Winnipeg SAS Users Group

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

The next meeting of the Winnipeg group will take place in the Fall of 2012. Once available, a detailed agenda - including finalized date and registration link - will be posted here.  In the meantime, feel free to peruse the presentation archive below.

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Presentation Archive:

• SAS Update - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Spring 2012) **NEW!  
• Analysis of Student Outcomes at University of Manitoba - Randy Roller, University of Manitoba (Spring 2012) **NEW!  
• PROC GLMSELECT for Model Selection - Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada (Spring 2012) **NEW!  
• SAS 9.3 & SAS Support Options - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Fall 2011) 
• By Group Processing - Charles Burchill, University of Manitoba (Fall 2011)
• SAS in Government - Tara Holland, SAS Canada (Fall 2011)
• Optimizing Your SAS Programs: Tips & Techniques - Craig Kasper, Manitoba Health (Fall 2011)
• What's New at SAS - Wally Thiessen, SAS Canada (Spring 2011)
• Using Recursion for More Convenient Macros - Nathaniel Derby, Stakana Analytics (Spring 2011)
• Getting What You Want from PROC UNIVARIATE & PROC MEANS - Marjorie Smith, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada)
• What's New at SAS - Jamie Farnell, SAS Canada (Fall 2010)
• SAS & Social Media: What's in it for Me!?!? - Jamie Farnell, SAS Canada (Fall 2010)
• KML Macro: Integrating SAS and Google API - Mahmoud Azimaee, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (Fall 2010)
• Book Review: SAS Functions by Example (2nd Edition) by Ron Cody - Charles Burchill, University of Manitoba (Fall 2010)
• SAS/GRAPH ODS Graphic Designer – Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada (Spring 2010)
• What's New at SAS/ Global Forum Recap - Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada (Spring 2010) Validation Methods and ROC Curves – Marina Yogendran (Spring 2010)
• SAS Add-In for MS Office - Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada (Spring 2010)
• Update from SAS & Reference Program Overview – Martha Casanova, SAS Canada
• Parsing Useful Data Out of Unusual Formats Using SAS – Andy Kuligowski, FCCI Insurance
• The Building Blocks of SAS Datasets – S-M-U (Set, Merge & Update) – Andy Kuligowski, FCCI Insurance
• SAS Proc Helper: Introduction to Proc Tabulate – Randy Roller, University of Manitoba
• What's new at SAS - Belinda Bank, SAS Canada
• Take Control of Your Excel Output With the SAS ExcelXP Tagset - Kevin Morgan, Canadian Grain Commission
• Using PROC GMAP to Display Data from a Population Genetics Simulation Model - Marjorie Smith and Sheila Woods Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• SAS Global Forum 2009 Report - Grace Musto, Cancer Care Manitoba
• Hands on with new Features in SAS 9.2 - Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada
• More on the SQL Procedure – Craig Kasper, Manitoba Health (Fall 2008)
• SAS/Graph Charts and ODS – Mike Atkinson, Acko Systems Consulting (Fall 2008)
• Better Business with Basic Statistics: Step by Step from Asking the Right Question to Interpreting the Answer – Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Fall 2008)
• The SQL Procedure, Craig Kasper (Spring 2008)
• Efficiencies With Large Datasets, Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting (Spring 2008)
• Things Dr. Johnson Never Told Me: An Introduction To SAS Dictionary Tables, Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting (Spring 2008)
• Our Experiences Running SAS Workshops, Charles Burchill, University of Manitoba (Spring 2008)
• SAS Global Forum 2008, Marina Yogendran, University of Manitoba (Spring 2008)
• Don't be a slave to your SAS Programs, Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting (Fall 2007)
• Selective Output, Zenon Kurjewicz, University of Manitoba (Fall 2007)
• The Basics of ODS, Randy Roller, University of Manitoba (Fall 2007)
• Enterprise Guide for Coders - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Spring 2007)
• Case Study of Enterprise Miner - Sue Walsh, SAS USA (Spring 2007)
• SAS Forecasting - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Fall 2006)
• Beyond Opportunity: Enterprise Miner - Ronalda Koster, Precision BioLogic Inc. (Fall 2007)
• SAS and the General Linear Mixed Model - Tim Trussell, SAS Canada (Fall 2007)
• SAS Coding Efficiencies - Rupinder Dhillon, SAS Canada (Fall 2005)
• Batch SAS: Still A Viable Option - Sheila Woods, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Fall 2005)
• What's New in Data Mining – John Amrhein, SAS Canada (Spring 2005)
• The Other Side of SAS:  Beyond Research, What’s it Good For? – Dawn Campbell, University of Manitoba (Spring 2005)