It was about 30 years ago that I wrote my first book, Applied Statistics and the SAS® Programming Language. It was written on a PC with two floppy disk drives (one for the operating system, the other for my document) using a word processing software called WordStar. It was all […]
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I’m currently at the SESUG conference with hundreds of SAS users. I’ve presented a few talks, and I’ve attended a few more. The presentation rooms can be large and dimly lit, and the projectors at these conference hotels are not always the brightest nor are they exactly “high def”. To […]
In the SAS User Groups LinkedIn group, some generous “old timers” offer tips to the potentially shy newcomers for connecting with other SAS professionals at SAS Global Forum. Perhaps these folks remember their own introverted natures, and they want to encourage attendees to get the most out of their conference […]
When I travel to San Francisco in April for SAS Global Forum 2013, it will make my 12th time to attend the international SAS users group conference, and my 7th consecutive year. A lot of people assume that I automatically go every year, but the truth is that SAS employees […]
If you need to get Enterprise Guide out to your users and you don’t want them to have access to the rest of the SAS software, create a software depot on a network location that only has the clients included. In order to do this you will need to do the following steps. […]
Last week I attended a meeting of the Toronto Area SAS Society. (Okay, I didn’t just attend; I was a presenter as well.) This user group meeting contained a feature that I had never seen before: “Solutions to the Posed Problem”. Weeks before the meeting, an “open problem” was posted […]
When the Western Users of SAS Software gather in Long Beach, CA this September, I’ll be proud to be counted among the WUSSers. (You can learn more about WUSS here; don’t look here.) The WUSS organizers must have some serious clout, because the line-up of presenters reads like a “Who’s […]
The popular mailing list for the SAS user community hits a milestone this weekend by turning 25. 25 is often referred to as the “silver anniversary”, but for a quarter century SAS users have found gold among the messages in this list, which feature everything from questions and answers about […]