Recently, a certification candidate asked me about indexes and how SAS decides whether to use one or not. I don’t work with supper-large data sets and therefore haven’t been overly concerned with efficient coding techniques and consequen…
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Certification Discussion on FaceBook
Hi all. Just a quick note to point out a recent certification discussion on the SAS Training Facebook page. If you haven’t become a fan of SAS Training, maybe now is the time? It’s yet another great community to chat with your fellow SAS users and…
New Business Intelligence Certification Launched
Last month, the SAS Global Certification program added a new credential, the SAS Certified BI Content Developer. My first blog post from May described how a global team of BI experts collaborated to create the beta exam. In May and June, candidate…
Zero to SAS Certified Base Programmer in 3 months (Part II)
A few days after I posted part 1 of this blog post,an interesting message popped up on Twitter from @annmariastat:
Confused. If you can get #SAS certification in 3 months what exactly are you being certified as? How much can anyone learn in 3 mo…
Zero to SAS Certified Base Programmer in 3 months (Part 1)
I’m happy to report that I have achieved my SAS Certified Base Programmer credential. w00t!. I took my first SAS programming course on March 10th and passed my exam on June 18th (so I guess a more accurate title would say 3 months and 8 days!).
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How SAS Enterprise Guide saved a marriage
I don’t know what you did for the Memorial Day weekend, but I went to Boston to staff a booth at the Association for Psychological Science conference. I went to talk to university professors about the SAS Global Academic Program and SAS OnDemand…
Collaborative Writing: Creating a New Certification Exam
I love a good collaborative project.
Recently, I had the good fortune to work with a global team of Business Intelligence experts to create a new SAS certification exam for “BI Content Development”. Our team spanned 4 continents, worked in 6…