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SAS author's tip: Alternative ODS destinations

Shelly Goodin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:21:08 +0000

Neil Constable is a Principal Education Consultant at SAS in the United Kingdom, where he applies his extensive knowledge of Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, and the SAS business intelligence tools. He's also the author of SAS Programming for Enterprise Guide Users, Second Edition--and this week's featured tip. You can get to know Neil [...]

Time to tell your analytics story

Shelley Sessoms — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:22:11 +0000

Predictive Analytics World is a little over a week away. I hope you’re planning to be in San Francisco for this exciting conference. This is the first time that SAS Publishing will participate in the event, and I am really looking forward to it. We’re teaming up with the Analytics [...]

Fun facts about a SAS technical editor

Shelly Goodin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:53:28 +0000

In the March issue of SAS Publishing News, you'll find an interview with SAS technical editor Mike Boyd. I decided to put the spotlight on this multi-talented man for many reasons: Technical editors typically don’t receive the recognition they deserve. I’ve sought Mike’s expertise on a number of marketing projects and [...]

Your chance to ask an author recruiter almost anything

Shelly Goodin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:29:27 +0000

On Thursday, February 23, SAS Press acquisitions editor Shelley Sessoms and I will take questions about getting published, why you should publish with us and the publishing industry in general. If you like our books or have considered writing your own SAS or JMP book, join us on Twitter at [...]

SAS author's tip: Using text mining in CRM Applications

Shelly Goodin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:04:56 +0000

This week's SAS author's tip comes from Randy Collica and his new book Customer Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner, Second Edition. Randy, a Senior Solutions Architect for SAS, is extremely knowledgeable and approachable. In his new book, Randy uses SAS Enterprise Miner and the most commonly available techniques for customer [...]

New Business Intelligence book will help many SAS users

Aimee Rodriguez — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:32:28 +0000

Building Business Intelligence Using SAS: Content Development Examples by Tricia Aanderud and Angela Hall just published this month. This highly anticipated book—called “a must read for anyone using SAS® BI”* —is a quick-start guide that will help users move quickly from using only one of the SAS BI Clients to [...]

Review SAS Press books: registration open now!

Julie Platt — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:15:57 +0000

The 8th annual Krispy Kreme Challenge race was just held in downtown Raleigh, NC. This event was started in 2004 as a dare among a few NC State undergrads. They had this idea to race 2 miles to the local Krispy Kreme doughnuts, down a dozen of the confections, and [...]

SAS author's tip: using %NRSTR to mask macro triggers

Shelly Goodin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:21:15 +0000

As SAS user Marje Fecht said "We all want a 'SAS programming assistant' to help us complete our jobs more quickly." Fecht, Senior Partner at Prowerk Consulting, then went on to say "In her book SAS Macro Programming Made Easy, Second Edition, Michele Burlew encourages us to take advantage of the SAS [...]

Get hooked on the NOOK!

Sandy Varner — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:25:11 +0000

As a little girl growing up in rural North Carolina, I remember going to my Granddaddy’s fishing pond. My Daddy and Granddaddy loved to fish but as a six-year-old the fishing was boring to me. I was more interested in finding the worms to put on the fish hook. I’d [...]

eBooks, eBooks, eBooks

Sean Gargan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:26:20 +0000

More than 1,000 attendees from all facets of the Publishing industry gathered in New York in January for the 2012 Digital Book World Conference. Not surprisingly, the topic of eBooks and their impact on the industry was a focal point of the three day event. Many of the presentations, the [...]