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 […]

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 […]

SAS and Microsoft: Different Worlds

Well, first of all, sorry I haven’t written recently. My time has been taken up by some great SAS work but it is under wraps for the time being.I was chatting with a SAS buddy of mine recently and I started to comment on the differences between the SAS…