There’s an old expression “easy as pie.” Have you ever tried to bake a pie??? … It’s not so easy, LOL! And neither is using pie charts correctly! 🙂 Below are several examples of different kinds of pie charts you can create with SAS/GRAPH. And at…
Category: SAS
Community the Star on (lucky) Friday the 13th
I frequently and loudly preach the mantra of ‘community, community, community’ through the user group meetings and social media. To me, the real strength of SAS – and the reason for our success as an organization – is because of our dedicatio…
How I Use SAS?
It’s pretty fun to read SAS/Graph expert Robert Allison’s note, Using SAS- A Case Study on his SAS programming environment, such as SAS version, OS, fileserver and editors. Here is my follow up: SAS Version I always want to keep pace with the latest SAS software; something I got it, sometime not. As of September […]
Sweet success with SAS training
John Taylor has been using SAS for about 12 years and admits, he loves SAS! He was first introduced to SAS while working on his BA/MA in Statistics at Boston University. “It became immediately obvious to me that knowing SAS would be invaluable to me …
A beginner’s tutorial on … bar charts
Do you know how to create a bar chart using SAS, and when to use what kind of bar chart?!? If the answer doesn’t come to you “easy as pie” then this blog is for you! Below are several examples of different kinds of bar charts you can create with SAS…
Learn R and/or Data Management from Home October 7-11
If you want to learn R, or improve your current R skills, join me for two workshops that I’m offering through Revolution Analytics in October. If you already know another analytics package, the workshop, Intro to R for SAS, SPSS … Continue reading →
Use MongoDB as a JSON factory
MongoDB is a persistent data store for JSON formatted data, which seems like an ideal middleware between the data tier software and the web. With MongoDB, Javascript’s Map/Reduce functionality makes many trivial jobs particularly easy, such …
My transition from academia to SAS
I am passionate about teaching. My colleagues would probably say this is the understatement of the year. And it likely has something to do with the fact that both of my parents were teachers. I started my teaching career at the university level and…