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Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Resolve to get your SAS Certification in 2014](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/Picture1.jpg)
Each year on New Year's Day I write down a list of New Year's resolutions. Most of them are garden variety resolutions – sleep more and eat better, for example – but occasionally I'll get caught up in the possibilities of a new year and commit to something I realize
![SAS author's tip: Importing textual data into SAS Text Mining and Analysis](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/Text-mining-blog-cover.jpg)
Interested in text mining? This week's SAS tip is from the new book - Text Mining and Analysis: Practical Methods, Examples, and Case Studies Using SAS by Goutam Chakraborty, Murali Pagolu, and Satish Garla. This hands-on guide is getting strong early reviews - and perhaps you'd like to write your own after reading the
![Find out what 'holiday' your birthday is on!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/strange_holidays.png)
Every day of the year is an official 'national day' for something - here's a SAS chart to help you find which bizarre 'national day' falls on your birthday! I recently read an article that lists weird and unconventional national days. It was very interesting, but I found the data
![Creating 'pretty' maps with SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/cnn.png)
When you create maps, you are typically plotting data for analytics -- but you can also use SAS to create 'pretty' maps for background decorations (for posters, slides, presentations, etc). This blog shows you a few examples... A few years ago I noticed that the CNN Situation Room had a decorative
![What to do when a table’s not enough?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/Proc-tabulate_1.png)
Sure, you have a great looking table and you produce it with PROC TABULATE. And then, bam! Your boss comes along and decides that since your output looks so good in Word, that he’d like that boilerplate paragraph inserted automatically. Currently, you produce the tables and then pass the RTF
![SAS author's tip: Using ODS to send output to alternate destinations SAS Statistics by Example](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2014/01/Cody_StatsbyExcover.Jan14.jpg)
Ron Cody starts things off right with our first SAS tip of 2014. If you resolve to become a better statistical programmer this year, Ron's book SAS Statistics by Example is a great place to start. After you take a look at this week's free excerpt from the book, head over to Ron's author page. You'll