SAS administrators now have another tool to keep SAS users from straying off their permitted path: the LOCKDOWN system option. The option was introduced in “stealth mode” for SAS 9.4. In SAS 9.4M1, it became a true, documented option. For the official guide to creating “locked-down servers”, see the SAS […]
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Let’s shed some light on the black box containing Neural Net model weights
One of the primary predictive modeling tools capable of fitting very complex nonlinear functions is Neural Networks (NN) in SAS advanced analytics software SAS Enterprise Miner (EM). The default option in NN EM node uses a Multilayer Perceptron model w…
SAS Certified Professionals: Get your resume noticed with these tips
A student preparing for the Base Certification exam recently sent us a question, but it wasn’t about the exam. It was about how to position her certification credential on her resume to highlight she’s SAS Certified. This is a great question since employers continuously tell us a SAS Certification is […]
Should teachers get a pay raise?
Teacher pay, and the possibility of a raise, has been a hot topic in North Carolina lately. So I decided to look around and see if I could find any good data related to teacher salary, and then try to determine the best way to present that data graphically. I found that […]
SAS Talks: Favorite SAS Enterprise Guide Tricks
Last week’s SAS Talks session, My Favorite SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 Tricks, was remarkable in several ways. First, the featured presenter was Marje Fecht, who also serves as the conference chair for SAS Global Forum 2014. She’s an avid SAS professional who loves to educate her fellow SAS users on […]
SAS is in the air
Today is Valentine’s Day, and for many people it will be a day to celebrate with their significant other. Whether it’s expressed by a nice dinner out, a bouquet of roses, or a big box of chocolates, there’s no doubt that love will be in the air. It rem…
Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express to debug custom tasks
It’s true: you can use the Microsoft Visual Studio Express tools to build custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. And I said as much in my book, Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide Using Microsoft .NET. I even provided step-by-step instructions for how […]
Adding “sticky notes” in your SAS Enterprise Guide projects
This isn’t the first blog post to laud the “Note” feature of SAS Enterprise Guide. You know, the feature that allows you to add documentation to describe what the heck your project or process flow is actually doing. For example, Tricia described 3 useful ways to use the note feature. […]