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Making up for lost time (UTC vs. DST)

Did you oversleep this morning? If you live in the United States of America, Monday morning seems to have arrived just a bit earlier, accompanied by a bit more “dark” than usual. That’s because as good time-fearing citizens, we have all set our clocks ahead by one hour so as […]

7 questions with SAS e-Learning Manager, Nancy Goodyear

Editors note: Nancy Goodyear, a 27 year veteran of SAS, manages our self-paced e-Learning product development. We are thrilled that Nancy has agreed to share her knowledge and unique experience as a blogger on The SAS Training Post. Today we’ll introdu…

Use SAS Enterprise Guide to quickly understand a new data set

During IFSUG yesterday, Sunil Gupta gave attendees to his presentation a special homework assignment. Look into the SAS Enterprise Guide task ‘Characterize Data’. Sunil suggested that this was a simple approach to quickly getting a summary of all the v…

I’m the last person you’ll see at SAS Global Forum

A few years ago I had the privilege of presenting the last technical paper at SAS Global Forum. This year, conference chair Andy Kuligowski asked me to go one better than that, and present a talk at the official Closing Session. What will I talk about? That’s a mystery (maybe […]

A poor man’s approach to fuzzy data matching

Today at IFSUG, Chuck Patridge presented a wonderful talk about how to complete fuzzy matching using BASE SAS tools. Chuck has been programming SAS since 1979 and has been tasked multiple times with coming up with in-house solutions to address business…

What does it take to be a BI Dashboard Reporter?

At the IFSUG conference this week in Cary, NC I met Stephen Harris from Bank of America. Stephen gave the talk “Manage Your Partners Before You Manage Your Dashboards: Designing Great Dashboards” covering the business aspects of successfully implementi…

Be a code poet laureate

The next time you write a DATA step, try to express it in iambic pentameter.  Or instead of a SAS macro function, how about a SAS macro sonnet?  (Or, for the more base among you, a limerick?) That’s the spirit behind the code {poems} project.  You write a poem in […]

Numbers great and small: the problem of Big Datum

About once a month, a customer approaches SAS and asks a question of significance. By “significance”, I don’t necessarily mean “of great importance”, but instead I mean “of how SAS handles large numbers, or floating-point values with many significant digits”. In response, we always first ask why they asked. This […]