Since this is my first post on The SAS Training Post blog, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kathy and I am an instructor at SAS Headquarters in Cary, NC. I teach SAS courses in our on-campus training center, at regional training ce…
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How to open a SAS table in SAS Web Report Studio
Business users of SAS are finding the Web Report Studio capabilities incredibly beneficial for viewing, creating, and sharing reports on the Web. The easy-to-use query and reporting software provides a point-and-click interface for building reports f…
The best part of writing a book is learning something new
Many of the chapters in my new book Building Business Intelligence Using SAS: Content Development Examples were straightforward to write but one in particular was the beast. Neither Tricia nor I wanted to tackle the SAS BI Dashboard chapter. Just chalk…
With SAS and Facebook, who needs Meetup?
In my previous blog post I talked about how to map your Outlook contacts and create a list of the 3 people nearest the zip code you were traveling to. That’s all fine and dandy, but my friends often don’t update me when they move and we just connec…
Review your metadata profiles using SAS Enterprise Guide automation
We call it the “metadata profile”, but really it’s like a telephone number that connects you to your SAS environment. Just as a telephone number has component parts (country code, area code, exchange), the metadata profile contains information that allow you to “dial in” to your SAS servers. This information […]
Complete your order using preview results in SAS Add-in to MS Office
Recently I’ve made several online purchases buying eBooks for the new Amazon Kindle my daughter received as a holiday gift. The online checkout process is very straight-forward, especially with the ‘Continue’ buttons that change to a ‘Place your order’…
How to use SAS to strengthen friendships
As SAS Instructors we travel fairly frequently, and like most of you we have friends scattered throughout the country. High school friends, college friends, family we like (or pretend to). And if I’m on a business trip, I like to see if they are avai…
6 questions with data mining expert, John Elder
John F. Elder IV, Ph.D., is President of Elder Research Inc. (ERI), a data mining consulting team. He has authored innovative data mining tools, is a frequent keynote speaker and was co-chair of the 2009 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conferenc…