My trip to SAS Global Forum 2011 in Las Vegas was valuable to me for mahy reasons. I learned a lot of information about a) SAS in general, and b) SAS 9.3 (to be released later this year). I echo many of the sentiments of SAS’s Mike Kalt in this we…
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NOTE: Inspiring Analytics
I was very pleased to meet SAS’s Chris Hemedinger at this year’s SAS Global Forum. Needless to say, he was espousing the virtues of Enterprise Guide when I found him!
If you’re a regular NOTE: reader you’ll know that I’m a fan of his blog. I was jolly…
NOTE: SAS Professionals 2011, July 12th to 14th (yes, July, not April)
My thanks to Bernie for pointing out that I meant July 12th to 14th as the dates for SAS Professionals Convention 2011 in yesterday’s post (now corrected). The rest of you are clearly not paying attention!!
It’s doubly embarrassing because I…
NOTE: Looking forward to SAS Professionals 2011
Having just returned from SAS Global Forum 2011 in Las Vegas, I’m now looking ahead to this year’s SAS Professionals Convention. It’ll be in Marlow, April 12th to 14th. More information will be coming to the SAS Professional web site soon.
NOTE: Loading Data Set Variables Into Macro Variables (%SYSCALL SET)
SAS Global Forum still offers plenty of learning opportunities for the hard-core coder. Quite apart from presenting my paper in Coders’ Corner, I took the opportunity of spending some time in some of the sessions. I leaned plenty of new-old stuff, i.e….
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Update #4
The conference is finished now. I’m back in my room, packing, in anticipation of tomorrow’s flight back to London. I’m hoping to catch a show tonight – but I haven’t booked yet.
It was a good conference, with plenty to learn. If you’d like to get a fe…
NOTE: Mobile BI at SAS Global Forum 2011
I bravely forecast before attending SAS Global Forum 2011 that Mobile BI would the *the* hot topic. Well, I wouldn’t say that it was hot, but it was fresh from the oven and very tempting. In fact, SAS had not one, not two, but three types of mobile com…
Cheated by my SAS Global Forum 2011 Hotel??
I just got charged for using my conference hotel’s internet connection. This despite the original details on the SAS web site stating “rates include daily in-room high-speed Internet access”. I just checked back to the Housing page to be sure of my fac…