Sometimes it happens. You’ve rearranged your busy schedule to find that perfect time to write your SAS conference paper, article, or book chapter. It’s early in the morning, or late at night, or a weekend day, or you took a day off from work. Your significant other, or girlfriend, or boyfriend is out-and-about
I, (INSERT NAME HERE), being a data scientist of moral standing and noble intentions, do solemnly swear the following on pain of being banned from ever using a logistic regression again: When faced with an individual untrained in advanced statistics or machine learning, I shall not belittle, condescend, or otherwise
It's said that the only things you can't avoid are Death and Taxes ... Well, in this blog, I'm going to avoid the "Death" one (for now), and just show you some graphs on taxes in the U.S., since the deadline for paying 2012 taxes is quickly approaching! :-) I created these
This week's SAS tip is from Ron Cody and his new book Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them. If you're a SAS user and haven't explored Ron's work, you're missing out! Visit Ron's author page to view his extensive list of SAS books, user
It’s been quite a while since my face has graced the SAS Training Post, so some of you may have been wondering: Did Mike retire? Was he traded to another company for a blogger to be named later? Did he leave to pursue his lifelong dream of playing first base
Have you used a rhyme or spelling mnemonic to help you remember the spelling of a word? For me, the memorable, “i” before “e” except after “c” rhyme quickly comes to mind. Another memory tip I use is with the spelling of the word, stationery, as opposed to the word
This week's tip is from Robert Carver and his book Practical Data Analysis with JMP. If you're a JMP user, be sure to take a look at additional bonus content from the book. The following excerpt is from SAS Press author Robert Carver and his book "Practical Data Analysis with JMP". Copyright © 2010, SAS
I'm sure that most of you have seen the really cool interactive Baby Name Voyager, right? If not, go have a look and try it out (be sure to plug in your name, and the names in your family, and so on). Here's a screen-capture: That's a pretty cool application! ...
In his first SAS® Enterprise Guide® Tip, instructor David Ghan teaches how to import and combine data from multiple Microsoft Excel sheets. Then, in his second tip, he shows the alternative approach - how to export groups of data to separate sheets in an Excel workbook. If you’re working with
Last month, I talked to Emmett Cox about finding time to write his Wiley and SAS Business Series book. Like Emmett, many of our authors were already tops in their field when they became a SAS Press author. Sanjay Matange, Senior Software Manager in SAS R&D, was already quite well-known
