Forgive me for that terrible 'punny' title; I could not resist doing it. I was exploring SAS yesterday because I have some details about a bit of experimental design programming for SAS that I have not easily been able to replicate in R (this is part of a larger project and a much, much longer story). I have ranted regularly - some here and mostly in person - about the high price of single or even group user license fees for software so it was particularly gratifying to me to see not one but two free SAS alternatives for academics. I used the Enterprise Guide once in the past - but I had limited, not free, access through a course.
#1 - SAS University Edition is a free program you can download on your computer. It runs through a virtual/emulator environment so there is cost associated with that. I am having some problems because I already run a Win OS via VM Fusion (which is the emulator recommended for OS X by SAS - by the way, these initialisms are getting a little out of hand...) so I am going to try to reinstall SAS University on another Mac. You can also do this for no initial cost if you use the 30 day trial of VM Ware just to check this out. Find SAS University Edition at: http://www.sas.com/en_us/software/university-edition/download-software.html Also read more about it, including limitationsm on Paul Allison's blog here: http://www.statisticalhorizons.com/free-sas #2 - SAS OnDemand for academics. This is free, web-based software so there is no concern about Win versus Mac OS. Sign up and download SAS OnDemand at: http://support.sas.com/software/products/ondemand-academics/
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Above is a shot of a Screenflow recording that I am making. I am beginning some coding 'training' videos that I plan to share with someone. Since I'm using actual data, I will not be sharing these on a larger scale. (If I was inclined to create some multi part - 'how to code according to me' course to post on YouTube [and I am not; there are plenty of those out there], I would use public domain data; there is plenty of that available.)
I inserted the research questions into the document header - which is a bit of a variation on the 'use a sticky note' advice given by Ron Chenail (TQR Editor-in-Chief, Professor of family therapy, director of the qualitative research graduate certificate and holder of progressively more important administrative positions that I cannot keep track of at Nova Southeastern Uni) - but this worked for me. However, the point of this post is to bring up a recurring theme in my mind and in conversations I have had and continue to have with others - the value of doing your own data processing - specifically transcription. I will consider coding in another post. |
AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
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