SAS Starter Kit
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As a SAS administrator, you need to stay on top of technology updates so you can effectively manage programs and installations. Helpful resources include:
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Technical Papers for SAS Programmers
- A Basic Introduction to SASPy and Jupyter Notebooks
- A Macro for Ensuring Data Integrity When Converting SAS® Data sets
- A Quick Bite on SAS® Studio Custom Tasks
- A Transition from SAS® on a PC to SAS on Linux: Dealing with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
- Accessing Data from Microservices in SAS® 9.4 Using DS2 Built-In Packages
- Advanced Graphs Using Axis Tables
- Advanced Programming Techniques Using the DS2 Procedure
- An Easier and Faster Way to Untranspose a Wide File
- An unusual remedy using the usual "nbins" option to rectify anomalous histograms in SAS
- At Your Service: Using SAS® Viya® and Python to Create Worker Programs for Real-Time Analytics
- Auto-populating Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations So You Don't Have To
- Automate the Tedious Stuff: Use Cases in Taking Your Time Back
- Automating Code Generation to Reduce Errors and Effort
- Base SAS® and SAS® Enterprise Guide®: Automate Your SAS® World with Dynamic Code
- Change is Good, or at Least Expected: Techniques for Visualizing Categorical Values Over Time
- Code Like It Matters: Writing Code That's Readable and Shareable
- Come On, Baby, Light my SAS® Viya®: Programming for CAS
- Comparisons of Large Complex Data Sets to Catch Any Changes Using SAS® Enterprise Guide®
- Complicated Data? SAS® User Formats Can Simplify Your Code
- Compute Service: A RESTful Approach to the SAS® Programming Environment
- Cool SQL Tricks
- Copy That! Using SAS to Create Directories and Duplicate Files
- Data-Driven Programming Techniques Using SAS® Metadata
- Efficient Elimination of Duplicate Data Using the MODIFY Statement
- Efficient Use of Disk Space in SAS® Application Programs
- Excelling to Another Level with SAS®
- Exploring Web Services with SAS®
- Extracting the Embedded Git Repository from a Project in SAS® Enterprise Guide® 7.1
- FCMP: A Powerful SAS® Procedure You Should Be Using
- Finding and Generalizing a 'Best Before' Date
- From Idea to Implementation: How a SAS® Communities Thread Changed How Sleep Number Direct Markets
- How a Code-Checking Algorithm Can Prevent Errors
- How Statistically Analyzing System Behaviors with SAS® Visual Analytics Revealed Unknown Data Issues
- How to Build a Recommendation Engine Using SAS® Viya®
- How to Load Relational Data into SAS® Cloud Analytic Services Using Java
- Identifying Duplicate Variables in a SAS® Data Set
- If You Need These OBS and These VARS, Then Drop IF and Keep WHERE
- Implementing External File Processing with No Record Delimiter via a Metadata-Driven Approach
- Implementing Privacy Protection-Compliant SAS® Aggregate Reports
- Insights from a SAS Technical Support Guy: A Deep Dive into the SAS® ODS Excel Destination
SAS has a strong developer community that can answer your questions and help you solve problems. Start with these resources:
Data science is a popular topic at SAS, so you'll find plenty of information to help you either build a career as a data scientist, or support your current role. Visit these resources for information:
Executives, managers and other business decision makers must stay competitive, hire the right people and effectively train their teams. These resources can help:
Because so many businesses want to hire people skilled in SAS, students are driven to learn it, and educators are driven to teach it. Dive in to these resources:
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Documentation
Technical Papers by SAS Experts
Webinars for Learning SAS
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How Do You Use SAS® to Access Data and APIs From the Web?Learn how to access data and APIs from internet sources, all from within your SAS programs.
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How Do I Access the SAS Training Resources That Best Suit My Needs?Join SAS Technical Training Consultant Anna Rakers to find out how to access the SAS training resources that best suit your current needs as well as prepare for future career advancement.
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Best Practices in Migrating SAS® Code to Leverage CAS Knowing how to migrate SAS code to CAS is essential to capitalizing on the capabilities the environment has to offer.
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SAS Enterprise Guide: Tips, Tricks and Considerations for ProgrammersIn this webinar, SAS programmers can discover tips, tricks and little-known functionalities in SAS Enterprise Guide.