It’s that time of year again – Analytics 2012 is right around the corner! This year we are heading west to Las Vegas. Just like last year, I will be hosting the Inside Analytics 2012 video series, where I will bring you interviews from conferen…
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12.1 is Here!
So you might remember back in July when I told you “12 is the magic number.” I’m back to tell you that the new release of our analytical products is here, and it’s numbered 12.1. In previous years, updated analytical products were released only wit…
Browser wars: And the winner is …
Have you ever tried to put something on the Web, and then it looks different for other people (or maybe doesn’t work at all)? … And you eventually found that it was because they were using a different browser? That’s one of the reasons I like tradi…
Consumption versus creation of analytics
As we count down the date until Analytics 2012, we wanted to get some insight on trends, obstacles and even travel tips from our speakers. Zubin Dowlaty has more than 18 years of direct experience in applying quantitative methods to extract value from …
Learn how to use the CASE function in SAS Information Map Studio
There are some situations where you need to create a new data item based on different conditions. To do this, you need to use the CASE statement available in the Expression Editor window. Watch SAS Instructor, Lynn Matthews, give a step-by-step tuto…
Thoughts on analytics from an expert at Deloitte
Before Bheeshma Tumati shares his expertise at the Analytics 2012 Conference, we had the opportunity to ask him a few questions about the field of analytics. Tumati is a certified SAS professional with more than 16 years of experience. He works for …
Working mom’s advice on getting SAS certified
Martha Britton is a mother of three children, a wife, full-time employee and now a SAS certified professional. But getting that last title wasn’t easy. It all started earlier this year when Britton took the SAS Base Certification Programmer exam and …
Using a regular expression to validate a SAS variable name
Regular expressions provide a powerful method to find patterns in a string of text. However, the syntax for regular expressions is somewhat cryptic and difficult to devise. This is why, by my reckoning, approximately 97% of the regular expressions used in code today were copied and pasted from somewhere else. […]