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Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Where do hurricanes strike Florida? (110 years of data)](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/09/florida_hurricanes_osm-702x336.png)
With Hurricane Irma recently pummeling pretty much the entire state of Florida, I got to wondering where past hurricanes have hit the state. Let's get some data, and figure out how to best analyze it using SAS software! I did a bit of web searching, and found the following map
![What cities are in Hurricane Irma's path?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/09/hurricane_irma_2017-702x336.png)
As Hurricane Irma makes its way through the Caribbean, and heads towards the United States, the big question on everyone's mind ... is the hurricane going to hit my city? Or, as some people like to say, "should I buy milk & bread?" Let's analyze & map some data to
![How rare are Category 5 hurricanes?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/09/cat5_atlantic_hurricanes-702x336.png)
I suppose we've all been watching Hurricane Irma rip through the Caribbean like a giant buzzsaw blade, with wind speeds over 180mph. This is one of those rare Category 5 storms. But just how rare are Category 5 hurricanes? According to the Wikipedia page, hurricanes with wind speeds >=157mph are
![Where do modern day pirates attack?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/09/pirate_zoomed-702x336.png)
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sept 19 ... which always gets me thinking and wondering about modern-day pirates. Most movies usually focus on pirates from the Golden Age of piracy (a couple hundred years ago), when pirates typically stole ships and booty (treasure). But modern day pirates usually board
![Jedi SAS Tricks - Variable Lists by Text Pattern](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/08/Jedi_VariableListByPattern-702x336.png)
I hate hard-coding variable lists in my SAS code. I love the special variable lists SAS provides, like name:, _numeric_, etc. But back in 2011, I wrote a post titled Jedi SAS Tricks - Building a Name Suffix variable list lamenting the lack of a special variable list in base
![Learn SAS from wherever you are: Live Web classes go global](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/08/Learn-SAS-from-wherever-you-are01-702x336.png)
My daughter is a junior in high school, and for almost every semester she’s taken an online course as part of her studies. This semester she’s taking Spanish 3, an advanced level course where every word of instruction is spoken in Spanish. Each morning she joins the class from our