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Food-related gift ideas

Jen Sohl-Marion, MPH, RDN, LDN — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:05:58 +0000

Whether you are looking for a gift for someone interested in making more meals at home, searching for something sweet for a friend with food allergies, seeking something sustainably sourced or perusing for a present you can make yourself, you’ve come to the right place. Check out the ideas below [...]

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The order of vertices on a convex polygon

Rick Wicklin — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:21:44 +0000

In a previous article, I showed how to use theCVEXHULL function in SAS/IML to compute the convex hull of a finite set of planar points. The convex hull is a convex polygon, which is defined by its vertices. To visualize the polygon, you need to know the vertices in sequential [...]

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Little Life Hacks: Acupressure

Celeste Cooper-Peel, ND, MA, MCHES, CWHC, E-RYT — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 02:15:59 +0000

As we approach the winter season along with all the other happenings in the world, boosting immunity is important and accessible to everyone. In the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine, qi (pronounced chi), assists the body in fighting off pathogens and building immunity. While many have heard and perhaps experienced [...]

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Creating Simulated Data Sets (Part Two)

Ron Cody — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:12:01 +0000

This blog is a continuation of a previous blog that discussed creating simulated data sets. If you have not seen it, you might want to review it, especially if you are not familiar with the RAND function. The program that I'm going to show you simulates a drug study with [...]

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5 types of fraud and how analytics can help

Cindy Turner — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 14:05:22 +0000

See how analytics fights back against ever-changing fraud trends.

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Two-dimensional convex hulls in SAS

Rick Wicklin — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:20:18 +0000

Given a cloud of points in the plane, it can be useful to identify the convex hull of the points. The convex hull is the smallest convex set that contains the observations. For a finite set of points, it is a convex polygon that has some of the points as [...]

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The healing art of Tai Chi

Rebecca Allen — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:00:48 +0000

I watched my husband practice or "play" tai chi for several years before I was willing to give it a go. "That's too slow for me," I thought. "I won't be able to do it". Tai chi, originally a martial art, provides me with joy and I'm so glad I [...]

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Where do Canadians live?

Robert Allison — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:59:34 +0000

Canada is a geographically large country, but I've heard that much of the population lives in the small southernmost sections (near the US border). I decided to use my mapping skills, and put that to the test. Follow along, and we'll see what that looks like on a map ... [...]

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Humans and AI join forces to fight deforestation

Ilanite Keijsers — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:48:13 +0000

The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on our planet. Nowhere else in the world can we find more animal and plant species. Unfortunately, we lose on average 800 square kilometres of forest every day to deforestation for logging, agriculture or road construction. But there is still hope for our [...]

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How do people divide their time among daily activities?

Cindy Wang — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:30:04 +0000

SAS' Cindy Wang uses SAS Visual Analytics to explore how people around the world spend their days.

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