Robert Allison

If US state borders were redrawn — which new state would you live in?

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8月 142014

Find out which state you'll live in, if the US state borders are redrawn so we have 50 states with equal population! (Don't worry! - This is just a fun/hypothetical "what if" blog!) To get you in the mood for this topic, here's a picture of one of the many […]

Tracking Ebola: Layering customized SAS maps

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8月 062014

There are many ways to use SAS in Health & Life Sciences, and one of my favorite is using it to track the spread of diseases. This post demonstrates how to layer several customized maps to track the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa. For those of you who are impatient and […]

Oh buoy! It’s time for some Shark Week graphs!

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8月 012014

With Discovery Channel's Shark Week starting on August 10, I decided to sink my teeth into some shark-attack data - I even found there were some shark attacks in the Midwestern US! Read on to learn the details... To get you into the shark mindset, here is a photo of an […]

SQL Joins in SAS University Edition

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7月 292014

Probably the most important thing you can learn in the free SAS University Edition is how to work with data. And one of the most powerful tools for working with data is Proc SQL ... I've used Proc SQL in some of my previous blog posts for simple tasks (such […]

When did ‘your music’ become ‘classic rock’

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7月 252014

In this blog post, I put some classic rock song data under the SAS Analytics microscope, to see if I could get a better picture of exactly what is considered 'classic rock' these days... Michael Raithel recently pointed me to an interesting article/study about 'classic rock' music, and invited (or is […]

When did ‘your music’ become ‘classic rock’

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7月 252014

I see spots … sunspots!

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7月 232014

The sun has gone eerily quiet, in the middle of what should be the height of the 11-year sunspot cycle... Here's a superb photo of some sunspots that Stephen A. Carr posted to the Telescope Addicts Facebook group - a group which I follow with great interest. (Thanks for allowing […]

Use SAS to help plan your next vacation!

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7月 182014

SAS is great at helping make important business decisions - how about helping decide where to take your next vacation?... Here's a picture from one of my favorite vacations with my buddy Joe. As you can see, I like "nature vacations." Can you guess where this one was? (leave a comment with […]

How to turn rows into columns in SAS University Edition

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7月 112014

What happens when your data isn't arranged in rows & columns the way you need it? ... Well if you haven't guessed by now - SAS Software is the king of restructuring data! Sunspot and solar flare activity are cyclical, and peak about every 11 years. Currently we are near […]

Live long and prosper … but how long?

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7月 092014

I bet a lot of SAS users know where the phrase "Live Long and Prosper" comes from ... but can we use SAS software to also help analyze 'how long'? This blog posting shows several different kinds of SAS graphs that can help answer such a question! Let's start with […]

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