Why Dashboard Gauges aren’t as Bad as You Think

Dashboard gauges were once the darling of the executive suite. Some designer took inspiration from a car dashboard and its gauges. A gauge is useful because it tells us how fast we are going or how much gas is in the tank. My newer model dashboard still has gauges but it also states how many miles until empty. That information is more useful than knowing how much gas is in the …

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Tell SAS to read a database field as CHAR instead of INT or BIGINT

Yesterday a frustrated SAS user complained on Twitter. He’s working with a database that stores an ID field as a big long number (perhaps using the database BIGINT type), and SAS can’t display a number greater than 15 digits. Well, it’s actually 16 digits, depending on the value: %put Biggest […]

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You don’t know squat about the Las Vegas housing market

How bad was the recent recession on the Las Vegas housing market, and what lingering side effects are still being felt? If you don’t know squat about real estate housing markets, then this blog post is for you! It takes a simple graphical look at some data that helps explain […]

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