The path toward a green card is especially difficult for Indian and Chinese who are working in the US and named as EB2 workers, since they have to wait years to submit an i485 form after being approved with their i140 form submission. Once the cutoff d…
Finding patterns in big data with SAS/GRAPH
When working with “big data” you usually have too many points to view in a plot, and end up subsetting or summarizing the data. But now, in SAS 9.3, you have an alternative! For example, the following scatter plot of 10,000+ points is just a visual “b…
Web Report Studio: Changing a Style to Your Colors
On a recent project, we needed to change the colors of the bars to match the customer’s website style. I had heard this was a daunting task requiring lots of white magic and prayer. Turns out what is difficult is if you want to completely re-do a style but it’s fairly simple if you just want to make a few changes. Changing the Style Color First my goal was to change the default colors on the bar chart. In the following example I used some crazy colors to ensure I knew it was working. Thus, red, green and yellow. Also notice I named my style Tricia and it was added to the Report Style menu. If you only want to change the bars for a single report, read this Chart Makeover post for a quick how-to. Update an Existing Style Note: Refer to the Customizing SAS Web Report Studio Report Styles in the SAS User Documentation for a more in-depth discussion. SAS provides a sample cascading style sheet (CSS) file that you can use as a basis for your new style design. CSS is a flat file that you can edit using Notepad or like application. [More on CSS here] The sample […]
How to land a job as a SAS professional
Would you like to know the secret of how I landed my job at SAS? Since I’m asked this question so frequently, I thought it might be useful to share my tips. 1. Know yourself Are you a people person? Or are you an analytical person who enj…
12 is the Magic Number: Months, Cranial Nerves, Labors of Hercules and … SAS© Statistical Products
Some of you might be users of our SAS Statistical products and know that we have traditionally released new versions of these products with new versions of what SAS R&D Senior Director in Advanced Analytics Maura Stokes refers to as the “mot…
Third year wrap-up
July marks the end of three years of blogging for us. By our count, we’ve posted 121 examples across the first three years. We aim to be helpful and interesting.As always, it’s hard to get a sense of our readership. At the time we wrote this, Feedbur…