Saskatchewan SAS Users Group

Our Next Meeting: Fall, 2008. Stay tuned for more details.

Highlights from our last meeting:

The last meeting was held on May 13th, 2008 at the University of Saskatchewan. Matt Malczewski (assistant to Christy Hobley, the SAS User Group Program Manager) provided an update from SAS on user group activities. Guest speaker Peter Eberhardt (Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.) presented ‘Efficiencies With Large Datasets’ and ‘Things Dr. Johnson Never Told Me: An Introduction To SAS Dictionary Tables’, and incoming Saskatoon user group Executive Committee President Brad Zimmer spoke on his experiences at SAS Global Forum and gave a talk entitled ‘Plotting Petroleum Distribution Points with SAS Maps / PROC GMAP’. Finally, Alice Li offered a book review of ‘Step By Step Statistical Analysis Using SAS’, and Mike Woolley of SaskTel demonstrated how his organization uses SAS Marketing Automation.

Thanks again to all our presenters, and to all who attended.

Meet the Executive:

Mark Lucas (Institutional Analysis, University of Saskatchewan) – President. Mark has held various IT positions at the University of Saskatchewan and is currently working as a Senior Research Analyst for Institutional Analysis (IA). For the past two years, Mark has been performing various data analysis activities using Base SAS and SAS ODS and is now leading the development of IA’s Data Warehouse.

Brad Zimmer (Federated Cooperatives, Ltd.) – President.

Robert Schultz (Institutional Analysis, University of Saskatchewan) – Past President.

Sabine Banniza, Ph.D. (Crop Development Centre / Plant Pathology, University of Saskatchewan) – Program Chair.

Get involved…

The current Executive are looking to build an enthusiastic and dedicated Executive team for the Saskatoon Users Group. 

If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Brad Zimmer.

If you would like to be notified of upcoming SAS User meetings in Saskatoon, please SUBSCRIBE to the Saskatoon SAS User Group Distribution List.

Presentation Archive:

• Efficiencies With Large Datasets – Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting (Spring 2008) **New
• Plotting Petroleum Distribution Points with SAS Maps / Proc gmap – Brad Zimmer, Federated Co-Operatives Ltd. (Spring 2008) **New
• Things That Dr. Johnson Never Told Me: An Introduction To SAS Dictionary Tables – Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting (Spring 2008) **New
• My Experience At SAS Global Forum – Brad Zimmer, Federated Co-Operatives Ltd. (Spring 2008) **New
• A SAS Programmer’s Guide to SAS Enterprise Guide – Marje Fecht, Senior Partner, Prowerk Consulting (Fall 2007)
• Using SAS Indexes – Mark Lucas, Senior Research Analyst, Institutional Analysis, University of Saskatchewan (Fall 2007)
• Don’t be a Slave to your SAS Programs – Marje Fecht, Senior Partner, Prowerk Consulting (Fall 2007)
• Proc GLM – Mik Bickis, Ph.D., Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan (Fall 2007) (Data and Editor Zip)
• Leveraging Enterprise Miner: A Case Study - Sue Walsh, SAS (Spring 2007)
• Using Contrast and Estimate Statements for Hypothesis Testing - Paul Cascagnette, Health Quality Council (Spring 2007)
• SAS and Pivot Tables - Brent Burlingham, University of Saskatchewan (Spring 2007)
• SAS Enterprise Guide: Teaching an Old Proc New Tricks - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Spring 2007)
• Summary of SAS Global Forum 2007 - Robert Schultz, University of Saskatchewan (Spring 2007)
• Production of Maps of Bird Migration Based on Banding Information - Eric Woodsworth, Environment Canda (Fall 2006)
• Tracking and Forecasting Petroleum Sales at Federated Co-operatives Ltd. - Richard Krause, Federated Co-operatives Ltd. (Fall 2006) (Data and Editor Zip)          
• Proc Mixed for Repeated Measures Data - Jaswant Singh, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan (Fall 2006)
• Stored Processes - James Waite, SAS Canada (Fall 2006)
• An Introduction to Proc GLIMMIX - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Spring 2006)
• PROC SQL - Brent Burlingham, University of Saskatchewan (Spring 2006)
• Tips and Tricks: Custom Reporting and Error Checking - Brad Zimmer and Bjorn Leiren, Federated Co-op (Spring 2006)
• Excell Tag Sets, Customized of Course - Mark Lucas, University of Saskatchewan (Spring 2006) (Data and Editor Zip)
• SAS Integration Technologies - Rich Krause, Federated Co-operatives Ltd (Fall 2005)
• SAS Coding Efficiencies - Rupinder Dhillon, SAS Canada (Fall 2005)
• What’s New in Data Mining – Presented by John Amrhein, SAS Canada (Spring 2005)
• Macro Architecture at HQC - Presented by Nedeene Hudema and Paul Cascagnette, Health Quality Council (Spring 2005)
• Physical Activity Centre Analysis – Presented by Carrie Winter, Institutional Analysis, University of Saskatchewan (Spring 2005)
• IA's evolving use of SAS ODS – Presented by Devon Humenny and Mark Lucas, Institutional Analysis, University of Saskatchewan (Spring 2005)