Over the past six months, my free time was devoted to training. This impacted my blog posting frequency but the training helped me successfully complete the inaugural Raleigh Ironman 70.3 in June. When thinking back through how this happened, I noticed…
A SAS sandwich to satisfy every appetite
How do you like your sandwich? On rye, whole wheat or white bread? What fillings and dressings do you like? You probably think I’ve gone completely crazy and I don’t blame you. What does food have to do with SAS, you say? Loads — as you’ll find …
Cluster analysis on a pivot table
The increasing supremacy of JavaScript on both server side and client side seems a good news for those statistical workers who deal with data and model, and therefore always live in the darkness. They could eventually find a relatively easier way to…
I don’t always do regression, but when I do, I do it in SAS 9.4
There are several exciting add-ins from SAS Analytics products running on v9.4, especially the SAS/STAT high performance procedures, where “high performance” refers to either in single-machine multi-threading mode or full distributed mode.
HPG…
SAS 9.4 does it with style (consistent graph styles, to be precise!)
ODS graph styles provide users with an easy way to control things such as the colors and fonts used in a graph, freeing the user from having to specify these properties in their code. A lot of thought was given to picking colors that work well toget…
The Return of SAS System Viewer
SAS Universal Viewer (UV) jumped out since SAS 9.2 and in most cases, it’s installed as replacement for the SAS System Viewer(SV) but I reinstalled SV in all machines where I had the right privileges. UV has some nice new feature but for me it is extremely and unacceptably slow. Every time I open a […]