SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Talking Turkey with SAS Graphs](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/11/thanksgiving_dinner_2012-702x336.png)
Have you heard the expression "Talk Turkey"? Well then, what better (tongue-in-cheek) thing to do around the Thanksgiving holiday, than talk some turkey using SAS Graphs! ;) I don't usually decorate my graphs with images and pictures (they typically make the graph more difficult to read), but when it comes
![Next best thing since sliced bread - SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/11/EG_1.jpg)
I recently had a student in a SAS Enterprise Guide class declare that EG was the next best thing since sliced bread. I couldn't have agreed with her more! In this post, I‘ll share four ways where EG outperforms SAS code –yes I know you’re a codeaholic dear reader, but these reasons
![More eBooks for everyone](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/11/Kathy_eBookimage.jpg)
SAS Publishing has been offering eBooks through partners like Amazon, Apple, and Google, for a number of years. Our content is also available through subscription-based companies like Books 24x7, Safari, and EBSCO. We have learned that taking content developed for hardcopy and turning it into an ebook is not a
![Early praise for PROC DOCUMENT by Example Using SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/11/Procdoc_thumbnail.gif)
Hot off the press and debuting at NESUG is Michael Tuchman's new book, PROC DOCUMENT by Example Using SAS. Tuchman's book demonstrates the practical uses of the DOCUMENT procedure, a part of the Output Delivery System, in SAS 9.3. The DOCUMENT procedure allows general SAS users to store and manage
![SAS author's tip: The basics of decision trees](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/11/deVillecover.jpg)
This week's SAS tip is from Barry de Ville and his book Decision Trees for Business Intelligence and Data Mining: Using SAS Enterprise Miner. Barry is a technical and analytical consultant at SAS. To learn more about Barry and his forthcoming new edition of the book, following this week's excerpt, visit his author
![SAS graphs for presidential elections](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/11/elect-702x336.png)
In the U.S. we have a presidential election every 4 years - and as luck would have it, 2012 is an election year! I see a lot of election maps & graphs in the news, and I'm always subconsciously critiquing them in my mind and thinking to myself, "How would I graph this