SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Are you a geography expert? Try this quick quiz!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/09/texas_missouri.png)
My blog posts focus on visual data analysis, and many of them use geographical maps. Therefore I hope you will have fun with a quick geography quiz, which I created using SAS/Graph ... And what, you might
![Administering on-campus SAS Certification exams](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/09/cert2013_89x89.jpg)
At California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo the Statistics Department offers two courses on preparation for the Base SAS Certification and Advanced SAS Certification exams, respectively. Each of these courses is 10 weeks long and the topics covered follow the content offered in the certification guides offered by SAS.
![How to plot your GPS tracking data on a SAS map](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/09/cuba_crossing.png)
These days many devices (such as smart phone apps, Fitbits, Apple watches, dog tracking collars, car gps, hiking gps, teen/car trackers, etc) can track your location, and provide you with standard/canned ways to analyze the data. This blog post shows how I created a custom SAS map of the tracking
![Q&A with data mining instructor Jeff Thompson](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/09/thompson_jef.jpg)
Do you want to know what will happen in the future? To gain true predictive insight, skip the tea leaves and look toward your data. SAS instructor Jeff Thompson is a high-energy data mining expert who will be demonstrating how to gain predictive insight from your data in his new
![Talk Like a Pirate day ... and paddling from Cuba to the US](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/09/pirate_map.png)
I just returned home from an expedition/adventure boat trip to Cuba, and Talk Like a Pirate day is coming up this Saturday - what a combination for an interesting blog! I hope you enjoy a few pictures, and a bit of data analysis on these topics! A couple of weeks ago,
![Boost your big data skills at Analytics 2015](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/01/LearnSAS-1.png)
Among the tightly held cards, piles of chips and bright lights, there have been stories that have unfolded in Las Vegas that have been forever preserved in time, never seeing the light of day. But what if what happened in Vegas…could be shared with excitement with your friends and family?