{"id":3665,"date":"2013-10-10T20:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T01:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2013-10-10T20:53:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T01:53:34","slug":"learning-and-leaves-on-oregon-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/learning-and-leaves-on-oregon-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning and leaves on Oregon Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe when I get even older than I am now, my retirement plan will be to go to really beautiful places and learn stuff. I could take a class in Hawaii, attend a workshop in Halifax or visit museums in Venice. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131010-182229.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131010-182229.jpg\" alt=\"20131010-182229.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually, that&#8217;s kind of what I&#8217;m doing now. Today, I had the opportunity to talk about exploratory data analysis using the data from our pilot study of Spirit Lake: The Game . I also gave two other presentations, on factor analysis and categorical data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Much better than that, though, (for me, anyway) ,I  got to learn about the ODS graphics designer, a drag and drop method of creating statistical graphs.<\/p>\n<p>(Oregon Day, for the uninitiated, is a day when the Portland SAS Users Group and State of Oregon SAS Users group get together. )<\/p>\n<p>After a long walk in Riverfront Park <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131010-183625.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131010-183625.jpg\" alt=\"20131010-183625.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a> I dropped into a tapas place nearby &#8211; Bar Andaluz for a drink and dinner. Amazingly El Fin del Verano ( a cocktail &#8211; translation, the end of summer) tastes exactly like the end of summer, plus lots of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed retirement a couple of times already, I&#8217;m trying to ease into it by working less than 11 hours a day and only working 27 days a month. Hence the walking in the park today and hiking yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Any would-be investors in The Julia Group needn&#8217;t worry. At the current rate it&#8217;s going to take me another decade to retire. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to follow my plan, I can highly recommend Oregon Day to add to your itinerary next year. Even if you don&#8217;t use SAS, the presentations included a lot of good information on data analysis, statistics, graphics and data mining in general. You can probably deduct the travel costs on your taxes and the event itself is free.<\/p>\n<p>And seriously, there is a lot to be said for going to a place where even the ground is pretty!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131010-185323.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131010-185323.jpg\" alt=\"20131010-185323.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe when I get even older than I am now, my retirement plan will be to go to really beautiful places and learn stuff. I could take a class in Hawaii, attend a workshop in Halifax or visit museums in Venice. Actually, that&#8217;s kind of what I&#8217;m doing now. Today, I had the opportunity to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-de-mars-general-life-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}