SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Does your county have a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/09/z06_patrol_car.jpg)
There's been a lot of debate lately about whether it's good or bad for the local law enforcement agencies to receive military surplus items. The data has recently become available, but it is just a big long text list of almost a quarter million items (see below). Therefore I thought
![The growing role of analytics in management education](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/09/hall_o.jpg)
This guest post was written by Owen P. Hall, Jr., Professor of Decision Sciences at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. He has more than 35 years of academic and industry experience in mobile learning technologies and business analytics. He also holds the Julian Virtue Professorship and is
![Analyzing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/09/atlantic_coast_pipeline-1-702x336.png)
Admit it - you were fascinated by the 3D pipes screensaver! How many CPU cycles did we let our machines burn up, drawing and re-drawing those silly pipes!?! What was your personal favorite CPU-hungry screensaver? (let us know in a comment!) Well, speaking of pipes, the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline
![Jedi SAS Tricks - These aren't the labels...](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/08/jedi_label_magic_hair_original.png)
In the first Star Wars movie, Obi-wan uses Jedi mind tricks to convince the stormtroopers that the droids they see are not the droids they're looking for. A colleague at SAS passed along a question from a SAS user where the column labels they were seeing were NOT the labels
![US public schools projected to be majority-minority in 2014](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/08/chalkboard.png)
Being that today is a Throwback Thursday, I decided to re-create one of my favorite events from elementary school -- show-and-tell! And of course I'll be showing and telling you about a graph ... using school data! OK - that SAS graph (above) is definitely "Throwback" but it's not the one
![Turnout vs popular party in European elections](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/08/chi-square.png)
In the last edition of the European elections, the main question was not only “Who is going to win the elections?” but also “What is going to be the turnout?” As it has taken a month and half to establish the real figure (the previous figure was based on exit polls so