WUSS Virtual Class: Advanced SAS® DATA Step Programming Techniques
Advanced SAS® DATA Step Programming Techniques
Josh Horstman
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Pacific Time
To solve complex coding problems with the SAS® DATA step, one must go beyond a basic understanding of the individual statements. You need to understand how the various statements interact with each other and how their options can be leveraged to build DATA step code that provides innovative solutions to the toughest of problems. Based on Art Carpenter’s book, Carpenter’s Guide to Innovative SAS® Techniques, this class is a must for the DATA step programmer who wants to take his or her programs to the ‘next’ level.
Topics include:
- Working across multiple observations using look-ahead and look-back techniques
- Employing the DOW loop
- Taking advantage of double SET statements
- Working with hash objects
- Performing table lookups
- Using arrays to transpose data from columns to rows and back again
- Evaluating complex expressions
- Applying data set options
- Adopting new DATA step functions (and old functions with new options)
- And more!
This course is designed to be taken by a student who has a basic understanding of the DATA step and its primary statements. The material will focus on advanced topics that will give the student a deeper understanding of the operation of the DATA step. Through examples, students will be exposed to innovative techniques for solving difficult programming problems.
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