NOTE: SAS TALKS Celebrates One Year

At the same time as we mark the passing of Benoît Mandelbrot, SAS TALKS is celebrating its first birthday.

SAS TALKS is a series of free webinars offered by SAS and featuring SAS technical experts. You can watch any of the last year’s ten webinars fr…

Benoît Mandelbrot (1924 – 2010)

I was saddened to see reports of the recent death of Benoît Mandelbrot. I’m not clever enough to understand much of his work, but I do understand that his pioneering work on fractals (fractal geometry) led not only to some beautiful images but a…

Example 8.11: violin plots

We’ve continued to get useful feedback and ideas from our posts on the combination dotplot/boxplot and other ways to craft similar displays. Another notion is the violin plot, which combines a boxplot and a (doubled) kernel density plot. While the ba…