I finally am getting around to something in SAS Studio that I think is really cool – the tasks. Although they don’t look identical to SAS Enterprise Guide just because the screen layout is a little different, these are really, really similar to the tasks you would see in EG. If you are using this…
Why? Are you kidding me? If you are a programmer, analyst, statistician, professor or student who uses SAS this is an opportunity to get to know your people and to get known. I’m in Dallas for the SAS Global Forum, which I try to attend whenever I can. Yes, I could watch videos on the Internet,…
As you have no doubt brilliantly deduced from the title, this is installment number four in Mama AnnMaria’s Guide on How Not to Get Your Sorry Ass Fired. Do the work you are assigned to do. This may seem like anyone with a brain functioning above zombie level could figure this out. However, I have…
It has been pretty well established that I am the worst soccer mom in the history of soccer moms. Most of the games I miss because I am somewhere else. My children have told me that my autobiography should be entitled, “I was out of town at the time” because most of the stories of…
Is that enough acronyms for you? I’ll be speaking at Celebrating Equity: Women in STEM at ELAC. STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ELAC – East Los Angeles College It’s 12:15 – 1:15 pm and it is free. There are six panelists (including me). Download Women in STEM Poster I presented last year and…
Getting ready to teach biostatistics in a few weeks and it seems to me that the real confusion in most cases is not the calculations, which can be fairly simple, but rather that there can be several ways of looking at the same question. Let’s take “risk” as an example. What is the “risk” of…
Any time I hear someone brag, “I’ve never used X in my life,” I automatically assume that whatever it is, they haven’t learned it very well. Just about everything I’ve learned has come in useful, and the better I learned it, the more useful it is. Take statistics, for example. There is nowhere in my…