If you’re preparing a big Thanksgiving dinner, then you don’t want to leave out the most popular side dish, do you?!? But what is the most popular side dish? … If you don’t already know, then perhaps some data & analytics can help! But before we get started, here’s a […]
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Social media has brought anniversary dates to the forefront. Every day, my view of Google Photos or Facebook shows me a collection of photos from exactly some number of years ago to remind me of how good things were back then. These apps are performing the simplest of date-based math […]
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Here in the US, we’re preparing to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Therefore this Thursday most families in the US will be having a big turkey dinner. Although I’m a bachelor guy and eat out all the time, I’m actually a pretty good cook – and I’d …
Motivating students is one of the major challenges teachers and student advocates face on a daily basis and encouraging students to be interested in analytics is a whole other mountain to climb, or is it? What motivates students? Often we make assumpti…
Information Dashboards were the hot topic a few years ago, but the hype seems to have died down lately. A good dashboard is still a very useful way to summarize, analyze, and share data – so I thought I’d re-visit the topic, and try to improve an old d…
Here’s a Proc Print trick for grouped data. Suppose your data is divided into groups, such as males and females. You could sort by the grouping variable before printing, like this: Suppose you want to better emphasize the groups. You could add a BY sta…
One of the great things about living in an area that has seasons is you get to see the leaves change colors in the fall. If you’re a big fan of seeing the leaves at their peak, you could actually travel around the country and see the leaves at their [….
I recently saw an alarming article on social media about an outbreak of airborne plague spreading from Madagascar to Africa (and potentially to the rest of the world). The plague?!? – I thought that only happened hundreds of years ago?!? I don’t really…