Why use SAS as a statistical consultant?
If you’re the kind of statistical consultant that has a range of clients, the ability of SAS to easily read lots of data formats is a godsend for you.
If you’re the kind of statistical consultant that has a range of clients, the ability of SAS to easily read lots of data formats is a godsend for you.
First of all, I want to draw your attention to this retraction in the Journal of the American Medical Association and mad props to Drs. Aboumatar and Wise and John Hopkins for doing the right thing in publicly retracting it. For the TL; DR crowd Someone who is probably now unemployed miscoded the study groups…
The famous statistician, F.N. (for Florence Nightingale) David was a professor at UC Riverside, where I earned my doctorate. My advisor told this story about her: We were on this dissertation committee – I forget if it was for biology or what, back then, this was a small campus so if you were in statistics…
Never fear, I’m not going to post all 30 things in this post. This is a series. A LONG series. Get excited. I was invited to speak at SAS Global Forum next year and it occurred to me after thinking about it for 14.2 seconds that there are plenty of people at SAS and elsewhere…
A twitter storm erupted recently in response to one person’s thread about how to find a 10x engineer . Since I started programming FORTRAN with punched cards back in 1974, was an industrial engineer in the 1980s and now run a software company, I’ve worked with a few people, rightly or wrongly considered to fall…
One thing I like about our company a lot is none of our developers fit the stereotype of the 10x coder asshole. Don’t get me wrong, we have more than our share of people who are absolutely great at their jobs. What we don’t have is the arrogant attitude of: What do you mean you…
What are reusable blocks and why do you want to use them? This can best be explained by an example. Over at 7 Generation Games, we have a new project under way to create organize the hundreds of videos, presentations and activities we’ve developed with our games into a teacher resource site. Most of these…
Around our office, there are a lot of haters of the Gutenberg editor. However, I’ve found quite a few new features that are hard not to like. Here are just a few of them. The cover block type Say you’d like to have a background image for your text, like the one below. Just use…
I had more than the two tips on becoming a better programmer than I gave in the last post but I had run out of margarita. Now, being replenished with tequila and fresh lime by The Invisible Developer, here are two more. He often tells me that I should refer to myself as a developer…
I did a random sample of presentations at SAS Global Forum today, if random is defined as of interest to me, which let’s be honest, is pretty damn random most of the time. Tip #1 Stalk Interesting People I don’t mean in a creepy showing up at their hotel room way. If you see someone…