1. The Pain I read from Lex Jansen (@LexJansen) that CDISC SDTM v1.3 and SDTMIG v3.1.3 were newly released. It’s pretty nice since CDISC SDTM was supposed to be released semiannually in the new publishing cycle. We can see the team put great efforts on this new version, but frankly speaking, this delivery...
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One of the interesting observations in my first few months in US: there is no price printed in the new mail stamps! It is interesting because as a former student of economics, I think US Post system did a nice attempt to beat the so called “menu cost” which should honor to Harvard economist...
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In the previous post, I just mentioned that Fisher’s Iris Data is embedded officially in SASHELP library in SAS 9.2. Note that even in SAS 9.1.3, you can also find this data with several instances from some demos in user guide (just search "Iris" in "SAS Help and Documentation" accompany with you SAS product),...
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Tell me something about Alfred, male or female? age? height and weight?
Oracle database (version 9 and below) had a well known default demo account SCOTT with a password, TIGER (and TIGER was the name of the real person Bruce Scott ’s cat, see) and in this account, there are some tables named DEPT,...
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Kirk Paul Lafler drafted a checking list for identifying a SAS nerd (or geek, in its positive ways) in one of his intriguing papers:
You Could be a SAS® Nerd If . . .
Here I’m glad to find that I am roughly a 20% SAS nerd (12 matched in all 57 lists):
8. You blog...
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It is well known that the French writer, author of The Three Musketeer, Alexandre Dumas, wrote his master piece of work in different colored papers according to literary genre:
non-fiction on rose,
fiction on blue,
poetry on yellow
The SAS blog writer, author of Statistical Programming with SAS/IML Software, Rick Wicklin of SAS Institute, also leads a strong...
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Calculate the factorial of 171 (171!)? Just TRY! It is equal to 171*170*169*….2*1.
1. Google calculator
As Google fanatics, I first try to search the answer via Google:
Whoops, nothing interested returned! Type “170!” and get the output:
Why kinda things happened in this calculator? 171! is just equal to 171*170!.
2. Excel
Switch to Excel spreadsheet. Function...
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The mechanic, who wishes to do his work well, must first
sharpen his tools.
--Confucian Analects. BOOK XV.WEI LING KUNG.CHAP.IX.
My paper Work Smarter than Harder-tools for growing up a SAS programmer was accepted by SAS Global Forum 2011. It would be my first time to attend SAS user group conference worldwide. The draft version...
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