Parallel Data Preparation with the DS2 Programming Language

A time consuming part of statistical analysis is building an analytic data set for statistical procedures. Whether it is recoding input values, transforming variables, or combining data from multiple data sources, the work to create an analytic data set can take time. The DS2 programming language in SAS 9.4 simplifies and speeds data preparation with user-defined methods, storing methods and attributes in shareable packages, and threaded execution on multi-core SMP and MPP machines.