For every project in SAS®, the first step is almost always making your data available. This blog shows you how to load three of the most common input data types—a data set, a text file, and a Microsoft Excel file—into SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) tables. The three methods that […]
Learn the three easiest ways to load data into CAS tables was published on SAS Users.
Move over video games and sports. Make room for escape rooms. This burgeoning form of entertainment found its roots in the video gaming movement. Escape rooms tap into a player’s drive to reach the next level, solve a puzzle and win. Escape rooms present a physical game that traps you […]
A playful way to get your hands on SAS: the Data Science Escape Rooms was published on SAS Users.
As a data scientist, did you ever come to the point where you felt the need for an evolved analytics platform bringing together the disparate skills of open source and commercial software? A system that can enable advanced analytic capabilities. This is now possible and easy to implement. With many […]
Deploy SAS Viya on AWS – Quick Start was published on SAS Users.
What is Item Response Theory? Item Response Theory (IRT) is a way to analyze responses to tests or questionnaires with the goal of improving measurement accuracy and reliability. A common application is in testing a student’s ability or knowledge. Today, all major psychological and educational tests are built using IRT. […]
Understanding Item Response Theory with SAS was published on SAS Users.
Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple. – Dr. Seuss It seems appropriate that this blog include a Dr. Seuss quote about learning when discussing a new simple, yet deceivingly powerful initiative to help SAS customers with their journey to discover as much as possible about our […]
New related resource initiative in the SAS Help Center was published on SAS Users.
This article is a follow-on to a recent post from Jeff Owens, Getting started with SAS Containers. In that post, Jeff discussed building and running a single container for a SAS Viya runtime/IDE. Today we will go through how to build and run the full SAS Viya stack – visual […]
Deploying the Full SAS Viya Stack in Kubernetes was published on SAS Users.
Want to learn SAS programming but worried about taking the plunge? Over at SAS Press, we are excited about an upcoming publication that introduces newbies to SAS in a peer-review instruction format we have found popular for the classroom. Professors Jim Blum and Jonathan Duggins have written Fundamentals of Programming […]
Interview with new SAS Press authors: Jim Blum and Jonathan Duggins was published on SAS Users.
Two sayings I’ve heard countless times throughout my life are “Work smarter, not harder,” and “Use the best tool for the job.” If you need to drive a nail, you pick up a hammer, not a wrench or a screwdriver. In the programming world, this could mean using an existing […]
SAS or Python? Why not use both? Using Python functions inside SAS programs was published on SAS Users.