Did you know that PROC SQL captures the record count for a result set in a special automatic macro variable? When you create a subset of data to include in a report, it’s a nice touch to add a record count and other summaries as an eye-catcher to the report […]
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Here in the US, it’s the nationwide men’s college basketball tournament season! Therefore let’s use some data from the previous years’ tournaments to sharpen our analytics & visualization skills… But before we get started, I must mention (brag?) that my alma mater, NC State University, won this tournament in 1983. […]
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SAS® users have an easy and convenient way to quickly obtain useful information (referred to as metadata) about their SAS session with a number of read-only SAS DICTIONARY tables or SASHELP views. At any time during a SAS session, information about currently defined system options, libnames, tables, columns and their […]
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If you’re a fan of SAS’ ODS Graphics, you probably know that it does pretty much everything except geographical maps. But it’s flexible enough that you can “fake it ’till you make it”! This example describes how to fake a geographical (choropleth) heat…
If you give an artist some tools, they can create a pretty picture. Sure, they might have a preferred tool – but they can probably do a pretty decent job no matter what you give them (paint, colored pencils, watercolor, charcoal, etc). And creating pre…
As a SAS instructor, I’m often on the road, but, in April, my work travel path is going to take me to a place I haven’t visited since I was 12 years old. The occasion? SAS Global Forum 2017. The location? Walt Disney World® in Orlando. While the main conference […]
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When we send spacecraft from Earth to Mars, do the Martians consider them to be UFOs? I might not be able to answer that question definitively … but I do have some really cool graphs showing the data for all those missions to Mars! You might remember…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that jobs for statisticians will grow by 34% between 2014 and 2024. However, according to the nation’s largest job web site, the number of companies looking for “statisticians” is actually in sharp decline. Those … Continue reading →