SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Learn how to maximize your data with SAS and Hadoop](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/01/sunglasses.jpg)
Outside, the Cary, NC sky is gray and winds are blowing freezing rain, but a group of statisticians at SAS are channeling warm green hills and the soft, gold light of a California evening. Team conversations alternate between distributed processing, PROC IMSTAT and how many pairs of shorts to pack.
![Using SAS analytics to monitor blog posts](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/01/top_10_blogs.png)
As a blogger, I often wonder whether my blog posts are 'successful' - and being a graph guy, I like to visually analyze the data, to try to answer that question. The most common measure of a blog post is probably the number of times it was viewed, so I guess
![Don't let difficult graph legends get your goat](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/01/marks_goats.jpg)
Is this blog post about techniques to use on difficult graph legends, or is it about goats? The answer is both! But first, to get you into the proper mood, here is a picture my friend, Mark, took of some cute goats. And some links to YouTube videos about goats
![Solving Sudoku with SAS/IML – Part 1](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/01/Figure-1.png)
Sudoku solvers have been written in SAS using a variety of methods (e.g., the DATA step, PROC SQL, and PROC CLP). Surprisingly, SAS/IML appears to have been overlooked for this purpose. On a challenge from a coworker, I wrote this blog post to demonstrate the flexibility of SAS/IML in the
![Using SAS to help locate the 100 best restaurants in the US](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/01/claudia_dinner.jpg)
I recently read an article that listed the 100 best restaurants in the US - but the article didn't have a map. I decided to use my SAS skills to change that! When it comes to restaurants, I eat out a lot (and by 'a lot' I mean I never
![Most common New Year's resolutions](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/01/new_years_resolutions_thumbnail-700x336.png)
Can you guess the 5 most common New Year's resolutions? Compare your guesses to the survey results!... Being a data meister, I'm always on the lookout for seasonal data. I recently did a Web search for "new year's resolutions" and found an interesting article on the You Gov UK website.