One of the biggest hits of the demo hall at SAS Global Forum was the cute Koala bear swag from MetaCoda.com. Everyone wanted to stop by the booth and pick one up for their badge. Driving people to your booth is the first step, but then you must have co…
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Go home on time with these 5 PROC SQL tips
How can you go home on time? Take a quick tour with these 5 tips that I was able to summarize for my students in the SAS SQL 1: Essentials class yesterday. Since they found it handy and asked if it could become a blog post, I thought I’d share […]
SASware Ballot has history, but still relevant
SAS has a rich history of working together with SAS customers to explore new ideas. Since 1976, we have been asking our customers what they would like to see in SAS software. The first SASware Ballot was released that year and has steadily grown along…
Two presentations, one hour, lots of data strategy
My friend and fellow blogger Steve Overton was tasked with presenting not one by two papers in a single one hour block. My original strategy was to take Instagram pictures of him running down the hall to get to the second session on time, but since bot…
The magical ESTIMATE (and CONTRAST) statements
When asked to select the best (or worst) of something in a business setting, do you wish you had “magic glasses” to see the answer? PROC GLM and other statistical modeling procedures have their own versions of such an item with their ESTIMATE (and CONT…
Not in Orlando for SAS Global Forum? Attend virtually!
We already miss you and wish you could be here. WAIT! Don’t cry in your office! There are so many ways to stay connected to the SAS Global Forum happenings this year. If you are not able to attend in person, here is a list of sites that you can […]
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125 years of experience can’t be wrong
Occasionally we see students in our more advanced courses who have skipped the Programming 1: Essentials class. Usually they are familiar with SAS or other programming languages. Sometimes they are even fluent and proficient in other programming langua…
What would SAS Stored Process Key #51 be?
This past Monday, Tricia and I released our 2nd book this year. “The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes” provides a step-by-step approach to transitioning from SAS code into user driven (prompted) stored processes. Trimming down all the things yo…