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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…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....
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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...
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Like all writers (and artists, musicians, software developers, and other creators of content) I am concerned about the problem of copyright infringement. (Here is my previous post about this.) So I was interested to find out that while I was at the Western Users of SAS Software conference, there was a veritable brouhaha about...
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Answer: It certainly doesn’t pay authors. My sister recently told me that the Sacramento public library lists one copy of The Little SAS Book in their catalog. However, it turns out that someone has stolen that one copy. I figure that’s a compliment of sorts: Someone wanted The Little SAS Book enough to steal...
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