e-SUG - Edmonton SAS User Group

The bi-annual e-SUG meetings offer presentations, discussions and networking opportunities which can help Edmonton-area SAS users get the most out of their SAS software.

Next Meeting: November 13th, 2009. You can REGISTER HERE.

Get Involved
We are always looking to add to an enthusiastic and dedicated Executive team for the Edmonton Users Group. Please see the Executive team Roles and Responsibilities to learn more about these opportunities.

If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Jessica Saviskoff.

If you would like to be notified of upcoming e-SUG Meetings, please SUBSCRIBE to the Edmonton SAS User Group Distribution List.

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Presentation Archive:

• Beginnings in Spatial Analysis and GIS in SAS Doug Dover, Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Health Branch, Public Health Division (Winter, 2009) **NEW
• The SAS Add-in For Microsoft Office: A Quick Tou, Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc. (Winter, 2009) **NEW
• What’s New at SAS, Matt Malczewski, User Group Program Manager, SAS Canada (Winter 2009) **NEW
• What’s new in SAS 9.2, Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada –Education (Winter 2009) **NEW
• A Cup of Coffee and Proc FCMP: I Cannot Function Without Them, Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc. (Winter 2009) **NEW
• Update from SAS, Tim Trussell, SAS Canada
• Using the Output Delivery System, Lesley Harschnitz, ArcelorMittal Dofasco
• Data Step Tips and Tricks, Lesley Harschnitz, ArcelorMittal Dofasco
• Using Linear Multivariate Methods in SAS to Compare Treatment Responses, Paul Watson, Alberta Research Council
• What does a SAS User Need to Know about Numeric Precision? - Jianduan Liang, CGI (Fall, 2007)
• Work on Repetitive Tasks using SAS Macro - Yanguo Gin, The Forestry Corp. (Fall, 2007)
• Beginners Introduction to Macro Programming - Gitte Churlish, Churlish Consulting (Spring 2007)
• Advanced Macro Programming - Gitte Churlish, Churlish Consulting, (Spring 2007)
• Spatial Anomalies, Spatial Agents and Spatial Annotation with SAS - Niko Yiannakoulias, GeoPublic Consulting (Spring 2007)
• Report on SAS Global Forum - Rick Watts, Global IQ (Spring 2007)
• Natural Joins in Proc SQL - John Fleming, Alberta Solicitor General and Ministry of Public Security (Spring 2007)
• SAS Forecasting Introduction - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Fall 2006)
• SAS Code for Calculation of the 95% Confidence Interval of Standardized Rates - Fu-Lin Wang, Alberta Health and Wellness (Fall 2006)
• SAS Stored Processes: An analyst’s perspective - Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada (Spring 2006)
• Navigating support.sas.com and Other Tips - Charlotte King, Alberta Cancer Board (Spring 2006)
• Introduction to the GLIMMIX Procedure - John Amrhein, SAS Canada (Spring 2006)
• What's New in SAS/STAT? - John Amrhein, SAS Canada (Fall 2005)
• Using Arrays to Simplify Your Data - Kurt Schreiner, Government of Alberta (Fall 2005)
• Using Text Miner for Classifying Medical Documents and Records - Alex Filimon, Dalhousie University (Fall 2005)
• SAS For the Beginner - Tina Poturovic, Alberta Cancer Board (Spring 2005)
• The SAS Macro Facility: An Introduction - Chuck Mohamed, CM Solutions Inc (Spring 2005)
• Handling Variable Length Characters in SAS - Rick Watts, Global IQ (Spring 2005)
• The Magic of F12 - Charlotte King, Alberta Cancer Board (Winter 2005)
• Proc Univariate - Doug Dover, Alberta Cancer Board (Winter, 2005)
• Giving SAS Amnesia:  The %reset Macro - Douglas Martin, Biomira Inc (Winter 2005)
• Excel Files to SAS - Chung Nguyen, University of Alberta (Winter 2005)
• What’s New in Data Mining - John Amrhein, SAS Canada (Winter 2005)