We’re one of those small businesses that congress claims to care so much about. We’re also, many years, a couple that makes over whatever the limit is for raising taxes. Whenever we see a tax credit, whether it’s for child care, or alternative minimum tax or whatever, we just ignore it because we know we…
Yesterday, I was at Griffith Observatory with the world’s most spoiled 13-year-old. We were there because she is in a Summer Scholars program that is designed to provide academic enrichment for high-achieving girls. Unfortunately, not being as high-achieving as we might like, she got a B- on her latest test, and given that the teacher…
I read an interesting blog post by Jason Cohen of Smart Bear, “Do I dare call bullshit” and my comment was so long and my week is so filled, I thought I would just go ahead and repeat the comment here as my blog for today. I certainly post things that piss people off from…
When last seen, our heroes were attempting to write a book with the title Beyond SAS Basics: Tips, Statistics and a Naked Mole Rat The first chapter was entitled After the Data Step. The first half of it was posted here earlier which you would know if you were following this blog in the probably…
After reading that Curt Monash writes FIVE blogs on software and marketing, I felt as if I had no excuse for not keeping up lately. However, for my excuse, you can click the link below: For my cinchcast explanation of why I have not been blogging. Also, anyone with suggested uses for a yoke, let…
Any person who claims to know all of SAS is either clinically insane or a liar. However, that is not you. YOU are reading this book. Based on this one fact, I can conclude a couple of things about you. First, you know the basics of SAS. You can code a DATA step. You have…
I’m doing a workshop at the San Diego SAS users group meeting on Wednesday and had suggested opening the session with a clip of my daughter’s last amateur fight. Someone politely commented, “Uh, I guess that would be okay, if it was, uh, relevant.” Fair question, how can martial arts be related to statistics or…
Yesterday, I wrote a post asking if we really suck at math and questioning the value of spending 15 hours a day, seven days a week, from kindergarten to tenth-grade on the path to achieve a perfect math SAT score. Today, I read the last post by Derek Miller. It begins, “Here it is. I’m…
Mr. Chips is dead – and I think I helped to kill him. There has been a lot of backlash directed at universities over the past few decades. Some of it is very blatant – like the Wisconsin legislators who want copies of a faculty member’s email, or the Georgia legislators who attributed their university…
I was disappointed to see that the Open Data community is pretty inactive over at data.gov. With 305,000 datasets and counting released you’d think there’d be more than a handful of people posting over there. I decided I would start on my own with the TIMSS data. This is the Trends in International Mathematics and…