Just back from KDD2010. In the conference, there are several papers that interested me.
On the computation side, Liang Sun et al.’s paper [1], “A Scalable Two-Stage Approach for a Class of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques” caught my eyes. Liang p…
I wanted to blog about our new Extended Learning Pages, but Larry LaRusso beat me to it in the latest issue of SAS Training Report. Larry is a fantastic story-teller, so instead of trying to come up with something original, I decided to share his…
When viewing OLAP cubes in Web Report Studio, there comes a time when the user might want to view all the levels within the hierarchy, without the cumbersome process of selecting and expanding each individual item. In 9.2, there is a quick solution. Wh…
Our newest book, Using SAS for Data Management, Statistical Analysis and Graphics, will soon be shipping from Amazon, CRC Press, and other fine retailers. The book complements our SAS and R book, particularly for users less interested in R. It presen…
Thank you Los Angeles Basin SAS User Group for listening to my talk on SAS MACRO: Beyond The Basics.The room provided by RAND was excellent. Everything was well organized and the day went without a hitch. The audience was very engaged and had great q…
Q: I would like to have a glossary of technical terms.
A: Almost every book or book series contain a glossary of terms related to product or topic being documented. SAS documentation includes a Base SAS Glossary. This glossary a great place to ge…
The where statement is a powerful and useful tool for subsetting on the fly. But one problem with it is that the output doesn’t show the conditioning. This is a little macro I wrote to correct this problem:%macro where(wherest, titleline);w…
A few days after I posted part 1 of this blog post,an interesting message popped up on Twitter from @annmariastat:
Confused. If you can get #SAS certification in 3 months what exactly are you being certified as? How much can anyone learn in 3 mo…