I started the NOTE: blog in 2009. It was a successor to the highly-popular email newsletter that I used to send between 2001 and 2006. At its height, the email newsletter had 4,000+ subscribers. One of the regular features was “SAS With Style”. Below…
NOTE: The Expert Channel at SAS Professionals
Next year’s SAS Professionals Convention will be in Marlow, 10 – 12 July. If you’re in the UK, or able to travel to the UK, it’s one of the most valuable training events you can attend in 2013. And very reasonably priced too (£150 for three days in …
Inverse hyperbolic functions in SAS
I was recently asked, “Does SAS support computing inverse hyperbolic trigonometric functions?” I was pretty sure that I had used the inverse hyperbolic trig functions in SAS, so I was surprised when I read the next sentence: “I ask because I saw a Usage Note that says these functions are […]
NOTE: More on Ishikawa
I recently mentioned the use of Ishikawa diagrams for assistance with problem solving. I have frequently found them to be of value. However, what I had never realised, until my friend Chris Brooks pointed it out, is that there’s a PROC ISHI…
SAS XPT Files, IBM Floats, and C#
Well, I recently was asked if I could support XPT files, you know, the SAS transport format. Well, SAS transport formats are documented and fairly straight-forward to read so ‘why not?’.Got started coding, client provided a nice sample, all went well. …
Now That’s What I Call Data Visualisation!
This video from the McLaren Formula 1 team is artistic as well as informative. The film merges photography, animation and sculpture and is a truly unique way of representing aerodynamics.
The car in question is the McLaren P1 supercar from McLaren …