It's Monday morning at SAS Global Forum; the conference gets into gear today. Yesterday evening the 4,000 attendees in San Fancisco attended the Opening Session and heard SAS senior staff describe the key topics for the event. All were centred around t...
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Summer in the City: The Analytics Conference in London This year, we're holding the Analytics conference first in London (June 19-20, Park Plaza Westminster Bridge) and then in Orlando (October 21-22, The Peabody Orlando). It’s a great opportunity ...
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The TV show Cheers was set in a bar "where everybody knows your name." Global knowledge of a name is appealing for a neighborhood pub, but not for a programming language. Most programming languages enable you to define functions that have local variables: variables whose names are known only inside
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Ok I’m looking for SAS BI Rock Stars at SAS Global Forum 2013. If you are a regular blog reader – you have to find ...
It's hard to believe I'm heading out to SAS Global Forum for the first time as a SAS employee! Before coming to SAS, I had attended the SAS Users Group International annual conventions for several years running, and had even presented a couple of paper...
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I've never paid much attention to the SAS Global Forum (SGF) online agenda builder before. I've preferred the pen on paper approach, using the pull-out printed agenda in the conference programme. However, with the introduction of an Android version of ...
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While I'm packing for my trip to SAS Global Forum, I thought I'd share some San Francisco pictures with you.
There's a link at the end of this article.
They're by Trey Ratcliff, who almost shares a surname with me, and they cover a mixture of San F...
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Most people think that all insects are bugs, but, in fact, only species belonging to the order Hemiptera are considered by scientists to be “true bugs.” There are about 932,000 species of insects, but only 82,000 species of true bugs. Fortunately for us, there are a lot fewer species of SAS bugs. SAS bugs...
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In my constant effort to keep pace with Chris Hemedinger, I am pleased to announce the availability of my new book, Simulating Data with SAS. Chris started a tradition for SAS Press authors to post a photo of themselves with their new book. Thanks to everyone who helped with the
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