Getting Certified

As a (certified) SAS platform administrator I often get asked how best to prepare for the SAS Certified Platform Administrator 9 exam. I don’t have a magic formula other than study and experience. My standard response is to direct people to the b…

Sublime Text 2 for SAS Programmers: A Quick Note

I’m playing with a new text editor, Sublime Text 2, and it has much potentials to replace my current handy Notepad++ and VIM. A quick note for further exploration(will keep update): 1. SAS syntax highlighting Sublime Text 2 doesn’t support SAS syntax natively. I got a workaround so I didn’t need to write my own […]

SAS Professionals provides climate for success

“Welcome to the English summer.” “In the US you have climate. In England we have Weather.” These are just two of the familiar phrases I heard yesterday during the SAS Professionals Convention held at SAS UK in Marlow. The weather changed from sun to dark clouds to rain and even […]

Clustering Olympic medalists in JMP

Now the summer has begun, Olympic fever is starting to rise in many countries. In the meantime I took a look at www.databaseolympics.com to the results of last summer Olympic Games in 2008 in Beijing. I wondered if it would be possible to discover patt…

SAS Beats R on July 2012 TIOBE Rankings

The TIOBE Community Programming Index ranks the popularity of programming languages, but from a programming language perspective rather than as analytical software (http://www.tiobe.com). It extracts measurements from blogs, entries in Wikipedia, books on Amazon, search engine results, etc. and combines them into a single index. … Continue reading