It’s said that the only things you can’t avoid are Death and Taxes … Well, in this blog, I’m going to avoid the “Death” one (for now), and just show you some graphs on taxes in the U.S., since the deadline for paying 2012 taxes is quickly approachin…
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R Tackles Big Garbage
April 1, 2013 – Although the capabilities of the R system for data analytics have been expanding with impressive speed, it has heretofore been missing important fundamental methods. A new function works with the popular plyr package to provide these missing … Continue reading →
Baseball’s loss is your gain: The ODS Graphics course is here!
It’s been quite a while since my face has graced the SAS Training Post, so some of you may have been wondering: Did Mike retire? Was he traded to another company for a blogger to be named later? Did he leave to pursue his lifelong dream of play…
Rhymes, mnemonics and tips in learning SAS
Have you used a rhyme or spelling mnemonic to help you remember the spelling of a word? For me, the memorable, “i” before “e” except after “c” rhyme quickly comes to mind. Another memory tip I use is with the spelling of the word, stationer…
Upcoming SAS Talks: Custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide
If you’re using SAS Enterprise Guide and you’re not using custom tasks, you’re missing out! Custom tasks are new features you can plug in – features that weren’t originally packaged with the software. (And contrary to the Pulp-O-Mizer poster that I created, they do not come FROM OUTER SPACE. Usually.) […]
Using Windows PowerShell to find registered tables and columns in SAS metadata
In a previous post, I described how to write a Windows PowerShell script to connect to a SAS Metadata Server. In this post, I’ll show an example of something useful that you can do after you’ve established that connection. Specifically, I’ll show how to “ask” the SAS Metadata Server about […]
Using Windows PowerShell to connect to a SAS Metadata Server
SAS Integration Technologies provides a flexible platform to create all types of apps, from simple utilities to full-blown applications. As part of the research for my SAS Global Forum 2013 paper (Create Your Own Client Apps Using SAS Integration Technologies), I’ve been trying to invent some useful examples that you […]
SAS analysis of the #1 most popular baby names
I’m sure that most of you have seen the really cool interactive Baby Name Voyager, right? If not, go have a look and try it out (be sure to plug in your name, and the names in your family, and so on). That’s a pretty cool application! … But it m…