A while back, I had seen the following map on the CEOs for Cities website. It seemed like an interesting topic and an interesting map, but I just couldn’t grok what their map was saying … So I decided to download the data and create my own map wit…
Big data and high performance analytics take center stage at Analytics 2012
There are many reasons why people attend Analytics 2012 such as networking and learning, but when I proposed that question to co-chair Jennifer Priestley she said it’s the best place to learn how others are solving problems. Here’s more of our conv…
SAS Talks for September: Mark Your Calendars
Lots of you have become loyal fans of our SAS Talks webinar series presented by technical experts, SAS employees and customers alike. I wanted to be sure the readers of this blog were aware of the webinar planned for September 13th because I think i…
Help me answer a student question
Dear Reader, Recently, another SAS instructor had a student in class who has a raw data file that looks like this: Obs Var 1 15 Harvey Rd Macon 2 163 McNeil Pl. Kern 3 442 Glen Ave Miami Beach…
NOTE: Celebrates Its Third Birthday
It seems a lot longer, yet today is just NOTE:’s 3rd birthday*. In that time we’ve published over 300 posts and received over 80,000 page views.
Around 400 people subscribe to our RSS feed, and 200 subscribe to our email feed. We have nearly 150 Twi…
NOTE: A Book That Grows? That’s Got To Be A New Concept!
Following my feature of Metacoda and their security plug-ins last week, I have to feature Phil Holland. As I said last week, I’m a keen supporter of the third-party market for SAS-related products. In addition to his two published books (Saving Time an…