This post ends the series of golden oldies. Looking through past conference papers has revealed many interesting nuggets. I was interested to read SAS co-founder John Sall’s paper on PROC MATRIX, the forerunner of SAS/IML. This paper was presented at…
NOTE: Keeping Track of Defects
I recently stumbled across an article on David Biesack’s Peer Revue blog regarding SAS’s defect tracking process. David provides a detailed and extensive insight into how the guys and girls in Cary (and beyond) deal with defects, from beginning to end….
Dynamic Logging Reconfiguration in SAS® 9.3
One of the exciting new features in SAS 9.3 (well for me anyway) is the ability to replace or modify the logging configuration on-the-fly for a running server without needing to restart it. Previously in SAS 9.2 you could dynamically change the levels …
Learn How to Code in 2012
Do you know someone who could benefit from learning how to code? Are your parents looking for a new hobby in retirement? Are your kids looking for wider career options? Send them along to http://www.codeyear.com/ and encourage them to sign-up for the …
Calculated values in PROC REPORT Compute Blocks
Dear Miss SAS Answers, In PROC REPORT can I use one calculated (computed) variable in the calculation of another computed variable? In the example below, I’m trying to use the value of the Bonus column to calculate the Total column: compu…
SAS Global Forum: Is Google Analytics and SAS BI a good subject?
I’m really excited, Angela and I were invited to speak at the SAS Global Forum in Orlando in April. We were asked to talk about the SAS BI package and we have narrowed down our topic to SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, and, if time allows, the SAS Information Delivery Portal. The point of the presentation is learning about the SAS BI clients – getting the data has proved to be a journey of it’s own. Step 1: Need some interesting data … The hardest part of preparing a teaching presentation is find data that presents some mystery and allows you to tell a story that resonates. Right now the leading topic is along the lines of “How do you let people know you have a book out there? How do you build excitement?” For us, building a companion website (this blog) that gave the users an idea of the book content was our answer. Plus the website would be a continuation of the book information for the users. The next question is – “How do you know it’s working?” Using the data that Google Analytics collects for this blog, I have been researching what kind of […]