Google Labs Code Search James Bidwell Amgen Ltd. 19 th Oct 2010 © 2010

Introduction Innovation Time Off (20% work time) Google Labs Graduated Examples... Google Maps Google Suggest 2

Code Search How do you learn, remember or improve SAS? – SAS Course Notes – SAS Online Manual – Personal Notes – Books – Stored Code Library on c:\ drive – Internet Try Google Labs Code Search 3

PROC TRANSPOSE lang:SAS Interface ( Search Box [lang:SAS] Examples Advanced Search 4 [What is the PROC TRANSPOSE syntax?]

Submitted Search Many Results Mostly Educational Can open any code 5

Take a look... I remembered the syntax! 6 Structure Tree Highlights your search parameter

Good examples – %sysfunc(put 7

Good examples – format & format= 8

Good examples – %if %and / %if and 9

Advantages / Disadvantages Google Search Technology Character Syntax Search (e.g. % & = ) Fast New ideas Only Beta – Not 100% bug-free Limited SAS Code Availability (Industry) Internet Explorer Problems (FF, Chrome OK) 10

Summary Use in conjunction with other resources Better for remembering, rather than learning Be clever with the search criteria Active forum for feedback to developers A product to keep an eye on. groups.google.com/group/Google-Code-Search 11

Questions Thank you © 2010

Other tools in the lab (if time) Google Sets creating dummy data sets Google Fusion Tables publics DBs and Chart Tools 13