SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![How much snow does it take to close your school? (here's a SAS map!)](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/02/school_snow_closings-1-702x336.png)
We get very little snow in Wake County, NC (SAS Headquarters) - therefore when we do have snow, it's a big deal and they close the schools. Which made me wonder ... how much snow does it take to close schools in the rest of the US? Last week we got our
![Saving the monarch butterflies](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/02/monarch.jpg)
Recent studies show that the annual winter migration of millions of monarch butterflies from the US to Mexico is at risk of disappearing - can SAS graphics help change that?!? When I was a kid (not that long ago), one of my main activities was the 4-H Entomology project. I
![Mead - the drink of gods!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/meaderies.png)
Since mead is becoming popular in movies (such as Thor and The Hobbit), and even as an emerging industry in real life ... what better example to use for some SAS graphs! And who knows - this might even turn you into a mead drinker! But first, to get you in the
![SAS author's tip: Planning versus forecasting and manual overrides](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/Reybook.jpg)
This week's SAS tip is from Applied Data Mining for Forecasting Using SAS by Tim Rey, Arthur Kordon, and Chip Wells. Whether you're a forecasting practitioner, engineer, statistician, or economist, you'll appreciate the many real-world examples in the book. And hopefully this free excerpt. The following excerpt is from SAS Press
![Could SAS programming be in your future?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/sortcode1.jpg)
Even though I’ve worked as software technology marketer over the years, I have to admit that on a personal level I’ve probably related more to TV programming than software programming. When it comes to writing, I’ve always gravitated more toward crafting marketing communications than code. And when it comes to
![Easy new way to send drilldown graphs in an email](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/mailbox.jpg)
In a previous post, I showed you how to send graphs with charttips & drilldowns in an email ... but what if you also need to send the graphs that you're drilling-down to? You guessed it - SAS also has a slick trick for doing that! When you create SAS graphs