SAS and R could complement each other. SAS is a versatile ETL (extraction, transformation and loading) machine and its statistical procedures based on generalized linear model are impeccable. R would bring cutting-edge data mining and data visualizatio…
Some analysis on university ranking by US News
The yearly US News best college ranking is an important tool in comparing schools for students and their eager parents. The latest data is publicly available (paying 20 bucks would get full access) [Ref.1]. And the methodology is easy to find and expla…
Six reasons to love summer in Canada
Walking to work this sign caught my eye. I was moved as I’m sure you will be too – to see the lot of students universally. Like most folks, I’ve played different roles in life. Of them I would say that my part-time student role was the most chall…
Six reasons to love summer in Canada
Walking to work this sign caught my eye. I was moved as I’m sure you will be too – to see the lot of students universally.
Like most folks, I’ve played different roles in life. Of them I would say that my part-time student role was the m…
NOTE: Writing Your Own Functions
Did you ever hear of PROC JLAUNCH? No, neither did I until I tried the FCmp Function Editor. And, if you didn’t know, the FCmp Function Editor is an interactive tool for exploring and maintaining functions created with PROC FCMP. There are a lot of goo…
Platform Suite for SAS – Dev/Test/Prod Tips
Here are some of my tips for using the Platform Suite for SAS when you have Development, Test and Production environments to support your SDLC.Install and configure one instance of Platform LSF and Platform Process ManagerIf you have separate machines …