A honey bee can live for 8 years … but a black garden ant can live even 20 years longer than that! Learn more details, and other interesting trivia, in this blog on “the longevity of things.” I recently found The Animal Ageing and Longevity Database, and was fascinated by […]
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The East Coast of the US got quite a snowstorm this past weekend, but did your area get enough snow to brag about? Let’s see what the data says… Before we get started, here are a couple pictures of the snow. The first one is from my driveway – we didn’t […]
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The East Coast is having lots of snow and ice storms today, and SAS headquarters is officially closed. But I thought it would be a great day to get a few things done! And among those few things is “write a snow-related blog”. Hope you enjoy it! After 21 years of […]
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Are you from Yankeedom, The Far West, or somewhere in between? In this blog, I use SAS maps to explore some fun data about regional cultures in the U.S. I recently ran across an interesting article about Colin Woodward’s book “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures […]
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You probably heard the recent announcement this past Friday that Walmart will be closing 269 stores. Are any closing near where you live? This blog shows some really cool SAS maps to let you drill-down into the data! I’ve seen a few maps showing which Walmart stores are closing, but they […]
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A number of years ago I was driving home to Alabama for the holidays. Typical of the season the driving was not easy. It was getting dark early and the traffic was fairly heavy. I had the radio on to pass the time. A talk show was on and the […]
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What strategy do you use to pick your lottery numbers? Do you suspect that the future winning numbers might be somehow related to the past winning numbers? If so, this blog’s for you! The Powerball lottery jackpot is up to about $1.4 billion – the largest lottery jackpot there has […]
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I was reading through Deloitte University Press’ 2015 Holiday Spending survey – the results were interesting, but their graph made you jump through mental hoops to understand the data. So of course I used SAS to create a simpler version of the graph, so you’ll have more time for holiday shopping! […]
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