As I mentioned in my earlier post, the two Alberta meetings were truly inspiring. The Edmonton SAS Users Group (eSUG) has quickly grown in size and in engagement over the past few years and given the handshakes and smiling faces I saw at last week’s me…
Strip Characters From Between Two Delimiters
I obviously need more practice using SAS. Sometimes I can figure stuff out, other times I feel like a junior programmer. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out how to extract text between two multi-character delimiters.
Here is an exampl…
Proc Fcmp(1): from VBA to SAS
Why use SAS in finance: SAS is a distinguished software package in statistics with more than 40-year development history. Starting from as a scripting tool to do ANOVA for agricultural experimental design in North Carolina, SAS has been heavily built o…
How To Make Data Preparation Easier: Shake the Trees
At the M2010 Data Mining Conference, Dick DeVeaux gave a keynote speech about the Seven Deadly Sins of Data Mining. In this video, he gives us a little more insight into these common data mining mistakes and offers some advice.
Statistical Analysis for Better Tasting Wine
In this video, M2010 Data Mining Conference keynote speaker, Dr. Simon Sheather compares classification trees and logistic regression and discusses situations in which logistic regression is expected to outperform classification trees and vice ver…
New Friends and A Growing Community: The CSUG Experience
How do I sum up the experiences I’ve just had succinctly? Well, those of you who are regular readers know that I am rarely succinct. So I suppose I’ll just let it all out, as I normally do.I’m sitting at the Calgary airport waiting to board a flight …