Tag: SAS

Convert written numbers to Arabic numerals

In Natural Language Processing it can be helpful within a larger body of text to standardize written numbers to Arabic numerals. For example, we will change “I am forty-six years old” to “I am 46 years old,” so the age … C…

New SAS BI Book: a good read for Platform Administrators too

I’ve just added a link to the new Building Business Intelligence Using SAS: Content Development Examples book by Tricia Aanderud and Angela Hall to my reading list of information resources I find useful for SAS® platform administration. Thei…

SAS & JBoss: Too Many Open Files

I’ve been seeing some ‘Too many open files‘ exceptions in the SAS® mid-tier JBoss logs on my Ubuntu Linux server. I was surprised about this because I remember during installation I had followed the guidance in the SAS documentat…

NOTE: SGF 2012 Early-Bird Registration Ends March 19th

If you haven’t already registered for SAS Global Forum 2012 (SGF) you need to hurry-up because the early-bird discounts will end on March 19th.

If you’re not convinced of the value of attending, check-out last year’s best contributed papers to see the…

NOTE: B&D to be Acquired by Sopra

One of the UK’s largest independant providers of SAS skills, Business & Decision UK, is to be acquired by the Sopra Group. Jointly announced with the same press release (B&D, Sopra) on the 13th February, the transaction is expected to be comple…

SAS & IWA: Verifying Trusted for Delegation Status

I mentioned in a previous post that host machines need to be Trusted for Delegation when a SAS® software component, such as a SAS Workspace Server, needs to make outgoing connections to secondary servers when the initial incoming connection was ma…

In database processing is great! (when you use it!)

Netezza and Teradata are both great examples of distributed processing databases that combine the power of SAS with their own platform to deliver a powerful analytics tool. The problem? Clients rarely use it. We have seen several clients who possess this functionality. Some of who purchased the DB at the request of the analysts, only […]

Not Documented, Not Exist?!

Weeks before I first got the column edit mode in SAS 9.3 Enhanced Editor. Since had no previous SAS versions in machine, I just checked the online documentation of SAS 9.2 in which it’s not mentioned (while documented in SAS 9.3) then I concluded the column mode is an exciting new feature in SAS 9.3: […]