Earlier this year we quietly updated The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition. While these changes didn’t get a lot of attention, they are, in our opinion, critical to keeping The Little SAS Book useful and accurate. This is especially important for beginners who can’t be expected to know the history of SAS software or how […]
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Ignore This Blog Post
The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition is now a year old. I have already written posts about What’s New in this edition, and the very cool XLSX LIBNAME engine. So what more is there to say? A lot, it turns out. The Sixth Edition was our biggest rewrite since the Second Edition introduced the new […]
Data in the Time of Pandemic
With COVID-19 spreading worldwide, accurate data have become more important than ever. In this blog, I share some of my favorite sources: The Economist Reported deaths often underestimate actual deaths. One way to get at the real numbers is to compare total deaths from all causes versus the typical death rate. This “mortality tracker” plots […]
Are you good at debugging SAS code?
I have always believed that good debuggers are good coders for the simple reason that once you understand a bug, you will be better able to avoid it in the future. You can test your debugging skills with this blog I wrote for SAS Press.
Happy Birthday SAS Press!
Do a little time travel with this short video showing highlights from the last 30 years for SAS Press and the tech world.
The Little SAS Book 6.0
Six editions is a lot! If you had told us, back when we wrote the first edition of The Little SAS Book, that someday we would write a sixth; we would have wondered how we could possibly find that much to say. After all, it is supposed to be The Little SAS Book, isn’t it? But […]
Accessing Excel Files Using LIBNAME XLSX
If you have been using SAS for long, you have probably noticed that there is generally more than one way to do anything. The Little SAS Book has long covered reading and writing Microsoft Excel files with the IMPORT and EXPORT procedures, but for the Sixth Edition we decided it was time to add two […]
The Little SAS Book 6.0: What’s New
Six editions is a lot! If you had told us, back when we wrote the first edition of The Little SAS Book, that someday we would write a sixth; we would have wondered how we could possibly find that much to say. After all, it is supposed to be The Little SAS Book, isn’t it? But […]