I’m looking forward to speaking at the Turtle Mountain Disabilities Conference and not just because they have one of the best conference logos I have ever seen. This topic reminds me of a joke my friend told me. His specialty is geriatrics and one day one of his patients came to him and…
Hot tip: If you are a professor, you have access to some major benefits from SAS. The main ones that jump to mind are: Free classes that are worth FAR more than you paid for them. Free software via SAS On-Demand. Free books – up to two per semester. Free teaching materials You can get…
I’m putting this here for my students this fall, but I’m sure there are two or three other people in the world who would like to know how to use Enterprise Miner. I’m assuming you read some of my other posts or received an email from your professor or in other ways got Enterprise Miner…
Most likely, you,too, have experienced homicidal urges when confronted with a problem you have spent five hours trying to solve on your computer, only to call tech support and have them report, Well, it works fine on my computer. You’d think if that solved the problem that they would offer to box up their computer and send…
A while ago, I posted about Women in Tech, the double standard where women have to be twice as outstanding to be a keynote speaker, for example. The past year, I’ve been really cutting down on travel, for example, I didn’t go to either SAS Global Forum or the Joint Statistical Meetings, because I’m focusing…
Thank you to Jason Kellogg from SAS Technical Support, SAS On-Demand Enterprise Miner is now running on my Mac using Windows 8.1 with boot camp. Here were his instructions. Note, this is after you have a SAS profile, registered a course, changed the security settings in Java, now you are here The steps are: 1….
I picked up Guy Kawasaki’s book, Reality Check and was immediately turned off by his assertion that Silicon Valley is a meritocracy like nowhere else on earth, that it doesn’t matter what school you attended, how much money your parents have, as long as you can code. A few pages later, he quotes approvingly a venture…
A couple of days ago, I ended my post with If you have a 25% probability of a job developing into something better, and you consistently have a job for years because you have no choice, then the odds are in your favor that you will eventually improve your situation unless … but that’s my…
A friend of mine commented on one of his young employees as, “The worst combination you can get – someone who isn’t interested in the work and doesn’t need the money.” There are lots of advantages of being born into a well-off family. Your family can provide you introductions to get your first job. You…
I was asked to comment on how my use of social media contributed to my career as a statistician and since, either a. It was too good to not post b. I was too tired from the four presentations I had to do this week plus taking my grandchildren to Disneyland to come up with an…