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 at […]
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Roadside Wisdom
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. For […]
Big Data in the News
As a SAS programmer, the idea of Big Data is nothing new to me. Decades have passed since I first wrestled with the special challenges of making sense out of huge data sets. Some things have changed, of course. A million records doesn’t seem as remarkable now as it did 20 years ago, but the […]
The Reviewer Is Always Right
…about something …and it’s up to you to figure out what. At SGF I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion titled “So You Want to Be a SAS Press Author!” The panel was organized by Nancy Brucken, moderated by Michael Raithel and included authors Art Carpenter, Cynthia Zender, and Mike Molter. During […]
SGF 2011 Redux
It may just be me, but every time I attend SAS Global Forum, I always leave feeling that I have missed a large part of the conference. There are too many things going on at once and in too many different places for me to catch it all. Fortunately, for those of us who have […]
SAS Hits the Big Time
Recently, my mother handed me a copy of the May 2011 issue of Reader’s Digest magazine. Now, Reader’s Digest is not a magazine that I ordinarily read (though I confess to being a fan of its monthly Word Power vocabulary quiz), but this particular issue holds special interest. The article, Best of America, says that […]
Highlights of SGF 2011
I’ve been so busy over the last month that I am just now getting a chance to sort through my notes from SAS Global Forum 2011. Here are a few highlights I found: SAS OnDemand for Academics SAS OnDemand for Academics (the cloud computing version of SAS) will be free for academic research starting in […]