred said that SAS Sample 41421 describe…

NOTE: The SAS Experts Are In Town!

If you live or work near London or Manchester then you may be interested to know that SAS are offering a free half-day training session called the SAS Experts Roadshow and it’ll be in Central London on Thursday 2nd December and Manchester on Thursday 1…