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 […]
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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 […]