In his recent article Perceptions of probability, Rick Wicklin explores how vague statements about “likeliness” translate into probabilities that we can express numerically. It’s a fun, informative post — I recommend it! You’ll “Almost Certainly” enjoy it. To prepare the article, Rick first had to download the source data from […]
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While attending SAS Global Forum, a user asked me about creating a map with a zoomed inset map. This is a topic many users might be interested in, so I decided to create an example and share it. But first, I had to decide which map to use. I thought [….
I recently saw an interesting data visualization on the flowingdata website, which analyzed & compared the causes of fatal crashes in the US, by month and time-of-day. At first I thought it was a really cool visualization, but after I studied it a while, I realized that I had misinterpreted […]
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The list of SAS credentials keeps growing every year, as more and more SAS users want to validate their application of SAS skills in different business topic areas, such as SAS Data Management, SAS Administration, and more. The field of Big Data is no …
The SAS Data Scientist Credential SAS Data Science Academy brings in a complete set of certifications which enables somebody to be qualified as “Data Scientist”. There is full training support , blended mode of learning , case studies, projects and practice exams by the academy. By successfully passing certification […]
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In the aftermath of a natural disaster, most people want to help by donating supplies, money, etc. And then it becomes a matter of logistics – getting all those donations to the people who need them. We recently had several days of rain and flooding in…
If you’re a SAS programmer, you have likely used loops in your SAS code to make life easier from time to time. In this blog post, I demonstrate a few ways you can use loops to do clever things in your graph code. Perhaps even the old dogs can learn […..
When developing SAS® data sets, program code and/or applications, efficiency is not always given the attention it deserves, particularly in the early phases of development. Since data sizes and system performance can affect a program and/or an application’s behavior, SAS users may want to access information about a data set’s […]
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