Welcome to the last Monday of 2008!
Are you sitting at your desk trying to shake off the glow of holiday celebrations? Do you need a little help clearing the cobwebs and getting back to work? I have compiled a short reading list of quick reads …
Category: SAS
Santa and SAS Again: Santa’s Dashboard
(santaDashBoard.png, With permission by Mr. Robert Allison)
Merry Christmas again. SAS marketing staff started up an interesting Christmas campaign on how Santa operates his workshop. Here is another wonderful work about Santa’s Dashboard, created by SAS senior R&D staff, Robert Allison.
Robert is a master of graphics and visualization. You can view his SAS/Graph examples in the […]
New Forum: SAS and Assistive Technology
We have launched a new discussion forum at support.sas.com/forums. This forum focuses on using SAS products with accessibility features or with assistive technologies. Lisa Pappas, accessibility analyst at SAS, says “We invite you to join the co…
Learn Time Series Analysis: Free Materials for SAS Users
0. A gentle Introduction to Time Series Analysis, may serve as fast learning materials:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section4/pmc4.htm
1. An open source book(with data and code), A First Course on Time Series Analysis: examples with SAS, by Prof. Michael Falk, is available in:
http://statistik.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/timeseries/
2. A SAS User book, Forecasting Examples for Business and Economics Using SAS […]
Links of 2008-12-16: Financial Engineering, Ponzi Scheme, SAS PC Game
The State of Financial Engineering
Ponzi Scheme Returns: SEC Charges Bernard L. Madoff for Multi-Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme
WolfenSAS: A PC Game written by SAS Code
SAS Business Analytics help get presents delivered
No, not those guys. Santa! Watch this and see what I’m talking about.
If you didn’t get enough, read the backstory from the News and Observer interview with SAS’ Bill Marriott.
Delivers the Right Toys and Goodies to the Right Boys and Girls: Story of Santa and SAS
How to know the boys and girls’ real demands around the world? and how to predict their demands in next Christmas?
How to purchase toys and goodies with a balance of costs and profits? and how to deliver them more efficiently?
There are lots of questions in the list of Santa, CEO of Santa’s Workshop. SAS’s marketing […]
Haiku from SAS R&D staff
First prompts are silent.
Subsequent prompts loud and clear.
Now all prompts are heard.
Poem from R&D staff?
Yes. Rhyming sonnets were shakespeare-like complex;
they wrote Japanese haiku, showed as above.
The SAS R&D staff should complete some paper work in defects system before changing a code. They use informal descriptive language(HAIKUUU!) in the early stage. Chris Hemedinger, a senior software […]