Three Things I Learned As a SAS LUG Leader

I recently had the privilege of speaking at a meeting of the Toronto Area SAS Society.  It was a great meeting, and, honestly, I’m not saying this just because I was one of the speakers.  TASS is the best run local user group I have seen.  They have found the right balance of SAS Institute […]

When is a Multilevel Model not appropriate?

I recently received this interesting question regarding Multilevel Models after one of my last blog posts: Question: Can you tell me when a multilevel-model is not appropriate? I have data that by design is clustered but the random intercept in the nul…

Beware the Data Shadow

I wrote yesterday about democratisation of analytics and data. I believe getting information into the hands of business users is a “good thing”; accurate, timely information to influence the operational decisions they make each day. However, getting in…