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Can you guess which 10 rivers produce 95% of the ocean’s plastic pollution?

Plastic pollution in the oceans is becoming a huge problem. And, as with any problem, finding the solution starts with identifying the source of the problem. A recent study estimated that 95% of the plastic pollution in our oceans comes from 10 rivers – let’s put some visual analytics to […]

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What makes a SAS user? SAS thinks like me: Dede Schreiber-Gregory

During SAS Global Forum 2018, SAS instructor Charu Shankar sat down with four SAS users to get their take on what makes a SAS user. Read through to find valuable tips they shared and up your SAS game. I’m sure you will come away inspired, as you discov…

What makes a SAS user? Introverts find their tribe: Richann Watson

During SAS Global Forum 2018, SAS instructor Charu Shankar sat down with four SAS users to get their take on what makes them a SAS user. Read through to find valuable tips they shared and up your SAS game. I’m sure you will come away inspired, as you d…

A periodic table to help you with your SAS ODS graphics!

There were 97 e-posters in The Quad demo room at SAS Global Forum this year. And the one that caught my eye was Ted Conway’s “Periodic Table of Introductory SAS ODS Graphics Examples.” Here’s a picture of Ted fielding some questions from an interested …

Jedi @ SASGF: Working with Big Data in SAS

The SAS Jedi Mark Jordan presents his SAS Global Forum 2018 paper “Working with Big Data in SAS”
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Did attempted border crossings really ‘surge’ in March?

During the past few days, several news outlets told us that the number of illegal border crossings ‘surged’ in March 2018. This is a topic that interests me, therefore I wanted to see if the data supported what the news was claiming… Trump’s desire to secure the US borders is […]

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The Best Job in America

According to Glassdoor, data scientist tops the list of the 50 Best Jobs in America. The rankings are determined by combining three factors: number of job openings, salary and overall job satisfaction rating. With a median base salary of $110,000, an a…

SAS functions to encode and decode data for the Web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is famous for inventing the World Wide Web and for the construction of URLs — a piece of syntax that every 8-year-old is now familiar with. According to the lore, when Sir Tim invented URLs he did not imagine that Internet surfers of all ages and backgrounds […]

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