Contributed by Gert H. N. Laursen and Jesper Thorlund Our book, Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting, was published last month. The book is the latest in the Wiley and SAS Business Series. When people ask us why we wrote the book, we usually give them one
Have you ever wanted to ask your favorite author why they wrote their book? I recently had the opportunity to interview several of our authors and ask them a series of questions that we are introducing in a new video series called SAS Authors Answer! Over the next few weeks,
Contributed by Mike Gilliland, Product Marketing Manager Having a job in business forecasting is sort of like being in county lockup – only without the benefit of cuddly bunkmates and weekly delousing. Most of those in the job want out, and those who remain in the field possess psychological maladies
Contributed by Michele Burlew, president of Episystems Inc. and SAS Press author My SAS writing adventure this summer is a new book that will cover hash object programming. It won’t be very long, maybe 100 pages, and it will have lots of examples. As a longtime SAS programmer, I was
Contributed by Paul Allison, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania I'm happy to announce that the second edition of my book Survival Analysis Using SAS: A Practical Guide has just been published by the SAS Institute. When the first edition was published in 1995, my goal was to provide an
Contributed by Susan Slaughter, Author, The Little SAS Book series Answer: A lot. Looking at The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.2, I am struck by how similar it looks to the previous edition. Updating this book for EG4.2 was not a matter of simply adding a few new
Contributed by Mike Molter, Principal Statistical Programmer, INC Research I’m writing this from an altitude of 35,000 feet. As I try to squeeze my 6’1” frame into a space clearly designed for passengers no taller than 5 feet while trying to find a place to put my left elbow because
My book named Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow is out. It has been quite a journey from reading an internal article on John Kohl's book The Global English Style Guide that gave me the last little kick to finally get going, to the point when I had my first copy in
Contributed by Chris Hemedinger, Senior Manager, Software Development The new edition of SAS® For Dummies® has returned from the printer, and boy, am I glad. I’m glad that it's now available, because I think it will be a good resource for people who are just getting started with using SAS
Contributed by Warren Kuhfeld, Analytical Solutions Manager, Research & Development SAS/GRAPH software was first released when I was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1980s. I remember submitting a SAS program to make a graph and then walking to the computing
