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Coming in September . . . the all-new 3rd edition of Professional SAS Programming Secrets. The book that helped to define the SAS programming field is no longer stuck in the 1990s!

Rick Aster was rewriting a chapter about the REPORT procedure and ODS destinations such as HTML and PDF — and that’s obviously why Crossword #7 is titled Ready for the World.

The buzz at SAS Global Forum 2010 was about SAS Social Media Analytics.

The latest changes in the Global Statements Dictionary add several SAS words and terms related to ODS Graphics, SAS/GRAPH Statistical Graphics, and Graph Template Language.

SAS is a good place to work: SAS was listed #1 on Fortune's Best Companies to Work For, mainly for its work policies and on-campus employee benefits at its Cary, NC headquarters.

SAS Hall: no, it’s not a new software product, it’s the newest classroom building at NC State, named after SAS. SAS Hall is expected to house the mathematics and statistics departments, which were where SAS got its start in the early 1970s.


You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

— Einstein


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