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Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![The Analytics Experience – virtually anywhere](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/09/email-banner600-400.jpg)
Analytics experts and decision makers are taking over Las Vegas Sept. 12-14 while attending Analytics Experience. Whether you are in Vegas or need to participate from the luxury of your sofa or office, read on for help to stay connected and be a part of it all. Watch Live There
![Can you name all the SAS colors?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/09/sara_art.jpg)
Anybody can come up with a list of simple colors, such as red, green, and blue. If you're a bit more color savvy, you might even throw in indigo, magenta, and fuchsia. But what about more obscure names such as cornsilk, mistyrose, and midnightblue? This blog post will help you
![Are milkweed and monarchs making a comeback?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/08/monarch_eniko.png)
Everyone who knows about monarch butterflies, likes monarch butterflies. This blog post focuses on their food source - milkweed. And to get you in the mood, here's an amazingly beautiful picture my friend Eniko made of a monarch: In recent years, I had heard reports of the dwindling number of
![Analog clocks, vinyl records, and payphones](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/08/payphones_map_1998.png)
What do people have in common who have used analog clocks, vinyl records, and payphones? They were all probably born before 1980! Now, let's focus on those payphones!... A lot of young kids these days can't imagine a world where everyone doesn't have a wireless phone. My buddy Ed likes
![How close are you to a nuclear plant?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/08/thelmas_nuclear_shirt.jpg)
Have you ever wondered how far you live from the closest nuclear power plant? I've crunched the numbers for cities here in the US, and created an interactive SAS map to help answer that question! The average age of US nuclear power plants is 35 years, and there just doesn't
![A map of Zika cases in the US](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/08/zika_cases_us.png)
As Zika starts spreading into the US, it will be important to have a way to track it. Therefore I wrote some SAS code to pull the latest data from the CDC website, and plot it on a map... But before we get into the details of my map, I