This blog is co-authored by Susan J. Slaughter and Lora D. Delwiche. SAS Press is now 25 years old. As impressive as that is, a bigger milestone for us personally is that The Little SAS® Book is now 20 years old! We had no idea back then that we would still […]
The post A short history of The Little SAS Book appeared first on SAS Learning Post.
With a major election coming next year, I was wondering if there have been any shifts & changes in the voters in my state. This seems like an interesting opportunity for some data analysis, eh!?! To get you into the spirit of elections, here’s an “I Voted” sticker from my friend […]
The post How to build a customized voter registration data viewer appeared first on SAS Learning Post.
Recently I’ve been working on using the Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in to synchronize SAS platform identities (users and groups) with their counterparts from multiple Microsoft Active Directory (AD) Domains contained within a single Forest. In a future post I’ll talk about extending this to multiple domains from multiple trusted forests. In the recent Metacoda Plug-ins […]
SAS Press has been publishing books written by SAS users for 25 years. That made me wonder: Who wrote the first such book? The answer depends on how you phrase the question. You can read about it on the SAS Learning Post.
As I visit my clients, it sometimes surprises me when they avoid the use of PROC REPORT. “It’s too different”. Even those that do use it, often fail to take advantage of the procedure’s power by ignoring the compute block. Yes this procedure is different from any other. Yes using […]
The post You’re not using PROC REPORT? appeared first on SAS Learning Post.
With over 1,000,000 words in the English language, why is it that we tend to use the same words over & over? This blog shows a hierarchical approach to help you branch out and choose more descriptive words. But first, to get you into the mood for a blog about […]
The post Using more of the 1,000,000+ English words appeared first on SAS Learning Post.
SAS Press is now 25 years old! To commemorate this milestone, I decided to research a question that has fascinated me for years: Who was the first person outside of SAS Institute to write a book about SAS? I first heard about this controversy at the Western Users of SAS […]
The post Who was the first SAS user to write a SAS book? appeared first on SAS Learning Post.
Analytics claim this is the 20th most used word in English writing. What word, you might ask? This word. Which one? This one right here! You might think I’m trying to lead into an Abbott & Costello-style comedy routine, but I literally mean this word … the word ‘this’! As you can […]
The post Analytics claim this is the 20th most used word in English writing appeared first on SAS Learning Post.