A $59 million investment in software developer Social Solutions aims to ease the flow of data among schools and social service providers.

When the ruthless crime boss and Mafia Godfather Sam Giancana was gunned down in Illinois in 1975, he was quickly replaced by yet another murderous protégé from the Chicago Crime Syndicate, Tony Accardo.

Saskia perseveres through language learning and connects with a young Albanian girl who becomes a follower of Jesus.

Two OMers were asked to help a church network deliver relief supplies to churches in Kumamoto after two large earthquakes had struck the area.

La imagen de Camerún como una isla de paz en medio de una región tumultuosa terminó en 2013, cuando la violencia de Boko Haram cruzó la frontera nigeriana. Este grupo está afiliado al llamado Estado Islámico o Daesh, e incluso se rebautizó como Estado Islámico de África Occidental a principios de este año. Pero la forma brutal de yihadismo africano que representa difícilmente se explica por el auge del Estado Islámico en Irak y Siria. De hecho, es en parte una consecuencia del cambiante panorama religioso africano, que afecta y no poco a Camerún.

Saskia perseveres through language learning and connects with a young Albanian girl who becomes a follower of Jesus.

Saskia perseveres through language learning and connects with a young Albanian girl who becomes a follower of Jesus.

Saskia perseveres through language learning and connects with a young Albanian girl who becomes a follower of Jesus.

Saskia perseveres through language learning and connects with a young Albanian girl who becomes a follower of Jesus.

Saskia perseveres through language learning and connects with a young Albanian girl who becomes a follower of Jesus.

Saskia perseveres through language learning and connects with a young Albanian girl who becomes a follower of Jesus.

South Africa faces "social disaster" if people allow financial pressure to interfere with their savings goals, an expert warns.

Four top Republican senators have urged US President Donald Trump to suspend all new guest worker visas for 60 days and some of its categories, including the H-1B visa, for at least the next year or...

The US is working to temporarily ban the issuance of some work-based visas like H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, as well as students visas and work authorisation that...

SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to automate creation of SAS variable labels so tables and reports are easier to read.

Automating SAS variable labels creation was published on SAS Users.

COVID-19 is truly a global health issue affecting everyone and causing concern for you, our customers. As we all continue to navigate the uncertainty of this outbreak, SAS is committed to supporting your business as a valued partner and will ensure continuity of service. We created this guide to address [...]

Frequently asked questions related to COVID-19 and SAS customer support was published on SAS Users.

Let’s be honest, there is a lot of SAS content available on the web. Sometimes it gets difficult to navigate through everything to find what you need, especially if you are looking for complimentary resources. Training budgets can be limited or already used for the year, but you’re still interested [...]

Tips and resources for making the most of your SAS experience was published on SAS Users.

At SAS Press, we agree with the saying “The best things in life are free.” And one of the best things in life is knowledge. That’s why we offer free e-books to help you learn SAS or improve your skills. In this blog post, we will introduce you to one [...]

Free e-book: SAS Programming for R Users was published on SAS Users.

Martin Mincey of SAS Technical Support shows you how to debug when listing registered SAS fonts, registering new fonts, getting SAS SG procedures to use a new font and more.

How to debug 5 common SAS® software font issues was published on SAS Users.

Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Excel is still a big hit in the data analysis world. From small to big customers, we still see fit for daily routines such as filtering, generating plots, calculating items on ad-hoc analysis or even running statistical models. Whenever I talk to customers, [...]

Extending Excel with Python and SAS Viya was published on SAS Users.

Common filters are filters that can be shared between objects in your reports. Common filter benefits include 1) Easy to assign the same filter conditions to other report objects, 2) When you edit a common filter, it is updated everywhere that the common filter is used, and 3) A common filter is available for the entire report, across pages.

Using common filters in SAS Visual Analytics was published on SAS Users.

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various storage options available in Microsoft Azure. Access [...]

Storage in the Cloud – SAS and Azure was published on SAS Users.

Welcome to the first post for the Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya series! With the popularity of the Python programming language for data analysis and SAS Viya's ability to integrate with Python, I thought, why not create tutorials for users integrating the two? To begin the series [...]

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 1 - Making a Connection was published on SAS Users.

SAS' Leonid Batkhan differentiates between SAS macro and programming languages, defines two types of SAS macros and much more.

How to create and use SAS macro functions was published on SAS Users.

With increasing interest in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), many SAS Users want to know what can be done for Visual Analytics reports. In this article, I will explain how to use Python and SAS Viya REST APIs to extract a report from a SAS Viya environment and import it into another environment.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery – Using Python and REST APIs for SAS Visual Analytics reports was published on SAS Users.

Every year hundreds of dedicated SAS® users and event volunteers work tirelessly to create an amazing conference experience for SAS Global Forum attendees. This year, as you know, COVID-19 changed our plans. But our devoted team of volunteers, including our conference chairs and session presenters, was still determined to provide [...]

Introducing the first virtual SAS® Global Forum was published on SAS Voices by Jenn Chase

SAS supports direct integration for Git from Base SAS (via functions), SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio, and SAS Data Integration Studio. Read this article to learn how to use Git more effectively in your SAS processes.

The post Using built-in Git operations in SAS appeared first on The SAS Dummy.

Regular expressions are a powerful method for finding specific patterns in text. The syntax of regular expressions is intimidating, but once you've solved a few pattern-recognition problems with regex, you'll never go back to your old methods.

The post Convert a text-based measurement to a number in SAS appeared first on The SAS Dummy.

This blog post could be subtitled "To Catch a Thief" or maybe "Go ahead. Steal this blog. I dare you."* That's because I've used this technique several times to catch and report other web sites who lift the blog content from blogs.sas.com and present it as their own. Syndicating blog [...]

The post Read RSS feeds with SAS using XML or JSON appeared first on The SAS Dummy.

How we built a recommendation engine for new topics on communities.sas.com. We used data, machine learning, and DevOps to build a scoring engine with SAS.

The post Building a recommendation engine with SAS appeared first on The SAS Dummy.

If you use Microsoft Teams for collaboration, you should use it for operational messages too. You can use SAS to automate tailored notices to your Teams Channel.

The post How to publish to a Microsoft Teams channel using SAS appeared first on The SAS Dummy.

If you use SAS macro variables in your programs (who doesn't?), then the SAS Macro Variable viewer is immensely useful to see current macro var values.

The post Viewing SAS macro variables in SAS Enterprise Guide appeared first on The SAS Dummy.

I'm a big fan of the Import Data task in SAS Enterprise Guide, especially for its support of text-based files (CSV, tab delimited, fixed width, and more). There's no faster method for generating SAS code that reads your data exactly the way you need it. I use the tool so [...]

The post Tricks for importing text files in SAS Enterprise Guide appeared first on The SAS Dummy.

SAS Global Forum 2020 is not the conference experience we thought it would be. Thousands of us had planned to gather in person to share our enthusiasm and knowledge about SAS and power of data and analytics. We were going to combine our skills and knowledge to inspire one another [...]

The post How to share your SAS knowledge with your professional network appeared first on The SAS Dummy.

SAS' Leonid Batkhan shows you how to automate creation of SAS variable labels so tables and reports are easier to read.

Automating SAS variable labels creation was published on SAS Users.

COVID-19 is truly a global health issue affecting everyone and causing concern for you, our customers. As we all continue to navigate the uncertainty of this outbreak, SAS is committed to supporting your business as a valued partner and will ensure continuity of service. We created this guide to address [...]

Frequently asked questions related to COVID-19 and SAS customer support was published on SAS Users.

Let’s be honest, there is a lot of SAS content available on the web. Sometimes it gets difficult to navigate through everything to find what you need, especially if you are looking for complimentary resources. Training budgets can be limited or already used for the year, but you’re still interested [...]

Tips and resources for making the most of your SAS experience was published on SAS Users.

At SAS Press, we agree with the saying “The best things in life are free.” And one of the best things in life is knowledge. That’s why we offer free e-books to help you learn SAS or improve your skills. In this blog post, we will introduce you to one [...]

Free e-book: SAS Programming for R Users was published on SAS Users.

Martin Mincey of SAS Technical Support shows you how to debug when listing registered SAS fonts, registering new fonts, getting SAS SG procedures to use a new font and more.

How to debug 5 common SAS® software font issues was published on SAS Users.

Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Excel is still a big hit in the data analysis world. From small to big customers, we still see fit for daily routines such as filtering, generating plots, calculating items on ad-hoc analysis or even running statistical models. Whenever I talk to customers, [...]

Extending Excel with Python and SAS Viya was published on SAS Users.

Common filters are filters that can be shared between objects in your reports. Common filter benefits include 1) Easy to assign the same filter conditions to other report objects, 2) When you edit a common filter, it is updated everywhere that the common filter is used, and 3) A common filter is available for the entire report, across pages.

Using common filters in SAS Visual Analytics was published on SAS Users.

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series by Conor Hogan, a Solutions Architect at SAS, on SAS and database and storage options on cloud technologies. This article covers the SAS offerings available to connect to and interact with the various storage options available in Microsoft Azure. Access [...]

Storage in the Cloud – SAS and Azure was published on SAS Users.

Welcome to the first post for the Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya series! With the popularity of the Python programming language for data analysis and SAS Viya's ability to integrate with Python, I thought, why not create tutorials for users integrating the two? To begin the series [...]

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 1 - Making a Connection was published on SAS Users.

SAS' Leonid Batkhan differentiates between SAS macro and programming languages, defines two types of SAS macros and much more.

How to create and use SAS macro functions was published on SAS Users.

With increasing interest in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), many SAS Users want to know what can be done for Visual Analytics reports. In this article, I will explain how to use Python and SAS Viya REST APIs to extract a report from a SAS Viya environment and import it into another environment.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery – Using Python and REST APIs for SAS Visual Analytics reports was published on SAS Users.

The restrictive immigration policies of the UK appear to be over as it has decided to offer a work visa for two years after graduation from a British university to the overseas students. UK Jobs get a boostPresently, the duration for graduates having…

There has been a 63 percent rise in the number of student visas allotted to Indians to study in the UK in the past one year, data published by UK's Office for National Statistics (O.N.S) reveals. Report Says Tremendous Growth in Student Visas from…

In part one of this blog series, we introduced the automation of AI (i.e., artificial intelligence) as a multifaceted and evolving topic for marketing and segmentation. After a discussion on maximizing the potential of a brand's first-party data, a machine learning method incorporating natural language explanations was provided in the context [...]

SAS Customer Intelligence 360: Automated AI and segmentation [Part 2] was published on Customer Intelligence Blog.