algorithms are proven to be very effective data mining tools, either used stand alone, or as a building block to handle nonlinearity, etc. Implementation of Boost algorithm in SAS is not easy to find although it is not difficult to wr…
A Macro for SVD
SVD is at the heart of many modern machine learning algorithms. As a computing vehicle for PCA, SVD can be obtained using PROC PRINCOMP on the covariance matrix of a given matrix withou correction for intercept. With SVD, we are ready to ca…
Online data collecting @indeed
FILENAME test URL “http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=sas+programmer&limit=100&fromage=0&start=0” DEBUG LRECL=700;DATA test; infile test length=len; input record $varying700. len; *****DELETE MOST LINES W/O JOB;if index(record, ‘cmpid’)=0 th…
How to create a macro variable containing a list of variables in a DATA set
Sometimes it is very handy to have a macro variable contanining the variables names of the dataset. Here are the 2 different ways you can create a macro variable with list of variables names …
*Method1: Using Proc Contents and Pro…
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Spring has sprung in North Carolina and here on the support.sas.com team our thoughts have turned towards sunny afternoons, daffodils, and — oh my goodness! — all we have…
Excel Pivot Tables and Filtering
So I get a post this morning from my client saying everything looks great and they can’t find any issues with the latest release. Happy moment, cigar time.Well, at this point I am over on the project and am working on my own time. That’s fine consideri…