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.
Some keywords from SAS Global Forum 2009, held in
Maryland just outside the Washington beltway:
R, iPhone, Flash, analytics, migration, recession, fraud,
Twitter. For example:
with a tighter budget it’s more important to
detect fraud quickly in social environments such
as Twitter.
SAS was promoting business analytics or “BA”
as the next step “beyond business intelligence.”
The 2009
SASware Ballot results are out.
The top vote-getter asks for improved log lines for macros.
Voters also asked for more control over log notes.
Crossword #6: You create SAS graphs
and tables to give people something to look at . . . so you
can get back to your
crossword puzzle.
SAS jobs:
There are now several job sites
that have a special emphasis on
SAS work. Find them, along with
other job-search tips, in the
Jobs
page of the Global Statements SAS hypic.
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
