The following email landed in my inbox this morning and it is such a good question that I decided to share because it comes up often. (If you are the sender, thank you for sending this message and pulling me out of a no-blogging-recently slump!) Dear Cat, I need some help
On Thursday, February 23, SAS Press acquisitions editor Shelley Sessoms and I will take questions about getting published, why you should publish with us and the publishing industry in general. If you like our books or have considered writing your own SAS or JMP book, join us on Twitter at
One of the cool things with SAS OLAP Viewer in Add-in to Microsoft Office is your ability to skip right into a specific value. Out of the box, viewing OLAP cubes can lead you to believe that in order to view a specific value you need to click-thru a hierarchy
We started out in Episode 1 cleaning and standardizing data from the Academy. As you recall, Mr. Vader apparently had a attitude when making his entry in the database. The original data looked like this: You can find the code for creating the original data set back in Episode 1. There,
This week's SAS author's tip comes from Randy Collica and his new book Customer Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner, Second Edition. Randy, a Senior Solutions Architect for SAS, is extremely knowledgeable and approachable. In his new book, Randy uses SAS Enterprise Miner and the most commonly available techniques for customer
Business users of SAS are finding the Web Report Studio capabilities incredibly beneficial for viewing, creating, and sharing reports on the Web. The easy-to-use query and reporting software provides a point-and-click interface for building reports from several different data sources. Once created, SAS reports can be views by many SAS
Building Business Intelligence Using SAS: Content Development Examples by Tricia Aanderud and Angela Hall just published this month. This highly anticipated book—called “a must read for anyone using SAS® BI”* —is a quick-start guide that will help users move quickly from using only one of the SAS BI Clients to
The SAS Global Certification program concluded 2011 with a bang by awarding the 40,000th SAS credential. Program growth has continued to accelerate ever since the 1999 launch, with a dramatic 53% growth in the total number of SAS certifications awarded in the last two years alone. With SAS credential holders in
How we love shortcuts. Our life seems more efficient with them. I try to take the earlier train for a good parking spot that lets me exit early. Actually change that to any spot (my train station has tons of commuters with FEW parking spaces so getting up early is the
The 8th annual Krispy Kreme Challenge race was just held in downtown Raleigh, NC. This event was started in 2004 as a dare among a few NC State undergrads. They had this idea to race 2 miles to the local Krispy Kreme doughnuts, down a dozen of the confections, and
