Before we’ve even got SAS Global Forum under our belts, registration for SAS Professionals Convention in Marlow, July 10th to 12th 2012, is open!
At £125 for three days of SAS activities, it’s got to be the best value SAS offer you’ll see in the UK…
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IML IRL: Another Fantastic Rendez-vous au Club SAS de Québec
I’m composing this en route to Toronto from one of my favourite stops on the user group tour, the beautiful historic city of Québec. I always find myself grinning with anticipation before arrival and disappointed when I have to leave. It’s not j…
What would SAS Stored Process Key #51 be?
This past Monday, Tricia and I released our 2nd book this year. “The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes” provides a step-by-step approach to transitioning from SAS code into user driven (prompted) stored processes. Trimming down all the things yo…
Tell the community story in 20 seconds
April. What a month it has been and it isn’t over yet. At the beginning of the month, we launched a new and very different communities.sas.com. Just yesterday, the SASware Ballot moved from its traditional voting application to the community. …
Myths about 64-bit computing on Windows
When I first joined SAS in 1993, we were gliding into the golden age of 32-bit computing on the PC. Microsoft offered a new extension to Microsoft Windows 3.1 called Win32s, and it allowed 32-bit applications to run on the Windows operating system. SAS Version 6.10 for Windows was one […]
Stored Processes: SAS’s voice on Business Intelligence
Everyday I write SAS scripts to extract, transform and load data from various sources, which is a step before the database, and also pull out data to do analysis such as aggregation and regression in SAS, which is a step after the database. According t…
Debug SAS problems; don’t repair drywall
Several years ago, my husband and I were remodeling our first house together. We decided we wanted to have cable television upstairs. Being young, foolish and lacking in disposable income, we decided to do it ourselves. My husband said he would r…
SAS Global Forum: Orlando, Here I Come! I’m so Pumped!!
SAS Global Forum 2012 starts this coming Sunday in the happiest place on earth – Disney World. I’m so excited. You may have already read some of things I’m planning to do and papers I’m planning to see and even some background on the SAS BI and Google Analytics paper that Angela and I are presenting. By the way, SAS Press is giving away a copy of the Building Business Intelligence book during our talk and three more during the SAS Talks via Twitter on Wednesday morning at 9:30 am EST. You can join the SAS Talks here. Check out All the Buzz!!! Here’s my latest video blog at AllAnalytics.Com about the SAS Global forum. Like my screen capture? Am I getting ready to kiss the monitor or spit out my gum? Anyway – leave a comment at the All Analytics site if you watch the video. (Appreciate you!) Check out these excellent posts from some of the coolest people I know: All Analytics editor Beth Schultz, provides a great overview in the On the Road to SAS Global Forum. She helps you understand why we are all so excited! Angela Hall, my wonderful co-author, invites you to meet up at SAS […]