R is fast at processing data sets, but it is limited by memory (physical RAM plus swap). SAS processes much larger data sets, but it is slow because it keeps the data sets on the hard drive. Although computer processors have become faster and memory la…
Making Sense of Twitter with SAS
Last year, Richard Foley and Zack Marshall offered up the idea of calling Twitter from SAS right here in this blog. It was a really popular post. When I saw SAS and Twitter–how to harness SAS to grab data from Twitter in 2 easy steps by John M…
How a SAS Training Course is Made – Part 1
Editor’s Note: Meet Rick Cornell, SAS Training Course Development Manager. In a multi-part series, Rick will tell us about how a SAS training course is born. In this first installment, learn where a course comes from, what new courses are in …
Did you know … you can add comments to your SAS books?
I just learned today that you can add comments to your saved copies of the SAS 9.2 documentation. How cool is that! I’m not sure how I missed this news; I don’t want you to miss it too.
Starting with SAS 9.2, the PDF versions of SAS documentatio…
VARIMAX rotation of PLS loadings
Partial Least Square is one of several supervised dimension reduction techniques and attracts attention in recent years. In the one hand, PLS is able to generate a series of scores that maximize linear correlation between dependent variables and inde…
SAS: Where Also
Ever heard of ‘where also’? Neither did we.
We have to give credit to the guys at the SAS Community.
‘Where also’ allows you to add a series of where statements. The use acts like a single where statement with the and condition….