Tag: SAS

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 […]

End-To-End Debugging with Six Sigma DMAIC

I’ve mentioned my use of Six Sigma techniques for debugging a couple of times before (5 Whys and Ishikawa diagrams) but a mention of  the Six Sigma approach to end-to-end problem resolution (and process improvement) is long-overdue.

Known …

Weekend Clip: Data Scientist

Two tweets:

One blog post:
Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is too many posers
One job advertisement:
SAS Data Scientist ?(!)
A joke:
The biggest joke about data scientist is that the Google query “data scientis…

NOTE: SAS Professionals Advent Calendar

It’s December 1st, and that means it’s time to hop over to the SAS Professionals web site to begin the daily pleasure of opening the advent calendar to bring some Christmas cheer – and possibly winning a gift.

And if you’re not already a member, I r…

NOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries

Since the introduction of metadata-defined LIBNAMEs in the earliest days of version 9, it’s been a frustration that the security that can be applied within SAS metadata to control who can access libraries can be completely undermined by users simply …

NOTE: ODBC Performance

SAS is great at getting data from a huge variety of sources. With its SAS/ACCESS connectors, SAS can get data from these sources in an optimised fashion, i.e. using the native capabilities of the source data provider. In these days of increasingly larg…