Currently I'm ... Reading Recently finished Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results by Davenport, Harris, and Morison (2010, Harvard Business Press). I've assigned it as companion reading for the students who take the Advanced Business Analytics course I'm writing right now. It is an excellent reference for anyone who
If you are a SAS/GRAPH user, you may have heard about the new Statistical Graphics ("SG") procedures that are new in SAS 9.2. These procedures are designed to make it easier to produce common statistical charts and plots. You may have assumed that the procedures are only for folks who
Now that my blogging partner Cat Truxillo has identified herself, it's my turn to come out of hiding. I'm Mike Kalt, and I'll be telling you what I know about Base SAS and SAS/GRAPH, and providing more gossip about life on the road and what's going on in Cary. By
My grandmother was a great cook. When we would visit her in South Carolina, we spent hours on her porch enjoying wonderful meals accompanied by vats of iced tea. Now, my memories of her and those meals are captured in her Junior League cookbook that was passed on to me,
Larry LaRusso is the Editor of SAS Training Report. His editorial letter from the May issue was so good, I thought I would share it with you. Enjoy! If you had to choose the Simon Cowell of the mid-1900s, you'd be hard-pressed to pick someone more qualified than James Rae
Contributed by Susan Slaughter, Author, The Little SAS Book series Answer: A lot. Looking at The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.2, I am struck by how similar it looks to the previous edition. Updating this book for EG4.2 was not a matter of simply adding a few new
For those of you who were growing up in the 80’s and listening to rock with hair that had been teased for hours on end and using an entire bottle of AquaNet in the process, and pant legs pegged so tight you had bruises around your ankles, that line should
The F2010 Business Forecasting Conference will take place June 7-8 in Cary, NC at SAS Headquarters. Here’s the transcript from a brief interview with the conference co-chairs. Jerry Oglesby is the Director of Higher Education Consulting and Global Certification within the Education Division at SAS. He has been a conference
I remember studying product distribution in my business classes at Colorado State. We learned about the role of manufacturing, distribution centers, and retail outlets, in moving goods from the factory to the consumer. The publishing industry was built on this model – with the added twist of selling distribution rights
The SAS Training Post is born, and introductions are in order. I'm Catherine Truxillo, but everyone except my mom calls me Cat. I have been a statistician in the Education division at SAS since 2000. I've been blogging a little longer than that, although this will be the first I've
