After working as a flight attendant for more than 20 years, Lauren Guevara was ready for a new adventure. The inspiration for her journey came from an article she read in CNN’s Money magazine that highlighted the earning potential of a SAS Certification. Also having earned a Master of Science […]
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How simple is too simple, when it comes to analyzing data on a map? The KISS principle can be applied to many things, including graphs and maps. What is the KISS principle, you might ask? Well, it’s not the rock band that my friend Patricia (pictured below) has been known […]
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Election fever has hit the United Kingdom as the days count down to 7th May 2015. This is likely to be one of the most uncertain elections in recent memory, with nearly 10 parties struggling for votes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Results night will be tense, with the different […]
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One of our customers asked if I could show him how to reproduce a stickman graph that David McCandless (ala, Information is Beautiful) had created. I’m not sure that it’s the best kind of graph for the occasion, but of course SAS can be used to create it! … David’s […]
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Copy/paste is my favorite method for creating new SAS programs. In my work projects, I maintain a sort of genealogy of SAS programs, because the DNA of one program can be used to spawn many other SAS programs as its progeny. When things (inevitably) aren’t working as I intend in […]
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Would you rather see a list of the world’s 50 best roller coasters, or an interactive map? (… how about both!) Before we get started on this ride, here’s a picture of my friend Jennifer’s daughter, getting an early/young start on riding roller coasters (she’s in the back, with her […]
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The topic of fracking has been in the news a lot lately – this blog post explores some of the finer points of plotting opinion data related to fracking … I recently saw the following graph on dadaviz.com. It showed some interesting data, and presented the data in a way […]
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Just this morning, the course leader at our newly created SAS Space & Astronomy School told me that they picked up a broadcast signal from outer space. By analysing all the data they have been collecting, they were able to quickly spot a spike in the trend pattern, which helped […]
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