Victoria SAS Users Group

The bi-annual SUAVe meetings offer presentations, discussions and networking opportunities which can help Victoria-area SAS users get the most out of their SAS software. Meetings are always free to attend.

Next Meeting: May 4th, 2010.  Agenda and registration link will follow shortly.



Get involved
The Executive team is looking to looking to build an enthusiastic and dedicated Executive team for the Victoria Users Group.  Please see the Executive team Roles and Responsibilities to learn more about these opportunities. 

If you are interested in finding out more or how you can help out, please contact Peter Ott or Mike Atkinson.

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Presentation Archive:

• What’s New at SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada **NEW
• SAS 9.2 Statistical Graphics – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada **NEW
• Customizing SAS/GRAPH Charts with Annotations - Mike Atkinson, Acko Systems Consulting Inc. **NEW
• Base SAS Tips – Rob Wilson, SAS Canada **NEW
• THINK Before You Type… Best Practices Learned the Hard Way - Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting
• What’s New At SAS - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada
• Update on SAS Global Forum - Peter Ott, BC Ministry of Forests & Range
• Solutions to the posed problem: Reading in a Set of Text Files - Various Presenters
• Proc TRANSREG - Tree Growth Before Death - Gordon Nigh, BC Ministry of Forests & Range
• Proc COMPARE - Mike Atikinson, Acko Systems Consulting Inc.
• Demystifying the SAS Macro Facility: By Example - Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting
• Solutions to the Posed Problem – Rearranging a Dataset, Various Presenters
• Introduction to BI Reporting at UVic, Cheryl Sivertson, University of Victoria
• Time Series Forecasting Methods, Nathaniel Derby, Statis Pro Data Analytics
• SAS Interactive Debugger, Mike Atkinson, Acko Systems Consulting Inc.
• Exploring Exciting Features in PROC SQL, Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
• Proc Surveymeans, Tim Trussell, SAS Canada
• Proc SURVEYSELECT - Sylvain Tremblay (Fall 2007)
• Macros for Beginners – Gitte Churlish, Churlish Consulting (Fall 2007)
• Using SAS in a non-linear mixed model - Lin Ju, coop student Simon Fraser University, Ministry of Forests and Range (Spring 2007)
• Introduction to Business Intelligence - James Waite, SAS Canada (Spring 2007)
• SAS Global Forum in Orlando review - Peter Ott, BC Ministry of Forests and Range (Spring 2007)
• Solution to "open problem": Use SAS/GRAPH to plot the scatter of points (Spring 2007)
• Estimating Stochastic Frontier Functions - Peter Ott, BC Ministry of Forests, (Fall 2006)
• SAS Forecasting - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada, (Fall 2006)
• Separating The Interface from the Engine: Reporting with SAS - Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc, (Fall 2006)
• Customized SAS/Graph Charts - Mike Atkinson, BC Ministry of Health, (Fall 2006)
• SAS Date Processing Basics - Joel Choy, BC Ministry of Health Services (Spring 2006) (DATA SETS)
• In's and Out's of XML - James Waite, SAS Canada (Spring 2006)
• A Choice in Prediction Rules in Logistic Regression Models - Mel Ott, (Spring 2006)
• Introduction to GLIMMIX - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Spring 2006)
• Formats as Date Range Lookup Functions - Mike Atkinson, BC Ministry of Health Services (Fall 2005)
• Handling Missing Variables - Suzanne Humphreys, PRA International (Fall 2005)
• Mixed Model Diagnostics - John Amrhein, SAS Canada (Fall 2005)
• Contrasts Viewed as Correlation Coefficients - Wendy Bergerud, BC Ministry of Forests (Fall 2005)
• SAS Efficiency Considerations - Rupinder Dhillon, SAS Canada (Fall 2005)
• The Power of Proc NLMIXED - Peter Ott, BC Ministry of Forestry (Spring 2005)
• How Using Proc SQL can Streamline your SAS Code - Mike Atkinson, BC Ministry of Health Services (Spring 2005)
• Tips and Techniques -- Proc SURVEYSELECT - Gitte Churlish (Spring 2005)