Michele Reister has worked in the Education Division at SAS since 2004. During that time she has played many roles including marketing training courses, developing product bundles, managing conferences and overseeing the division’s discount programs. Currently, she is responsible for the division’s social media strategy. Michele holds a BS in Management and Information Technology from Daniel Webster College and an MBA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michele is a perpetual student herself and is constantly looking for better ways to serve SAS’ user population. When she’s not expanding her knowledge of marketing, Michele enjoys group fitness classes, cooking, volunteering, reading and chasing after her two children.
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
Recently, this question was asked of our SAS training instructors: For a SAS Programming 1: Essentials student, what would be a good book recommendation for a Statistics book? Here are the recommendations (in no particular order): Step-by-Step Basic Statistics Using SAS: Student Guide and Exercises By: Larry Hatcher A Handbook
Meet Radhika Kulkarni who heads the Advanced Analytics R&D Division at SAS Institute and is responsible for software development in Statistics, Operations Research, Econometrics, Text Analytics, Forecasting and Data Mining. Radhika is a Member of the Board of Directors for IDeaS, a SAS Company and serves on the Advisory Board
The Analytics Conference is coming up soon (October 24-25, Orlando)! To refresh your memory, the Analytics Conference Series is a merger of three annual educational conferences: the data mining conference, the business forecasting conference and the analytics conference held in Europe. Today I'd like to highlight a popular past and
Recently on the SAS Training & Certification LinkedIn Group, Crystal posted this question about wanting to become a SAS BI developer: “I am a Certified SAS Professional that is interested in broadening my skill set and knowledge by moving into the SAS BI developer realm. What are good courses or
SAS Technology Practice team member Anand Chitale has been analyzing how traditional SAS users typically work in the programming world. He recently took the time to produce a demo that describes why experienced SAS programmers who may have shied away from using SAS® Enterprise Guide® in the past should give
When we combine two powerhouse conferences to create the Analytics Conference Series, we think you’ll find the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts. Starting this year, SAS Education's annual Business Forecasting Conference is joining forces with the massively popular annual Data Mining Conference to create the
…will come home with you. This week, as many of you know, SAS Global Forum is taking place in Las Vegas. Many of our SAS Training Instructors are there teaching classes, presenting papers, hosting workshops and answering your questions in the Demo Hall. We hope the knowledge you learn at
SAS Global Forum creates a big buzz in the SAS user community, so in order to find out what the fuss is about, I decided to chat with a couple of our instructors who would be going to Las Vegas. In addition to teaching pre-conference training, these two instructors will
Before you take off for SAS Global Forum in Las Vegas, take a trip to our training page to hear Aubrey Barfield interview SAS instructor Andy Ravenna about the event. He’ll talk about his session, Becoming a Better Programmer with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3, which he will be presenting at
