I was answering questions about SAS in a forum the other day, and it struck me how much easier it is to help folks if they can provide a snippet of data to go along with their program when asking others to help troubleshoot. This makes it easy to run […]
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Our colleagues at the SAS office in Korea recently had the opportunity to interview two customers from KT, one of the biggest telecommunications companies in Korea, about getting SAS certified. Sung-chul Hwang and Gyu-seob Lee both have four SAS certifications – Base Programmer, Advanced Programmer, Statistical Business Analyst and Predictive […]
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We recently had a flooding event at Jordan Lake where the water rose almost 20 feet above normal. This blog details that flooding event in both photos and graphs. If you’re intrigued by weather, boats, or lakes then this blog’s for you! In NC’s Research Triangle Park area, there are basically two […]
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In previous articles, I’ve shared tips about how you can work with SAS and ZIP files without requiring an external tool like WinZip, gzip, or 7-Zip. I’ve covered: How to create ZIP files with ODS PACKAGE ZIP (available since SAS 9.2) How to “unzip” and read ZIP files using FILENAME […]
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Everyone likes something for free – right? Well how about a free tutorial on how to use free software to analyze free data? Got to be a catch – no, not at all! In his recent post on the SAS Communities, Darth Pathos (yes – really) explains how to survive […]
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Have you ever found a graph of some interesting information, but the graph was difficult to understand (or even misleading). I strive to fix those graphs – this time it’s a graph of US immigration data… I found the following immigration graph on the flowingdata website – it’s a screen-capture of […]
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When I am discussing my new Explaining Analytics course with analytic professionals, I frequently hear, “I have a co-worker that needs the class.” That comment is much more frequent than – “Hey I need that class.” The truth of the matter is we all need to continue to improve – […]
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With the upcoming appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice, I wondered just how liberal and conservative previous justices have been. I found some data, and tried my hand at creating a graph to help visualize it… In my quest for data, I came upon an article on the NYTimes […]
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