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- The products and services we create. This is perhaps the most overused and abused buzzword in computer advertising. It is amazing how every hardware and software product makes...
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- Graphical Representation of Mean Measurement Over Time
- A graph of mean measurement over time is one of the most commonly used statistical graphs for data exploration and presentation. It can be as simple as a line plot, or can be a complex graph involving lots of annotation. This paper illustrates some useful techniques provided by SAS/GRAPH and...
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Parameter Gathering Techniques for Data Driven Programming
- Data Driven Programming maximizes procedural efficiency and lightens the workload of routine processing. This paper presents techniques for gathering the parameters such as filenames and procedure results that can be used in subsequent routines and macro programming. Techniques include utilizing the SYSEXEC, OUTPUT=, and ODS OUTPUT statements. Examples of these...
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Best Practices for SAS9 Metadata Administration
- SAS9 provides several tools to help with metadata administration, but one must implement internal processes to optimize the usage of these tools. This paper provides some process best practices for backing up the repositories and managing changes in the SAS9 environment and discusses how one can leverage SAS9 tools as...
- White papers 2007-05-14
- DATA: Learning What You Didn't Know About Your Data
- Before data can be appropriately analyzed, researchers and/or analysts, must get to know their data. Getting to know the data involves both descriptive statistics and graphics techniques. PROC UNIVARIATE provides many descriptive statistics, graphics tools and some simple inferential statistics to help the programmer examine the quantitative variables. A number...
- White papers 2007-05-14
- 7 Bulletproof Steps - The Quickest Way to Programmatically Generate a Dynamic Excel Graph From SAS
- If one is thinking, "Jeezz? not another way to create an Excel graph?", the author highly encourages the user to continue reading this paper. While there are several proven techniques that allow the user to programmatically create a dynamic Excel graph based on N observations from a SAS data set,...
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Hiding the Complexity: A Customized Application for Accessing Multidimensional Data
- The mission of the Office of Institutional Research and Testing IRT at Baylor University is to conduct research in order to provide information which supports institutional planning, policy information, and decision making. As part of that mission, IRT maintains several data warehouses with student, financial, and human resource data. Warehouse...
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Perestroika: Restructuring Data for Flexibility
- PROC TABULATE is a wonderful tool. It allows developers to display data by cross tabulating one or more category values against other category variables. However, because of its efficiency, the result is lacking for those that need to import the result into a spreadsheet or database. By manipulating the data,...
- White papers 2006-02-28
- SAS and VMWARE to Create an Environment for Computer Systems Validation in a Pharmaceutical Company
- 21 CFR Part 11 states that computer systems used in the clinical trials process must adhere to certain criteria, one of which is validation. The Computer Systems Validation CSV paradigm exists to provide guidance and structure to this process. Within the SAS programming environment, there is a lot of debate...
- White papers 2006-02-28
- PROC FORMAT: An Analyst's Buddy
- PROC FORMAT provides essential tools for simplified coding and program efficiency that are often overlooked by novice users. This paper presents basic formatting techniques using the VALUE statement and useful permanent formats. More advanced techniques are presented such as the utility of picture formats and conversion of databases to formats....
- White papers 2006-02-28
- Navigating SAS Mapping Technologies
- Every organization has location-based data. The difficulty is in effectively transforming that data into useful information or intelligence. SAS has numerous powerful mapping technologies and tools to transform with the location data. This paper provides a brief overview of these technologies and tools. The mapping technologies include all of the...
- White papers 2006-02-23
- SAS/AF - Building a Tree View Hierarchy With Drag and Drop
- Drag-and-drop is a powerful tool in SAS/AF software; the SAS 9.2 Tree View Control is also a powerful and flexible SAS/AF tool. In combination, these tools enable you to build exciting SAS/AF applications such as the one presented here. This example application enables the user to create a Tree View...
- White papers 2006-02-23
- Large-Scale Automatic Forecasting Using Inputs and Calendar Events: A Demonstrated Technique for Efficiently Producing Accurate Forecasts for Millions of Time Series
- Web sites and transactional databases collect large quantities of time-stamped data. Businesses often want to make future predictions based on numerous sets of time-stamped data sets of transactions. The number of time series to forecast, however, may be enormous or the forecasts may need to be updated frequently, making human...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Tips and Tricks III: More Unique SAS/GRAPH Maps
- Every organization has location-based data. The difficulty is in effectively transforming that data into useful information or intelligence. SAS/GRAPH has powerful mapping capabilities that can be used for visualizing the location data as geographic and non-geographic maps. This paper presents techniques and examples for harnessing that power and creating these...
- White papers 2005-03-22
- %sas2xl: A Flexible SAS Macro That Uses Tagsets to Produce Complex, Multi-Tab Excel Spreadsheets With Custom Formatting
- Converting SAS data to Excel format spreadsheets is not necessarily hard. But creating highly user-friendly spreadsheets with multiple tabs and complex formatting options is much more difficult. This paper explores how a custom SAS macro, %sas2xl, can be used to generate better spreadsheets more easily than other methods available. It...
- White papers 2005-03-09
- What Would I Do Without PROC SQL and the Macro Language
- The SAS macro language used in conjunction with PROC SQL provides the programmer a powerful set of tools for building effective and efficient applications. These tools can be utilized for a wide range of applications only limited by one's imagination. This paper presents a series of examples taken from several...
- White papers 2005-03-09
- Manipulating Data With PROC SQL
- PROC SQL is a popular database language with numerous extensions for working with numeric and character data including an assortment of operators, functions, and predicates. This paper presents coding techniques that perform text case conversions, concatenation of two or more character strings, pattern and phonetic matching operations, updates to data...
- White papers 2005-03-09
- Tips and Tricks: Using SAS/GRAPH Effectively
- SAS/GRAPH is a powerful data visualization tool. This paper examines the powerful components of SAS/GRAPH and highlights techniques for harnessing that power to create effective and attention-grabbing graphs. The components examined include the SAS/GRAPH procedures, graphical global statements, the Output Delivery System ODS, graph styles, client-rendered graphs, and the Annotate...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Efficiency Techniques for Beginning PROC SQL Users
- PROC SQL provides SAS users with a powerful programming language that can rival DATA step coding techniques either in terms of the processing time or the human time involved to write the code. The reader of this paper will learn how to use PROC SQL statements, options, and clauses to...
- White papers 2004-04-14
- Essilor Uses SAS 9 to Gain an Edge in a Competitive Field
- Essilor is the company behind such advanced optical products as Varilux and Transitions corrective lenses. With plenty of competition - and customers shopping for the best prices - Essilor is continually studying its costs to determine how to reduce them. One of the best ways the company has found to...
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- Strategy In-Depth
- The ability to craft a grand strategy and articulate a vision, to facilitate decision-making sessions and to network, and the capacity for continual learning-these are among the more celebrated contents of a successful leader's tool kit. Far less heralded, though hardly less vital, is a knack for managing the gruntwork...
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