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100+ presentations about data visualization at SAS Global Forum!

Being the Graph Guy, I wanted to know about all the “data visualization” presentations at the upcoming SAS Global Forum 2018 conference. I tried going through the official interface to search for such sessions, but it was difficult (impossible?) to kno…

Jedi SAS Tricks: Transwarp Processing with DS2 in SAS® Viya®

When speed is required at scale, it’s hard to beat parallel processing data in memory with DS2 and SAS® Viya® with the amazing Cloud Analytic Services (CAS)!
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Tracking the reentry of China’s space station

If you grew up as a space-junkie kid like me, then you’ve probably been watching the news for the past few days, wondering when and where China’s Tiangong 1 space station was going to fall out of orbit, and crash to Earth. According to Popular Mechanics (PM), that happened at 8:16pm […]

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Can you name that music media player?

These days, it’s all about music streaming … You sign up for a service, you let them know your music preferences, and they create a virtual “radio station” that plays the songs you probably want to hear. But that just doesn’t compare with going to a …

Authoring a data-driven book – yes, we do that!

At SAS we use data to accomplish many of our everyday tasks. At SAS Books, we have now even used data to create a data-driven book, An Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics.
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Avoiding rush hour traffic!

As the Research Triangle Park becomes more popular, we’re getting a lot more traffic on the roads. And with flexible work hours, of course I try to pick a time to drive to work when there’s less traffic. I recently saw a cool infographic showing the mo…

Jedi SAS Tricks: The DSTODS2 Procedure

You have the infrastructure, and you know that DATA step would run so much better in DS2, but it’s complicated and you don’t know how to get started. Well, if you have SAS 9.4M5, rejoice! The DStoDS2 procedure is here, and it’s a humdinger! (No, Chris,…

SAS introduces the blended classroom

We all have different learning styles. Some learn best by seeing and doing; others by listening to lectures in a traditional classroom; still others simply by diving in and asking questions along the way. Traditional face-to-face classroom instruction,…