The DELETE procedure is probably the most well-known and most-used SAS procedure that isn’t actually documented or officially supported. That is, that was the case before the release of SAS 9.4, when PROC DELETE returns with more features than ever — including a production-quality status. In his SAS Global Forum […]
Five myths about unstructured data and five good reasons you should be analyzing it
“How can we begin to make sense of the unstructured data, when we still don’t make the most of our structured data?” said the exasperated senior manager from a large retail firm. One of the great pleasures of my job is the relationship with stude…
Top 10 SAS coding efficiencies
Tried, tested and true — I’m sure you already practice some, if not all, of these efficient techniques to save resources. I recently shared these 10 techniques with the Wisconsin Illinois SAS users group in Milwaukee. The conference ran smoothly u…
Inadvisable science
Inspired by the JMP blog – Statisticians: harbingers of doom?:
Enjoy what’s left of the International Year of Statistics — while you still can.
tags: statistics2013
SAS trick: get the LIBNAME statement to create folders for you
When I work on SAS projects that create lots of files as results, it’s often a requirement that those files be organized in a certain folder structure. The exact structure depends on the project, but here’s an example: /results |__ html |__ images |__ xls |__ data Before you can […]
How to use predictive modeling with SAS to analyze crime
Did you ever wonder why one place is more likely to experience burglaries than another? Maybe you want to move to a new neighborhood and make sure it has as much going for it as possible before you load up the truck. I found some data at the Universi…