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…
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,…
Not quite three weeks ago, I wrote about how to do a table analysis using SAS Enterprise Guide to answer the pressing question of whether men are more or less likely to marry women with more education. I was going to follow up with an explanation of how to get a weighted bar chart. Explanation of…
Ever seen this? ERROR: YZR malfunction file BLAHBLAH.DATA trashed or YZR code bug Using Windows 7, I tried to open a SAS file created using SPSS 19 on my Mac and saved in Dropbox and got a brand new (to me) error. I thought perhaps it was Dropbox, because that was brand-new to me also. I…
My niece, Samantha, should be far more trusting at her tender age. She was skeptical – skeptical, I say! – that I once worked at a job where I got so bored that I started coding my SAS statements backwards, typing a semi-colon first and then working backwards, say to PROC . Non-naive nieces aside, it…
Last week I mentioned a problem with scoring questions when each of dozens of true/ false questions had not been scored true or false (as one might think) or 1 or 0 (as one might think in mathematical terms) but, no, in some bizarre Alice in Wonderland mushroom-eating logic, each question was recorded as the…
Programming is NOT mostly about writing code. It’s mostly about figuring out how to solve a problem. Here is an example from yesterday…. HOW TO SCORE QUESTIONS WHEN THE ANSWERS ARE IN MULTIPLE VARIABLES I downloaded an SPSS file from surveymonkey which a client had used to collect data. I then output that as a…