Chris@SAS recently tweeted a link to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo. I found it one of the most fascinating video clips I’ve seen all year, on many levels. It offers a fascinating commentary on the development of the world over the la…
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Query Contest
Okay, I’m being a bit selfish with this post, but it may also give you some fun (and waste a lot of your time) over Christmas.
www.QueryContest.com compares the number of hits returned from a web search for two different terms, e.g. Beatles versus Rol…
Spirits in the virtual world
As the holiday season approaches, one is tempted to use a Dickensian reference
about spirits past, present and future.
But instead of a holiday classic from 1843, I’m going to haunt you with an earworm from 1981.
Having matriculated in the same y…
Spirits in the virtual world
As the holiday season approaches, one is tempted to use a Dickensian reference about spirits past, present and future. But instead of a holiday classic from 1843, I’m going to haunt you with an earworm from 1981. Having matriculated in the same year th…
Program Formatting in Enterprise Guide 4.3
As Chris Hemedinger has written in several of his blog posts, SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 has many more formatting options. I particularily enjoyed the ‘CTRL-i’ option to reformat SAS code with indents and carriage returns to make my programs even more re…
SAS logs in Enterprise Guide: Where’s the beef?
You might be too young to remember Clara Peller. She was the star of a series of fast-food burger commercials in the 1980s, in which she demanded meatier meals by shouting “Where’s the beef?” at the pickup counter or drive-through window. Alas, …
Trapezoidal Rule
TAD (Time Average Difference) is area under the curve (AUC).Trapezoidal RuleUsing Trapezoidal Rule for the Area Under a Curve CalculationEstimate the Area Under a ROC CurveSAS Calculations of AUC for Multiple Metabolic ReadingsSAS Macro to Calculate AU…
Flashback: My relationship with SAS was inevitable
Some of you folks that work for SAS may find this amusing. I’ve been in my current job since I finished University in 2001. In about 2005 I began using SAS and was well on my way to becoming the SAS fanatic I am today.Rewind to the year 200…