Since this is my first post on The SAS Training Post blog, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kathy and I am an instructor at SAS Headquarters in Cary, NC. I teach SAS courses in our on-campus training center, at regional training ce…
SAS Add-In to MS Office: Refreshing the Data & Breaking the Link
If you use SAS Add-In to Microsoft Office – specifically Excel, then you already know how awesome it is to link to the SAS data on the server. First, if you are using data that needs to be refreshed – just a click of the button brings you the new rows and your report or charts are updated immediately. Awesome! Let the analysis begin … Refreshing Your MS Office Report with SAS Data Using the SAS Add-In to MS Excel (or Word or PowerPoint), you can build charts from the SAS data sets. You may have a report that you create each month based on an Oracle table that is extracted into SAS. On the first day of each month the data is made available, which is great because you report is due the next day and your manager gets upset when it’s not on his desk. [He’s a fan of your work – what can you say?] Let’s make your job a little easier so you can get back to answering your fan mail. Using the SAS Data button from the SAS ribbon, you can peruse the SAS Server to find the desired data. With the found data, you […]
Using Geo-Special Awareness to Get That Extra Edge Out of Predictive Analytics
The way to get that extra edge out of the analysis is to get your hands on the key drivers, transform them wisely and exploit the correlations. The data mining tools are very good at the first steps for most types of data. However, two main gaps are st…
How to open a SAS table in SAS Web Report Studio
Business users of SAS are finding the Web Report Studio capabilities incredibly beneficial for viewing, creating, and sharing reports on the Web. The easy-to-use query and reporting software provides a point-and-click interface for building reports f…
SAS BI Dashboard: Measuring the Conversion Rate with Google Analytics
Once you start looking at your Google Analytics, it is thrilling to see that visitors are coming to your humble Web site and some even return. Your first inclination is to create fancy charts to show the traffic patterns, compare the patterns by day of week, segment into New and Returning visitors, soon your charts may even be trending on #StuffDataGeeksDo. In the past few weeks I have been leaning on you to adding more VA-Voom!!! (in the words of Dr. Suess) to your data using the SAS BI Dashboard. [More Google Analytics and SAS BI Dashboard articles] Why Have a Website? When I started this blog, the main purpose was to ensure SAS BI users were aware of my book, see my writing style, and determine if I knew enough to have written a reliable book. To this end, I had to measure was how many people followed the More Book Info link I had prepared. As a introverted data geek, this was a hard for me because I did not want to be the in-your-face, buy-this-now pushy sales lady! What I wanted was for SAS BI users to know that Angela and I had created an awesome resource that […]
Example 9.20: visualizing Simpson’s paradox
Simpson’s paradox is always amazing to explain to students. What’s bad for one group, and bad for another group is good for everyone, if you just collapse over the grouping variable. Unlike many mathematical paradoxes, this arises in a number of real…