by Bob Muenchen Analytics tools take significant effort to master, so once learned people tend to stick with them for much of their careers. This makes the tools used in academia of particular interest in the study of future trends … Continue reading →
Tag: SAS
SAS Certification on a Budget
I recently returned from SAS Global Forum where Andra Northup and I presented an updated and expanded version of our paper “SAS Certification as a Tool for Professional Development.” You can read our paper here. SAS certification isn’t exactly new. The first SAS certification exam was offered way back in 1999. So it’s fascinating to […]
SAS Certification on a Budget
I recently returned from SAS Global Forum where Andra Northup and I presented an updated and expanded version of our paper “SAS Certification as a Tool for Professional Development.” You can read our paper here. SAS certification has been around for a while. The first SAS certification exam was offered way back in 1999. So […]
Confidence Intervals for Binomial Proportion (Again): A Quick Note
In Lex’s library of the latest SAS Global Forum 2015 papers, I found an interesting paper by Wu Gong, Jeffreys Interval for One-Sample Proportion with SAS/STAT Software, where SAS MCMC procedure and a so called Random Walk Metropolis Algorithm were implemented to calculate the Jeffreys interval for binomial proportion. Years ago I wrote several posts […]
Fastest Growing Software for Scholarly Analytics: Python, R, KNIME…
In my ongoing quest to “analyze the world of analytics”, I’ve added the following section below to The Popularity of Data Analysis Software: It would be useful to have growth trend graphs for each of the analytics packages I track, … Continue reading →
Google Scholar Finds Far More SPSS Articles; Analytics Forecast Updated
Only last August I wrote that among scholars, the use of R had probably exceeded that of SPSS to become their most widely used software for analytics. That forecast was based on Google Scholar searches focused on one year at a … Continue reading →
It’s Analytics Survey Time!
Every other year Rexer Analytics surveys Data Analysts, Predictive Modelers, Data Scientists, Data Miners, and all other types of analytic professionals, students, and academics regarding the software they use. I then update the main results in The Popularity of Data Analysis … Continue reading →
List Manipulations Made Easy (and little bit of UGLY): the New DOSUBL Function
Typically, SAS list manipulations needs bunch of SAS I/O functions which are not necessarily well known to all SAS programmers. The new DOSUBL function makes this technique much more easier and little bit of ugly I must admit: %MACRO ExpandVarList(data=_LAST_, var=_ALL_); %if %upcase(%superq(data)) = _LAST_ %then %let data = &SYSLAST; %let rc […]