Those of you who have anxiously been awaiting the next installments in my “What is there to do in Cary?” series may have noticed a distinct lack of output over the last month or so. This is due to the fact that I have been forced to spend my tim…
The Culture of the M2010 Data Mining Conference
Dr. Goutam Chakraborty is a professor of marketing and founder of the SAS and OSU Data Mining Certificate Program at Oklahoma State University. He has been involved with the annual data mining conference for five years and also teaches a Business …
Wide-Eyed & Wo(a)ndering at SAS HQ in Cary, NC
Hi Everyone. Well.It’s been a little while since I’ve committed word to paper and pushed out the thoughts burning at the edges of my brain… or perhaps its just the extreme heat here in Cary, NC, which is giving me that impression! I can practically s…
Passing a range to a SAS stored process via URL
Stored processes can be called via the SAS Stored Process Web Application using a URL. Though powerful and useful, the advanced usage concerning ranges requires explanation. Background Say you have a program called /path/myprogram on server sasserver, …
SAS Tech Report Reader’s Survey Uncovers Interesting Questions
Although I’ve only been with SAS for a little more than two years, I’ve made many SAS friends and I’m beginning to feel a part of the SAS user family. But as the editor of the SAS Tech Report, I really wanted to validate some of my assumptio…
Discovering the Power of ODS ExcelXP Tagsets
The ODS ExcelXP tagset is pretty powerful stuff. Hidding columns, changing the print layout to landscape, updating the spreadsheet names, defining the default column width and row height, etc – it’s all available using options within the ExcelXP setup….