SAS Education has released a free training course on What’s New in the SAS® Add-In 5.1 for Microsoft Office, SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1, and SAS® 9.3 Stored Processes. With this free training course you can stay up-to-date on the latest features a…
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SAS Professionals provides climate for success
“Welcome to the English summer.” “In the US you have climate. In England we have Weather.” These are just two of the familiar phrases I heard yesterday during the SAS Professionals Convention held at SAS UK in Marlow. The weather changed from sun to dark clouds to rain and even […]
Clustering Olympic medalists in JMP
Now the summer has begun, Olympic fever is starting to rise in many countries. In the meantime I took a look at www.databaseolympics.com to the results of last summer Olympic Games in 2008 in Beijing. I wondered if it would be possible to discover patt…
Counting how many times a web link has been shared on Twitter or Facebook
As of this writing, I’ve posted 34 blogs posts during 2012 (not counting this one), which have been shared on Twitter a total of 368 times and on Facebook a total of 92 times. Those aren’t exactly “viral” numbers, but I try not to get too hung up on it. […]
DATALINES Step Boundary
Know your step boundaries! Will the DATA Step below execute as is? data a; infile ‘c:\temp\myfile.txt’; input x y z; No. A RUN statement or other step boundary is required to mark the end of the DATA Step and cause the step to execute. Will the DATA…
100% stacked bar chart in SAS’s SGPLOT
A 100% stacked bar chart is useful for comparing the relative frequencies of an m x n table where frequencies in m are very different. While this is easy to do in Excel, SAS requires an extra step, which you … Continue reading →
New Community for SAS Drug Development Users
It has been a while since I got to announce a new community for SAS users. Our latest community contains great information targeted at users of SAS Drug Development. This community deviates from our usual offering. The SAS Drug Development Forum …
Where to find what? A guide to SAS resources
Having recently written my first blog post on the SAS Users Groups blog with the QUEST to Learn SAS article I have become inspired to share more with the SAS community outside of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. At our last QUEST (Queensland Users Expl…