If you’re like me and the rest of the conference team, you’ve probably attended more virtual events this year than you ever thought possible. You can see the general evolution of virtual events by watching the early ones from April or May and compare them to the recent ones. We […]
Connect, learn and share during virtual SAS Global Forum 2021 was published on SAS Users.
SAS’ Leonid Batkhan explains the data cleansing task of removing unwanted repeated characters in SAS character variables.
Removing repeated characters in SAS strings was published on SAS Users.
SAS’ Leonid Batkhan reviews SAS functionality related to the character strings quoting/unquoting, then dives deep into unquoting SAS character variables.
How to unquote SAS character variable values was published on SAS Users.
Analytics is playing an increasingly strategic role in the ongoing digital transformation of organizations today. However, to succeed and scale your digital transformation efforts, it is critical to enable analytics skills at all tiers of your organization. In a recent blog post covering 4 principles of analytics you cannot ignore, […]
Analytics for everyone with SAS Viya was published on SAS Users.
SAS’ Leonid Batkhan reveals how to change lengths for all character variables in a data set and all data sets in a data library to facilitate data migration to Unicode encoding environment.
Expanding lengths of all character variables in SAS data sets was published on SAS Users.
One of the first and most important steps in analyzing data, whether for descriptive or inferential statistical tasks, is to check for possible errors in your data. In my book, Cody’s Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Third Edition, I describe a macro called %Auto_Outliers. This macro allows you to search […]
Finding Possible Data Errors Using the %Auto_Outliers Macro was published on SAS Users.
In part 1 of this post, we looked at setting up Spark jobs from Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) to load and save data to and from Hadoop. Now we are moving on to the next step in the analytic cycle, scoring data in Hadoop and executing SAS code as a […]
Data and Analytics Innovation using SAS & Spark – part 2 was published on SAS Users.
This article is not a tutorial on Hadoop, Spark, or big data. At the same time, no prerequisite knowledge of these technologies is required for understanding. We’ll give you enough background prior to diving into the details. In simplest terms, the Hadoop framework maintains the data and Spark controls and […]
Data and Analytics Innovation using SAS & Spark – part 1 was published on SAS Users.