You may have noticed that our twitter avatar has started to sport a poppy this week. This is in support of the Royal British Legion’s 2012 poppy appeal – commemorating those who have lost their lives in defence of their country, a…
Twitter, Fixed
I’d noticed for a few weeks that the Twitter widget in the right-hand margin on the blog wasn’t working – it was showing a link to my Twitter page, but no tweets.
Having just done some research, it seems this was down to some change at the Twitter end…
La Belle Province: Québec User Groups Provide Laughs and Learning
I’m trying to pull my thoughts together after a lightning quick tour through the province of Québec. It truly was an epic voyage… but I’m fortunate I had a fantastic travelling companion with me for the duration: a man who needs no intro…
Analytics 2012: From big data to big buffets
The Analytics conference wrapped up another successful year. One of the last things I did in Las Vegas was decompress with some colleagues at the Bacchanal buffet at Caesar’s Palace. It is, in a word, Bacchanal. Now back to the meat of the conference…
NOTE: Date Increments (INTNX and INTCK)
If you’re an experienced SAS practitioner you’ll be familiar with the INTNX (and INTCK) function. INTNX takes date, time, and datetime values and increments (or decrements) them by a specified interval, e.g. hours, weeks or quarters. If you’re not fami…
3 good reasons to upgrade to SAS 9.3
If you’re like me, you hate all those pop-ups you get suggesting (or sometimes forcing) that you install an upgrade such as Windows, Java, browsers, phone apps, etc, etc. And quite often they don’t convince you why you’d want to upgrade (will life be…