If you need to calculate the mean, sum, standard deviation, or frequency count for a variable, you’ll find it pretty easy to accomplish in SAS Enterprise Guide. The corresponding tasks in the menus have names like “Summary Statistics” or “One-way Frequencies”. Obvious, right? Often, researchers or students have a quest […]
Reading to beat the heat
We have had this long string of 100+ degree days, so I went inside to find a cool place to read. When the cooldown came, the weather changed from hot and dry to hot and muggy. That sent me further into the air conditioning to cool down and stretch out…
The years to get green card for Indian and Chinese
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…