SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Announcing the #AnalyticsX Hackathon: Are you up for it?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2018/08/Hackathon-image-1.jpg)
Even though I’ve worked at SAS for nearly 30 years, I still get excited when great things come together for our customers! This year we are hosting the very first hackathon at our Analytics Experience conference in San Diego - the AnalyticsX Hackathon. Analytics Experience is in its third year
![Survey says! .... US voters are _________.](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2018/08/us_voters-702x336.png)
Elections are in the news again, therefore I have been on the lookout for interesting graphs. I recently found some graphs of the Census Current Population Survey (CPS) Voting and Registration Supplement data, and tried to improve them. Follow along if you're interested in voter data, or creating better graphs!
![Five things you (probably) don’t know you can do with a hash table](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2018/08/hash-blog-1-694x336.jpg)
Hash tables are a very powerful and flexible data structure. Most SAS applications of hash tables focus on just one of their many powerful facilities: table lookup. Hash tables are a fantastic table lookup tool and their use for that should never be diminished. However, hash tables can do so
![Fact checking a reddit post about GDP](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2018/08/gdp-702x336.png)
I peruse many different websites to get my news, and I always keep an eye out for good (or bad) presentations of data. I recently saw a posting on reddit claiming "U.S. GDP is greater than the total of all others combined." This news seemed too good to be true
![Choose your markers carefully! (for scatter plots, that is)](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2018/08/mouse_over_bad-600x336.png)
There are many quotes with words of wisdom to help you live your life. But sometimes one quote seems to contradict another. For example, "Don't sweat the small stuff." ... and "The devil is in the details." When it comes to creating graphs (and perhaps living my life in general),
![Cumulative values - "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way..."](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2018/08/cumulative_fair_attendance_cumulative-702x336.png)
In many movies, there is often a scene where the star says "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way" (and the hard way usually involves quite a bit of pain). So it is with interrogations ... and so it is with writing SAS code! Today I'm