There are two kinds of people in organizations; those who can count and those who claim to have “people skills”. When David Wechsler created the most commonly used intelligence test in America, the results gave two IQ scores, Verbal and Performance Intelligence. Dr. Wechsler said he had noticed that there are some people who were…
A miracle has occurred and I have had time to spend evaluating two things that have been on my to-do list forever, JMP and SAS Enterprise Miner. Both of these products are produced by SAS and the first interesting point is that knowing SAS won’t really help at all. That isn’t to say that having…
So, thanks to the wonderful Heidi Johnson of SAS Tech Support I have finally successfully installed SAS Enterprise Miner 6.1 . I had major problems installing Enterprise Miner on any virtual machine. So, I did what I always do in these situations. I went back to the most plain vanilla no-frills thing I could possibly…
Someone sent me a video on self-defense a while back showing the various ways people respond when threatened. It noted that we automatically think of ‘weapon-like’ objects for self-defense. We may not actually have a knife or club but we grab a letter-opener, baseball bat or broomstick. The sender noted that other objects can be…
So you want to install SAS for Linux…. Step 1: Read the documentation for some hints on how to download and install the download manager, and the SAS software depot (if you are the SAS administrator). Step 2 : Throw away the documentation. It will just confuse you after this point and it doesn’t help anyway….
You know how some days everyone just seems put on this earth for the express purpose of getting on your last nerve? Well, today was the opposite of those days. Even before I got to the WUSS (Western Users of SAS Software) in San Jose, I was surrounded by smart people. My wonderful colleagues at…
…. and I mean poor not in the Biblical sense of poor in spirit but in the Financial Reserve sense of not having money in your checking account. There are so many kinds of software now that it is hard to choose what you absolutely have to have. First on my list of software the…