Hate it or not (Yes I do), SAS programmers can’t just get rid of Microsoft Office Excel in their life. Now my turn (with Tagsets.ExcelXP, I can at least get rid of DDE)… 0. SAS Templates window A visual way to browse all ODS templates is to use windows command “ODSTEMPLATES” to invoke a SAS […]
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My 2012 Top Ten
Last week I published the ten blog articles that scored most hits over the last 18 months. That was “your” top ten. I thought I’d offer an alternative top ten by listing the articles that I most enjoyed writing or which I personally thought were of the…
Blog Statistics: 2012
(This blog’s page view data from Google Analytics; 43 posts in total in 2012) Top 10 countries/territories and cities (traffic) Most of my readers come from US and I’m glad my Chinese fellows still fork me since I moved to US this year (today is my one year anniversary in US). To my surprising there […]
Bletchley Park – Birthplace of the Modern Computer
I enjoyed a visit to Bletchley Park with my kids on Saturday. It’s an amazing place. It just reeks of World War II and the Cold War. And it has so many fascinating stories to tell. The place was abuzz with the latest news – that 92 year old…
Best of SAS: A Personal Nomination 2012
There SAS applications/procedures/features were not necessarily available since 2012. This year I paid special attention to them when began to use SAS 9.3. The following notes are totally my personal endorsement purely based my own experience as a user: XML File Reading: SAS XML Mapper SAS XML Mapper itself is not an elegant tool from […]
NOTE: UK Events, Good News and Bad News!
Good news 1: SAS UK will be running Analytics 2013 in London on 19th and 20th June. This is part of a series of such conferences, its predecessor being held in Cologne, Germany last June. The 2012 conference included Data Mining, Forecasting,…
Your "2012" Top Ten
It’s traditional at this time of year to look back over the year and pull out some highlights. I thought I’d take the easy route here and publish a list of the ten most viewed articles published this year. However, I realised that this would be&nb…
Weekend Clips: Data Scientist Episode II
1. What is A Data Scientist Anyway?
2. You Just Can’t Be Replaced by Yourselves!
3. We are all Data Scientists!