Tag: SAS

BBC, on SAS

The BBC’s Technology of Business site featured an interview with SAS’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Keith Collins this week. The interview is themed on “big data” and it includes Keith’s thoughts on the accelerating interest in understanding one’s cu…

BBC, on SAS

The BBC’s Technology of Business site featured an interview with SAS’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Keith Collins this week. The interview is themed on “big data” and it includes Keith’s thoughts on the accelerating interest in understanding one’s cu…

Map and Reduce in MapReduce: a SAS Illustration

In last post, I mentioned Hadoop, the open source implementation of Google’s MapReduce for parallelized processing of big data. In this long National Holiday, I read the original Google paper, MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat and got that the terminologies of “map” and “reduce” were basically borrowed […]

Automatically Generate Days of the Month

Run a monthly report and absolutely hate having to change the macro variables? Luckily SAS has the handy intnx function to make your life easier. The following code will automatically generate the date for the first / last day of the previous month.  Modify the -1 to however many previous months you need to adapt […]

NOTE: Base SAS Tip Sheets

I think I may have mentioned these in passing before, but they’re certainly worth a repeat reference. The right-hand margin of the Base SAS Focus Area on the SAS Support web site offers a number of free tip sheets for download. I’ve been using the…

NOTE: Base SAS Tip Sheets

I think I may have mentioned these in passing before, but they’re certainly worth a repeat reference. The right-hand margin of the Base SAS Focus Area on the SAS Support web site offers a number of free tip sheets for download. I’ve been using the…

StackExchange and CrossValidated: An Epidemiologist’s Review

This seems like as good a day as any to review CrossValidated, and the whole StackExchange constellation of websites. It’s been a month since I joined, exactly, and today I also crossed the 1,000 reputation threshold on the site. So why not give my impressions of it? First, how I got there in the first […]

Birthday gift code puzzle

This is a SAS code puzzle. The code works as is, but can you make it simpler? We do this while enjoying simulation and the quirkiness of the Gregorian calendar. The problem A person receives a gift on a random day. Relative to his birthday, how many da…