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A SAS® blog for the rest of us![How to publish to a Microsoft Teams channel using SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2019/09/msteams_githubcard-702x336.jpg)
If you use Microsoft Teams for collaboration, you should use it for operational messages too. You can use SAS to automate tailored notices to your Teams Channel.
![A skeptic's guide to statistics in the media](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2019/08/mj-featured-702x336.jpg)
News outlets share stats and graphs that they source from public data. It takes data literacy skills to critique the stats you see, and investigate more.
![Building a recommendation engine with SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2019/07/featured_image-702x336.png)
How we built a recommendation engine for new topics on communities.sas.com. We used data, machine learning, and DevOps to build a scoring engine with SAS.
![Deeper enjoyment of your favorite shows -- through data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2019/04/feature.jpg)
By using data provided by a Game of Thrones fan, we use SAS to look at screen time for scene locations and characters in this crazy popular show.
![Read RSS feeds with SAS using XML or JSON](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2019/04/rss_image.png)
This blog post could be subtitled "To Catch a Thief" or maybe "Go ahead. Steal this blog. I dare you."* That's because I've used this technique several times to catch and report other web sites who lift the blog content from blogs.sas.com and present it as their own. Syndicating blog
![Convert a text-based measurement to a number in SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2019/02/from_regexrcom-359x336.png)
Regular expressions are a powerful method for finding specific patterns in text. The syntax of regular expressions is intimidating, but once you've solved a few pattern-recognition problems with regex, you'll never go back to your old methods.