I am at the Western Users of SAS Software conference this week and just like the Joint Statistical Meetings, SAS Global Forum and SPSS Directions, there is about as much diversity here as at the Republican National Convention. I brought this up here and at two other meetings I attended. Each time at least some…
Many years ago, when I was a young MBA student, we were all advised to find mentors who would help our careers. However, I found that many people I was interested in were not particularly interested in me. That was disappointing and irritating. After all, I believed I was a smart, hard-working person and I…
If you had SAS On-Demand for Academics installed last year and you want to continue using it in the new academic year, you need to uninstall your previous version and install the new version. You can find more details here – http://support.sas.com/ondemand/SAS93.html Okay, so I uninstalled the previous version of Enterprise Guide no problem. The SAS…
Yesterday, I posted how to get SPSS Integration Technologies with Python working on the Mac. Today, I received this certificate of appreciation from one of my blog readers. I’m including this in my performance review. Oh wait, I don’t get performance reviews, I’m the president. Now that I have my certificate in getting the…
I hate Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the entire Twilight Series. This came about over the course of a week when my daughter had strep throat and was watching approximately 4,789,362 episodes of vampire shows in the living room, which is just down the hall from my office. Thus, when Brenda Osuna from USC asked…
Seriously, how weird must you be to fall for this shit? Normally spam is just annoying but today I got one that I cannot imagine anyone could be stupid enough to fall for. It was from Woody Allen, who apparently is a big yahoo fan because his email is adaer22@yahoo.com and the reply to is zbgfsgdr@yahoo.com ….
My father passed away about 18 months ago. We hadn’t spoken much of the past 40 years, for reasons that aren’t at all important any more. My mother is living alone now for the first time in 57 years, and really did not need two houses, one in Illinois and one in Florida, so she…
Once upon a time there were statisticians who thought the answer to everything was to be as precise, correct and “bleeding edge” as possible. If their analyses were precise to 12 decimal places instead of 5, of course they were better because as everyone knows , 12 is more than 5 (and statisticians knew it…
In History of Psychology, a course I was required to take for reasons still unclear to me, each students was required to give a presentation on a famous, dead psychologist. It got kind of boring after the first 13 seconds, so we all started doing different things – debates, slideshows. My friend who drew Sigmund…
No matter how experienced you are, you will still make the most obvious errors, and sometimes, (if you are me), the more obvious it is the harder it is to spot. I mentioned wasting time trying to figure why my quintiles weren’t exactly 20% each when the answer was pretty obvious. I am getting better,…