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News and views from the people who make SAS a great place to work![Discuss: hotel reviews, statistical wisdom and confirmation bias](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2017/01/Analytics-1-702x336.png)
If you read SAS blogs but never click through to the comment sections, you're missing some great information. Need proof? Check out some of these comments from the last few weeks. And then leave one of your own. Kelly McGuire has been studying the effects of negative hotel reviews online.
![Path analysis with SAS Visual Analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/08/vae_path_analysis_05-702x336.png)
Introduction Understanding the behavior of your customers is key to improving and maintaining revenue streams. It is a an important part when crafting successful marketing campaigns. With SAS Visual Analytics 7.1 you can analyze, explore and visualize user behavior, click paths and other event-based scenarios. Monitoring the customer journey by visualizing
![Can a humanities major learn to program in SAS?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/08/SASUimage-702x336.png)
Before I started my internship with SAS, my only experience with data or analysis came from an “Introduction to Statistics” course I took freshman year to satisfy my math requirement. If I’d known then that statistics and knowing SAS programming would be the #1 skill for a bigger paycheck, or
![What is the most valued position in football?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/08/rsz_10-702x336.png)
After the 2014 FIFA World Cup, one thing’s clear: here at SAS, we love football (soccer in the US!). To wrap up the popular 2014 World Cup data visualization series on the SAS Visual Analytics Community, we created a presentation that’s chocked-full of interesting insights. From the trillions of pieces
![Impending Crisis: Analytics for the top-line](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/08/Predictive-Analytics-for-Human-Resources-Wiley-and-SAS-Business-Series-348x336.jpg)
I’m sitting here staring at a book on my shelf entitled, “Impending Crisis”. Even knowing the copyright date, 2003, it could still be about any one of several possible crises: healthcare, financial, energy, education, environment. But no, in this case the impending crisis in question is provided by the subtitle: “Too many jobs,
![One study that will change the way you see social work](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2014/08/5346737067_bcd7dedf01_z-640x336.jpg)
On Facebook the other day a friend “liked” one of her friend’s posts, so it appeared in my news feed. I opened the link, read the article and started crying. You would have too. It was an article by a former social worker in Durham County, N.C. on what it was like