Tag: SAS

An Analytical Valley: Big Data and Data Scientists (and SAS Programmers)

Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google, Facebook, eBay, LinkedLn all have strong presences in analytics. Besides such predominant companies, I’d also like to add Yahoo to the list although Yahoo is no longer in its peak. Yahoo is the largest sponsor […]

Predictive Modelling Competition Ends Soon

Back in August I mentioned that one of my clients was running a predictive modelling competition with a $10,000 prize fund. The competition closes on Friday September 30th, just a couple of weeks away, so if you intend to enter but haven’t done so yet,…

Predictive Modelling Competition Ends Soon

Back in August I mentioned that one of my clients was running a predictive modelling competition with a $10,000 prize fund. The competition closes on Friday September 30th, just a couple of weeks away, so if you intend to enter but haven’t done so yet,…

Scheduling Jobs

We’ve been on overload the last week with urgent requests as the big yearly meeting looms in the not so distant future. Unfortunately, this means that every single employee is frantically pulling data and hammering the db2 server with requests. I’ve been working around the noticeable slowness by either shortening my date ranges but I […]

More sas7bdat progress

The development version of the read.sas7bdat function (in the sas7bdat package) now reads field labels and formats. In addition, errors of the type “found <x> <type> subheaders where 1 expected” are now a thing of the past. These improvements are largely due to work by Clint Cummins. The function also works on some files generated […]

NOTE: Substringing Without Notes

The SUBSTR function is a much-used function but can be frustrating when it issues an abrupt NOTE to the log when the string isn’t long enough to produce a result.

If the design of your code means that you’re happy to allow a null result from you…

NOTE: Substringing Without Notes

The SUBSTR function is a much-used function but can be frustrating when it issues an abrupt NOTE to the log when the string isn’t long enough to produce a result.

If the design of your code means that you’re happy to allow a null result from you…

New Admin Forum on SAS Communities

I read some great SAS news this weekend. I found out there’s a new admin related forum on the SAS Communities site! If you head over to http://communities.sas.com/ and look in the list of Communities and Forums you’ll see a new header, Depl…