There aren’t many SAS programmers who haven’t used PROC MEANS (or its alter ego PROC SUMMARY) to aggregate (summarise) their data. PROC MEANS is a familiar tool for most SAS programmers, and the process of subsequently selecting specific values of _TYP…
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Elektrobiblioteka
Amazing artifact-digital book.
NOTE: True Self-Service BI With Futrix
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…