In my last post, I promised to lift the lid on British etiquette in time for your visit to the Analytics conference. Well, I’m going to be a bit more specific and focus my insight on London Etiquette, primarily, Greetings and Tube Etiquette. Greeting…
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Affinity Diagrams for Problem Solving #sasgf13
I was pleased to be invited to present a paper on Visual Techniques for Problem Solving and Debugging at this year’s SAS Global Forum (SGF) conference. I spoke about the importance of human interaction in solving complex issues; the process and peopl…
Forecast Update: Will 2014 be the Beginning of the End for SAS and SPSS?
I recently updated my plots of the data analysis tools used in academia in my ongoing article, The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. I repeat those here and update my previous forecast of data analysis software usage. Learning to use … Continue reading →
Florence Nightingale and the Analytics Conference
This year we’re holding the first of our Analytics Series conferences in London, right by Waterloo Station. Not too far from the hotel is the Florence Nightingale Museum. Most of us (at least in Britain) know her well from school as ‘the La…
Coalesce Missing Data to Highlight the Unknown
Missing data can be a pain. Having missing data and not knowing where it is can be even more of a pain. Here is a …
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Predictive Analytics in the 17th Century
I recently stumbled across the work of John Graunt, a London resident in the mid 17th century. Graunt used London’s Bills of Mortality to publish an insight into the causes and spread of the plague. Among other things, he was able to use the data to …
Which Little SAS Book?
One of the problems that Lora Delwiche and I face as authors of two books with similar titles (The Little SAS Book and The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide) and multiple editions (five of LSB and three of LSBEG) is explaining how the books are different. The two books are totally different–and complementary. So […]
Of Tiny Dancers and Warm Weather: Alberta SAS User Groups Wrap-Up
I’m sailing through clear skies at 33,000 feet with a clear mind… and about time, too! I’ve been fighting a nasty bug for about a week and a half now since I spent time in San Francisco for SAS Global Forum. I must admit that winging my way to …