The “NOTE: Variable X is uninitialized” message is a result of trying to run a DATA Step which utilizes a variable that is not present in the input dataset or has not been created at the point within the DATA…
October – SAS and CDISC conferences
During October the following conferences and training sessions are taking place: Organisation Date Location Theme Link OpenCDISC 08Oct14 San Francisco, USA Meet the developers of OpenCDISC http://www.opencdisc.org/ CDISC 09OCT14 Webinar Members Only Mini-Training: Null Flavors http://www.cdisc.org/cdisc-members-only-mini-training-null-flavors-tool-handling-missing-and-awkward-data PHUSE 12-15OCT14 London,UK Data Transparency…
Kaggle – Counting data with SAS University Edition – PROC FREQ
This series of posts is aimed both at people who want to learn more about SAS and to show how people can use the free SAS University Edition to explore the data from the Kaggle Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster competition.…
Kaggle – Getting started with SAS university edition
This is the first of our tutorials on using SAS university edition to explore the data from the Kaggle Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster edition. The tutorial is designed to be roughly equivalent to the first excel lesson available on the Kaggle website. It should…
Kaggle – Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster
Kaggle is a platform for analytics and data science. It presents a series of competitions which are free to enter and often offer cash prizes. The competitions provide a great way to learn about programming data analysis and machine learning.…
SAS tips & tricks #8 – NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to charater values
In the last post SAS tips & tricks #7 we looked at how to avoid implicit character to numeric conversion. Here we look at what causes numeric to character implicit conversions and how to avoid them In a similar way…
SAS paper review #4
This week our SAS paper review looks at “Non Printable & Special Characters: Problems and how to overcome them” by Sridhar R Dodlapati, Praveen Lakkaraju, Naresh Tulluru and Zemin Zeng. The paper looks at the problems which can be caused when non-printable…
SAS tips & tricks #7 – NOTE: Character values have been converted to numeric values
In the last two posts we looked at how to clean the log by removing SAS NOTEs, here we look again at what to do when your log contains the following message: NOTE: Character values have been converted to numeric…
SAS tips & tricks #6 – NOTE: Missing values were generated as a result of performing an operation on missing values.
In our last SAS tips & tricks blog post (statskom.com/sas-tips-tricks-5-/) we looked at how to clean up the log by removing the “NOTE: Missing values were generated..” message. In this post we continue the theme by looking at another commonly…