Writing a book (especially for SAS Press) is an incredible experience. If you are playing with the thought of doing so, I highly recommend that you proceed with this idea. You’ll get a much better structured view of your favorite topic, learn a lot about yourself, and enter a very
My family recently rescued two lovable Labrador Retrievers: Jake 9 and Tar 7. Neither of them are great retrievers but we recently taught Tar how to pick up tennis balls off of a cupcake pan to find treats below. While this may not seem like a big accomplishment, it is
Hopefully you know that a gif animation can be used for more than just showing a cartoon animal doing cute tricks! Being a savvy data-meister, I'm sure you are also aware that you can use gif animations to see how data changes over time. But perhaps you didn't know you could
We’re kicking off a series of blogs to get people ready for the Analytics 2012 Conference. If you’re not familiar with the conference, it’s an annual event that attracts 1,000 analytics professionals for two days of learning and networking. It’s great for people either looking to learn the latest techniques
Just over the border between England and Wales lies the small town of Hay-on-Wye, reputed to have more bookshops per head of population than any other town in the world. Each year for ten days in spring the Hay Literary Festival is run, and Hay becomes the only place in
In honor of the 2012 Olympics, this week’s SAS tip is from award-winning UK author Phil Mason and his book In the Know...SAS Tips and Techniques from Around the Globe, Second Edition. SAS user Ron Fehd proclaimed Phil Mason "one of the SAS user community's famous creative tinkerers--the SAS user version
When working with "big data" you usually have too many points to view in a plot, and end up subsetting or summarizing the data. But now, in SAS 9.3, you have an alternative! For example, the following scatter plot of 10,000+ points is just a visual "blob": But using a new
New books, SAS certification guides, and all-time favorites topped the bestseller list during the second quarter of 2012. Are you using any of these titles? The Little SAS Book: A Primer, Fourth Edition SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition Learning SAS by Example: A Programmer's
Think that you have a good excuse for not completing that SAS users group conference paper, technical article, or SAS Press book chapter? Well, whatever your excuse is, I’ve got a bigger one. Really! Things at the office are so busy that you need to take work home? I can
Economist and statistician Kattamuri Sarma and his book Predictive Modeling with SAS Enterprise Miner are the source for this week's SAS tip. In a review of the book, SAS user Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman said "The content is wonderful, clear, and thorough." If you're using SAS Enterprise Miner, I'd invite you to visit Kattamuri Sarma's
