Michele Burlew’s new book, SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy takes users through the newest look-up technique from SAS, one that has many still shaking their heads. “Not many DATA step programmers have used hash objects much,” Burlew says. “They seem scary because they operate a little differently from the SAS
This is a dramatic interpretation of an actual conversation I recently had with the CIO of one of North Carolina’s leading cities. We discussed his experience using data quality, data integration, business intelligence and analytics in the daily operation of the city. I may have taken some...well, a lot of
Robert Allison posted a map that shows the average commute times for major US cities, along with the proportion of the commute that is attributed to traffic jams and other congestion. The data are from a CEOs for Cities report (Driven Apart, 2010, p. 45). Robert use SAS/GRAPH software to
