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Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![50 million illegal aliens apprehended in the US](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/us_illegal_aliens_apprehended2.png)
There's been quite a bit of controversy about the number of undocumented immigrants in the US lately - for example, Ann Coulter claims that number is 30 million, whereas others claim it's about 11 million (readers of my blog are data-savvy, and would dig into the details of such claims,
![Was the dress blue ... or was it teal, sky, turquoise, or spindrift?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/color_names-1-600x336.png)
I saw the dress photo as blue & black. If you're a female, even if we perceived the exact same color, you might might not have said 'blue & black'. That's because women have a larger color vocabulary than men, and you might have elaborated on exactly which blue and
![How the Tour de France and SAS Factory Miner relate](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/Tour_1.jpg)
July has been an exciting month for me. Not only because of the historic Tour de France this year... but even more because this month the new offering SAS Factory Miner was officially released! With SAS Factory Miner you can run predictive models in an automated model tournament environment to
![Saint Peter’s University introduces Master’s degree in data science and business analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/SaintPetersU.jpg)
In December, Saint Peter’s University grants Master’s degrees to its inaugural class of data scientists. 36 students are enrolled in this program, and eight are set to graduate. As reported this year by Bloomberg, career opportunities for analytics talent are excellent. Saint Peter’s is the latest to collaborate with SAS to offer such a program.
![Only brush the teeth you want to keep](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/lost_tooth_closeup.jpg)
When I was a kid, I remember a motivational poster on my dentist's wall that said "You don't have to brush all your teeth -- only the ones you want to keep." That poster really made me think, and brush my teeth! And now that I'm a data-analyst adult, I think
![Explaining analytics with Jeff Zeanah](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/Zeanah_Jeff_02.jpg)
One of the most important skills for data scientists and business analytical professionals is communications. If decision makers and managers don't understand what the numbers mean -- results won't turn into action. Jeff Zeanah, President of Z Solutions, Inc. has been presenting on the topic of speaking “analytics” for many