Chris Hemedinger

Chris Hemedinger works in SAS R&D on the team that builds SAS Enterprise Guide, a popular user interface for SAS customers.

Articles & Books From Chris Hemedinger

SAS For Dummies
Become data-savvy with the widely used data and AI software Data and analytics are essential for any business, giving insight into what's working, what can be improved, and what else needs to be done. SAS software helps you make sure you're doing data right, with a host of data management, reporting, and analysis tools.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-14-2025
The field of SAS and SAS programming has evolved over nearly 50 years, leading to the development of various shorthand techniques. These techniques may not be immediately apparent to new SAS users, but they become clear with learning and practice. Use the tips here to get a head-start and accelerate your initiation to SAS.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
SAS Institute offers hundreds of SAS products, and sometimes it's difficult to decide which tool you should use for your work. Here is a partial list of SAS products you might encounter and who uses them for what purpose. As a SAS customer, you might use just one of these products or a few of them; if you're really lucky, you might use them all.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office cover a wide range of SAS capabilities. These SAS tasks are easy-to-use interfaces that create SAS programs to do their work. The programs call on SAS procedures, where each procedure represents a specialized capability. And to make it even more interesting, SAS (the company) provides these procedures in product bundles, which must be separately licensed for customers to use them.