What is it that people like so much about motorcycles? The thrill/excitement/freedom of riding them, the ‘biker image’ portrayed in movies, or great songs such as Little Honda by the Hondells? I’m not a biker per say, but I do have a couple of motorcycles, and am a known associate […]
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Greece has been in the news lately, trying to secure funds to repay 1.5 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the month. And as luck would have it, there is some data available and some graphs to be created … I love this job! […]
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1. Permutation and Combination data _null_; n = 5; r = 2; *the factorial of a number; fact=fact(n); *for positive integers, fact(n) = gamma(n+1); gamm=gamma(n + 1); *C(n,r): number of combinations of n objects selected r ; *n! / [r!(n-r)!]; comb1 = comb(n,r); comb2 = […]
Nope – we’re not digging up mummies in pyramids and analyzing the gender – this blog is about population pyramid charts and “digging into data”! But since the title might have lured in some pyramid fans, here’s a picture of my friend Angela posing beside a pyramid – pretty cool, eh?!? […]
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I’m half way through a book that I simply must recommend to you before I even finish it. If you have a sense of humour or if you have half an interest in the earliest evolution of computers, you will enjoy The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua as much as I am doing.
On the face of it, it is a graphic novel that accurately describes the Victorian 1830s relationship between the eccentric polymath Charles Babbage and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace (the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron). When Ada translated her friend Babbage’s plans for the “Difference Engine,” her lengthy footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory—one hundred years before an actual computer was built. Whilst Padua’s cartoon telling of the story is thickly laced with humour, her copious footnotes provide an unexpected level of detail to the story.
So far so good, but the book really gets into its stride when it moves into a parallel universe. In the real world, Lovelace died of cancer soon after her publication, and Babbage never built any of his machines. In Padua’s parallel universe, Lovelace survives, Babbage does build his Difference Engine, Lovelace smokes a pipe, and they both get into many madcap adventures where their analytical minds and the Difference Engine can save the day.
Yes, it is all a bit surreal! But I’m loving it, and I think it provides a good read for people of all ages. It may just even encourage one or two non-technologists to turn their imagination to computing.
Available from all good book stores including Amazon UK and Amazon USA. I bought my copy as a Kindle edition and I’ve found it very readable on my 7″ Nexus tablet (be sure to read the pop-up instructions in Kindle which tell you how to scroll one panel at a time through the graphics).
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In just one weekend Shang-Hua Wu went from a SAS user to a super SAS user by getting not just one, but two SAS certifications – SAS Certified Base Programmer and SAS Certified Advanced Programmer. Wu wanted to earn his certifications to position himself for new career opportunities in the […]
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The SAS Global Certification program is proud to announce the release of a new credential: SAS Certified Visual Business Analyst Using SAS Visual Analytics. This credential is designed for analysts who are using SAS Visual Analytics to explore data and create insightful data visualizations. With SAS Visual Analytics now deployed in over […]
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In recent weeks I’ve mentioned SAS Studio in passing but it’s a strategic product for SAS and it merits a proper description.It’s strategic because there is a clear trend for SAS to produce “thin” web-based user interfaces rather than “thick” applicati…