If you’ve heard anything from SAS in recent months, then you’ve heard about high-performance analytics and the new SAS Visual Analytics offering. SAS has taken the high-performance analytics message around the world in a series of recent “road shows”. From the start, this project has enjoyed a different development process […]
SAS User Groups: Inspiring Visit to SAS UK Professional Conference
Each conference I attend, I walk away with a dozen ideas for the blog posts, SAS programs, and future papers and presentations. The SAS UK Professional Forum was no different. Plus I learned how to really speak English from the British – you should be glad they got me “sorted” and now I’m in the right “bit”. SAS BI Book was Key to BI Content Exam The first day of the conference is dedicated to taking the SAS Certification exams. It was nice because SAS had created study groups several months earlier and used a team approach for taking the exam. So all the folks interested in the SAS BI exams were placed in a group and encouraged to study together. On the day of the exam, the SAS team offered some last-minute tips and encouragement. Here’s a picture of the folks who took the SAS BI Content and Admin exams. These three fellows were some of the ones who made sure I knew that the Building Business Intelligence with SAS book was helpful. Thanks Chris Dillion (@CMDillon) for supplying the study group with the book. Paul Dutton passed the exam in 12 minutes. He said his key was reading the […]
Example 9.38: dynamite plots, revisited
Dynamite plots are a somewhat pejorative term for a graphical display where the height of a bar indicates the mean, and the vertical line on top of it represents the standard deviation (or standard error). These displays are commonly found in many scie…
Listing the data sets in a library within your custom task
A SAS Professionals attendee and Twitter follower named Marco asks for help: ..struggling to find a method with custom tasks in EG to be able to list the datasets in a library, can you help please? Sure, no problem. This is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. First, make sure that you have a reference […]
Corporate Social Networking: How SAS comes together virtually
First, there was “networking”. I never got into that scene—I was never comfortable “selling myself” and climbing corporate ladders and all. (Hey, I’ve got real work to do!) Then along came “social networking”, which is a double whammy…
Free SAS training – how can you resist?
SAS Education has released a free training course on What’s New in the SAS® Add-In 5.1 for Microsoft Office, SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1, and SAS® 9.3 Stored Processes. With this free training course you can stay up-to-date on the latest features a…