Building cars is towards the top of the manufacturing hierarchy – some countries are even known for the cars they build. If you want a good quality car, you probably think of Japan. If you want a stylish sports car, you probably think of Italy. If you …
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Your mapping toolkit tip #6 – Geocoding your addresses
You’ve got a database containing the addresses of all your customers … but how can you plot them on a map or analyze them spatially? First, you’ll need to convert the address into a numeric coordinate (latitude & longitude). SAS can do that … with Proc Geocode! But before we […]
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People using smartphones while driving – the numbers are in!
You’re sitting in a line of cars at the intersection, waiting for the light to change – when it finally turns green, the 2nd car just sits there for several seconds until someone honks at them, and then they scoot through the light … but everyone behind them has to […]
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How to control the name of Excel sheets when they are all created at once
Ok, so you know how to create multiple sheets in Excel, but can anyone tell me how to control the name of the sheets when they are all created at once? In the ODS destination for Excel, the suboption SHEET_INTERVAL is set to TABLE by default. So what does that […]
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Your mapping toolkit tip #5 – determine which sales region your customers are in
A new prospective customer enters their personal information on your web page, and they want to have a sales rep contact them … but you need to know which sales region they’re in, so you can assign them to a sales team. Now, multiply that by thousand…
Using SAS to access Google Analytics APIs
Every day before I even wake up, I have little “SAS robots” that do work for me. These are SAS batch jobs that gather data from external services and build data marts, generate reports, and send e-mail. One of those SAS jobs gathers Google Analytics data about our SAS blogs […]
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Airlines involuntarily bumping passengers off flights – let’s look at the data…
You’ve probably all seen the images of the passenger being forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight, to make room for airline staff flying on standby. The incident caused quite a bit of negative publicity, and quickly wiped out a quarter billion …
Your mapping toolkit tip #4 – importing maps into SAS
SAS provides a map for each country, but there are likely other maps you want to use that SAS does not provide. If you have other maps in the Esri shapefile format, you’re in luck – you can import those maps and use them! In this blog post I share [……