Biked to the train station this morning…felt the wind, watched trees waving in the breeze…flew past Highway 403 with trucks whizzing by…felt noble about being environmentally conscious…took the side path to the station…slowed to a halt besi…
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What does analytics mean to you?
Meet Radhika Kulkarni who heads the Advanced Analytics R&D Division at SAS Institute and is responsible for software development in Statistics, Operations Research, Econometrics, Text Analytics, Forecasting and Data Mining. Radhika is a Member of t…
Default server option and streaming output support in 9.3 stored processes
New in 9.3, stored processes can be assigned to run on the ‘Default Server’ server type. Developers can still force the stored process to run on only one server type but choosing the ‘Default Server’ allows the client application to specifically call t…
A Google Fight is not a fair fight
At least, that’s according to my colleague, Rick Wicklin. In a recent blog post, Rick points out that estimating popularity based on results of Google searches is a bad idea. Well, that just disqualified my claim that PROC REPORT is more popular than…
Using 3rd party shape files to build map charts in SAS
While talking to SAS users in Australia earlier this month, I often demonstrated the capabilities of the new Map Chart task in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3. Creating map charts has never been easier: select your map data source, then select your response d…
Splinters on my backside from sitting on the fence
Was the SAS Insight Series in New Zealand and Australia a prelude to the Rugby World Cup? Perhaps it was, even you cannot find it on the list of official events. But consider these coincidences: Like the Rugby World Cup, my trip was also sponsored…
Metadata source code storage in 9.3 stored processes
There is some sweet new functionality in 9.3 stored processes. One of them I particularly like is the additional option to store the SAS code within the metadata rather than in a separate .sas file. This is extremely beneficial when allowing the sto…
SAS certification’s 2011 U.S. tour
SAS certification exams at regional user group meetings It’s almost fall (at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere), and that means it’s time for regional user group meetings. And while these meetings are all about mingling with SAS users fr…