Pint is an awesome python package that allows for the easy conversion between units. As it stands it covers nearly all scientific SI units and most imperial ones. This means I can easily convert between fathoms and meters. Pint also makes it really easy to extend a unit, or include a completely new custom one.
When it comes to standard units you’d use in calculation there is rarely a simple real-world understanding of the actual value of this unit. Number sense is incredibly import for effective science communication. …
If you’ve worked with SAS before, you’ve seen the SAS log. It’s a beast, an unwieldy and at times unhelpful beast. But we can tame it. Well, maybe not, but we can be hit with a stick long enough that it becomes docile around tourists. Let’s use the great work of elephant tamers and orca ‘trainers’ as inspiration. We’re diving into the world of the SAS log.
Real time vs CPU time
You’ve run SAS code before and had log lines line this before. We’ve looked at this log before.
Exploiting plotly’s template attribute to create consistent charts.
Great publications have great charts. The Economist and the New York Times to name but two examples. The reason these stand out to me is consistency. When you look at an Economist chart, you know it’s an Economist chart.
The best thing about consistency is that your charts don’t even have to look that good. In the above example, we’re not seeing anything special. In fact “Education, years” has way too many annotations and is incredibly busy. But the consistency trumps that. …
SAS is great. Well SAS is okay. Eh, 70% of the time SAS is fine. The issue with SAS, or rather one of the issues, is it’s continued and almost dogged choice to refuse to see the wood for the trees. Let’s improve that a little by building a program timer.
Grab this from GitHub
What we’re currently working with…
Let it not be said that SAS doesn’t make an effort. In fact, it would be a fairly extreme departure from common sense if they were not to note somewhere the running times for parts of SAS objects. …
