Vancouver SAS Users group

Our Next Meeting: Fall 2008

Get involved…

We are looking to build an executive team for the Vancouver Users Group and are currently looking to fill all roles.  Please see our Executive team Roles and Responsibilities to learn more about these opportunities.

We are always looking for User presentations for upcoming User Group meetings.  This is an excellant opportunity to not only share your knowledge and your experience with your peers, but also get feedback and ideas on the work that you are doing with SAS.  If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Tim Trussell or one of our executive team members.

Our newly formed executive team members are Colleen Mcgahan (President from BC Cancer Research Agency), Mei Chong (BC Centre for Disease Control), Lixiang Yan (Center For Health Services & Policy Research), and Karim Rajwani (ICBC). You are welcome to contact any executive team members for further details. If you are interested to be part of our executive team for the Vancouver Users Group, please contact Tim Trussell. To learn more about these opportunities, please see our Executive team Roles and Responsibilities.

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Presentation Archive:

Spring 2008

• Undocumented and Hard-To-Find Proc SQL Features, Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation NEW**
• SAS Global Forum 2008, Colleen McGahan, BC Cancer Agency NEW**
• ODS Tips and Techniques, Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation NEW**
  

Winter 2007

• Geographic Approach to Analysis and Presentation - Scott Stafford-Veale, ESRI
• Tips and Tricks - Howard Cherniak
• Proc SURVEYSELECT - Sylvain Tremblay
• Reports for GPs using ODS

Spring 2007

• Help Us Help You: Growth and Direction of the User Group Community - User Group Executive
• SAS Stored Processes - James Waite, SAS Canada
• SAS Enterprise Guide: A Coder's View of a GUI World -Tim Trussell, SAS Canada
• Proc Report – Bells & Whistles - Craig McCulloch, Stelco
• SAS Global Forum Highlights - Lee Robson, User Group President, Terasen Gas

Fall 2006

• Efficiencies with Large Data Sets – by Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc
• A Choice in Prediction Rules in Logistic Regression Models – by Melvin Ott
• Data Step - SQL – by Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc
• SAS Forecasting – by Tim Trussell, SAS Canada

Spring 2006

• Introduction to Proc GLIMMIX – by Tim Trussell, SAS Canada
• SAS BI - OLAP & Add-in for Microsoft Office – by James Waite, SAS Canada
• Enterprise Guide for Basic Statistics (Demo) – by Tim Trussell, SAS Canada

Fall 2005

• SAS Efficiency Considerations – by Rupinder Dhillon, SAS Canada (Fall 2005)
• Data Mining for Business Advantage – by John Amrhein, SAS Canada (Fall 2005)
• Introduction to Enterprise Guide – by Sue Walsh, SAS (Spring 2005)

Fall 2004

• What's New in Base SAS – by Rupinder Dhillon (Fall, 2004)
• ETL Studio, Dynamic Reporting, and the Power of SAS via Microsoft Excel – by David Ghan (Fall, 2004)
• What's new in SAS/STAT – by Lorne Rothman (Fall, 2004)