We know that many of you are active users of the Support Communities on the site and are pleased to tell you there’s a new community in town: Text and Content Analytics. This community is a centralized resource for discussing ideas, asking questions, s…
Tracking progress in your program with SAS Enterprise Guide: another trick
I’ve got a new trick that you can use to track progress in a long-running SAS program, while using SAS Enterprise Guide. I’ve previously written about the SYSECHO statement and how you can use it to update the Task Status window with custom messages. SYSECHO is a “global” statement in […]
An easy way to find variables in common to data sets
Over the holidays I was having a discussion with my cat, Ms. Trixie Lou. A question that often arises during the first programming class is the following: how do I find the variables that are in common to these two or three data sets? As it turns out, …
What do you expect of a data mining software
I just completed the 2013 Rexer Analytics data mining users survey. I make it a point to do my best to complete these surveys as they usually make me stop and think. This year there were two questions that were very relevant. I am just finishing off…
NOTE: Getting More for Less With SPDE
Would you like to read or write your data more quickly? SAS V9.1 introduced Scalable Performance Data Engine (SPDE, “Speedy Engine”), for free. Are you using it? Speedy Engine is the little cousin of Speedy Server (Scalable Performance Data Server, a…
NOTE: Quick SAS Keyword Search in Chrome
Did you know that the Google Chrome browser allows you to specify multiple search engines, accessible by a short keyword? Well, I didn’t until last week when my mention of Visuwords (graphical dictionary & thesaurus) made me wonder if there was s…