Demystifying SAS certification – Week 1

Well! I did it! I conducted a workshop for internal SAS employees wishing to take SAS certification. The workshop was to help them understand the following: SAS Certification overview Exam preparation Website Content Exam pass score Sample questions St…

Here are the Amazon HQ2 finalists!

Amazon recently announced the 20 finalists in their search for a location to house their new 2nd headquarters (nicknamed ‘hq2’). They showed a map on their web page, but I wanted to create my own map, with a few improvements … Here’s their official m…

Polishing up your Bitcoins!

With all the talk about Bitcoin in the news lately, I decided it was time I created a Bitcoin graph! Follow along as I track down the data, create a graph, and then polish up that graph to make it shine. But before we get started, here’s a little examp…

Shedding some light on the lottery!

Have you ever played the lottery? Have you ever heard people bragging about all the money they’ve won? Does it make you want to play? … We’ve had an Education Lottery here in North Carolina for over 10 years, but I still didn’t really know much about…

How to secure your REST API credentials in SAS programs

I’ve used SAS with a bunch of different REST APIs: GitHub, Brightcove, Google Analytics, Lithium, LinkedIn, and more. For most of these I have to send user/password or “secret” application tokens to the web service so that it knows who I am and what data I can retrieve. I do […]

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