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,…
^—– Old advice-giving person This week I had the pleasure of speaking via WebEx with Rebecca Ottesen’s statistics class at California Polytechnic University (fondly known as Cal Poly by the folks at home). The students sent a number of questions in advance, many of which boiled down to how do you get started in consulting….
While all the cool kids are doing start-ups, I’m doing a “stay-in”. That is, I am staying in business after 28 years at it. Just in case you might be wondering, here is one of AnnMaria’s first rules of “stay-in” businesses. Not all work is created equal Not only that, but some of it is…
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…
Every blogger gets those emails that begin , “We love your blog …: and end with ” …. over here at spam-a-lot, free-insurance-quotes, on-line college work at home for hundreds of dollars a day.com and …” I almost deleted this one until I read the rest that said … “We’re planning to feature it in…
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…