SAS® Tech Report
July 2017
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Dear Reader,
Every year I use the Fourth of July holiday in the United States as an excuse for a family vacation. With a busy family that now includes two teenage girls, we seem to be going in a hundred places at once, and a vacation around this time gives us a few moments to take a breath, reconnect and get ready for the second half of the year.
As editor of the SAS® Tech Report, I also like to reflect on the first half of the newsletter’s year. Midyear seems like a good time to make sure we’re fulfilling our mission to deliver to your inbox resource announcements, tips, tricks and new techniques in SAS that help you become a better, more efficient SAS user.
An important part of that assessment is to evaluate feedback I get from our readers, both direct and indirect. One of the most interesting bit of feedback you give me, whether you realize it or not, is an indication of each story’s popularity. Here are the 10 most popular stories of 2017, based on the number of clicks. My guess is if the story is widely read, it’s a good one. So in case you missed them the first time or want to read them again, here they are. Take a look, and then read on for more SAS tips.
Submitting Code in the Background Using SAS Studio
A Long-Time SAS Programmer Learns New Tricks
A Survey of Some of the Most Useful SAS Functions
Visualized: US Currency in Circulation, Past and Present
One Deadly Sin SAS Programmers Should Stop Committing
Discovering Data Science: Selected Topics
Tips About Mapping Tools to Help Take Yours to the Next Level
SAS Visual Analytics Designer 7.3 Schedule Chart
The Distribution of Colors for Plain M&M Candies
Hack 4.20 Using File Functions to Get the Attributes of a File
Should you have any suggestions for what sort of stories you’d like to see more of in the second half of the year, or any other feedback for that matter, just hit “email the editor” above. I’m always open to ideas that might make this newsletter more useful for our users.
Thanks for reading,
Larry LaRusso
Editor, SAS Tech Report
Follow me @lalaru102