I’m always a bit bemused when people refer to me as a “SAS expert”. I don’t think of myself as an expert at anything except, perhaps, bricolage, a word I am indebted to sascommunity.org for even being aware of its existence. Merriam-Webster defines it as: : construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of…
Several years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture by Albert Bandura, arguably the greatest living psychologist. To almost anyone who ever took an undergraduate psychology course, he is best remembered for his Bobo doll study, where he found that young children who observed aggressive behavior being reinforced (on a doll), were more…
While I agree with much of what entrepreneur/ professor/ author Vivek Wadhwa writes, I think his latest article in the Wall Street Journal is a little off target. He says, Why would any company pay a computer programmer with out-of-date skills a salary of say $150,000, when it can hire a fresh graduate — who…
It has been pointed out to me that when other people take two days off in a row, it is called “The Weekend”. However, I don’t really have any hobbies except for judo, which I teach a couple of times a week. I like hiking in the mountains, but that only takes a couple of…
I haven’t been using Enterprise Guide much lately but tonight I could not get the SAS Web Editor to work and I had some graphs I needed to get done. It was convenient to do this with SAS Enterprise Guide because I wanted to do bar charts of the mean of one variable broken down…
Darling daughter # 2, also known as The Perfect Jennifer, commented that she had the least impressive career of all of my daughters. I responded with true maternal tact, “That’s a load of crap! You’re far more likely to make a difference in the world than any of them. Yes, it’s great that Ronda…
When I first heard the title of Sinead O’Connor’s song, “I do not want what I haven’t got”, I thought that she had identified the secret to happiness. Reflecting a bit, though, I realized I’m one of the happiest people I know and I want lots of things I haven’t got. I want to finish…
In a Dilbert cartoon, the pointy-haired boss tells Dilbert, We need to give our customers what they want. To which Dilbert replies What our customers want is better products for free. Upon reflection, Dilbert and the boss agree to give them a fish bowl screensaver It has been said before that SAS is just offering…
In new product development, in research, you WILL go down some dead ends. Accept it.
We don’t perfect design in our programming until we’re sure we’re going to keep it. Here is a link to the article from 2003 that impressed me, which I mentioned in the video.