Category: SAS

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sanjay Matange. A while back a user requested to create a 3D WaterFall chart as presented by E Castanon Alvarez et. al. in "3D waterfall plots: a better graphical representation of tumor response in oncology" Annals of Oncology, Volume 28, Issue 3, 1 March 2017, Pages 454–456.  I posted a blog article titled "A 3D WaterFall Chart" a few weeks back on a way to create such a 3D graph using SGPLOT procedure.  At the risk of repetition, I will state my preference for the alternative 2D visual shown below. The macro accepts a data set with ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mauricio González. Recientemente, el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) llevó a cabo la segunda edición de las Olimpiadas de la Innovación, evento en el que se reunieron las autoridades sanitarias, prestadores de servicios y empresas de tecnología para conocer los avances que hacen posible prestar una atención segura, efectiva, oportuna y equitativa. El uso y aplicación de tecnología de punta en distintas disciplinas médicas es el método que conduce a las ponencias y mesas de trabajo, y cómo están contribuyendo a la salud y el bienestar de los mexicanos. Dada la relevancia de este evento ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jarno Lindqvist. Calm before the whistle blows - let the enforceable regulations begin! In case you still haven’t noticed, the GDPR is approaching as sure as spring. Despite the anticipation, most organisations are quite comfortably waiting for the day to arrive. The consultant-forecasted GDPR panic never arrived, at least not in the way that we in the industry were expecting. I regularly meet various organisations to discuss GDPR, but these meetings are less frequent now that GDPR is only few weeks from becoming an enforceable regulation in the EU countries. This calm before the storm is ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Katie Seavey Pegoraro. When describing the SAS Work/Life Center, I like to say our job is to help you make your life as good as it possibly can be outside of work. So when things aren’t going so great i.e. stress, caregiving, kids won’t sleep, divorce, illness - we appreciate that you think of us and reach out. But there also doesn’t have to be an earth-shattering reason as to why you would reach out to Work/Life. Work/Life Team - 2017 Solar Eclipse Curious is one of our SAS values. The Work/Life Center wants to encourage ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Michela Guerra. What if a famous soccer team asks you to predict how many tickets for their next match will be sold to women? Seventy students from Bicocca University of Milan tried to answer this question a couple of weeks ago. They were divided into 19 groups during a hackathon that SAS hosted in its office in Milan. SAS Hackathon was organised in collaboration with three different departments of the Bicocca University (statistics and quantitative methods; IT systems and communication; and quantitative methods and business strategy in economics). I saw students working for 12 hours in ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jane Eslinger. The SAS Programmer's PROC REPORT Handbook Like all ODS destinations, the destination for PowerPoint uses table templates and style templates to display the tables, graphs, and other output produced by SAS procedures. Using the destination for PowerPoint in a SAS program is just like using any other ODS destination. You can customize the look of your presentation in a number of ways, including using custom ODS style templates or using images.This blog post focuses on the use background images. The background in a PowerPoint slide is important. It often displays the company logo but it ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Terry Barham. With SAS skills in such great demand, getting SAS certified is an investment in your professional development that can really pay off. If you’re considering getting certified, you may have heard about one of our more popular preparation tools: SAS practice exams. SAS practice exams on the Pearson VUE platform are similarly designed to the actual SAS exams in both section balance and difficulty and are often cited by our candidates as an effective way to prepare for the real thing. Still, you may be asking yourself the question: Are SAS practice exams worth ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Gastbeiträge. Im heutigen Gastbeitrag geht Robert Schumacher, Director Business Development gateB darauf ein, wie sich mit den Herausforderungen bei digitalen Marketingprojekten umgehen lässt. Ich nehme die Antwort gleich vorweg. Es gibt keine One-Size-Fits-All-Lösung. Beispiel Fußball: Die eine Taktik kann heute funktionieren und morgen – bei Regen, veränderter Team-Konstellation und neuem Gegner – die falsche sein. Das gilt auch fürs Marketing. Und doch müssen wir einen Weg finden, um mit schnelllebigen Anforderungen, immer wieder neuen, unbekannten Faktoren und einer zunehmenden Komplexität umzugehen. Gerade bei datengetriebenen Projekten gilt: Ein abgeschlossener Projektschritt oder eine Antwort wirft drei neue Fragen ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Robert Allison. Plastic pollution in the oceans is becoming a huge problem. And, as with any problem, finding the solution starts with identifying the source of the problem. A recent study estimated that 95% of the plastic pollution in our oceans comes from 10 rivers - let's put some visual analytics to work, and show this data on a map... This past weekend, I paddled my outrigger canoe in the 13 mile Graveyard race (short for "Graveyard of the Atlantic") at the Carolina Cup. I was so focused on not capsizing in the waves that I ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Allison Saito. New SAS coders beware. “SAS variables” are variables in the statistics sense, not the computer programming sense. SAS has what many computer languages call “variables,” it just calls them “macro variables.” Knowing the difference between SAS variables and SAS macro variables will help you write more flexible and effective code. What is a SAS Variable? Since statistics are the heart of SAS, a SAS variable is defined like a variable you’d encounter in statistics.  In statistics, a variable is an attribute that can change across observations.  Statistics variables are often visualized as columns in ... Read More