One of the things I’ve come to love most about DS2 is the tight integration with SQL which makes so many data prep chores so much less onerous. An example is DATA program BY group processing. With a traditional DATA step, you must first sort or index the source data […]
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What would it be like if the US was in the EU? I don’t know how that would work out politically, but this map shows how it might look geographically (if the US was literally picked up and moved to Europe!) My buddy Rick Langston is a bit of a […]
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So, how many different Pokémon have you caught – and more importantly, how many different kinds are still out there that you haven’t caught yet? I’ve created some graphs that might help you figure it out! I think my previous blog post might have irritated some of the hardcore Pokémon players out there […]
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Are you caught up in the recent Pokémon Go craze? Or maybe just trying to figure out what all the fuss is about? In this blog post, I try to analyze all the important Pokémon-related data in one graph! When the original Pokémon game first came out around 1995, you needed […]
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Today is #EmbraceYourGeekness day, and you are either reveling in this new crazy town inhabited by Pokémon GO, or you are hiding in your house trying to avoid all of the Pokémon GO zombies wandering around. But since I’m living in SAS these days — not just the place (at […]
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I’ve been working on a SAS program that can add content to the SAS Support Communities (more on that in a future post). Despite my 20+ years of SAS experience, there are a lot of SAS programming tricks that I don’t know. Or that I use so infrequently that I […]
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What information should you make easily available from the top page of your website? This Venn diagram might help you decide! Have you ever gone to a website to try to find some information, and had a (expletive) difficult time trying to find that info? I think there is often a […]
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I’ve noticed fewer and fewer people smoking these days, and was wondering who the last holdouts are. Let’s run some numbers and find out… Back in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s it seems like almost everyone smoked. You hardly ever saw the “cool kids” such as James Dean without a cigarette – […]
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