SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Are you a SAS Jedi? Why not share your knowledge? image of book cover](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/05/DS2_Book_Cover.png)
Have you been kicking around ideas for a great SAS book, but don’t know how to get started? Don’t wait another day – connect with the Publish with SAS community and let those amazing folks at SAS Press help you get your project rolling. You won’t regret it! I’m SO
![How does your favorite US national park stack up?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/05/us_national_parks_wright_brothers_nmem.png)
The US has almost 400 national parks, and has been keeping attendance data for about 100 years. With a holiday weekend coming up, I thought this would be a good time to crunch those numbers, and see how each park compares to all the others... I first saw the tip of
![Picking a surreal vacation destination in the US](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/05/surreal1.jpg)
Do you need help picking a summer vacation destination - one that's not just great, but surreal? If so, this blog's for you! It's that time of the year again - I've got gobs of vacation time saved up, but I was drawing a blank on where to go... So I turned
![You don't know squat about the Las Vegas housing market](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/05/las_vegas_home_prices.png)
How bad was the recent recession on the Las Vegas housing market, and what lingering side effects are still being felt? If you don't know squat about real estate housing markets, then this blog post is for you! It takes a simple graphical look at some data that helps explain
![What we can learn from popular science communicators](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/05/science.jpg)
I recently had a chance to hear Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki on triple j radio in Australia. Known simply as Dr. Karl, he has a weekly national show answering science questions on an alternative rock radio station. Yes, science on rock radio. Yes, national. Yes, Thursday morning – when people are
![Is that a CSV file ... or have you been drinking?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/05/raleigh_crime_dwi_map_2014.png)
In this blog post I explore some of the open data police incident reports for Raleigh and Cary, while showing you the easy way to handle various types of CSV files. In recent years, many cities have set up open data websites, to share various kinds of data about their city.