I recently returned from SAS Global Forum where Andra Northup and I presented an updated and expanded version of our paper “SAS Certification as a Tool for Professional Development.” You can read our paper here. SAS certification has been around for a while. The first SAS certification exam was offered way back in 1999. So […]
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U.S. federal government is shrinking
I was surprised to find that the size of the U.S. federal government is smaller today, than in the past many decades – let’s graph it out, so it’s easy to analyze… The way I got started on this little adventure was via Jishai’s graph on dadaviz.com. Here’s a snapshot […]
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How Not Knowing Pie Charts Makes You a #DataViz Rookie
If I live to be 115 years old, I’ll never understand why consultants use pie charts. Your chance of doing them wrong is greater than doing them right. At the SAS Global Forum last week, I was delighted to hear several others telling me how much they hated pie charts and we agreed, they need to be stomped out – we are forming a #DataVizArmy …
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From Sales Cycles to Shopping Carts – Analytics on Display at the Toronto Data Mining Forum
I’d been looking forward to today’s meeting of the Toronto Data Mining Forum for some time. This group consistently offers extremely technical papers – it’s really a statistician’s dream, to be honest. Not being a ‘man of numbers’ myself, I often …
10 reasons to learn SAS code even when you have Enterprise Guide
New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg made a new-year’s resolution to learn code. Apple’s Steve Jobs said, “I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.” President Barrack Obama said, “Don’t just buy a new video game, make one. […]
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Confidence Intervals for Binomial Proportion (Again): A Quick Note
In Lex’s library of the latest SAS Global Forum 2015 papers, I found an interesting paper by Wu Gong, Jeffreys Interval for One-Sample Proportion with SAS/STAT Software, where SAS MCMC procedure and a so called Random Walk Metropolis Algorithm were implemented to calculate the Jeffreys interval for binomial proportion. Years ago I wrote several posts […]
SAS/GRAPH: Intermediate Tricks (a Handbook for the Wizard’s Apprentice)
Did you ever wish you could master SAS/GRAPH, and create graphs and maps that were customized exactly like you wanted them? Then this free eBook is for you! Probably the most memorable book for me was the Necronomicon in the Army of Darkness movie. How many of you liked that […]
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Photos from SAS Global Forum in Dallas Apr26 – Apr29
Photos from SAS Global Forum in Dallas Apr26 – Apr29It was a wonderful Global Forum this year…A lot of enthusiastic people were enquiring at Qualex’s booth…It was a great opportunity to meet and learn a lot from SAS folks at the Foru…