There SAS applications/procedures/features were not necessarily available since 2012. This year I paid special attention to them when began to use SAS 9.3. The following notes are totally my personal endorsement purely based my own experience as a user: XML File Reading: SAS XML Mapper SAS XML Mapper itself is not an elegant tool from […]
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My SAS Books: Shopping List 2012
Last year I threw away all my SAS books (to friends and colleagues in Beijing) before moving to US. You might agree that it’s not economically bound to transport such heavy books intercontinentally! Now I just start to build my SAS library one by one. I will most probably not buy more SAS books as […]
The Little SAS Book Fifth Edition
Five editions is a lot! If you had told me, back when we wrote the first edition, that some day we would write a fifth; I 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 those clever folk at […]
A sure-fire SAS Global Forum idea: yours for free
You can still get a paper proposal in for SAS Global Forum 2012. All you need is an idea. And probably some data. And also, some techniques for analyzing that data. Oh, and some conclusions would be helpful as well. I know: you are a busy person! You might not […]
The unlikely pedigree of sample data in SAS
We ship many sample data sets with SAS products. By using well-understood sample data sets, we can teach concepts or show off product features without distracting the audience/students with data collection or prep. At least, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. But occasionally the sample data can cause a […]
How to add HTMLBlue to your list of styles in SAS Enterprise Guide
One of the great innovations with SAS 9.3 is the focus on ODS statistical graphics. “Wait a minute,” you’re thinking, “weren’t ODS graphics added in SAS 9.2?” Yes, that’s true. But with SAS 9.3 there is even more capability: more analytical SAS proce…
ODS Graphics: new features and bundling in SAS 9.3
Rick Wicklin created his own list of Five Interface and Graphics Features that Everyone Can Use. It’s a very good summary of what you’ll immediately notice when you use analytics procedures in SAS display manager: cool graphs turned on by default…
ODS Graphics: new features and bundling in SAS 9.3
Rick Wicklin created his own list of Five Interface and Graphics Features that Everyone Can Use. It’s a very good summary of what you’ll immediately notice when you use analytics procedures in SAS display manager: cool graphs turned on by default. For …