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Million dollar buffets, gravity-defying stunts and big data – it’s all at Analytics 2012

by michele reister • October 3, 2012 • Comments Off

Did you know that 17 of the 20 biggest hotels in the U.S. are in Las Vegas? Everything in Sin City seems larger than life — so it makes sense that we would host one of the largest analytics conferences right in the middle of the action. We know the [….

A custom tasks book: by the numbers

by Chris hemedinger • October 2, 2012 • Comments Off

Milestone achieved: I’ve completed the final chapter of Creating Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide using Microsoft .NET and turned it over to SAS Press for editing and production. It’s scheduled to be available in early 2013. I committed to writing this book nearly 5 years ago. I’ll engage in […]

Watch and learn: Save time with Task Templates

by Brooke Fortson • September 28, 2012 • Comments Off

In this SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office Tip, instructor Rob McAfee teaches how to save steps with Task Templates. Using Task Templates saves you time and ensures consistency when you are creating several similar reports and analysis. A Task Templat…

SAS CEO Jim Goodnight talks high-performance analytics and innovation

by Brooke Fortson • September 25, 2012 • Comments Off

SAS CEO Jim Goodnight will be a keynote speaker at the Analytics 2012 conference coming up in just a few short weeks. I had the chance to sit down with him for a one-on-one interview to get a preview and find out what attendees can expect at this year

SAS Custom Tasks: Wrap your variable names appropriately

by Chris hemedinger • September 24, 2012 • Comments Off

The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book: Creating Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide using Microsoft .NET. If your custom task generates a SAS program, the chances are pretty high that your program will reference one or more variables within a SAS data set. Despite our best efforts, […]