Donald Trump is pretty spry and energetic for an old guy – he’s currently 71 years old, and seems to have more energy than I do (and I’m about 20 years his junior). But is he the oldest US president? Well, as with many questions … it depends. Follow …
Yes – Wednesday is M&M day at SAS!
Some people might think it’s an urban legend that SAS gives its employees free M&M’s. Well, I’m here to tell you it’s true! Every Wednesday at the Cary headquarters, a bucket of M&M’s shows up in each of the break rooms. I’m only half-kidding i…
Jedi SAS Tricks: Pattern Search in DS2
Finding a pattern like a phone number or national ID number embedded in text can be difficult and time consuming. The traditional DATA step has a family of functions (collectively referred to as PRX functions) that allow using Perl regular expressions …
What fuel is 1000 times dirtier than diesel?
I recently read an interesting article about petroleum coke (petcoke). A lot of it is produced in the US, and lately a lot of it is consumed (burned) in India … contributing to air pollution there. The article mentioned some numbers in the text, but …
How to scrape data from a web page using SAS
The internet is rich with data, and much of that data seems to exist only on web pages, which — for some crazy reason — are designed for humans to read. When students/researchers want to apply data science techniques to analyze collect and analyze that data, they often turn to […]
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Let’s analyze Trump’s tweets
Since Trump because the US president, many people have noticed that he posts a lot of tweets. While some people choose to analyze and critique the content of those tweets, I was more curious about something a little less controversial – the timing and quantity. Follow along as I dig into […]
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