I had a bit of difficulty remembering the exact way push and pop functions in JavaScript work until I thought of the PEZ dispenser. When you have an array that you create like this: var bob = [1,47] ; and you do this: bob.push(9,12) now your new array is [1,47,9,12] In other words, push…
After over a quarter of a century of experience working as a statistical consultant in a wide array of settings, it’s safe to say that a large proportion of the statistics presentations cover topics I have been over before. Still, even if it is a technique I’ve used many times, I almost always come across…
Two years ago, I said that data visualization was the next big thing. I also said that people would stick with SAS because it was easier to use and there are more people who DON’T want to be programmers than do. Fast forward to 2012 and Visual Analytics is all over the place. SAS On-Demand,…
The taiko drumming on trash cans at the opening ceremony was kind of cool, but being a true geek I have to say the cool thing of the day goes to Visual Analytics. By the way, ten brownie points and kudos to whoever had the bright idea of having the SAS demo room open on…
SAS Global Forum has the usual required conference amenities. There is a nice hotel. There is swag. See photo below received by knowing trivia answers. Hint: A good place to find the trivia answers in advance is the SAS users blog. It is also good to know the name of the SAS Global Forum chair…
The rocket scientist told me that I am too one-dimensional and write too much about “that SAS thing you are always going on about”. Since I will be at SAS Global Forum for days and writing about nothing else, here, straight from BFE, Florida, in a nod to the paternal figure of The Spoiled One…
As The World’s Most Spoiled 14-year-old reminds me often, I am old. I remember SAS version 5. I also remember SAS 6.12 which is noted for being the last version of SAS to run on the Mac. Several years ago, I was at a SAS conference where the soon-to-be released version 9 was under…
The very first month I started this blog, four years ago, I wrote a short post, Tinkerbelle visits The Julia Group. I said that after twenty years of writing grants for other people, I made a wish just for me, as Tinkerbelle said. I sent off a grant to create an on-line high school algebra…
There must be some hallucinogenic drug given off by spring flowers, because it is the one time in the year when I am struck by the irrational thought, “Maybe I should clean my office.” Like any other spring cleaning undertaking, random things are uncovered that make me think, “Huh. I wonder what that was for.”…
I am an unashamed statistical programming geek. I’m leaving very soon, stopping to visit my mom on the way to SAS Global Forum because 94.7% of all mothers have retired to Florida by age 68. (That is a real statistic. As someone commented about fake boobs – if they exist, they’re real.) I admit it,…