… and that’s not just because the famous Toronto International Film Festival was wrapping up this past weekend. No, before the stars all left town we were to be graced by one more very special visitor – at least, special to those of us in the SA…
Always learning something new, two awesome Enterprise Guide tricks
Who says anyone is an expert at something? I definitely do not when it comes to SAS (well, anything for that matter). Each time I sit through a presentation at a conference I learn something new. During the SAS Western Users Conference, fondly know as …
Example 10.2: Custom graphic layouts
In example 10.1 we introduced data from a CPAP machine. In brief, it’s hard to tell exactly what’s being recorded in the data set, but it seems to be related to the pattern of breathing. Measurements are taken five times a second, leading to on the o…
NOTE: Let’s Go to San Francisco #sasgf13
Every time I think of next year’s SAS Global Forum I get the sound of The Flower Pot Men floating around my head – Let’s Go To San Francisco. I may only have turned five years old during the 1967 “summer of love”, but some of those wonderfully happy …
NOTE: What Am I Reading?
We all try to write data-driven code, or code that provides some degree of flexibility regarding its input data. We see these approaches as reducing maintenance and making the code more robust. There are a number of features in the SAS language that al…
Statistical Notes (4): Dragon’s Teeth and Fleas: Hypothesis Testing in Plain English
Statisticians aren’t the problem for data science. The real problem is too many posers — Cathy O’Neil you actually do need to understand how to invert a matrix at some point in your life if you want to be a data scientist. — Cathy O’Neil I was asked in several different occasions to explain hypothesis […]