VanSUG - Vancouver SAS Users group

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

Our next meeting will be held May 30th, 2012.  The agenda is comprised of great presentations on SAS programming, business analytics, data mining and more. You'll find the detailed version of the day's talks as well as an opportunity to register here.

We strongly recommend joining the BRAND NEW  SAS Canada Community .  Here, you'll be able to connect with SAS Canada staff and SAS experts who are happy to come together to discuss SAS-related topics.  You'll find Canadian-centric content here which isn't available anywhere else: join us today!

Do you have a profile on LinkedIn? If so, search the 'groups' function to locate Canadian SAS user groups, including the VanSUG Users Group. Why join? For professional networking, SAS related discussions and event notifications, and to become more involved with your local SAS user community.

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 (BC Cancer Agency) - President
Nathaniel Derby (Stakana Analytics) - Vice President/ Newsletter

Other Members:

Scott Albrechtsen (BC Hydro)
Fareeza Khurshed (BC Cancer Agency)
Libo Lu (KBM Group)
Sharon Relova (Cardiac Services BC)
Cathy Rupp (BC Hydro)
Brian Sun (Rick Hansen Institute)
Julia Zhu (Cardiac Services BC)

To know more information about our Executive team Roles and Responsibilities, please click here.

If you would like to be notified of upcoming SAS User Group Meetings in Vancouver, please SUBSCRIBE to the Vancouver SAS User Group Distribution List.

Check out SAS training courses and schedules held in Vancouver.

For directions to the B.C. Cancer Agency Research Centre where VanSUG meetings are usually held, please  CLICK HERE!  

Newsletter Archive:

• Issue 7 (Fall 2011) **NEW!!  
• Issue 6 (Spring 2011)
• Issue 5 (Fall 2010)
• Issue 4 (Spring 2010)
• Issue 3 (Fall 2009)
• Issue 2 (Spring 2009)
• Issue 1 (Fall 2008)

Presentation Archive:

• SAS 9.3 & SAS Support Options - Wally Thiessen, SAS Canada (November 2011) **NEW!!  
• An Introduction to the Analysis of Rare Events - Nate Derby, Stakana Analytics (November 2011) **NEW!!  
• Reporting in Base SAS: Tips & Tricks - Fareeza Khurshed, BC Cancer Agency (November 2011) **NEW!!  
• Using SAS to Quantify the Rumblings of the Earth Near Vancouver Island & Honshu, Japan - Jim Metcalf (November 2011) **NEW!!  
• Analytics Session: BC Hydro Customer Classification Model Using SAS 9.2 - Scott Albrechtsen, BC Hydro (November 2011) **NEW!!  
• Analytics Session: Extracting Useful Data from Free-Form Text Files Using SAS 9.1 - Michael Wong, TELUS (November 2011) **NEW!!  
• Analytics Session: SAS Analytics in Action: Customer Case Studies - Jim Metcalf, SAS Institute (November 2011) **NEW!!  
• What's New at VanSUG - Kerry Blanchard, SAS Canada (May 2011)
• New (Useful & Cool) Features of Enterprise Guide 4.3 - James Waite, SAS Canada (May 2011)
• Creating a Table of Contents for MS Word using AutoFormat and Cascading Style Sheets - Fareeza Khurshed, BC Cancer Agency (May 2011)
• Why Dummy Variables Makes You SMART, and How to Do it SEXY - Brian Sun, Rick Hanson Institute (May 2011)
• Convert Character String Using SAS Functions - Minghui Yang, Boeing (May 2011)
• SAS Tips & Tricks - Rob Wilson, SAS Canada (May 2011)
• Anayltics Session: Analytic Enterprise: Identifying Barriers & Overcoming Challenges - James Waite, SAS Canada (May 2011)
• Analytics Session: Challenges & Successes of a SAS Business Intelligence Implementation - Chuck Mohamed, CM Solutions Inc. (May 2011)
• What's New at SAS & Social Media: What's in it for me?! - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Nov 2010)  
• PROC Logistic ROCs! Let's See How… - Colleen McGahan, BC Cancer Agency (Nov 2010)
• SAS/Graph, EG Hatching Into Code - Cheryl Sivertson, University of Victoria & Mike Atkinson, Acko Systems Consulting (Nov 2010)
• PROC SQL: Why and How - Nate Derby, Stakana Analytics (Nov 2010)
• SPECIAL ADDENDUM: The Future of Business Analytics: What Corporate Canada Is Looking For? - David Dobson, Dobson Analytics Inc. (Nov 2010)
• What's New at SAS – Jamie Farnell, SAS Canada (May, 2010)
• Base SAS Tips & Tricks - Rob Wilson, SAS Canada (May, 2010)
• From Manual to Automatic: Changing Your Program's Transmission - Art Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants (May, 2010)
• PROC MEANS/SUMMARY - Beyond the Basics - Art Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants (May, 2010)
• Survival Analysis with PROC PHREG Using MI and MIANALYSE to Accommodate Missing Data - Art Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants (May, 2010)
• 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
• 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)