Andy has worked at SAS for nearly thirty years. He has happily spent more than 15 of those years in the Education department training customers and writing courses. Over that time Andy has become certified to teach many programming courses in both the core and advanced curriculum; He now focuses in Advanced Analytics and Statistical Training. Interested in connecting with customers, Andy has written and delivered several papers at various conferences. Andy is not only fluent in SAS programming but is also fluent in English and Spanish. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and a master's degree in applied mathematics (minor in statistics) from North Carolina State University, where SAS was born. While there, he taught Algebra and Calculus for 3 years and received the Maltbie Award for Superior Teaching Ability. Andy enjoys running marathons, photography, traveling for vacation, and taking advantage of everything New York City has to offer.
Even though I’ve worked at SAS for nearly 30 years, I still get excited when great things come together for our customers! This year we are hosting the very first hackathon at our Analytics Experience conference in San Diego - the AnalyticsX Hackathon. Analytics Experience is in its third year
Over the holidays I was having a discussion with my cat, Ms. Trixie Lou. A question that often arises during the first programming class is the following: how do I find the variables that are in common to these two or three data sets? As it turns out, Ms. Trixie
