Some people might think it’s an urban legend that SAS gives its employees free M&M’s. Well, I’m here to tell you it’s true! Every Wednesday at the Cary headquarters, a bucket of M&M’s shows up in each of the break rooms. I’m only half-kidding i…
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Jedi SAS Tricks: Pattern Search in DS2
Finding a pattern like a phone number or national ID number embedded in text can be difficult and time consuming. The traditional DATA step has a family of functions (collectively referred to as PRX functions) that allow using Perl regular expressions …
What fuel is 1000 times dirtier than diesel?
I recently read an interesting article about petroleum coke (petcoke). A lot of it is produced in the US, and lately a lot of it is consumed (burned) in India … contributing to air pollution there. The article mentioned some numbers in the text, but …
How to scrape data from a web page using SAS
The internet is rich with data, and much of that data seems to exist only on web pages, which — for some crazy reason — are designed for humans to read. When students/researchers want to apply data science techniques to analyze collect and analyze that data, they often turn to […]
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Let’s analyze Trump’s tweets
Since Trump because the US president, many people have noticed that he posts a lot of tweets. While some people choose to analyze and critique the content of those tweets, I was more curious about something a little less controversial – the timing and quantity. Follow along as I dig into […]
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When and where have they legalized ‘it’?
Whether or not to legalize marijuana is a hotly debated topic these days. And no matter which side of the debate you’re on, I think you will be interested in seeing several ways to visualize which states have legalized marijuana, and when … Their Version Here’s the original graph that […]
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Learn more about SAS Viya with resources from SAS Education
SAS Viya is an exciting addition to the SAS Platform, allowing you to conduct analysis faster than ever before and providing you the flexibility to utilize open source technologies and generate insights from data in any computing environment. The blog …
What’s the most likely location for Amazon’s HQ2?
The most highly anticipated business announcement this fall is probably the location for Amazon’s second headquarters (dubbed HQ2). Amazon plans to spend $5 billion on their HQ2, and employ about 50,000 people in high-tech jobs. They received 238 proposals before their October 19 deadline, but haven’t announced a winner yet. […]
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