Contributed by Stacy Hobson, Director of Customer Loyalty, SAS
I just got back to my desk after our SAS Global Forum staff meeting and I have to say… the excitement level is sky high! Each of us supporting Global Forum this year is truly grate…
Usability Research at SAS
For years, SAS has collected information from SAS Global Forum attendees about how they use SAS software. In recent years, we have also conducted small usability tests and surveys. The results are always useful and interesting. In an effort to …
Implement Boost Algorithm in SAS
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…