Tag: Working with Data

SAS VA: Is Location just a Distracting Character in Your Dataviz?

In my high school Performance Art class, our teacher, Mr. Kennedy, was constantly reminding us that when you have characters on stage the focus must remain on the central action. If you have non-speaking role then you cannot draw attention to yourself. For instance, you wouldn’t tap your foot, play with your hair or wave to the audience members.  This concept can translate into a data …

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SAS Add-In for MS Office: Abe Lincoln Sends Glee in a Snowstorm

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It’s been really snowy and cold in North Carolina for the past week.  About 5″ of snow fell in 2 hours, which unleashed pandemonium. Power was out for some, flights were cancelled because the airport shutdown, and many people even left their cars beside the road electing to walk home or stay in a hotel for the night. Since I work from home, it was …

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Everything Still Starts and Ends with Data in SAS Visual Analytics

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SAS Visual Analytics is changing the way data is analyzed and delivered in the SAS world.  The Visual Analytics LASR server brings a new method for handling large volumes of data directly in-memory.  New tools give businesses more power with less effort to prepare data for analysis, explore data, and …

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Coding: Quick Tip for Exploiting and Identifying SAS Formats

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SAS formats are very useful for translating values into other values.  You may want to format values for something more presentable, use the format to do lookups within an ETL process for faster performance, or you may want to trick out a report with numeric values displayed as ranges.  There …

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3 Tips for Testing Large Data on Slow Connections or Escaping Upper Hell

Do you ever find yourself wondering if you are paying for sins from a past life while you wait for SAS Enterprise Guide to show …

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