I must admit, I’m glad the 2014 Winter Olympics are over. I’ve spent too many night-time hours glued to the TV. I can now get on with my life. But first, let’s have a little SAS fun with the medal standings. How do you prefer your summary of medal standings […]
Building a SAS Stored Process Log
As a SAS stored process developer, a question sometimes pokes its way into my head: “Are people using the stored processes I write?” In fact, really I have four questions:
What stored processes are being used?
Who is using them?
When are they being used?
How are they using them?
I realized what I’ve been missing. I need a SAS stored process log.
If It Works for a Macro…
As a macro programmer …
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Fencing in your SAS users with LOCKDOWN
SAS administrators now have another tool to keep SAS users from straying off their permitted path: the LOCKDOWN system option. The option was introduced in “stealth mode” for SAS 9.4. In SAS 9.4M1, it became a true, documented option. For the official guide to creating “locked-down servers”, see the SAS […]
Let’s shed some light on the black box containing Neural Net model weights
One of the primary predictive modeling tools capable of fitting very complex nonlinear functions is Neural Networks (NN) in SAS advanced analytics software SAS Enterprise Miner (EM). The default option in NN EM node uses a Multilayer Perceptron model w…
SAS Certified Professionals: Get your resume noticed with these tips
A student preparing for the Base Certification exam recently sent us a question, but it wasn’t about the exam. It was about how to position her certification credential on her resume to highlight she’s SAS Certified. This is a great question since employers continuously tell us a SAS Certification is […]
A SAS Note for Length Limit of Strings in CDISC Datasets
Clinical programmers are very familiar with the length limit of strings in CDISC compliant datasets, such as #1: variable names: <= 8 characters #2: variable labels: <= 40 characters #3: data set labels: <= 40 characters #4: data value of a single variable: <= 200 characters and they are due to the limitations of SAS […]