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Tag: Publishing
Free Resources for Learning SAS (and Other Tips from SAS Authors)
In celebration of SAS Global Forum, the folks at SAS Press gathered tips from SAS Press authors. Here is my contribution: This is the best time ever to learn SAS! When I first encountered SAS, there were only two ways that I could get help. I could either ask another graduate student who might or […]
A short history of The Little SAS Book
In celebration of SAS Press’ 25th anniversary, Lora Delwiche and I reminisced about what it was like writing the first edition of The Little SAS Book. You can read about it on The SAS Learning Post.
Who was the first SAS user to write a SAS book?
SAS Press has been publishing books written by SAS users for 25 years. That made me wonder: Who wrote the first such book? The answer depends on how you phrase the question. You can read about it on the SAS Learning Post.
Werken Met SAS
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 works […]
Which Little SAS Book?
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. So […]
The Little SAS Book Fifth Edition
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 […]
Is There Any Better Way? Publishing Process For CDISC Standards
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 (the […]