A few of the things that my mother drilled into me as a kid really did stick. One of them is that everything has a place and when you put an item in the appropriate place, you can always find it.
Today, I received a few messages about job posti…
Job Postings Have a Place
A few of the things that my mother drilled into me as a kid really did stick. One of them is that everything has a place and when you put an item in the appropriate place, you can always find it. Today, I received a few messages about job postings […]
NOTE: Length Functions (Something Missing?)
How many functions to tell you the length of a value do you need? At least six apparently! SAS provides LENGTH, LENGTHC, LENGTHM, LENGTHN, KLENGTH and %LENGTH. Why?…
As we’ve all discovered to our cost, the basic LENGTH function accurately…
Mirror Mirror on the wall, where am I running?
We have been doing some trouble shooting with the new Grid environment, and one of the guys on the customers site found this great piece fo SAS code: %put _all_; Run it in EG and the log will tell you a whole heap about what and where you are running your code on! Example results […]
A scorecard for default risk with sparkline
In the 1st chapter of their must-read credit risk modeling book, Gunter and Peter used the ratios of working capital(WC), retained earnings(RE), earnings before interest and taxes(EBIT), sales(S) and market value of equity(ME) over either total liab…
SGF 2011 Redux
It may just be me, but every time I attend SAS Global Forum, I always leave feeling that I have missed a large part of the conference. There are too many things going on at once and in too many different places for me to catch it all. Fortunately, for those of us who have […]