Tag: SAS Communities

Nine #SocialMedia Speaker Tips to Use Before, During and After Events

Did you know that social media can help you out with speaking at an event? Yes, even now, while you plan. What’s more, it can be instrumental in maximizing your entire presenter experience before, during and after your presentation. Here are some ideas to get you thinking.

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Launching the Developers Community in SAS Communities

As word spreads that SAS integrates with open source technologies, people are beginning to explore how to connect, interact with, and use SAS in new ways. More and more users are examining the possibilities and with this comes questions like: How do I code A, integrate B, and accomplish C? […]

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SAS code golf: find the max digit in a string of digits

“Code golf” is a fun programming pastime that challenges you to solve a problem with the least amount of code possible. Like regular golf, the goal is to use fewest code “strokes” to hit the mark. Here’s a recent challenge that was posted to me via Twitter. @cjdinger @SASJedi got […]

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How to share your SAS knowledge with your professional network

As you might have heard, sasCommunity.org — a wiki-based web site that has served as a user-sourced SAS repository for over a decade — is winding down. This was a difficult decision taken by the volunteer advisory board that runs the site. However, the decision acknowledges a new reality: SAS […]

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Binge on this series: Fun with ODS Graphics

SAS Community member @tc (a.k.a. Ted Conway) has found a new toy: ODS Graphics. Using PROC SGPLOT and GTL (Graph Template Language), along with some creative data prep steps, Ted has created several fun examples that show off what you can do with a bit of creativity, some math knowledge, […]

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How to read the contents of a file into a SAS macro variable

I’ve been working on a SAS program that can add content to the SAS Support Communities (more on that in a future post). Despite my 20+ years of SAS experience, there are a lot of SAS programming tricks that I don’t know. Or that I use so infrequently that I […]

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How SAS Support Communities can expedite your tech support experience

SAS Technical Support has earned a wonderful reputation for being friendly, knowledgeable, and thorough. Every customer that I talk to is delighted by the experience. That’s why what I’m about to say might be heresy, but here it goes. If you have question about how to accomplish a task using […]

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