SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Beer: Finding your favorite that you didn't know about!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/01/beer_data_ipa.png)
Data analysis can be used for many things ... how about finding other beers you might like, so you don't keep drinking the same old brand every time? Hang on tight - I think we're about to make a beer run! I recently read an interesting article on the Flowingdata website,
![SAS Jedi Christmas - SAS 9.4 M4 DS2 Do Loop Upgrade](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/12/ds2_do_loop_fib-686x336.png)
This SAS Jedi is very excited about the SAS 9.4 M4 release, which brought many wonderful gifts just in time for Christmas. So in the interest of extending the Christmas spirit, I'm going to blog about some of my favorites! I've long loved the SAS DO statement variant which allows
![SAS Temporary Arrays, Not Just for Experts](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/12/SAS-Temporary-Arrays-01.jpg)
SAS temporary arrays are an underutilized jewel in the SAS toolbox. I find that many beginning to intermediate SAS programmers are not familiar with temporary arrays. The good news is that there is nothing complicated about them and they are very useful. First of all, what is a temporary array?
![5 Benefits of writing a book with SAS Press](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/12/5-Benefits-of-writing-a-book-with-SAS-Press.jpg)
Editor's note: This series of blogs addresses the questions we are most frequently asked at SAS Press! Do you have a great book idea already in mind, or think you might want to write about an analytics or industry topic? Consider writing a SAS Press book or a SAS &
![Graphs: Comparing R, Excel, Tableau, SPSS, Matlab, JS, Python, and SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/12/catalyst_3d_surface.png)
Are you a visualization & graphing expert? Can you identify which tool (R, Excel, Tableau, SPSS, Matlab, JS, Python, or SAS) was used to create each of these graphs? No cheating! I recently read Tim Matteson's blog where he presented 18 graphs, and had his readers try to guess which
![SAS Certification for the Non-Practitioner](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/05/cert2013_89x89.jpg)
Let me make this clear right from the start: I needed to answer 44 of the 62 exam questions correctly to earn my BASE SAS Programmer certification, and I got exactly 44 right. No margin of error. I never thought I’d be proud of a 70%, but I’m more than