SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Hadoop releases - here's the timeline graph!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/08/hadoop_releases_cap.png)
There's a lot of buzz about Hadoop these days. I started checking into it, and there seemed to be a gazillion releases. So, being The Graph Guy, I decided to create a graph to make it a little easier to digest! During my search for Hadoop information, I found the
![The world's most valuable sports teams](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/08/world_sport_team_values_2015_basketball2.png)
There's big money in professional sports these days - we're talking billions of dollars! Do you know which teams are the most valuable? The graphs in this blog will show you... I recently saw a bar chart on dadaviz.com showing the world's most valuable sports teams. It was the right kind
![Getting SAS certified one credential at a time](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/08/Krystian_Photo_4ForMaggie.jpg)
Krystian Matusz is what I’d call a super SAS user. He currently holds seven out of the nine credentials SAS offers. SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9 SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 SAS Certified BI Content Developer for SAS 9 SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS
![Marriage and divorce in the US: What do the numbers say?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/08/wedding_holly.jpg)
I've heard lots of people quote statistics about marriage & divorce, but the experts don't always agree on what the data means. So I decided to run the data through a SAS graphical analysis, and see what the numbers say ... Before we get into the numbers though, let's have a
![Creating a better graph to show trade deficit](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/us_trade_balance.png)
I recently saw a cool graph showing the US import/export trade deficit. But after studying it a bit, I realized I was perceiving it wrong. Follow along in this blog, to find out what the problem was, and how I redesigned the graph to avoid it. I was looking through dadaviz.com
![Map of US domestic cannabis eradication](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/cannabis_eradication_map.png)
In my quest for interesting data to graph, I found some Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) data on US domestic cannabis eradication. Does the data say anything interesting? Read on to find out! ... While doing some searches for other data, I happened across a table on the DEA website titled