Tag: SAS

NOTE: The PROPCASE Function

Here’s just a brief post about a function I just stumbled across. The PROPCASE function coverts a string to “proper case” wherein the first letter of each word is upper case and all others are lower case. Clearly this is a very useful thing for column …

JoA: Dashboard Your Scorecard

The Journal of Accountancy had a good article last month on building Excel-based dashboards. It got the creative juices flowing for me, and I am thinking about integrating some dashboards into my daily work. Modern BI tools like SAS and … Continue reading

The Human Side of Statistical Process Control: Three Applications of SAS/QC You Might Not Have Thought About

When you think of statistical process control, or SPC for short, what industry first comes to your mind? In the past 10 or 15 years, diverse industries have begun to standardize processes and administrative tasks with statistical process control. …

NOTE: Phil Holland – Rock Star!?

So, whilst I’m distracted from my other work, I can’t resist sharing the huge chuckle I had when I saw Waynette Tubbs’s latest edition of her SASonality series. It was titled “Phil Holland is another SAS Rock Star!” For those of us that know Phil and c…

NOTE: Relief for my Book Shelves

I confess it’s been a bit quiet in this little corner of the internet. I’ve been busy finalising my SAS Global Forum paper (now done), interpreting it as Powerpoint slides, preparing proposals for an unexpected rush of interest in my services, and keep…

Sail for Las Vegas!

look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

The SAS Global Forum 2011 (Apr 4-7, Las Vegas) papers are now available on line:
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/TOC.html
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