eSUG - Edmonton SAS User Group

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

Our next meeting will be held on May 16th, 2012.  A detailed agenda can be found below, and you may register here.  Hope to see you there!

May 16, 2012, 8:30-12:00pm
Lister Conference Centre, Wild Rose Room
87 Ave. & 116 St.
Edmonton, AB

9:00-9:15 – Words of Welcome & My SAS Global Forum Experience (Doug Dover, eSUG President)

9:15-9:30 – What's New at SAS (Wally Thiessen, SAS Canada)

9:30-9:50 – An Application of Funnel Plots in Monitoring Loan Defaults (Eugene Yankovskyy, ATB Financial)

9:50-10:10 – Overview of Alberta Parks' Use of SAS Text Miner (Jared Prins, Alberta Tourism, Parks & Recreation)

10:10-10:30 - Principle Component Analysis in JMP for Better Data Visualization (Rajesh Jha, University of Alberta)

10:30-10:50 – Networking Break

10:50-11:50 – Quick Hits: My Favourite SAS Tricks (Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting)

11:50-12:00 – Prize Draw & Closing Remarks

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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.

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Presentation Archive:

• SAS 9.3, Support Options & More - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Fall 2011) **NEW!  
• How *Big* Does It Have To Be?! Using Macros to Set Array Size at Run-Time - John Fleming, Alberta Health Services (Fall, 2011) **NEW!  
• Logistic Regression: Use & Interpretation of Odds Ratio (OR) - Fu-lin Wang, Alberta Health & Wellness (Fall, 2011) **NEW!  
• Report on Midwest SAS User Group Meeting in Kansas City, 2011 - Eugene Yankovskyy, ATB Financial (Fall, 2011) **NEW!  
• How To Get Information From the Internet Using SAS - Sunita Ghosh & George Zhu, Alberta Health Services (Fall, 2011) **NEW!  
• Parsing Useful Data Out of Unusual Formats - Andy Kuligowski, SAS Global Forum Chair 2012 (Fall, 2011) **NEW!  
• What's New at SAS - Jamie Farnell, SAS Canada (Spring 2011)  **NEW!  
• Customer Value Award Winner Roy Finzel: My Global Forum Experience - Roy Finzel, Alberta Tourism, Parks & Recreation (Spring 2011)
• When 'Anydate' Doesn't Mean Any Date: A Macro Solution - John Fleming, Alberta Health Services Board (Spring 2011)
• DataFlux Data Management Approach - Marc Smith, SAS Canada (Spring 2011)
• Using Enterprise Guide 4.3 to Implement & Manage an Analytic Process - John Kirtz, Snow Owl Software (Spring 2011)
• SAS & Social Media: What's in it for me?!?! - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Fall 2010)
• Paper - Are your SAS Programs Running You? - Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting (Fall 2010)
• Slides - Are your SAS Programs Running You? - Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting (Fall 2010)
• SAS Enterprise Guide: It's for Programmers too - Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting & Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting (Fall 2010)
• ODS Graphics Designer in SAS 9.2 - John Kirtz, Snowy Owl Software (Fall 2010)
• BONUS: ODS Graphics Designer: Handout and Statistical Graphics References 
• What's New at SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (May, 2010)
• Impressions of SAS Global Forum – Julie Zhang, Alberta Health Services (May, 2010)
• Regional Variety Testing Program: A Study in Data Mining – Gayah Sieusahai, Alberta Agriculture & Rural Development (May, 2010)
• Funnel Plots: Visualizing Small Area Estimates – Doug Dover, Alberta Health & Wellness (May, 2010)
• An Update from SAS - Jamie Farnell, SAS Canada (November, 2009)
• A Little Stats Won't Hurt You & Code - Nate Derby, Statis Pro Data Analytics (November, 2009)
  • BONUS: Reference Paper (WUSS Regional Conference) & PROC REG 
• Efficiency: Improving the Performance of Data Manipulation - Zhichang Jiang, Alberta Health Services (November, 2009)
• Data Set Transaction Processing Using UPDATE - John Fleming, Cancer Board of Alberta (November, 2009)
• Time Series Forecasting Methods & Code - Nate Derby, Statis Pro Data Analytics (November, 2009)
• Beginnings in Spatial Analysis and GIS in SAS Doug Dover, Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Health Branch, Public Health Division (Winter, 2009)
• The SAS Add-in For Microsoft Office: A Quick Tou, Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc. (Winter, 2009)
• What's New at SAS, Matt Malczewski, User Group Program Manager, SAS Canada (Winter 2009)
• What's new in SAS 9.2, Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada –Education (Winter 2009)
• A Cup of Coffee and Proc FCMP: I Cannot Function Without Them, Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc. (Winter 2009)
• 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)