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Breaking Bad (data) with SAS!

In the Breaking Bad TV series, Walter White has an impressive lab where he secretly makes the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth). Wouldn’t it be cool to use SAS to show the locations of all the clandestine meth labs in the US?!? Let’s do it!… In thi…

SAS Tutorial: Import Microsoft Excel Files into SAS

In this SAS tutorial, you will learn to import data from Microsoft Excel into SAS with SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files. Learn to read any sheet or named range from an Excel workbook as a data set or import any sheet or named range to create a SAS data…

Adding some culture to your SAS Enterprise Guide prompts

My teenage daughter is a self-appointed anglophile. She’s a big fan of British movies and TV shows such as Doctor Who and Sherlock, and although she has not yet visited the UK (an injustice for which she blames her father), she considers the place to be her homeland. In an […]

Making sense of text analytics

With all of us blogging, emailing and posting updates on social media, the amount of textual data is growing fast. So how do you make sense of all that big data? Dr. Goutam Chakraborty teaches a Business Knowledge Series course, Text Analytics and Sent…

Olympic graphs … on steroids!

Michele Ensor recently posted a wonderful blog with a graph of the 2014 Winter Olympics medal count. I’m going to further refine that graph, making it an Olympic graph … on steroids! 🙂 Here is Michele’s graph: First, let’s give it a few simple cosmetic changes. I always like to have […]

Applying conditional highlighting to a SAS Enterprise Guide report

Here’s my latest tip on how to apply conditional highlighting to a SAS Enterprise Guide report using the Summary Tables task. The Summary Tables task is a great way to point and click your way to creating simple or complex reports. Conditional highlighting is just one additional feature you can […]

Job Trends in the Analytics Market: New, Improved, now Fortified with C, Java, MATLAB, Python, Julia and Many More!

I’m expanding the coverage of my article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. This is the first installment, which includes a new opening and a greatly expanded analysis of the analytics job market. Here it is, from the abstract onward … Continue reading

Way to go Team USA, 28 Olympic medals!

I must admit, I’m glad the 2014 Winter Olympics are over. I’ve spent too many night-time hours glued to the TV. I can now get on with my life. But first, let’s have a little SAS fun with the medal standings. How do you prefer your summary of medal standings […]