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 functions for computing parameters in Erlang-C model
Call center management is both Arts and Sciences. While driving moral and setting up strategies is more about Arts, staffing and servicing level configuration based on call load is in the domain of Sciences.
The science part of call center managemen…
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 →