Taking the storyboard approach

A storyboard is a blueprint of drawings/ideas in a specific sequence to illustrate a story.  Let’s take the Pixar film Toy Story as an example (I have a two-year-old and admittedly have watched this movie more than the hairs on my head).  Before they ever began animating with the design [...]

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Heading out to a busy week at SAS Global Forum

I am in countdown mode, in about a week I will be heading to SAS Global Forum 2012. As a SAS Instructor for over fourteen years, I have been to several conferences but never one in Orlando. I am excited for the busy forum that awaits. Sunday afternoon I will [...]

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Graphs are easy with SAS 9.3

ODS Graphics have matured.  With SAS 9.2, GTL and SG procedures were a new direction for creating analytical graphs in SAS. The motivation and design of the GTL framework and the SG procedures was driven primarily by the needs of the procedure writers within SAS to enable the automatic creation [...]

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Try the sampler platter at SAS Global Forum

I’m a sucker for the sampler platter at restaurants – it gives you a little taste of everything. “The crispy, gooey cheese sticks are delicious, but man, I really want more of the chicken skewers as my meal,” is typically how my thought process goes. SAS Training is offering the [...]

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Top 10 SAS training courses

Usually I like to write a blog at the end of the year with a top 10 list of most popular classes or most read blogs for that year. Somehow I forgot to do that at the end of 2011, so here I am writing this blog today. I figured [...]

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Take a free e-Course at SAS Global Forum

Hello! I hope you had a chance to read about e-Learning in last week’s blog. For those of you who want to see and try e-Learning, please come visit me at the e-Learning booth at SAS Global Forum in Orlando.   In the weeks to come I will tell you more [...]

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Get SAS certified at SAS Global Forum 2012

SAS Global Forum 2012 is fast approaching and attendees want to make sure they make the most of their time away from their job. In addition to the opportunity to network with thousands of SAS professionals, attend hands-on workshops and demonstrations and choose from more than 300 paper presentations, attendees [...]

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Kill two birds (or three!) with one stone at SAS Global Forum

Did you know that a selection of our most popular SAS training classes are offered in conjunction with SAS Global Forum at a 15% discount?  If you’re planning to attend SAS Global Forum, arrive a few days early and take a class.  These training classes could be the argument you [...]

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The 3 R's of SAS Training

I am a thinker by nature; always pondering my choices so that I make the most informed decisions. So for me, the Three R’s of SAS Training aren’t “Reading, wRiting and ‘aRithmetic”, they are Reason, Reflect and Ruminate which allows me time to gather information from others and provide the [...]

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What Didn't Stay in Vegas

Just flew back from Vegas, and boy, are my arms tired! (ba-dump) If you attended SAS Global Forum, you probably learned a lot of things you didn’t know. But if you were a SAS employee, you also learned a lot of things you didn’t know. One of the perks of [...]

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