You wouldn’t think there would be that much to say about scree plots. That is because you are like me and sometimes wrong. The problem I often have teaching is that I assume people know a lot more than is reasonable to expect for someone coming into a course. Sometimes, I’m like a toddler who…
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. One thing that can drive programmers insane is doing the same thing over again and GETTING different results. In a past life, working in tech support, I learned that whenever anyone calls and says, I did it exactly like your…
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…
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…
I heard people on the internet like to look at pictures of cats but I don’t own a cat, so please look at this jack-o-lantern from the night they had scuba divers doing pumpkin carving underwater at the Long Beach Aquarium. The truth to how I get business – I answer the phone I get…
As someone who has taught for over 30 years, and online for most of the last 7, I can tell you that online courses can actually be better.
I’ll be speaking about being a statistical consultant at SAS Global Forum in D.C. in March/ April. While I will be talking a little bit about factor analysis, repeated measures ANOVA and logistic regression, that is the end of my talk. The first things a statistical consultant should know don’t have much to do with…
You can get data from PHPMyAdmin into SAS Studio with a dozen clicks, even if you know zero SQL.
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…
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…