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Three of the Most Common SAS Stored Process Errors

SAS Stored Process LET Statement

If you want to learn how to create a stored process at the SAS Global Forum 2013, then make sure you attend the “Building Your First Stored Process” Hands On workshop that Angela and are hosting on Wednesday morning.  We will show you how to build a three different stored …

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Applied data science in college basketball

Revenge of the Nerds was so 1980s. Now it’s a new world order: math geeks and athletes are working together. I’m not talking just about what happens when data nerds observe, analyze, and predict sports outcomes — as they do in March Madness with their “bracketology”. That’s compelling, but your […]

March Madness, Moneyball, and sports analytics

A big part of  “winning” these days (be it sports or a business) is performing analytics better than your competition.  This is demonstrated in awe-inspiring fashion in the book (and movie) “Moneyball.”  And on that topic, I’d like to show you a f…

What’s New

I didn’t blog for a while in this first half March and there are bunches of new stuff to catch up: I had a new baby! He was delivered on time (and on budget!), lions tigers and bears, oh my… His brother is Tiger so I named him, Leo. And I got the latest SAS […]

PC SAS Programmer Facing UNIX? SAS Enterprise Guide to the Rescue

sas enterprise guide unix servers

Time for another confession.  For more than a decade I have been running SAS jobs on UNIX servers, but I don’t really know any UNIX editors.  Not Emacs.  Not vi.  I could work around this without SAS Enterprise Guide, but it was painful sometimes.  Now that I have started using Enterprise …

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Is there a business case for underpinning strategic human capital planning with advanced numerical analytics?

Too many managers hasten to respond negatively to the question I posed in the title before really understanding fully the terminology. Evidence based decision making will never replace the good old intuition, gut feeling or back of a fag-packet decisio…

SAS training students talked, and we listened

“Speak and you shall be heard.”  Well… our students spoke, and we listened!  SAS Education is always striving to improve the training we deliver, and one of the most important ways we do this is by taking the time to listen to our students. Ove…