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Does Detroit really have the most violent crime?

For the past few years, I’ve been hearing from many news sources that Detroit is the most violent large city in the US. If the news is saying this, then the data should corroborate it, eh? Well, of course I decided to check for myself… When comparing…

Demystifying SAS Certification (Part 2): Write it down

Do you know what the #1 fear in North America is? Most people say fear of public speaking or fear of death, but you may just want to consider this new fear upping the charts – the fear of writing a SAS Certification exam! The real test begins before ev…

Building a better flu map!

The flu seems to be especially potent this year. “How potent is it,” you might ask? … Well, let’s plot some data on a map to help find out! Here in the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) compiles data about diseases, and provide…

A better way to view flu data

Have you, or someone you know, gotten the flu this year? Word on the street is that this year’s flu might be particularly bad, and the data seem to be corroborating that so far. You don’t want to take my word for it? — well then, let’s have a look […..

Jedi SAS Tricks – The Double vs. Decimal Dilemma

I ran across an interesting conundrum the other day. The intent was to compare the value of X to a list of desired values, and if X matched one of the values in the list, set Flag to 1, otherwise set Flag to 0.  I wrote and executed this test program, …

North Korea’s 117 missile tests

Data doesn’t always have to be ‘big data’ to be interesting. For example, I recently ran across a small, but very interesting, database containing all of North Korea’s missile tests. The data was a bit difficult to digest in the formats provided, therefore I decided to try my hand at […]

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How to test PROC HTTP and the JSON library engine

Using SAS with REST APIs is fun and rewarding, but it’s also complicated. When you’re dealing with web services, credentials, data parsing and security, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. It’s useful to have a simple program that verifies that the “basic plumbing” is working before […]

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Demystifying SAS certification – Week 1

Well! I did it! I conducted a workshop for internal SAS employees wishing to take SAS certification. The workshop was to help them understand the following: SAS Certification overview Exam preparation Website Content Exam pass score Sample questions St…