TASS - Toronto Area SAS Society

The quarterly TASS meetings offer presentations, discussions and networking opportunities which can help Toronto-area SAS users get the most out of their SAS software.

For more information about TASS, please visit the TASS website or contact Rupinder Dhillon.

The next TASS meeting will be held at SAS Canada (280 King St. E, Suite 500) on December 11, 2009.  You can register here.  Please note: a large presentation on the shape and characteristics of the new TASS groups being implemented in 2010 will be offered!!!        

Presentations from the September 25th, 2009 Meeting:

• What’s New at SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada **NEW
• When Good Looks Aren’t Enough: A Practical Approach To Data Quality Assurance Using SAS – Lisa Eckler, Lisa Eckler Consulting Inc. **NEW
• Dashboards with PROC GKPI – Barry Hong, US Steel Canada **NEW
• What’s New in Enterprise Guide 4.2 – Judy Orr Lawrence, SAS Canada **NEW
• Coder’s Corner: Using inputn to Re-Format Data - Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada ** NEW
• Coder’s Corner: Using Multiple DOW Loops - Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada ** NEW
• SAS Global Forum Recap – Natalie Forde, Epsilon Consulting Group
• A Cup of Coffee & Proc FCMP: I Cannot Function Without Them – Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.
• Checkpoint/Restart in Base SAS 9.2 – Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting
• What’s New in SAS Statistics in SAS Version 9.2 – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada
• Coders Corner: Look Both Ways – Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
• Coders Corner: SAS Version 9 Enhancements (Originally presented at MONSUG by Luigi Muro, Bell Canada)
• What’s New at SAS, Matt Malczewski, User Group Program Manager, SAS Canada (Winter 2009)
• A way to quickly find all of your project code- Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
• Batch SAS and sysparm - Andrew Farrer, Consentient
• QC Your RDBMS Data Using Dictionary Tables - Harry Droogendyk, Stratia Consulting
• An Introduction to Proc Transpose - David P. Rosenfeld, HR Consultant, Workforce Planning & Data Management, City of Toronto
• Examples from Learning SAS by Example - Herman Lo, Global Technology & Operations, Royal Bank of Canada **NEW
• NESUG 2009
• Where To Go For SAS Help - Rupinder Dhillon, Independent SAS Consultant
• Setting GuessingRows when Importing Excel Files - Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
• PROC GREPLAY with Templates - Barry Hong, U.S. Steel Canada
• "SAS® macros are just text substitution." ARRRRGGGHHH!!!! - Dianne Piaskoski, Chinook Consulting Ltd.
• SAS® DI Studio - Gary Gray, SAS Canada

If you would like to be notified of upcoming TASS Meetings, please SUBSCRIBE to the TASS Distribution List.

Presentation Archive:

For a listing of the past TASS presentations please visit the TASS website.