Tag: Book Spotlight

Sandy Varner 0
100 SAS books for $29.95!

Third Edition of SAS OnlineDoc® 9.2 PDF Files released today It's not often that you can purchase an entire library of reference documentation for less than the cost of a single book. However, that's exactly what you can do if you purchase the SAS OnlineDoc 9.2 PDF Files. This stand-alone

Shelly Goodin 1
What's SAS, green, and read all over?

On St. Patrick’s Day there are green rivers, mugs of green beer, and lots of green outerwear. I’m not sure what percentage of SAS Publishing book covers are green, but it's high. And in all probability for good reason. Besides being the most appealing color to the eye (I didn’t

Shelly Goodin 0
Hug a Book! It's World Book Day

Contributed by SAS Publishing’s Shelly Goodin I’m kind of embarrassed to admit that I just learned yesterday that World Book Day is TODAY, March 3. So I visited the World Book Day Website to find out more. Our book loving friends in Ireland and the United Kingdom apparently launched this

Rick Wicklin 0
Author tip: How to sample efficiently in SAS

Contributed by Rick Wicklin, author of Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software This year at SAS Global Forum 2011, I am presenting a statistical tutorial, "Data Simulation for Evaluating Statistical Methods in SAS". In this course, I show how to create data with known properties (such as skewed or heavy-tailed) and

Shelly Goodin 0
SAS Author’s Unique Proposal for Valentine’s Day

It’s no surprise that the coauthors of the latest Wiley and SAS Business Series book The Executive's Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy are extremely socially savvy. David B. Thomas and Mike Barlow really know their stuff. It may surprise you, however, that author Thomas has unveiled an enticing new

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A Tale of Teacher Turned Writer

It has been a blast to teach my Statistical Programming class this Fall. I got to use my book, Statistical Programming in SAS! This book evolved over many years in response to the development of a class proposed in response to an external program review that noted a gap in

Judi Rourke 0
Branded! Winning Retailers in the New Digital World

Contributed by Bernie Brennan and Lori Schafer Everywhere you look, people are using social media to share their views about brands, often from their mobile devices, in a store aisle, or while “checking in” at a location with an app like Foursquare. We now live in a new world of

Kirsten Hamstra 0
About "Business Analytics for Managers"

Contributed by Gert H. N. Laursen and Jesper Thorlund In Business Analytics for Managers, we emphasize that analytics and BI initiatives are complex processes that involve parties all across an organization. And those processes are only as strong as the weakest link. What good will it do for a company

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