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SAS On-Demand making statistics professors’ lives better, since, oh, Tuesday

The downward mobility of Ph.D. students is like domestic violence in many ways. That is, the people in the “family” all know it is a fact of life, but they don’t talk about it among themselves, and to outsiders they pretend it doesn’t exist. The fact is, far more people will graduate from Harvard than…

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How to REALLY learn to code in Javascript (or anything else)

I have been doing the Codecademy javascript lessons, along with 200,000 other people who joined up for Codeyear , resolving to complete a lesson a week and learn to code javascript better. So far, the lessons have been pretty easy. Inspired by Sheila Tobias’ research (see her book, They’re not dumb, they’re different ) suggesting…

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Research Works Act: Latest Congressional Lie about Helping Small Business

I am pissed. As a small business owner, I am feeling very, very disappointed that there is certainly some law out there that would impose penalties if I drove on over to Riverside County and bitch-slapped Darrell Issa. I’ve grown cynical enough in my old age and after having run a small business since 1985…

Screeching excitement – more of my random SAS On-Demand Tips

As I mentioned previously, this week’s posts have been inspired by John D. Cook who generously does ELEVEN twitter tip accounts, Monday through Friday. Don’t get used to it, but since this is the beginning of the year, I thought I would start out all saintly and enthusiastic with some basic tips for people new…

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SAS On-Demand stuff with .stc files I tried for the hell of it

I’ve spent about 35 years messing around with computers based on the assumption that most discoveries are not preceded by “Eureka!” but rather, “What the hell! May as well try it.” Having my new computer pretty much dissolve in smoke (less than a month after I bought it!), I decided to continue my analyses of…

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Maybe the alcohol you’re drinking is a preservative

  When I met my second husband, the entire contents of his kitchen cupboards was a carton of Marlboro cigarettes, a bottle of Jack Daniels and a loaded Magnum revolver. Despite that, he was extremely healthy. His reasoning was that he was a big, tough guy while viruses and bacteria were little bitty things, so…