Author Questionnaire
 
  1. Name: Sy Truong
  2. Company Name: Meta-Xceed, Inc.
  3. Home Address: 42648 Everglades Park Drive, Fremont, CA  94539
  4. Work Address: 42978 Osgood Rd, Fremont, CA 94539-5627
  5. email: sy.truong@meta-x.com
  6. Country of Citizenship: USA
  7. Occupation: Systems Developer
  8. Your project will address: SAS Software
  9. How long have you used the software: 24
  10. Describe the applications or tasks that you have used the software to perform:
    I focus primarily on BASE SAS for most of the examples. Some of the examples will also use SAS/STAT and SAS/GRAPH which are commonly used to generate clinical reports.
  11. Have you submitted this proposal to any other publisher for consideration? No
  12. Are there any coauthors? No
  13. Type of Book: eBook sold on Amazon, iBooks and Barnes & Nobles.  Read on iPad, Kindle and Nook.
  14. Proposed Title: Exploring New Features of SAS 9.3
  15. Estimated Number of Pages: 100 
  16. Which word processing package and release do you plan to use for producing your book? MSWord
  17. How much SAS or JMP background and experience should your readers have, and what is their area of expertise?
    Very little for new and experienced readers.  The information will be new to most  readers.
  18. In what industry do your typical readers work? What are their job titles?
    This can be used by readers in all industries.  Titles can range from SAS Programmer to Managers of Statistical Programming
  19. Will this book be for novice, intermediate, or advanced users?
    This can be used by all types of users.
  20. What is unique about your book? What do you think will make SAS or JMP users want to buy it?
    The experience of using an ereader or iPad will be a richer experience than a traditional book with interactivity and multimedia.  The content is also engrossing brining alive technical details through illustrative examples.
  21. Would you describe your book as example-driven or theoretical?
    It will be example driven providing examples for all new feature to help assimilate new features of the software to existing or new users of SAS.
  22. If you are submitting a book proposal on a statistics topic, how much knowledge of statistics will readers need?
    This may have some statistical examples but that is not the focus and users will need very little statistical knowledge.
  23. What real-world problems does your audience encounter?
    Users are faced with traditional tasks or reading or importing data into SAS and then performing analysis and generating reports and graphs.  The way they do it is to take advantage of the new features in version 9.3

 

 
    Last Updated July 16, 2011