VANSUG - Vancouver SAS Users group

Come out and join us for our bi-annual meeting. Learn all kinds of tips and tricks!  Meetings are always free to attend.

Next Meeting: May 5th, 2010. You may REGISTER HERE. 

 

Highlights from our last meeting:

The last Vancouver SAS User Group meeting was held on October 7th, 2009 at the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre. It was another great success. This meeting was featured great presentations, great community-building and networking, and of course, great breakfast.

We had five presentations during our last meeting. They were:

• An Update from SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada
• What’s New in SAS Statistics 9.2 – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada
• Using SAS/GRAPH to Create an Ecosystem Food Web Constellation Diagram – Rajeev Kumar, University of British Columbia
• Base SAS Tips – Rob Wilson, SAS Canada
• SAS Tips & Tricks – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada

All presentations and newsletter issues can be found in our archive below. Thanks to all of you who supported and attended.  We look forward to seeing you again.

Get involved…

We are always looking for User presentations for upcoming User Group meetings, whether it is a quick 5 minute tip or a full 30-45 minute presentation. This is an excellent 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 contributing, please contact one of our executive team members or Matt Malczewski, Canadian SAS User Group Program Manager.

The Executive Team is excited to continue with new issues of the newsletter: you’ll find the latest issue here. Again, feedback is very positive. Some of you have already volunteered to make a contribution to future issues, so thank you. We continue to welcome and need your support. If you have any ideas or want to contribute to our newsletter, please forward your suggestions to our new email address: vansug@gmail.com.

Meet Our Executive Team

Colleen McGahan   (Statistician, BC Cancer Agency) - President
Mei Chong (Statistician, BC Centre for Disease Control) – Vice President / Newsletter
Nathaniel Derby (Statistician Consultant, Statis Pro Data Analytics) - Communications Lead / Newsletter
Peter Hruby  (Sr Manager, Credit Risk Management, HSBC)

We would like to say thank you to Karim Rajwani and Cathy Rupp for their contributions to the success of VANSUG. To know more information about our Executive team Roles and Responsibilities, please click here.

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Check out SAS training courses and schedules held in Vancouver.

Newsletter Archive:

• Issue 3 (Fall 2009) NEW***
• Issue 2 (Spring 2009)
• Issue 1 (Fall 2008)

Presentation Archive:

• An Update from SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada NEW***
• What’s New in SAS Statistics 9.2 – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada NEW***
• Using SAS/GRAPH to Create an Ecosystem Food Web Constellation Diagram – Rajeev Kumar, University of British Columbia NEW***
• Base SAS Tips – Rob Wilson, SAS Canada NEW***
• SAS Tips & Tricks – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada NEW***
• Are Your SAS Programs Running You? – Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting (Spring 2009)
• Building Multiple Linear Regression Models - Food for Thought - Colleen McGahan, BC Cancer  (Spring 2009)
• Demystifying the SAS Macro Facility - By Example - Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting (Spring 2009)
• PROC REG … and Its Discontents - Nathaniel Derby, Statis Pro Data Analytics (Fall 2008)
• A few useful SAS tips - Ryan Woods, Biostatistician, BC Cancer Agency (Fall 2008)
• Data Cleaning Process – Common Practices - Peter Hruby, Sr. Manager, Risk Management, HSBC (Fall 2008)
• Undocumented and Hard-To-Find Proc SQL Features, Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation (Spring 2008)
• SAS Global Forum 2008, Colleen McGahan, BC Cancer Agency (Spring 2008)
• ODS Tips and Techniques, Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation (Spring 2008)
  
• Geographic Approach to Analysis and Presentation - Scott Stafford-Veale, ESRI (Fall 2007)
• Tips and Tricks - Howard Cherniak (Fall 2007)
• Proc SURVEYSELECT - Sylvain Tremblay (Fall 2007)
• Reports for GPs using ODS - Mike Atkinson (Fall 2007)
• Help Us Help You: Growth and Direction of the User Group Community - User Group Executive (Spring 2007)
• SAS Stored Processes - James Waite, SAS Canada (Spring 2007)
• SAS Enterprise Guide: A Coder's View of a GUI World -Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Spring 2007)
• Proc Report – Bells & Whistles - Craig McCulloch, Stelco (Spring 2007)
• SAS Global Forum Highlights - Lee Robson, User Group President, Terasen Gas (Spring 2007)
• Efficiencies with Large Data Sets – by Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc (Fall 2006)
• A Choice in Prediction Rules in Logistic Regression Models – by Melvin Ott (Fall 2006)
• Data Step - SQL – by Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc (Fall 2006)
• SAS Forecasting – by Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Fall 2006)
• Introduction to Proc GLIMMIX – by Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Spring 2005)
• SAS BI - OLAP & Add-in for Microsoft Office – by James Waite, SAS Canada (Spring 2005)
• Enterprise Guide for Basic Statistics (Demo) – by Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Spring 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)
• 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)