SAS Learning Post
Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Visualizing the eradication of smallpox](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/02/smallpox_incidence.png)
Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1979, after an extensive vaccination campaign in the 19th and 20th centuries. This blog post contains a visual analysis of the final years of this disease in the US ... In my previous blog post, I imitated and improved infectious disease graphs from a recent Wall
![6 questions with forecasting expert Charlie Chase](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/02/charliechase.jpg)
Charlie Chase is considered an expert in sales forecasting, market response modeling, econometrics and supply chain management. Now he's sharing some of his expertise in his Business Knowledge Series (BKS) course, Best Practices in Demand-Driven Forecasting. I had the chance to ask him some questions about his course and the
![How to make infectious diseases look better](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/02/measles_incidence_thumbnail-702x336.png)
The Wall Street Journal recently published some graphs about seven infectious diseases, and I tried using SAS to improve the graphs ... it's a veritable infectious disease (graph) bake-off! Let's start with Measles ... here's a screen-capture of WSJ's measles graph: In general, their graph is eye-catching, and I learned a lot
![Have a traditional SAS/Graph Valentine's Day!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/02/valentines_graph.png)
Nobody puts an arrow through a heart any better than Sam Cooke & Cupid ... but SAS/Graph comes close! If you've been following my blog, you know that my favorite of all the SAS Procedures are the traditional SAS/Graph Procs, such as GPlot and GMap. They're rock-solid reliable, and flexible
![Everything’s bigger in Texas, so … SAS Education offers HUGE training savings!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/02/SASGlobalForum2015.jpg)
SAS Global Forum brings together the most die-hard SAS users, both veteran and novice, once a year. It’s one of those can’t-miss events, and each year it just gets better. 2015 will bring us all together in Dallas, Texas for several days of active learning and excitement from SAS users
![SAS Certification hits 75k](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2015/02/susan_langan.jpg)
We’re all about numbers here at SAS. So when the Global Certification program hit its 75,000th credential – we had to make it a big deal. We tracked down the 75,000th credential holder to Susan Langan, a research analyst in Maryland, and what’s even more special than Langan holding the