Victoria SAS Users Group (SUAVe)
The semi-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.
Our next meeting will be held May 29th, 2012 at the Ministry of Health Building (Auditorium A & B), 1515 Blanshard St. You may register here, and a detailed agenda follows. Hope to see you there!
May 29, 2012 12:15pm - 4:15pm
Ministry of Health Building, Auditorium A & B
1515 Blanshard St.
Victoria, BC
12:15pm: Refreshments/Networking (45 Minutes)
1:00pm: SUAVe Meeting Kick-Off (Peter Ott, SUAVe President & Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada) (10 MInutes)
1:10pm: SAS Programming Optimization – A Review of Best Practices (Laki Kourakis, SAS Canada) (25 Minutes)
1:35pm: Modelling with Splines and GAMS (Peter Ott, Ministry of Forests, Land & NRO) (35 Minutes)
2:10pm: Solutions to the Open Problem (Local Users) (30 Minutes)
2:40pm: Networking Break (20 Minutes)
3:00pm: SAS Global Forum Debrief (Cheryl Sivertson, University of Victoria) (10 Minutes)
3:10pm: The SAS Macro Language Made Easy (Laki Kourakis, SAS Canada) (40 Minutes)
3:50pm: Tip/Trick du Jour (Mike Atkinson, Acko Systems Consulting) (10 Minutes)
4:00pm: Closing Remarks & Prize Draw (Peter Ott, SUAVe President & Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada) (15 Minutes)
4:15pm: Meeting Adjourns
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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.
Presentation Archive:
- SAS 9.3, Support Options & More - Wally Thiessen, SAS Canada (Nov 2011) **NEW!!
- Using SAS to Quantify the Rumblings of the Earth Near Vancouver Island... & Some Neat New SAS Initiatives Too! - Jim Metcalf, SAS Institute (Nov 2011) **NEW!!
- Adding Mixed Effects to your Nonlinear Model - Gord Nigh, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands & NRO (Nov 2011) **NEW!! BONUS: SAS Data Set for Above Talk
- PROC SQL: An Overview - Jasmin Fredette, ICON Clinical Research (May 2011)
- SAS to/from Excel: ODS Markup & Libname - Mike Atkinson, Acko Systems Consulting Inc. (May 2011)
- SAS Global Forum Overview - Peter Ott, BC Ministry of Forests (May 2011)
- I'm a Coder...Not a Tweaker - James Waite, SAS Canada (May 2011)
- What's New at SAS - Kerry Blanchard, SAS Canada (May 2011)
- SOLUTION: SUAVe Open Problem (Nov 2010)
- 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)
- What's New at SAS - Jamie Farnell, SAS Canada (May, 2010)
- More Base SAS Tips & Tricks - Rob Wilson, SAS Canada (May, 2010)
- Survival Analysis with PROC PHREG Using MI and MIANALYSE to Accommodate Missing Data - Art Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants (May, 2010)
- Solutions to the Posed Problem - Various Presenters (May, 2010)
- BONUS: Simple Tests of Hypotheses for the non-Statistician: What They Are, and Why They Can Go Bad - Art Carpenter, California Occidental Consultants (May, 2010)
- What's New at SAS – Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada
- SAS 9.2 Statistical Graphics – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada
- Customizing SAS/GRAPH Charts with Annotations - Mike Atkinson, Acko Systems Consulting Inc.
- Base SAS Tips – Rob Wilson, SAS Canada
- 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 Ic, (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)
