SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![How trendy is your hipster beard?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/10/facial_hair_trends3-1-702x336.png)
The #1 rule of any self-respecting hipster is to not claim to be a hipster. Therefore, can there even be such a thing as a hipster beard, or hipster beard data? I contemplated this perplexing question, as I stroked my pirate beard. Since fashion trends tend to be cyclical, perhaps
![How my SAS Press book was born](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/10/DaveDickey.jpg)
This guest blog post comes from Dr. David Dickey, one of our original SAS Press authors. Hope you enjoy! In the late 1970s, shortly after SAS was founded, I was approached by Herbert Kirk and John Brocklebank from SAS to put together a course on time series. This was reasonably
![Noah's Ark found ... in South Carolina!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/10/precipitation_map_10inches.png)
I remember being intrigued by the movie In Search of Noah's Ark, when I was a kid back in the 1970s. They claimed to have definitively found the ark ... but of course, since then several other people claim to have found it in other locations. Therefore I don't feel too
![What Hurricane Joaquin can teach us about analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/10/weather.jpg)
While holed up inside, like many others on the East Coast of the United States, suffering from record-breaking rainfall and watching the path of Hurricane Joaquin, I found a perfect metaphor for handling a problem in explaining analytics. Many executives bemoan the fact that it seems to take forever for
![Building a better income inequality graph](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/09/income_quintiles.png)
I hear a lot of talk about income inequality in the US ("the rich get richer..." and such) - especially as elections approach. I also see a lot of graphs, and they all seem to define their numbers slightly differently. I'm not in a position to improve the way income
![Got Data? Teaching SAS Programming for the Real World](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/01/LearnSAS-2.png)
For students to become capable data analysts, they need experience that they can take with them into the real world after graduation. By far the most critical skill for their toolkit is learning to work with real-life data. Therefore, it is important from a teaching standpoint that instructors provide students