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The Best Job in America

According to Glassdoor, data scientist tops the list of the 50 Best Jobs in America. The rankings are determined by combining three factors: number of job openings, salary and overall job satisfaction rating. With a median base salary of $110,000, an a…

SAS functions to encode and decode data for the Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is famous for inventing the World Wide Web and for the construction of URLs — a piece of syntax that every 8-year-old is now familiar with. According to the lore, when Sir Tim invented URLs he did not imagine that Internet surfers of all ages and backgrounds […]

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100+ presentations about data visualization at SAS Global Forum!

Being the Graph Guy, I wanted to know about all the “data visualization” presentations at the upcoming SAS Global Forum 2018 conference. I tried going through the official interface to search for such sessions, but it was difficult (impossible?) to kno…

Jedi SAS Tricks: Transwarp Processing with DS2 in SAS® Viya®

When speed is required at scale, it’s hard to beat parallel processing data in memory with DS2 and SAS® Viya® with the amazing Cloud Analytic Services (CAS)!
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Tracking the reentry of China’s space station

If you grew up as a space-junkie kid like me, then you’ve probably been watching the news for the past few days, wondering when and where China’s Tiangong 1 space station was going to fall out of orbit, and crash to Earth. According to Popular Mechanics (PM), that happened at 8:16pm […]

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Can you name that music media player?

These days, it’s all about music streaming … You sign up for a service, you let them know your music preferences, and they create a virtual “radio station” that plays the songs you probably want to hear. But that just doesn’t compare with going to a …

Using Excel for Data Entry

This article shows you how to enter data so that you can easily open in statistics packages such as R, SAS, SPSS, or jamovi (code or GUI steps below). Excel has some statistical analysis capabilities, but they often provide incorrect answers. For … Continue reading

Authoring a data-driven book – yes, we do that!

At SAS we use data to accomplish many of our everyday tasks. At SAS Books, we have now even used data to create a data-driven book, An Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics.
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