I’m using this post to share materials from the talk “Fast and Easy Maps using SAS Graph” I presented to the members of the Genesee Valley SAS Users Group at their Spring 2009 meeting. This material is also cross-posted in the Presentations section at the Genesee Valley SAS Users Group web site (www.gvsug.org).

This is the second in a series of posts for new users describing methods for getting different kinds of data into the SAS¬Æ system. In this post I’m going to deal exclusively with a few of the many ways available to access SAS data files. If you have questions about another data format or don’t know what kind of file you have please read my introductory post on the topic.

Among the most common questions I get from new SAS¬Æ users is: “How do I get my data into the system for analysis?” To help address this frequent concern and provide a resource for new SAS users, this series of posts discusses some simple ways of accessing your data using the SAS system.

I’ve had several requests for copies of the “Car Talk” clinic dataset I use in some of my demonstrations and in-class examples so I’ve decided to make it available for download.
If you’re familiar with NPR’s program Car Talk you know that Tom and Ray close each week’s episode by reading from a list of funny, phony Car Talk staff names. This has always been one of my favorite parts of the show so, when I found a complete listing on their website, I decided to put the 500+ names and …

When I took over as the Genesee Valley SAS Users Group (GVSUG) webmaster I decided to clean the slate by migrating content over from their free Blogger account over to a more flexible WordPress-based solution.

This is a Mac Dashboard widget I whipped up for the members of the Genesee Valley SAS Users Group as part of their revised site design. It’s pretty straightforward and uses a few custom graphics I created to mimic the appearance of a small SAS‚Ñ¢ (Cary, NC) log window.

I wrote this SAS macro to convert a geometrically coded numeric variable into a series of binary numeric variables. Geometric coding is sometimes used during survey design and data entry as a compact way of storing responses to “choose all that apply” style questions.