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Born to be wild – analyzing motorcycle data

What is it that people like so much about motorcycles? The thrill/excitement/freedom of riding them, the ‘biker image’ portrayed in movies, or great songs such as Little Honda by the Hondells? I’m not a biker per say, but I do have a couple of motorcycles, and am a known associate […]

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Is Greece in hot water, financially?

Greece has been in the news lately, trying to secure funds to repay 1.5 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the month. And as luck would have it, there is some data available and some graphs to be created … I love this job! […]

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Pyramids, body parts, and gender differences

Nope – we’re not digging up mummies in pyramids and analyzing the gender – this blog is about population pyramid charts and “digging into data”! But since the title might have lured in some pyramid fans, here’s a picture of my friend Angela posing beside a pyramid – pretty cool, eh?!? […]

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2 days. 2 exams. 2 SAS certifications.

In just one weekend Shang-Hua Wu went from a SAS user to a super SAS user by getting not just one, but two SAS certifications – SAS Certified Base Programmer and SAS Certified Advanced Programmer. Wu wanted to earn his certifications to position himself for new career opportunities in the […]

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New SAS Visual Analytics certification launched

The SAS Global Certification program is proud to announce the release of a new credential: SAS Certified Visual Business Analyst Using SAS Visual Analytics. This credential is designed for analysts who are using SAS Visual Analytics to explore data and create insightful data visualizations. With SAS Visual Analytics now deployed in over […]

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Using SAS to get the jump on Shark Week

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week starts July 5, 2015 – and I’ve created a special SAS map & graph of shark attacks in North Carolina to get you in the mood for their week of shark education! But first, to get you in the mood for my blog, here’s a picture […]

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How to handle time (mm:ss.ss) values in SAS

One of my earlier blogs on handling percent (%) values in SAS was very popular (it’s been viewed over 34,000 times!), so I thought I’d write a similar blog on handling time (mm:ss.ss) values in SAS … This past weekend I was in a dragonboat race (that’s me in the […]

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SAS Enterprise Guide: Suppress Output Data tab when programming

Have you ever waited a bit for SAS Enterprise Guide to display the Output Data tab when submitting a SAS program that generates multiple output tables?  Or, perhaps your program only generates one big output table but it takes a little while for it to surface on the Output Data […]

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