Several years ago, my husband and I were remodeling our first house together. We decided we wanted to have cable television upstairs. Being young, foolish and lacking in disposable income, we decided to do it ourselves. My husband said he would r…
SAS Global Forum: Orlando, Here I Come! I’m so Pumped!!
SAS Global Forum 2012 starts this coming Sunday in the happiest place on earth – Disney World. I’m so excited. You may have already read some of things I’m planning to do and papers I’m planning to see and even some background on the SAS BI and Google Analytics paper that Angela and I are presenting. By the way, SAS Press is giving away a copy of the Building Business Intelligence book during our talk and three more during the SAS Talks via Twitter on Wednesday morning at 9:30 am EST. You can join the SAS Talks here. Check out All the Buzz!!! Here’s my latest video blog at AllAnalytics.Com about the SAS Global forum. Like my screen capture? Am I getting ready to kiss the monitor or spit out my gum? Anyway – leave a comment at the All Analytics site if you watch the video. (Appreciate you!) Check out these excellent posts from some of the coolest people I know: All Analytics editor Beth Schultz, provides a great overview in the On the Road to SAS Global Forum. She helps you understand why we are all so excited! Angela Hall, my wonderful co-author, invites you to meet up at SAS […]
Multiple Imputation for missing data: State of the art and new developments
Yesterday I attended the “Multiple Imputation for missing data: State of the art and new developments”. It definitely lived up to the title. The presenters (James Carpenter, Jonathan Bartlett, Rachael Huhes, Ofer Harel and Shaun Seaman) described i…
Let’s meet up at SAS Global Forum 2012!
There are only four more days before the big kickoff! But for many of us (including me), the countdown to SAS Global Forum 2012 began last fall with the submission of paper ideas to the incredibly awesome section chair volunteers. I live for this event…
Hash a SAS Value
Sometimes, it is good to be able to hash a value so that a unique key can be made into the data. For example, say you were looking at a system performance log. You have a PID, a process name, and a user. PIDs are reused by a system all of the time so t…
SAS Tech Talks LIVE from SAS Global Forum
For me, this will be a SAS Global Forum of many “firsts”. My first Closing Session. My first time attending as a staffer outside of SAS R&D (well, except for the chilly SUGI 21 in Chicago). And my first chance to host the SAS Tech Talk sessions, which will be […]