Where is solar and wind power generated in the US? Let’s visualize this data on a map… I recently saw the following map on the metricmaps.org website. It caught my attention because it looks like North Carolina has a lot of solar power plants, whereas our neighboring states have very few. […]
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I ran across a map recently that seemed to show a lot of US states are primarily coal-powered. The map was a little difficult to read, so I decided to give it a SAS makeover … Before we get started, here’s a picture my friend David took of the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power […]
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A few months ago I shared the news about Jupyter notebook support for SAS. If you have SAS for Linux, you can install a free open-source project called sas-kernel and begin running SAS code within your Jupyter notebooks. In my post, I hinted that support for this might be coming […]
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The term Data Scientist is in vogue right now. Let’s explore Data Science, what key skills make a data scientist and how SAS’ Academy of Data Science may help advance your career. The term “data science” (originally used interchangeably with “datalogy”) has existed for over thirty years and was used […]
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How is it that 91% of the US didn’t vote for either Hillary or Trump in the primary, but yet they’re still the final two candidates in the presidential election? Let’s break it down with a simple graph! I recently saw a really cool slideshow on the nytimes website, that answered […]
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I usually try to avoid political or religious debates … but as an impartial data analyst, it is possible to analyze data about something, without entering into the debate. In this blog post, I try to walk that fine line, and analyze data about the political leanings of religious groups in the US. […]
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Any subject matter expert (SME) who has written test questions will tell you it is a lot harder and much more time consuming than they initially expected. Many believe they can simply write down any topic-related question that pops in their mind. Easy, right? Not so fast. Questions should be […]
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Our big data problems have only just begun; new studies have confirmed that SAS is the most valuable career skill in the increasingly competitive job market, and the analytics skills gap is a big issue that education at a grassroots level could help solve. It’s more important now than ever […]
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