One thing that impressed me about SAS Global Forum 2013 was the number of international attendees–28 percent! While SGF (and it’s predecessor SUGI) always claimed to be the worldwide SAS conference, only recently has this actually become true. One longtime international attendee is the SAS author, Erik Tilanus, who hails from the Netherlands. Erik...
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I’ve already written about one highlight of SAS Global Forum 2013: the SAS Web Editor. Here are some more features that I think deserve mention. Please note that I make no claims about the comprehensiveness or completeness of this list. SAS 9.4 and Enterprise Guide 6.1 are scheduled for release in June and bring...
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SAS Global Forum ended two weeks ago. I thought by now someone would have written about SAS on the Mac and saved me the trouble, but since I don’t see much discussion of this in the blogosphere, here are my belated two cents. If you have been using SAS as long as I have,...
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One of the problems that Lora Delwiche and I face as authors of two books with similar titles (The Little SAS Book and The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide) and multiple editions (five of LSB and three of LSBEG) is explaining how the books are different. The two books are totally different–and complementary....
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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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I recently had the privilege of speaking at a meeting of the Toronto Area SAS Society. It was a great meeting, and, honestly, I’m not saying this just because I was one of the speakers. TASS is the best run local user group I have seen. They have found the right balance of SAS...
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Five editions is a lot! If you had told me, back when we wrote the first edition, that some day we would write a fifth; I would have wondered how we could possibly find that much to say. After all…it is supposed to be The Little SAS Book, isn’t it? But those clever folk...
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I’m not normally a fan of graffiti. But I have been quite taken with one particular instance of graffiti that appeared in my neighborhood a few months ago. Here it is: I don’t know who wrote this, but I like their way of taking something ordinary and injecting it simultaneously with humor and profundity....
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