Over the last couple of weeks I’ve featured a couple of 3rd-party SAS-related products (Metacoda security plug-ins and Phil Holland’s Ebook/apps). I’ve said how much I support 3rd-party products. So, I couldn’t let this unintentional mini-series end …
Watch and learn: How to use user-defined formats to define data items
SAS Instructor Lynn Matthews teaches how to use user-defined formats to define data items in SAS Information Map Studio. This video tip shows you how to take one column from your data source and show it three different ways. This is going to be done …
What cities have the worst (and best) commute to work?
A while back, I had seen the following map on the CEOs for Cities website. It seemed like an interesting topic and an interesting map, but I just couldn’t grok what their map was saying … So I decided to download the data and create my own map wit…
Big data and high performance analytics take center stage at Analytics 2012
There are many reasons why people attend Analytics 2012 such as networking and learning, but when I proposed that question to co-chair Jennifer Priestley she said it’s the best place to learn how others are solving problems. Here’s more of our conv…
SAS Talks for September: Mark Your Calendars
Lots of you have become loyal fans of our SAS Talks webinar series presented by technical experts, SAS employees and customers alike. I wanted to be sure the readers of this blog were aware of the webinar planned for September 13th because I think i…
Help me answer a student question
Dear Reader, Recently, another SAS instructor had a student in class who has a raw data file that looks like this: Obs Var 1 15 Harvey Rd Macon 2 163 McNeil Pl. Kern 3 442 Glen Ave Miami Beach…