2 tips to being a better programmer, if you can’t afford SAS Global Forum
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2 tips to being a better programmer, if you can’t afford SAS Global Forum

I did a random sample of presentations at SAS Global Forum today, if random is defined as of interest to me, which let’s be honest, is pretty damn random most of the time.  Tip #1 Stalk Interesting People I don’t mean in a creepy showing up at their hotel room way. If you see someone…

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No, a stolen iPhone isn’t a brick: How thieves access your data

Stop and read this. It may save you whole lot of grief and panic. Maybe you’ve heard that a stolen iPhone is nothing more than a brick. Perhaps you feel as if your data is safe. You have a password and it’s not 123456. You have find my iPhone. Allow me to burst your bubble…

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Reading JSON data saved in a column and other SAS string function tricks

Sometimes data changes shape and type over time. In my case, we had a game that was given away free as a demo. We saved the player’s game state – that is, the number of points they had, objects they had earned in the game, etc. as a JSON object. Happy Day! The game became…

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SAS Proc Transpose – how have I not written about this before?

When I was young and knew everything, I would frequently see procedures or statistics and think, “When am I ever going to use THAT?” That was my thought when I learned about this new procedure to transpose a data set. (It was new then. Keep in mind, I learned SAS when I was pregnant with…