My previous blog post focused on a graph, showing the % of women earning STEM degrees in various fields. While that graph was was designed to answer a very specific question, let’s now look at the data from a broader perspective. Let’s look at the tota…
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Are more women getting STEM degrees?
For the past several years, efforts have been under way to recruit more women into the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. I recently saw an interesting graph showing the percentage of bachelor’s degrees conferred to women in the …
U.S. CO2 emissions are on the decline!
Carbon Dioxide … CO2. Humans breathe out 2.3 pounds of it per day. It’s also produced when we burn organic materials & fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas). Plants use it for photosynthesis, which in turn produces oxygen. It is also a greenhouse gas, which many claim […]
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Ten SAS Enterprise Guide program editor tricks
If you spend a lot of time in SAS Enterprise Guide (as I do), you probably get to know its features pretty well. But we don’t always take the time to explore as we should, so there might be a few golden nuggets of editor knowledge that have escaped you […]
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Colors represent different things, in different cultures
Choosing great colors for a graph is sometimes the most difficult part. And here is yet another thing you need to worry about … sometimes colors represent different things in different cultures! In this blog post, I improve a graphic to help you get …
Using Python to work with SAS Viya and CAS
One of the big benefits of the SAS Viya platform is how approachable it is for programmers of other languages. You don’t have to learn SAS in order to become productive quickly. We’ve seen a lot of interest from people who code in Python, maybe because that language has become […]
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8 new summer reads for SAS users
Summer is here, which means vacations and time at the pool with a good book. If expanding your knowledge is a goal of yours this summer, SAS has a shelf full of new titles becoming available over the next few months. From new editions of classics – such as SAS® for Forecasting […]
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How to perform an operation on all numeric or all character variables in a SAS data set
In a previous blog, I demonstrated a program and macro that could identify all numeric variables set to a specific value, such as 999. This blog discusses an immensely useful technique that allows you to perform an operation on all numeric or all chara…