SAS Tech Report: What You Like

Featured visualization: #Sharkweek has come and gone, but we still love data about this apex predator who gets a bad rap. Are sharks really villains? You be the judge by digging into all kinds of "sharky" facts in this SAS Visual Analytics infographic by Zencos' Tricia Aanderud.

August 2019, SAS Tech Report

Dear Reader,

As of this month, I have been your Tech Report editor for one year. To celebrate the milestone, I took a hard look at the type of content you gravitate toward. I continually analyze this data to give you more of what you want, but a full year's worth of activity gave me a robust set of info to consider. So, what do you like?

1) Above and beyond, the featured visualization at the top of the page has been a hit since I started including it in Dec. 2018. Know that you, too, can contribute to this spot. A great way to do so is to add a SAS Visual Analytics visualization based on your work or anything that interests you to the VA Gallery (here's how). I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

2) Boy do you like SAS Global Forum papers. Cool SQL Tricks was a banner installment in June 2019. See the below call-for-content section for #SASGF 2020 – it's open until Sept. 30.

3) Almost any post from The DO Loop (props to Rick Wicklin), SAS Dummy (Chris Hemedinger) and Leonid Batkhan on SAS Users were winners.

4) Open source-related topics on things like GitHub and Python integration.

5) Community tips like this one on converting CYYMMDD to a SAS date in PROC SQL. Subscribe to the Tips board for more.

Anything else you'd like to specifically call out that interests you? Shoot me an email or DM me on Twitter. This newsletter is yours. Let's work together to make it worth your while to read.

Anna Brown
Editor, SAS Tech Report
Follow me @abrown7

SAS^® Tips and Tricks

Machine learning fundamentals tutorial

In this video tutorial, SAS Instructor Ari Zitin explains machine learning through a whiteboard example that builds a decision tree and neural network model. Subscribe to the SAS Users YouTube channel for more tutorials like these.

Finding n-th instance of a substring within a string

"Ideally, your code should be a combination of all three features - brevity, clarity and efficiency," says Thomas A. Edison. This blog post details how to parse a character string to find a position of n-th occurrence of a group of characters (substring) in that string.

Building a recommendation engine with SAS

Want to see a real-life example of the full analytics life cycle at work? Check out the "Recommended by SAS" sidebar on the SAS Support Communities. Initially discussed at SAS Global Forum 2018, Chris Hemedinger and Jared Dean update us on how this project has come to fruition, giving you SAS AI each time you view a community topic.

SAS^® Viya^® architecture and data movement: A SAS^® programmer’s overview

Watch this webinar to learn about the relationship between SAS Foundation and SAS Viya programming, programming methods to data access, and data movement and data processing in SAS Viya.

SAS Event Stream Processing on SAS Analytics Cloud - my journey

SAS Developer Advocate Joe Furbee is at it again, documenting his experience with a free SAS trial – this time on SAS Event Stream Processing (ESP). He finds that with ESP, you can create a model, stream data, process the results, and make timely decisions based on the results. Read the blog post for details.

For Developers

SAS Viya REST API samples

SAS continues to build its presence on GitHub with a new repository containing SAS Viya REST API samples. Check out the examples provided and feel free to create and submit your own your own!

From SAS^® Communities

First steps in coding with SAS Viya and CAS

It's no secret. SAS Viya and SAS 9.4 are different. What are the biggies, you may ask? This community article outlines a few new concepts and things that are different between the platforms, starting with the non-LASR SAS Viya analytic engine: the Cloud Analytic Services server (CAS).

Restructuring categories in SAS Visual Text Analytics: Movie topics with the highest viewer ratings

SAS' Patricia Neri shows you how to restructure categories in a SAS Visual Text Analytics pipeline through a movie-related example in this article. She also illustrates how to build a decision tree and analyze the restructured categories data in SAS Visual Analytics.

SAS Tip: Using the SAS V9 CALL SYMPUTX Routine

Use the routine in this tip to save keystrokes and create leaner SAS programs. Thanks to Westat's Michael Raithel for contributing it! It's from the SAS Tips from the Community board, where you can find other fresh "tips of the day" and search for others.

News

SAS Global Forum 2020 call for content is open

Not sure what to write about? Popular sessions from 2019 include "Cool PROC SQL Tricks," (there it is again!) "End to End Modeling and Machine Learning in SAS® Viya," and "Getting the most out of SAS® Macro Language and SQL." Call for content closes September 30, 2019.

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