Tag: sas programming

Read what you need

With the pervasiveness of mobile devices, being able to read while “on the go” has been easier than ever. How many times have you found yourself in a situation where you pass the time waiting by reading something on your phone/iPad/tablet etc? With…

SAS trick: get the LIBNAME statement to create folders for you

When I work on SAS projects that create lots of files as results, it’s often a requirement that those files be organized in a certain folder structure. The exact structure depends on the project, but here’s an example: /results |__ html |__ images |__ xls |__ data Before you can […]

How to build a correlations matrix heat map with SAS

If you’ve watched any of the demos for SAS Visual Analytics (or even tried it yourself!), you have probably seen this nifty exploration of multiple measures. It’s a way to look at how multiple measures are correlated with one another, using a diagonal heat map chart. The “stronger” the color […]

How to find the ENGINE name for a SAS library

One of the great things about SAS libraries is that you can write your programs to read and write data without having to worry about where the data lives. SAS data set on a file system? Oracle table in a database server? Hadoop data in Hive? For many SAS applications, […]

e-Courses have gone mobile so you can too! Try the new e-Courses and register for a free IPad® at SAS Global Forum

We’ve gone mobile so you can too. Come see us at SAS Global Forum  and be one of the first to try our new e-Courses on the tablet!  SAS Programming 1 and SAS Programming 2, soon available on your tablet devices, also feature free access to the SAS …

Jedi SAS Tricks: Finding Tattoine with DS2

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one. The planet, called Kepler-16b, is the most “Tatooine-like” planet yet found in our galaxy.” While catching up on my reading, this article from NASA’s …

Upcoming SAS Talks: Getting started with SAS

Are you a new SAS user who isn’t sure where to begin? Have no fear, because you’re not alone. Here at SAS, we often receive questions from people who need help getting started with the software. Getting Started with SAS is the topic of a SAS Talks session that I […]

SAS training students talked, and we listened

“Speak and you shall be heard.”  Well… our students spoke, and we listened!  SAS Education is always striving to improve the training we deliver, and one of the most important ways we do this is by taking the time to listen to our students. Ove…