A friend recently asked me why I am writing a book. My answer? Some people are born to write a book and some have books thrust upon them. Mine was thrust upon me, although it is more accurate to say that I thrust it upon myself. My book, Statistical Programming
Delicious Mixed Model Goodness Imagine the scene: You’re in your favorite coffee shop, laptop and chai. The last of the data from a four-year study are validated and ready for analysis. You’ve explored the plots, preliminary results are promising, and now it is time to fit the model. It’s not
Our Instructor Tip videos have received positive feedback and often generate follow-up conversations between our instructors and our users. For example, just this week, one of our instructors, David Ghan, responded to a question that he received from a SAS user about this video: SAS Enterprise Guide Tip: Exporting Results
I am a big sports fan—sort of. I like to watch the last quarter of the football game, the final inning of the baseball game, the last day of the golf tournament. You get the idea. So you would think that the fact that we are less than two months
Okay, so I bought a Kindle. Now, officially, I don’t like such electronic gizmos. My oft-stated position has long been that the traditional hard-copy book is good enough for me. For one thing, the batteries don’t go dead. Be that as it may, when Amazon lowered the price a couple
Last month, the SAS Global Certification program added a new credential, the SAS Certified BI Content Developer. My first blog post from May described how a global team of BI experts collaborated to create the beta exam. In May and June, candidates from a broad background of experience (novice to
It's hard to believe that the summer season is winding down and cooler weather, fall leaves and football (Go Panthers!) is around the corner! Around SAS, we are gearing up for the fall conference season. I recently asked the fans of our Facebook page if they have ever attended a
In this interview, Robin Way, SAS Analytics Consultant talks about attending the M2010 Data Mining Conference for the fourth time (this year he'll be a speaker for the second time!), his talk on demystifying sequence analysis, his favorite part of the conference and his advice for first time attendees. My
Chris Hemedinger, author of The SAS Dummy blog and member of the team that builds SAS Enterprise Guide, and Stacey Syphus, SAS Enterprise Guide curriculum development manager, recently took some time to discuss the upcoming SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 product release and why experienced programmers should give the SAS Enterprise
I know that many of you will be traveling to Las Vegas in a couple of months to attend the annual Data Mining Conference. But, for those of you who won’t be attending, or for those who would love a sneak-peek beforehand, I’d like to share with you two upcoming
