I personally nominated SAS ODS Report Writing Interface was the one of the best technology I found in SAS in 2012. It can generates reports cell by cell and row by row and has much flexibility to produce highly customized reports. Basically, to use it, first assign an ODS destination. Nothing new, and I prefer […]
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NOTE: DS2, SQL Within a SET Statement
Earlier this week, I suggested taking a look at DS2 (“the DATA step evolved”) as a learning opportunity for the New Year. I listed the advantages that DS2 offers over the traditional DATA step. One of those was the ability to use SQL within a SET state…
What Analytic Software are People Discussing?
by Robert A. Muenchen How can we measure the popularity or market share of analytic software? One way is to see what people are discussing. I’m in the process of updating my annual article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. Below … Continue reading →
Dummy coding in SAS
Here is a macro to generate binary features (also called dummy coding) from a nominal variable (also called a categorical variable, such as eye color). The automation saves time and avoids mistakes when there are many possible values to a category or …
NOTE: DS2, Learn Something New!
There’s never a bad time to learn something new. How about DS2?
In May of last year, upon returning home from SAS Global Forum, I wrote about DS2, a new alternative to DATA step. Generally available in V9.4, PROC DS2 is currently available in SAS…
LearningR!
I spent almost all of my blogging time last month to follow an online course in Coursera, Computing for Data Analysis (with R) by Dr. Roger Peng of Johns Hopkins, Biostatistics Department. I already checked out bunch of Coursera courses just to take a look at what else MOOC look like, this R course was […]
NOTE: Booked and Ready for SAS Global Forum 2013 #sasgf13
I referred back to my Booked for SGF 2012 post to make sure I’d done all what was necessary for my 2013 trip. I’mall set and ready to go!
There was a time when I’d need to put my slides onto floppy disks, keeping one for myself and giving one or two…
NOTE: Quick SAS Keyword Lookup in Chrome
In a previous blog I mentioned how to tell the Google Chrome browser to search by using a different search engine (or a specific search URL). I created a quick and easy way to search SAS conference proceedings and to search Visuwords for definit…