Tag: SAS

NOTE: Positive Moves in the SAS Blogosphere

I’m pleased to see today’s announcement from SAS regarding the merge of two SAS blogs (The DO Loop (written by Rick Wicklin) and The SAS Dummy (previously written by Chris Hemedinger)). As the announcement makes clear, change was needed. The new blog, …

Take a Different View on NOTE:

The NOTE: blog is very kindly hosted by Google Blogger. The Blogger platform has recently had some alternative means of viewing the content added to it. If you visit NOTE: at http://www.NoteColon.info/view (note the /view on the end of the URL) you’ll …

NOTE: SAS Office Analytics for Midsize Business

Since when did “mid size” become one word? Answer: since SAS recently released a new product bundle that means small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can get the value of Add-in for Microsoft Office (AMO) without the expense of Business Intelligence …

Making SOAP calls from SAS! Integrating with web services

One of the issues with SAS for many IT departments is the lack of integration with service oriented architecture (SOA). The good news is with many new features coming online with versions 9.X+ are service oriented. Lets look quickly at the Proc SOAP procedure now available. For those SAS programmers out there that aren’t familiar with […]

Strip Non-Printable ASCII Characters (SAS)

Say in your SAS data set, which comes from a text file, XML, or database, has non-ASCII characters that look like garbage—perhaps an odd square. These are probably control characters that mean something to some system, but they may be useless to …

NOTE: Yet more EG Custom Tasks

In the past I’ve bemoaned the lack of (free) third-party Enterprise Guide custom tasks (add-ins). Nothing much has changed in that respect, but SAS’s Chris Hemedinger recently released another. On this occasion it’s for shrinking character variables to…

World Statistics in Real Time

As SAS practitioners we deal with numbers every day, right? And, in the business intelligence systems that we help to build, we capture what’s going-on within our company plus what’s going-on outside with customers, competitors, and the world around us…

The Bus Factor

What is your project’s “Bus Factor”? If you don’t know, or you don’t know what the Bus Factor is, you’d better read this article! If you do know your Bus Factor and it’s too low, read this article for some advice on how to increase it.

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