The Western Users of SAS Software 2018 conference is coming to Sacramento, CA, September 5-7. I have been to a lot of SAS conferences, but WUSS is always my favorite because it is big enough for me to learn a lot, but small enough to be really friendly. On Wednesday afternoon, I will once...
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I’m excited because in a couple days I will fly to Denver for SAS Global Forum 2018, the biggest SAS conference of the year, attended by thousands. If you are coming, I hope you will attend the presentation that Lora Delwiche and I have. It is “SAS Studio: A New Way to Program in...
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Recently I was honored to be interviewed by Mamadou Dakouo for his company DataSteps. I was asked three questions: How did I learn SAS? What advice do I have for someone who wants to become a “top SAS programmer?” What is my favorite SAS procedure? My answers were In graduate school Be a...
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The purpose of this blog is simply to post this link to an article in The Economist. Click here to read the article “How soon will computers replace The Economist’s science writers?” At this point, I could stop writing because this article falls into the category of No Comment Needed, but that would be...
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The Western Users of SAS Software 2017 conference is coming to Long Beach, CA, September 20-22. I have been to a lot of SAS conferences, but WUSS is always my favorite because it is big enough for me to learn a lot, but small enough to be really friendly. If you come I hope...
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A while back, I wrote about the proliferation of interfaces for writing SAS programs. I am reposting that blog here (with a few changes) because a lot of SAS users still don’t understand that they have a choice. These days SAS programmers have more choices than ever before about how to run SAS. They...
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There is a new member of The Little SAS Book family: The Little SAS Enterprise Guide Book. This book is for people who use SAS Enterprise Guide as their interface. EG is a point-and-click interface for SAS, but it’s great for programmers too. And this book includes a new chapter covering the wonderful features...
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These days SAS programmers have more choices than ever before about how to run SAS. They can use the old Display Manager interface, or SAS Enterprise Guide, or the new kid on the block: SAS Studio. All of these are included with Base SAS. Once upon a time, the only choices were Display Manager...
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