Did you know that social media can help you out with speaking at an event? Yes, even now, while you plan. What’s more, it can be instrumental in maximizing your entire presenter experience before, during and after your presentation. Here are some ideas to get you thinking.
Nine #SocialMedia Speaker Tips to Use Before, During and After Events was published on SAS Users.
When Jack Shostak and I first started thinking about writing a SAS book on implementing CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) standards, we held one truth to be self-evident: that at least some parts of the book would be outdated before it was even published. Thanks to some lucky timing […]
Working with ever-changing CDISC standards was published on SAS Users.
“There’s a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas A. Edison When it comes to SAS coding, this quote by Thomas A. Edison is my best advisor. Time permitting, I love finding better ways of implementing SAS code. But what code feature means “better” – brevity, clarity […]
Finding n-th instance of a substring within a string was published on SAS Users.
In his article How to use CASL to develop and work with user-defined CAS actions, Brian Kinnebrew defines CASL as “a language specification used by the SAS client to interact with and provide easy access to Cloud Analytic Services (CAS). CASL is a statement-based scripting language with many uses and […]
“CAS Stored Process” with my Favorite Action Hero runCasl was published on SAS Users.
For every project in SAS®, the first step is almost always making your data available. This blog shows you how to load three of the most common input data types—a data set, a text file, and a Microsoft Excel file—into SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) tables. The three methods that […]
Learn the three easiest ways to load data into CAS tables was published on SAS Users.
Move over video games and sports. Make room for escape rooms. This burgeoning form of entertainment found its roots in the video gaming movement. Escape rooms tap into a player’s drive to reach the next level, solve a puzzle and win. Escape rooms present a physical game that traps you […]
A playful way to get your hands on SAS: the Data Science Escape Rooms was published on SAS Users.
As a data scientist, did you ever come to the point where you felt the need for an evolved analytics platform bringing together the disparate skills of open source and commercial software? A system that can enable advanced analytic capabilities. This is now possible and easy to implement. With many […]
Deploy SAS Viya on AWS – Quick Start was published on SAS Users.
What is Item Response Theory? Item Response Theory (IRT) is a way to analyze responses to tests or questionnaires with the goal of improving measurement accuracy and reliability. A common application is in testing a student’s ability or knowledge. Today, all major psychological and educational tests are built using IRT. […]
Understanding Item Response Theory with SAS was published on SAS Users.