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Free advertising for active recruiters globally! SAS-related Jobs from Recruiters in the UK, USA and India in May 2022

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Looking for a SAS-related job?

There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, USA and India, and the links are open to all site visitors:

CountryJobs AdvertisedFrom Company
IndiaPharmaceutical permanent positionsClinChoice
USAPharmaceutical permanent positionsClinChoice
UKConsultancy permanent positionsOdin Consultancy
UKGraduate permanent positionsOdin Consultancy

Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.

Recruiters looking for candidates

I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas, Europe and the Rest of the World. In particular, I would like to include jobs in the Europe, where nearly 15% of the registered blog members are located and jobs have been posted for them in the past, but currently this area has no active recruiters.

If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:

  1. The free trial will be extended by an additional calendar month only when a job is posted, and will expire automatically if no job has been posted in a calendar month.
  2. The posted jobs must be in some way SAS-related.

Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 02Jun2022 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.

The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:

PositionRegionPercentage of MembershipMembers
1Indian Sub-continent36.1%288
2The Americas23.2%185
3UK19.7%157
4Europe14.3%114
5Rest of the World6.8%54

VIEWS News issue 66 (2021Q4) is awaiting approval for publication and will appear later this month. Here is how to access VIEWS News issues…

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VIEWS News issue 66 (2021Q4) is awaiting approval for publication and will appear later this month.

Recommended approach to accessing VIEWS News issues from #1, if you have already registered for free blog membership and requested access to the VIEWS UK forum:

  1. Always log onto the site using Member Login from the menu at https://hollandnumerics.org.uk first. The site will ask you to join if you try to use a restricted link before logging on!
  2. Having successfully logged on, scroll to the bottom of the web page and click on the link to VIEWS UK in the Forum List. Note that you already have access if you can see VIEWS UK in the Forum List.
  3. If you are looking for a specific issue click on VIEWS News – Backissues.
  4. If you are looking for a specific topic (including issues where you have articles) click on Forum tag cloud.

I hope this makes your searching easier……………Phil

Want to become a VIEWS Consultant? Could you write a short article about SAS Viya, SAS VA or other SAS-related topic for VIEWS News 66?

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Want to become a VIEWS Consultant? Could you write a short article about SAS Viya, SAS VA or other SAS-related topic for VIEWS News 66? All published authors will become VIEWS Consultants, unpaid, but internationally respected.

VIEWS News 66 (2021Q4) is scheduled for publication in November 2021, so I’m looking for short articles to include in this newsletter. Although I have written articles for the newsletter in the past, it is really intended to showcase your ideas, and not mine! Amongst the topics not seen in the recent issues are:

  • SAS Viya
  • SAS VA
  • SAS Metadata
  • Animated graphics
  • SAS servers
  • SAS in the Cloud, like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
  • or many other SAS-related topics

If you have anything suitable, then please email it to views-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 14 November 2021. I look forward to seeing what you can send to me.

I’ve withdrawn my apps from the Chrome Web Store after 9 years

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Regrettably I’ve withdrawn my apps from the Chrome Web Store after 9 years. For the last few years the Chrome Web Store has not been accepting new apps, only extensions, so I’ve not been able to add new apps, although updated apps have been accepted. However, recently my apps have been behaving differently, and only showing blank pages, so I’ve made the decision to withdraw my apps altogether.

There were 2 categories of apps in the Chrome Web Store:

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  • SAS apps, which are still available in the Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore (for Android devices). You can also access them on any device with a Programming blog membership as a web app.
  • Educational apps, which are also available in the Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore (for Android devices). You can also access them on any device with an Educational Games blog membership, again as a web app.

    • Last call for articles for VIEWS News 64: Become a VIEWS Consultant in May!

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    Last call for articles for VIEWS News 64: Become a VIEWS Consultant in May! I’m planning to publish VIEWS News issue 64 at the end of May 2021, which means that I need you to send me your short SAS-related articles by 17May2021 to views-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk.

    Topics include:

    • Annoying SAS Programming Styles: I wrote Part 1 in issue 60 about indenting of SAS code, and have added more articles since then. Do you have your own example of an annoying programming style, and how to fix it?
    • Event previews and reports.
    • SAS-related book reviews.
    • Short articles on any SAS-related topics.

    All the above examples will entitle the author to refer to themselves as a VIEWS Consultant!

    There is also In Brief and Diary sections in each issue containing:

    • Links to interesting SAS-related web sites.
    • Announcements of SAS-related events occurring from mid-June onwards.

    Looking forward to hearing from you soon…………..Phil

     

    SAS course eBook Web Apps have arrived on this Blog Site for Members

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    In the past I have written ebook apps on SAS-related topics for webOS, Android and Chrome users, but not everyone has access to these app platforms. However, every member of this blog site, whatever platform they use, has access to a compatible browser for my new ebook web apps, which contain the same content as my previous apps, but run from links on this site.

    If you have logged onto the blog site as a Free member, then you will see a new “Informational eBook Web Apps about SAS-related Topics (for Free members)” in the Menu. This will take you to a blog forum landing page for the sample ebook web apps, which will demonstrate their functionality and show you sample topics from the other web apps, where there is a new link at the bottom of the page to the sample SAS course app. Alternatively go to the SAS Skills Discussion Forum:

    • SAS course: SAS Components ==> Sample topics from the other SAS course web apps.

    If you have logged onto the blog site as a Programming member, then you will see a new “Informational eBook Web Apps about SAS-related Topics” in the Menu instead. This will take you to a blog forum landing page for the full list of ebook web apps, where there is a new link at the bottom of the page to the new SAS course apps, with the following topic areas, as well as the sample app above. Alternatively go to the SAS Programming Forum:

    • SAS course: Data Step ==> SAS functionality relating to Data Steps.
    • SAS course: PROC SQL ==> SAS functionality relating to PROC SQL.
    • SAS course: SAS Macros ==> SAS functionality relating to macros.

    Note that these web apps can only be accessed from these blog forum landing pages, and you must be logged in with the appropriate membership level for that specific forum. Subscription details can be found here.

    Informational eBook Web Apps are coming to this Blog Site for Members

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    In the past I have written ebook apps on SAS-related topics for webOS, Android and Chrome users, but not everyone has access to these app platforms. However, every member of this blog site, whatever platform they use, has access to a compatible browser for my new ebook web apps, which contain the same content as my previous apps, but run from links on this site.

    If you have logged onto the blog site as a Free member, then you will see a new “Informational eBook Web Apps about SAS-related Topics (for Free members)” in the Menu. This will take you to a blog forum landing page for the sample ebook web apps, which will demonstrate their functionality and show you sample topics from the other web apps:

    • How ==> App functionality sample
    • Consulting ==> Information about training and consultancy, plus sample topics from the other web apps

    If you have logged onto the blog site as a Programming member, then you will see a new “Informational eBook Web Apps about SAS-related Topics” in the Menu instead. This will take you to a blog forum landing page for the full list of ebook web apps, with the following topic areas, as well as the sample apps above:

    • Data Steps ==> SAS functionality relating to Data Steps
    • SQL ==> SAS functionality relating to PROC SQL
    • Graphs ==> SAS functionality relating to SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics
    • Platforms ==> SAS functionality specific to Windows, UNIX, Linux and/or z/OS
    • EG ==> SAS functionality relating to Enterprise Guide
    • Macros ==> SAS functionality relating to macros
    • Efficiency ==> How to write efficient SAS programs
    • Studio ==> SAS functionality relating to SAS Studio

    Note that these web apps can only be accessed from these blog forum landing pages, and you must be logged in with the appropriate membership level for that specific forum. Subscription details can be found here.

    VIEWS News issue 62 (2020Q4) is scheduled for publication at the end on November 2020. Here is how to access VIEWS News issues…

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    VIEWS News issue 62 (2020Q4) is scheduled for publication at the end on November 2020.

    Recommended approach to accessing VIEWS News issues from #1, if you have already registered for free blog membership and requested access to the VIEWS UK forum:

    1. Always log onto the site using Member Login from the menu at https://hollandnumerics.org.uk first. The site will ask you to join if you try to use a restricted link before logging on!
    2. Having successfully logged on, scroll to the bottom of the web page and click on the link to VIEWS UK in the Forum List. Note that you already have access if you can see VIEWS UK in the Forum List.
    3. If you are looking for a specific issue click on VIEWS News – Backissues.
    4. If you are looking for a specific topic (including issues where you have articles) click on Forum tag cloud.

    I hope this makes your searching easier……………Phil

    Last call for articles for VIEWS News 61: Become a VIEWS Consultant this month!

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    Last call for articles for VIEWS News 61: Become a VIEWS Consultant this month! I’m planning to publish VIEWS News issue 61 at the end of August 2020, which means that I need you to send me your short SAS-related articles by 17Aug2020 to views-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk.

    Topics include:

    • Annoying SAS Programming Styles: I wrote Part 1 in issue 60 about indenting of SAS code. Do you have your own example of an annoying programming style, and how to fix it?
    • Event previews and reports.
    • Short articles on any SAS-related topics.

    All the above examples will entitle the author to refer to themselves as a VIEWS Consultant!

    There is also In Brief and Diary sections in each issue containing:

    • Links to interesting SAS-related web sites.
    • Announcements of SAS-related events occurring from mid-September onwards.

    Looking forward to hearing from you soon…………..Phil

     

    COVID-19 SAS Studio Project No.2: Visualising global trends in Johns Hopkins University data

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    This is a project to read the daily Johns Hopkins COVID-19 data and visualise the national infection and fatality trends using Base SAS and SAS/STAT:

    1. Download the GitHub Desktop software from https://desktop.github.com/ and install it on your computer where you will be running SAS Studio or SAS University Edition. For instructions on how to install SAS University Edition on your own computer please read my blog post “Are you learning about SAS?”.
    2. Clone the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 data at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19, and then Pull the latest data, using the GitHub Desktop. This will reduce the time need to download all of the latest data each time you run the SAS Studio project, as a simple and quick Pull request in GitHub Desktop is all that is required each time.
    3. Download my SAS Studio CPF project file (John-Hopkins-GitHub-data.cpf), which is a zipped CPF file and will be updated occasionally with accepted submitted updates. Please check for comments here when updates are added.
    4. Open the CPF project file in SAS Studio (requires Base SAS and SAS/STAT) or SAS University Edition (making certain you have created a Shared Folder(s) first that are pointing to where your GitHub files and CPF project file are stored).
    5. Update the “run first” program to include your GitHub file folder in the &_dir macro variable assignment. The CSV files we will be using can be found in the /csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_daily_reports folder.
    6. Submit each program in order given below (or submit all of the programs in the project’s flow together):
      • (1) “run first” assigns the location of the data to the &_dir macro variable.
      • (2) “Read CSV files” creates the SAS data sets in WORK by reading all of the CSV files in the csse_covid_19_daily_reports folder. Summarise the records by Country_Region to remove finer detail in the csse_covid_19_daily_reports.
      • (3) “Calculate regression lines” generates the regression lines for confirmed cases between 100 and 10,000, and deaths between 10 and 1,000, to include on the graphs. The regression lines appear to be straight in the semi-log plots, but are actually exponential to match the initial growth of confirmed cases, so that “flattening” of the curves can be identified more easily.
      • (4) “Semi-log plots of confirmed vs deaths” generates the graphs for countries where COVID-19 has had more than 1,000 confirmed cases or more than 100 deaths.

    Some questions for you to answer:

      • (a) Where could my “Read CSV files” program be improved?
      • (b) Why is the US graph split at around 20Mar2020? Is this a problem with the data or my program?
      • (c) Are all of cases being included?

    This project is open to SAS programmers and to researchers. Follow the above instructions yourself, and then see if you can improve my SAS code by answering the questions.

    Please send your saved SAS Studio flow containing your improved versions of the SAS programs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk. Anyone providing improvements that can be incorporated will be added to the credits for this project.

    My first COVID-19 SAS project for SAS Studio/SAS University Edition can be found at “Can you help? Supporting Coronavirus Research by searching research papers with SAS“.

    If you are still looking for SAS training, then please go to my blog post “SAS training for home-workers: Keeping your mind active and your skills current” for some more training options.

    COVID-19 can be defeated, and, working together, we can make a difference!

    The SAS Programming Forum has been growing again with new SAS course sections and topics

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    The SAS course sections and topics themselves are in the SAS Programming Forum, which can only be accessed by Programming level members, but Free members can read the SAS course – Home page and see the individual section and topic names.

    The SAS course and the SAS Programming Forum continue to grow, I have just added some new course sections and topics about Data Steps, Base SAS Procedures, PROC SQL, SAS Macros, SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Studio, and there are now 54 topics in 7 different sections:

    • A. SAS components – 2 topics
    • B. Data Steps – 14 topics (1 new topic)
    • C. Base SAS Procedures – 6 topics (new section)
    • F. PROC SQL – 15 topics (1 new topic)
    • G. SAS Macros – 15 topics (11 new topics)
    • N. SAS Enterprise Guide – 1 topic (new section)
    • O. SAS Studio – 1 topic (new section)

    More topics and sections are being developed, so register for free now to be kept up-to-date about all of the news, so you can take advantage of the Programmer level when it suits you best!