Well apart from SAS 9.3 (ill post more on that later) I am guessing SAS will be publicly announcing their new BI capability due out at the end of this year. There has been a rumor round for a while that SAS HO wasn’t happy with the latest Gartner BI Magic Quadrant. So a decision was made to put some […]
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JoA: Dashboard Your Scorecard
The Journal of Accountancy had a good article last month on building Excel-based dashboards. It got the creative juices flowing for me, and I am thinking about integrating some dashboards into my daily work. Modern BI tools like SAS and … Continue reading →
New SAS Clinical Trials Programmer Certification
If you have visited our SAS Global Certification webpage lately, you may have noticed that we have a new credential in development: the SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer using SAS9. Clinical Trials Programmers create programs that analyze …
The Human Side of Statistical Process Control: Three Applications of SAS/QC You Might Not Have Thought About
When you think of statistical process control, or SPC for short, what industry first comes to your mind? In the past 10 or 15 years, diverse industries have begun to standardize processes and administrative tasks with statistical process control. …
Example 8.31: Choropleth maps
In our book, we show a simple example of a map (section 6.4.2) where we read the boundary files as data sets and use SAS and R to plot them. But both SAS and R have complex functionality for using pre-compiled map data. To demonstrate them, we’ll sho…
NOTE: Phil Holland – Rock Star!?
So, whilst I’m distracted from my other work, I can’t resist sharing the huge chuckle I had when I saw Waynette Tubbs’s latest edition of her SASonality series. It was titled “Phil Holland is another SAS Rock Star!” For those of us that know Phil and c…
NOTE: Relief for my Book Shelves
I confess it’s been a bit quiet in this little corner of the internet. I’ve been busy finalising my SAS Global Forum paper (now done), interpreting it as Powerpoint slides, preparing proposals for an unexpected rush of interest in my services, and keep…
Good News for Map Geeks–SAS/GRAPH Mapping Course is Finally Here!
Growing up in Michigan, I, like all state residents, learned early on that the lower peninsula of Michigan is shaped like a mitten. This piece of information has served me well all my life; whenever I meet a stranger who wants to know where in Mi…