Last week I attended a meeting of the Toronto Area SAS Society. (Okay, I didn’t just attend; I was a presenter as well.) This user group meeting contained a feature that I had never seen before: “Solutions to the Posed Problem”. Weeks before the meeting, an “open problem” was posted […]
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It be "International Talk Like a Pirate" day – Arrr!!!
Avast Mateys! Did you know that International Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up?!? (September 19) Here’s the official website, if you’d like more info. And what better way to get into the spirit of things than to use SAS/GRAPH to plot some real pir…
Always learning something new, two awesome Enterprise Guide tricks
Who says anyone is an expert at something? I definitely do not when it comes to SAS (well, anything for that matter). Each time I sit through a presentation at a conference I learn something new. During the SAS Western Users Conference, fondly know as …
Save time by creating SAS Favorites
In this SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office Tip, instructor Rob McAfee teaches how to create and manage SAS Favorites. Creating and using SAS Favorites allows you to save time by quickly navigating to the reports and analysis that you use the most. SAS F…
Hobnob with your fellow wizards
The countdown to Analytics 2012 is on! In less than two months, hundreds of analytics professionals will converge on Las Vegas to learn, network and even have some fun. If you haven’t registered, this blog post might give you some incentive to do so…
Defining a custom color palette for BI Dashboard bar charts
Out of the box, the simple bar graph uses the same color for each bar. A frequent request from users is to define a standard color palette for the dashboard indicators so distinct bars are the same color in each indicator or from refresh to refresh. Wi…
How will big data and high-performance analytics affect your world?
If you’re in the field of analytics, you’re more than familiar with the term ‘big data.’ It’s one of the big (no pun intended) topics on the agenda at Analytics 2012. Keynote speaker Will Hakes will kick it off with his presentation, “The R…
Watch and learn: How to use user-defined formats to define data items
SAS Instructor Lynn Matthews teaches how to use user-defined formats to define data items in SAS Information Map Studio. This video tip shows you how to take one column from your data source and show it three different ways. This is going to be done …