SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Most efficient way to find rare Pokémon](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/07/pokemon_map1.png)
Were you the kid who sat there analyzing the amusement park map before entering the park, planning out how you could visit the most rides in the least amount of time? If so, then this blog's for you, my data analyst kindred spirit! And to get you in the mood,
![How to dress (your graph) for success!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/07/social_networks_20162.png)
The way your graph looks can make all the difference ... two people can graph the exact same data in essentially the same way, but one of the two graphs can be perceived as much better than the other. Hopefully reading my blogs will help you create the better graph!
![SAS Author Spotlight: David Dickey](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/07/sas-forecasting.jpg)
In the spirit of our “40 and forward” theme to celebrate 40 years of SAS, this blog focuses on David Dickey, an accomplished SAS user since 1974 and a SAS instructor since 1981. He actually co-wrote the original Time Series SAS course in 1981, and helped with the most recent
![Do you trust statistics?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/07/us_internet_use.png)
One of my favorite quotes is: "You can't believe everything you read on the Internet" - Abe Lincoln, 1868. And that is especially true when it comes to graphs and statistics. Hardly a day goes by without me seeing a bad graph that misrepresents the data (either intentionally or unintentionally) .
![How to use SAS software to capture Pokémon!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/07/pikachu_graph_blog_sightings.png)
With the Pokémon Go craze sweeping the world, techies and programmers are looking to apply their skills to gain an advantage over the average user. In this blog post, I show how to use some of SAS' geospatial analytics capabilities to capture a Pikachu. Let's say you know of a building that has
![Putting the US in the EU ... bucking the Brexit trend!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/07/us_and_europe.png)
What would it be like if the US was in the EU? I don't know how that would work out politically, but this map shows how it might look geographically (if the US was literally picked up and moved to Europe!) My buddy Rick Langston is a bit of a