The 2011 user group season is upon us, and boy oh boy, what a start!!! Tomorrow’s TASS meeting at the SAS offices in Toronto is pushing 300 registrants. Perhaps it’s the (very) early promise of spring that’s motivating people to brave the chilly early …
SUNZ 2011 – a great conference
Well the New Zealand SAS User group (SUNZ) is over for another year, with over 250 people attending last Thursday. The presentations will be up soonish, but mine is up early here “Delivering Data Quality in the Real Word – A case study using SAS Dataflux” The main theme I got from the conference was the move […]
Installing Enterprise Miner 6.2 Client – Use the install and config option!
Had a weird one this week. SAS are installing a Grid environment at a customer site. We had already installed the SAS 9.2 clients on a dedicated Citrix box, so the dev team could test the new SAS 9.2 clients / functionality. We wanted to add a few clients, including the Enterprise Miner 6.2 client […]
2 Popular SAS Topics, 2 Awesome SAS Instructors, a Pinnacle SAS Event
Marty HultgrenMichelle BucheckerSAS Global Forum creates a big buzz in the SAS user community, so in order to find out what the fuss is about, I decided to chat with a couple of our instructors who would be going to Las Vegas. In addition to teach…
Using ODS Graphics Designer with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3
The ODS Graphics Designer allows you to design and build your own statistical graphs in SAS, without having to learn how to program in the new graph template language (GTL). The ODS Graphics Designer is a rich user interface that allows you to des…
Can SAS/GRAPH Get You a Gig in Vegas?
A few months ago I wrote a blog entry titled “SAS/GRAPH “SG” Procedures–Not Just for Statisticians!” It was so well received that I was invited to open for Celine Dion at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas! Well, not really, but I was invited (along …