Working on “stuff that matters”

Julie Platt
Julie Platt|March 25, 2013

“It’s not about how much money you make but to work on stuff that matters,” according to Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media. At the recent Tools of Change conference, Tim O’Reilly mentioned during his keynote that writers tend to be motivated to work on “stuff that matters.” Through SAS [...]

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SAS author's tip: Building a macro program in 4 steps

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|June 22, 2012

This week’s SAS tip comes from Michele Burlew and her book SAS Macro Programming Made Easy, Second Edition. Michele is the accomplished author of  7 SAS Press books and a much-respected SAS expert. You can learn more about Michele and read a free chapter from each of her books here. And if you like [...]

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SAS author's tip: the OTHERS group

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|June 15, 2012

Gerhard Svolba is one of our busiest authors. His new book Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS just released and next Monday, June 18, he’s participating in a live e-chat at 11 a.m. ET. In the meantime, I decided to feature our weekly SAS tip from Gerhard’s first and also highly-regarded book Data Preparation [...]

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Bookstore reports from SAS Global Forum: day 2

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 25, 2012

Nine Publications colleagues describe their favorite moments of day two at SAS Global Forum. A paper, the SAS authors’ dinner, SAS Visual Analytics, eBooks, documentation, attendees, and more made the list. Kathy Council – Vice President, Publications I’ve enjoyed two full days of conference activities and many meet-ups with attendees. Great folks! I [...]

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SAS author's tip: a short-cut for requesting multiple tables

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 23, 2012

Ron Cody is the author of several bestselling SAS books, including his latest SAS Statistics by Example. He’s also one of the most highly regarded SAS experts anywhere. One could even make the case that Ron has achieved somewhat of a cult status within the SAS user community. Whether you’ve gotten a chance to meet Ron [...]

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39 all-star authors to appear at SAS Global Forum

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|April 18, 2012

Bring your questions and your books with you. SAS authors will be everywhere at SAS Global Forum. They’re presenting papers, autographing books in the Bookstore, and attending lots of networking events. Besides being extremely smart, SAS Press authors are a personable lot and enjoy connecting with users, their fellow authors, and [...]

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SAS author's tip: creating a bar chart using PROC SGPLOT

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|March 23, 2012

This week’s tip comes from Ron Cody – SAS author and expert extraordinaire. Ron’s written several bestselling SAS Press books including his latest SAS Statistics by Example. If you haven’t taken a look at Ron’s extensive work, I’d invite you to visit his author page. You can read a free chapter from each of [...]

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3 SAS books win STC awards

Mary Beth Steinbach
Mary Beth Steinbach|January 10, 2012

As we wrapped up 2011 and began preparing for 2012, we were notified by the Society for Technical Communication, Carolina Chapter, that three SAS Press books received awards in the 2011-2012 competition. We submitted these three entries this past November, and are thrilled that all three submissions won awards. Multiple [...]

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SAS author's tip: Using PROC FREQ to export descriptive statistics

Shelly Goodin
Shelly Goodin|December 16, 2011

This week’s SAS author’s tip comes from Jack Shostak - manager of statistical programming at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Despite his youthful appearance, Jack’s been using SAS since 1985 and is the author of SAS Programming in the Pharmaceutical Industry and coauthor of Common Statistical Methods for Clinical Research with SAS Examples, [...]

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New conferences for SAS Publishing

Shelley Sessoms
Shelley Sessoms|November 30, 2011

It seems we’re always on the road for a SAS event…our annual conference, regional events, industry events, educational forums, and statistical conferences. You name it, and we’re there. We haven’t added new conferences to our rotation in a while, but that’s all about to change. You’ll find us at three new [...]

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