There’s so much of interest in Rob Allison’s recent SAS Training Post blog article Create animations like Hans Rosling! that I don’t know where to start!
Rob’s reference relates to the subject of a 2010 post from me (originally highlighted by a twee…
Yesterday I mentioned SAS platform administrators and how their work and their value can be overlooked. My post related to an article on the SAS Users Groups blog. Last week I saw another SAS Users Groups blog entry about something else that is often o…
SAS platform administrators are the unsung heroes of many SAS sites. Most SAS users have no conception of the range and complexity of technology that sits below the user-facing SAS interfaces like Enterprise Guide, Web Report Studio and Visual Analyt…
I continue to be foxed by the lack of a Closing Session at this year’s SAS Global Forum (SGF) in San Francisco. One of the highlights of each Closing Session at previous conferences was the presentation of Best Contributed Paper awards for each strea…
I recently spotted a neat tip from Tricia Aanderud on the BI Notes blog. In the article Web Report Studio: Switch Report Sections to Tabs in Snap! Tricia provides us all with a reminder of the ability to create tabs in our Web Report Studio reports a…
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 […]
Before you can analyze data, it must be in the right form. Join Revolution Analytics and me this June 21st for a 4-hour webinar that shows how to perform the most commonly used data management tasks in R. We will work through … Continue reading →
I’m continuing to gather and analyze data to update The Popularity of Data Analysis Software. In this installment I cover the latest employment figures. Employment is important to us all, so what software skills are employers seeking? A thorough answer … Continue reading →