Category: SAS

91% of the US didn’t vote for Hillary or Trump!

How is it that 91% of the US didn’t vote for either Hillary or Trump in the primary, but yet they’re still the final two candidates in the presidential election? Let’s break it down with a simple graph! I recently saw a really cool slideshow on the nytimes website, that answered […]

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Walking the line, between politics and religion

I usually try to avoid political or religious debates … but as an impartial data analyst, it is possible to analyze data about something, without entering into the debate. In this blog post, I try to walk that fine line, and analyze data about the political leanings of religious groups in the US. […]

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Beyond the Credential: Testing Test Questions

Any subject matter expert (SME) who has written test questions will tell you it is a lot harder and much more time consuming than they initially expected. Many believe they can simply write down any topic-related question that pops in their mind. Easy, right? Not so fast. Questions should be […]

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How can you get students and kids excited about learning SAS?

Our big data problems have only just begun; new studies have confirmed that SAS is the most valuable career skill in the increasingly competitive job market, and the analytics skills gap is a big issue that education at a grassroots level could help solve. It’s more important now than ever […]

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Analytical problem solving with Carlos

Carlos Pinheiro is talented. One afternoon Carlos stood in front of a group of marketers including myself, and shared social network analysis using our data.  Yes, the analysis took talent, but the real brilliance was that Carlos presented the information in a way where we all left the meeting with […]

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How can I learn SAS?

What would come to mind if you were told that you have to attend a SAS training course? Perhaps, you have a vision of an instructor sitting at the front of a classroom, endlessly reading PowerPoint slides verbatim in a monotonous voice while you sit there baffled, wondering what is […]

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Need a Dynamic X-Axis with Your SAS Visual Analytics Report?

I like to read the SAS Visual Analytics area of SAS Communities site. From the site I have overcome issues I had as well as learned other ways to think how you can solve common issues. As many long time SAS users know – there’s always more than one way to accomplish something with SAS! Recently, as user was asking how to expand parameters to create a …

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Suppressing SAS Workspace Server MVA_DSIO.OPEN_CLOSE and _DISARM Messages

This is just a very quick post to jot down the location of a SAS reference that I keep losing! I have the SAS Audit, Performance and Measurement (APM) package installed in my older SAS 9.4 M0 dev/test environment. The APM package is now deprecated as the functionality has moved into SAS Environment Manager (from … Continue reading “Suppressing SAS Workspace Server MVA_DSIO.OPEN_CLOSE and _DISARM Messages”