I recently spotted some cracking advice from Charu Shankar (SAS Education) on the SAS Users Groups blog. No matter how many times one has presented at conferences, there’s always room for improvement; and the biggest influence on one’s presentation is …
Tag: Training
NOTE: SAS Talks Revisited
It’s been quite a while since I last mentioned the excellent SAS Talks series. In the intervening period, the archive of talks has grown enormously. The archive of talks is a veritable treasure trove of SAS knowledge.
SAS Talks is principally a s…
When and Where Do You Learn?
In a previous post, I mentioned a favourite interview question of mine: Stored Process Server vs Workspace Server – What’s the difference? I thought I’d mention another. Outside of incidental information picked-up through your regular work, how do yo…
NOTE: DS2, Final Comments
In my previous posts, I’ve covered many aspects of DS2 (previous posts are listed at the bottom of this post). It’s time to wrap up by offering a few more final details.
Whilst DS2 provides a wide range of data types, not all types are supported by all…
NOTE: SEUGI Proceedings
Did I miss this? The proceedings of the SAS European User Group International (SEUGI, the European equivalent of SUGI and SGF) are now all online on the SAS Community web site. Papers from 1983 to the last event in 2007 are there.
Most of the pages we…
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,…
NOTE: Present Thinking
Christmas approaches, I’ve opened 18 windows in the SAS Professionals advent calendar (without winning anything, yet), written most of my Christmas cards, and my mind is firmly focused on the remaining Christmas shopping. However, I’ve allowed my min…
How Do You Read?
There’s a lot of information out there in internetland; constantly being updated and added to. A lot of it is good, intelligent information, but it’s spread across many web sites. Visiting each of those web sites on a regular basis, checking for upda…