I’m now into my 20th year of working for SAS. This year in November I’ll have my 20th “SAS-iversary” and thus mark the beginning of my third decade here. I’ve worked here since the Clinton administration. I’ve met SAS employees who were actually not yet born when I attended my […]
Stat Wars goes Hollywood
The guys of Stat Wars are battling it out again. This time they’re helping a viewer who needs to determine which stunt doubles to hire by predicting their performance using SAS. Watch and then vote on whether Danny Modlin or Marc Huber has the best s…
It’s raining analytics
I’m always looking for ways to make my job sound more relevant to people who ask me, “so what does SAS do?” SAS does so much that I can’t possibly list it all, so I need some umbrella terms that can capture the essence of it (and still keep the […]
SAS Administration – Creating a client only software depot
If you need to get Enterprise Guide out to your users and you don’t want them to have access to the rest of the SAS software, create a software depot on a network location that only has the clients included. In order to do this you will need to do the following steps. […]
SAS and D3.js (3): draw a map to display US cities’ murder rates
Robert Allison has given an excellent map example by SAS/GRAPH about the murder rates per 100,000 people in the major US cities. To emulate this map, we should annotate the cities and use the size of the bubbles to represent the murder rates…
A weekend full of bad decisions
Most people try to hide the evidence of their bad decisions. But this weekend I decided to share mine to social media. I hope that it’s not a career-limiting move. Actually, I made quite a few good decisions as well, outnumbering the bad ones. Still, I had many missed opportunities, […]