Tag: SAS Global Forum

What really matters: SAS #data4good and the SAS Press team

As a company, SAS consistently supports #data4good initiatives designed to help those less fortunate around the world. SAS Press team members recently took some time to reflect on the SAS initiatives that inspired them. We thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce some of the team who work […]

What really matters: SAS #data4good and the SAS Press team was published on SAS Users.

A playful way to get your hands on SAS: the Data Science Escape Rooms

Move over video games and sports. Make room for escape rooms. This burgeoning form of entertainment found its roots in the video gaming movement. Escape rooms tap into a player’s drive to reach the next level, solve a puzzle and win. Escape rooms present a physical game that traps you […]

A playful way to get your hands on SAS: the Data Science Escape Rooms was published on SAS Users.

SAS Global Forum 2019

I’m excited because in a couple days I will fly to Dallas for SAS Global Forum 2019, the biggest SAS conference of the year, attended by thousands. If you are coming, I hope you will say hello to me.  If you can’t make it to Dallas, you’ll be glad to know that many presentations will […]

Everybody Needs Career Development

  This year I’ve had the honor of helping to recruit speakers for the Career Development area at SAS Global Forum. We have some fantastic presentations that everyone can benefit from whether you are a student, a new graduate, or a mid-career professional. I particularly recommend the panel discussion (Career Advice We’d Give to Our […]

How the 1854 Cholera outbreak showed us the importance of spatial analysis

he catch phrase “everything happens somewhere” is increasingly common these days.  That “somewhere” translates into a location on the Earth; a latitude and longitude.  When one of these “somewhere’s” is combined with many other “somewhere’s”, you quickly have a robust spatial data set that becomes actionable with the right analytic […]

How the 1854 Cholera outbreak showed us the importance of spatial analysis was published on SAS Users.