SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Jedi SAS Tricks - Maximum Warp with Hadoop](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-1.png)
I'm gearing up to teach the next "DS2 Programming Essentials with Hadoop" class, and thinking about Warp Speed DATA Steps with DS2 where I first demonstrated parallel processing using threads in base SAS. But how about DATA step processing at maximum warp? For that, we'll need a massively parallel processing
![Analysis of serial killings in the US](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/us_serial_killers_by_year.png)
I recently came across some very interesting data on serial killings ... but it was in tabular/text form. This seemed like an invitation for me to create some graphs that make it easier to understand the data. It seems many people have a morbid curiosity about serial killers. For example, some
![Bald eagles return to the United States!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/eagle_joe.jpg)
Bald eagles, the national bird of the United States, came perilously close to becoming extinct here, but are now making a comeback! Let's look at the data with a SAS map! When I was growing up in the 1970s & 80s here in North Carolina, I spent a lot of time
![Where are different languages spoken?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/sign_language.jpg)
As you travel around the world, do you know where English, French, Spanish, and Arabic are spoken? This blog will help you quickly answer that question, with some cool SAS maps! But first, here's a picture of my friend Joy posing beside an interesting sign during one of her international
![Finding July 4th fireworks shows with SAS software!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/07/fireworks_nc_2016.png)
Update: This blog has been updated with the 2016 map. You can use SAS for just about anything - that includes finding a great fireworks show to watch during the US Independence Day holiday! Here's a fireworks-locator map I created using SAS (see technical details below). The red dots represent
![Top 3 reasons to attend Analytics 2015 in Las Vegas](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/01/LearnSAS-1.png)
I’m not a big gambler, but there is something I would put my money on – analytics. Analytics is helping companies turn information into value. And yes, I mean money. If you want to learn about the latest analytics trends and get in on some of that “value” – attend