TASS - Toronto Area SAS Society
The quarterly TASS meetings offer presentations, discussions and networking opportunities which can help Toronto-area SAS users get the most out of their SAS software.
TASS has split into two focus areas in an effort to better serve the diverse needs of SAS users in the Toronto community. The meeting format is an all-day session, with coding-related topics taking place in the morning in the ‘Classic’ TASS meeting, and SAS ‘interface’ related topics (e.g. Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner) being delivered in the afternoon. All are welcome to attend either – or both – of the sessions.
The Next TASS meeting will be held on March 2nd, 2012 at the SAS Institute (Canada) Inc. 280 King St. East, Suite 500. A detailed agenda and an opportunity to register for each meeting can be found
here
. The first user group meeting of the year promises to be a great one, we do hope you can join us!
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OF NOTE: please consider joining our TASS-related groups on LinkedIn and Facebook . Why join? For professional networking, SAS related discussions and event notifications, and to become deeper connected with your local SAS user community.
For more information about TASS, please visit the TASS website or contact Matt Malczewski.
Presentation archive
For a full listing of past TASS presentations please visit the TASS website.
- SAS 9.3 & SAS Support Options – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Dec 2011) **NEW!!
- Using Value Analysis to Guide Sales and Marketing – Darrin Wolter, Independent Consultant (Dec 2011) **NEW!!
- Macro Facility Overview - Mihaela Simion, BMO (Dec 2011) **NEW!!
- Generation Data Sets - Lisa Eckler, Lisa Eckler Consulting Inc. (Dec 2011) **NEW!!
- SAS, North American Public Opinion and the 49th Parallel - Tim Gravelle, Research Strategy Group, Inc. (Dec 2011) **NEW!!
- From Proc SQL to Tempura Fried Bacon - Christopher Battiston, Sick Kids Hospital (Dec 2011) **NEW!!
- I Know Where You Were Last Summer - Arthur Tabachneck, myqna (Dec 2011) **NEW!! BONUS: SAS Dataset
- Best of the SAS Discussion Forums: A Few Handy Enterprise Guide Tricks I Picked Up - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Dec 2011) **NEW!!
- Intro to TASS: Macros/Abbreviations - Art Tabachneck, TASS President (Sept 2011)
- An Update from SAS - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Sept 2011)
- What's New in SAS 9.3 - Steven Herskovits, SAS Canada (Sept 2011)
- Using SAS Macro Language & Proc Report to Produce Formatted Excel Files - Nadeene Blanchard-Martin, Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care (Sept 2011)
- Integrating SAS & Google API & its Application in Mapping Manitoba Health Data on Google Earth & Google Map - Mahmoud Azimaee, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba (Sept 2011)
- Copy & Paste Almost Anything - Arthur Tabachneck, myqna (Sept 2011)
- **** Copy & Paste Almost Anything - Code Supplement
- The Macro That Hunts - Pauline Lee, SAS Canada (Sept 2011)
- **** Macro That Hunts - Code Supplement
- How to Go From A Macro to A Stored Process using SAS Enterprise Guide - Chris Sammut, SAS Canada (Sept 2011)
- Running SAS Enterprise Guide Locally - Rahman Sarker, Royal Bank of Canada (Sept 2011)
- Macros in an Enterprise Guide Context - Rupinder Dhillon, Bell Canada (Sept 2011)
- SAS Enterprise Guide Options: Let the Tools Work for You - Harsha Kotian, Royal Bank of Canada (Sept 2011)
- An Update from SAS - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (June 2011)
- Macro Variables, PROC SQL & the Data Dictionary - Andrew Farrer, CIBC (June 2011)
- Discrete Data Coding Using PROC TRANSREG - Michael Lerner, Government of Ontario (June 2011)
- Coder's Corner: What I've Learned Since Last Meeting - Art Tabachneck, myqna.org (June 2011)
- PROC DATASETS: The Swiss Army Knife of SAS Procedures - Michael Raithel, Westat (June 2011)
- My SAS Global Forum - Fulton Lee, CIBC (June 2011)
- Cluster This! - Meera Das, RBC (June 2011)
- Enterprise Guide, Statistics & Clustering - Laurent Josso, RBC (June 2011)
- An Update from SAS - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (March 2011)
- Business Applications of Text Mining: From Soup to Nuts - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (March 2011)
- Creating Graphics with Hyperlinks by PROC GBARLINE - Vivien Fan, Scotia Bank (March 2011)
- Enough Really Good SAS Tips to Fill A Book - Arthur Tabachneck, myqna.org (March 2011)
- Enterprise Guide Tips & Tricks - Charu Shankar, SAS Canada (March 2011)
- Creating Stored Processes with Dynamic, Cascading Prompts - Harry Droogendyk, Stratia Consulting (March 2011)
- The 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions of Exporting to Excel - Chevell Parker, SAS Institute Inc. (Dec 2010)
- Using SAS ODS Markup to Generate Custom PivotTable & PivotChart Reports - Chevell Parker, SAS Institute Inc. (Dec 2010)
- Unknown Knowns: Database Construction from Unknown Files and Variables - William Klein, University of Toronto (Dec 2010)
- If it is 18,613 this must be TASS - Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc. (Dec 2010)
- Data is Beautiful: How to visually communicate patterns using SAS Enterprise Guide - Meera Das, RBC (Dec 2010)
- An Update from SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Sept 2010)
- Various Ways of Performing Logistic Regression – Michael Lerner, Ontario Ministry of Education (Sept 2010)
- JMP & SAS: 1+1= ∞ - Wayne Levin, Predictum Inc. (Sept 2010)
- VIDEO SUPPLEMENT: Matt Malczewski Interviews Wayne Levin
- VIDEO SUPPLEMENT: Applications that think for Themselves (9 min)
- Strategic Data Management - Kirby Sinclair, Clear Cell Canada, Inc. (Sept 2010)
- Changing a File from Being Too Long To Too Wide – Art Tabachneck, TASS President (Sept 2010)
- Discovering the Road Less Travelled To Your Information: A Guide for Your Journey – Art Tabachneck, TASS President (Sept 2010)
- Using the Descriptor Portion of a SAS Data File – Dragos Daniel Capan, Cancer Care Ontario (Sept 2010)
- Report Delivery Through Stored Processes and the Microsoft Add-In – Debbie Weisensee, McMaster University (Sept 2010)
- Custom Add-In for Creating Formats in Enterprise Guide 4.2 – Judy Orr Lawrence, SAS Canada (Sept 2010)
- An Update from SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (June 2010)
- Welcome and SAS Global Forum Summary – Art Tabachneck, TASS Classic President (June 2010)
- Creating Easily Reusable and Extensible Processes: Code that Thinks for Itself – Faisal Dosani, RBC Royal Bank of Canada, Lisa Eckler, Lisa Eckler Consulting Inc and Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting Ltd (June 2010)
- Dynamic Use of Permutations of By-Group to Drive Generation of Data Steps - David Rosenfeld, City of Toronto (June 2010)
- Automagically Copying and Pasting Variable Names - Art Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada (June 2010)
- Coder's Corner Slide 1 - Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada (June 2010)
- Door Prize Selection Method - TASS Committee (June 2010)
- SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 - Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting (June 2010)
- An Update from SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada
- SAS Global Forum: An Overview - Andy Kuligowski, FCCI Insurance Group
- NESUG 2010: What To Expect – Lisa Eckler, Lisa Eckler Consulting Inc.
- Looking Beneath the Surface of Sorting - Andy Kuligowski, FCCI Insurance Group
- Reading XML Files With SAS – Debby Gear, CIBC
- Coder's Corner Part I – Art Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
- Coder's Corner Part II - Art Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
- EG for Everyone - Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting
- News from SAS - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada
- SAS® Web Report Studio - Ian Taylor, Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care
- Different Approaches to Maintaining Excel Reports - Amanda Bin Feng, ING Direct
- Which SASAUTOS Macros are Available to My SAS® Session? - Harry Droogendyk, Stratia Consulting
- Coder's Corner: Worst, But Still Usable, Data I've Confronted – Art Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
- What's New at SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada
- When Good Looks Aren't Enough: A Practical Approach To Data Quality Assurance Using SAS – Lisa Eckler, Lisa Eckler Consulting Inc.
- Dashboards with PROC GKPI – Barry Hong, US Steel Canada
- What's New in Enterprise Guide 4.2 – Judy Orr Lawrence, SAS Canada
- Coder's Corner: Using inputn to Re-Format Data - Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
- Coder's Corner: Using Multiple DOW Loops - Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
- SAS Global Forum Recap – Natalie Forde, Epsilon Consulting Group
- A Cup of Coffee & Proc FCMP: I Cannot Function Without Them – Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.
- Checkpoint/Restart in Base SAS 9.2 – Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting
- What's New in SAS Statistics in SAS Version 9.2 – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada
- Coders Corner: Look Both Ways – Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
- Coders Corner: SAS Version 9 Enhancements (Originally presented at MONSUG by Luigi Muro, Bell Canada)
- What's New at SAS, Matt Malczewski, User Group Program Manager, SAS Canada
- A way to quickly find all of your project code- Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
- Batch SAS and sysparm - Andrew Farrer, Consentient
- QC Your RDBMS Data Using Dictionary Tables - Harry Droogendyk, Stratia Consulting
- An Introduction to Proc Transpose - David P. Rosenfeld, HR Consultant, Workforce Planning & Data Management, City of Toronto
- Examples from Learning SAS by Example - Herman Lo, Global Technology & Operations, Royal Bank of Canada
- Where To Go For SAS Help - Rupinder Dhillon, Independent SAS Consultant
- Setting GuessingRows when Importing Excel Files - Dr. Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
- PROC GREPLAY with Templates - Barry Hong, U.S. Steel Canada
- "SAS® macros are just text substitution." ARRRRGGGHHH!!!! - Dianne Piaskoski, Chinook Consulting Ltd.
- SAS® DI Studio - Gary Gray, SAS Canada
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