Teacher salaries have been a hotly debated issue in our state for the past few years. In this blog post, I examine a graph that recently appeared in our local news, point out some deficiencies, and create an alternate graph. But before we get started, here’s a picture of my […]
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Have you been kicking around ideas for a great SAS book, but don’t know how to get started? Don’t wait another day – connect with the Author with SAS community and let those amazing folks at SAS Press help you get your project rolling. You won’t regret it! I’m SO […]
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The US has almost 400 national parks, and has been keeping attendance data for about 100 years. With a holiday weekend coming up, I thought this would be a good time to crunch those numbers, and see how each park compares to all the others… I first saw the tip of […]
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Do you need help picking a summer vacation destination – one that’s not just great, but surreal? If so, this blog’s for you! It’s that time of the year again – I’ve got gobs of vacation time saved up, but I was drawing a blank on where to go… So I turned […]
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Yesterday a frustrated SAS user complained on Twitter. He’s working with a database that stores an ID field as a big long number (perhaps using the database BIGINT type), and SAS can’t display a number greater than 15 digits. Well, it’s actually 16 digits, depending on the value: %put Biggest […]
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How bad was the recent recession on the Las Vegas housing market, and what lingering side effects are still being felt? If you don’t know squat about real estate housing markets, then this blog post is for you! It takes a simple graphical look at some data that helps explain […]
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As a parent of children who love books, I can tell you that there is something humorous about taking a first name, adding a “Mc” and then a rhyming surname to make up a brand new character name. My daughters always loved to read the adventures of Harry Mclary from […]
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What’s the most common data reporting mechanism? Is it web-based reporting? PDFs? How about spreadsheets? Maybe, but in my experience many reports are delivered using a less-scalable and transient mechanism: e-mail. I’m a data steward at SAS. Specifically, I look after the operational data around our blogging program and our […]
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