2011
| 17 February 2011 | ||
| Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations | Michael Thompson |
Helping SAS perform with high volumes of data |
| Altis Consulting Pty Ltd | Simon McAlister |
Random Numbers for Business and Pleasure Use of Random Numbers, Probability Distributions & SAS functions and procs for random number generation SAS Example for work and entertainment |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry le Breton |
Tips for the Techies Enhancements to SET statement in SAS 9.2 and the new IN operator in SAS Macros |
2010
| 11 November 2010 | ||
| Altis Consulting Pty Ltd | Simon McAlister |
Data Quality Theory and Practice SAS metadata repository contains a wealth of information – if you know how to get at it. This presentation shows how to extract and report on this valuable resource. |
| Scorpio Software Services | Alan Davies |
SAS BI Metadata (Materials will be available soon) It's more than data about data. |
| Softscape Solutions | Fred Wensing |
Simple steps for producing a self-contained Macro in SAS-EG A simple step method for producing a self-contained macro in SAS Enterprise Guide. |
| 27 May 2010 | ||
| Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations | Michael Thompson |
A follow up to Michael’s early Sausag presentation on exploit SQL within SAS. |
| SAS ANZ | Bryan Wallis |
SAS 9.2 Enhancements & Migration An overview of the current SAS 9.2 status, from the perspectives of technology, and customer adoption. Then an update on experiences in moving to 9.2, with suggestions as to how best migrate to SAS9.2 to best exploit this major step forward in SAS technology. |
| SAS Institute Australia | Tony Peric |
New Features of SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2+ A discussion on the new features of Enterprise Guide 4.2 and a preview of what’s coming in version 4.3. |
| 11 February 2010 | ||
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry le Breton |
Reporting from your SAS BI Metadata SAS metadata repository contains a wealth of information – if you know how to get at it. This presentation shows how to extract and report on this valuable resource. |
| Department of Human Services | Christine Evans |
EG 4.2 Tips Making the most of your windows space. |
| Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations | Michael Thompson |
EG, SQL & Graphs SAS has come a long way since the 90s and a lot of the time we are not taking advantage of better and easier ways to get our work done. This presentation will show a few techniques you can use tomorrow to help get through more of that mountain of work. |
| Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations | Doug Gordon |
Quality Assurance with SAS This presentation will discuss some techniques for using SAS STAT to provide Quality Assurance on large tables. |
2009
| 19 November 2009 | ||
| Altis Consulting Pty Ltd | Simon McAlister |
Regular expressions for business and pleasure Using regular expressions to match, substitute and extract text data. Creative uses of regular expressions for non-text data. A chance to put your knowledge to use in a word-find challenge. |
| Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics | Walter Shafron |
Turtles all the way? - SAS recursive macros A desire to document the derived variables in ABARE's database led to recursive macros which, if doable, would be the most elegant solution. |
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Geo Coding Producing SAS Map Graphics |
| 20 August 2009 | ||
| Department of Human Services | Christine Evans |
Enterprise Guide 4.2 Tips |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | John Moore |
Enterprise Miner SAS Enterprise Miner to Find Factors Associated with 2006 Census Non-Response |
| SAS Institute | Travis Murphy |
BI 9.2 What’s coming in SAS9.2 BI |
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
SAS Foundation 9.2 What's coming in SAS9.2 Foundation |
| 14 May 2009 | ||
| Kohlbahdin | Brian Watts |
Exploring the SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine for rapid data delivery |
| Australian Taxation Office | Fuchun Luan |
Counting Files with SAS A sequel to the last SAUSAG presentation by Jim Watson - using SAS to scan directories, counting (number, size, type etc) and processing multiple files, and clear disk hogs! |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton |
Dynamic parameter values for stored processes Dynamic parameter values for stored processes, and how to hack your metadata |
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Finding missing data with SAS How to impute rows and values that don't exist |
| 12 February 2009 | ||
| Altis Consulting Pty Ltd | Simon McAlister |
DI Studio: iterative jobs to process all files in a directory Iterative DI studio jobs to automatically find and process all files in a directory |
| Department of Human Services | Walter Shafron |
Tree and Constellation Macros Using the %ds2tree & %ds2const to create tree and constellation interactive java applets |
| SAUSAG Committee | Doug Gordon |
Using OLEDB in Enterprise Guide Using EG4.1 to develop input for OLEDB connection strings for base SAS |
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Finding files with SAS Using SAS code to scan directories, process multiple files, and find disk space hogs! |
2008
| 20 November 2008 | ||
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Enterprise Guide for Programmers How to best utilise your coding skills within SAS Enterprise Guide |
| The Analytics Group | Grish Stromov |
To Code or not to Code A Question of DI |
| SAUSAG Committee | Chris Evans |
Finding a needle in a haystack Finding some code in a big messy Enterprise Guide project |
| 22 May 2008 | ||
| Softscape Solutions | Fred Wensing |
"Selling" SAS Enterprise Guide Selling SAS Enterprise Guide to people who write their own SAS |
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Reporting with Style How to improve the appearance of your output using PROC REPORT |
| 21 February 2008 | ||
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Exploring dates and time in SAS: the way they are stored and how to use them. |
| FaCSIA | Doug Gordon |
Technical Tips ODS and the TableEditor tagset; the Data step debugger; playing music with SAS! |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton |
A Brief History of
SAUSAG After 50 meetings, how did we start and what have we been up to? |
2007
| 15 November 2007 | ||
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Data Quality Solution - latest updates The latest on the SAS Data Quality Solution. |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton |
Technical Tips Handling duplicate records; IN Operator & integer ranges; IFN/IFC functions; DEQUOTE function; MONOTONIC function. |
| 16 August 2007 | ||
| FaCSIA | David Lawrence |
Data Repackaging – Tall and Thin to Short and Fat Creating a single record with recurring groups from data with a single line per observation. |
| FaCSIA | Doug Gordon |
Technical Tips Clearing user macros; saving and restoring user options; setting/using DMS function keys. |
| 17 May 2007 | ||
| SAS Institute | Gavin Goh |
The different ways to access and interact with SAS within Excel (and Word and Powerpoint). |
| Australian Taxation Office | Fuchun Luan |
Optimizing Case Selection with Base SAS Just like its 3GL cousins such as C and C++, Base SAS can be used to program powerful in-depth analytical applications. |
| 15 February 2007 | ||
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Creating Multi-Sheet Excel Workbooks with ODS How to create formatted, multi-sheet Excel reports using the SAS9 Output Delivery System. |
| e-sens | Juliette Bryan |
Saving time with the
FORMAT Procedure Using proc format to do table lookups, identify unexpected values, avoid large table joins, create variables and use the overlapping ranges feature. |
| SAS Institute |
Stacey Costello |
The latest releases of SAS software and some of the upcoming features in SAS 9.2
|
| FaCSIA | Doug Gordon |
Tech Tips A few quick tips for the techos: using physical file names in programs; the COMPRESS function; outputting to Excel. |
2006
| 14 November 2006 | ||
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
Using SAS Hash Objects in SAS9 How to use the new SAS9 Hash Objects to increase the efficiency of your joins. |
| ABARE | Walter Shafron |
SAS's links
with HTML through Proc Tabulate Hot links in Proc Tabulate output offered a neat solution to a data editing project, but could it be done? If so, how? Answers to these questions and more. |
| SAS Institute |
Gavin Goh |
Staying Up-to-date with SAS9 Software and Documentation
|
| Centrelink | Debra Birkby |
Not another functional review ..... A look at the resolve function and some other new functions in SAS 9.. |
| 17 August 2006 | ||
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson |
More string handling functions in SAS9. |
| Australian Tax Office | Ray Lindsay |
Extending SAS/Enterprise
Miner – a user’s experience SAS/Enterprise Miner can be extended with customised SAS Code nodes. Nodes that can assist in variable selection, and model selection will be described. |
| SAUSAG Committee |
Jerry Le Breton Gavin Goh |
Tips include: using environment variables; changing variable types with EG; creating a program to recreate a dataset. |
| 18 May 2006 | ||
| SAS Institute | Gavin Goh |
The latest features and enhancements for the new version of Enterprise Guide. |
| Sierra Information Services | Andrew Karp |
Getting in to the Picture Format A look at an under utilised feature of PROC FORMAT: the PICTURE format. Create customised display templates for numbers and dates; even a currency converter. |
| SAUSAG Committee |
Jerry Le Breton Chris Evans Gavin Goh |
Tips include: cascading autoexec's; finding all your formats; and more. |
| 22 February 2006 | ||
| IBM Global Services Australia | Doug Lean, IBM |
What does my Data Step do? An introduction to the program that SAS writes for you when you write a Data Step for SAS. |
| SAUSAG Committee |
Jerry Le Breton Chris Evans Doug Lean |
Tech Tips from the Committee |
2005
| 17 November 2005 | ||
| Department of Family and Community Services | Doug Gordon | Developing Enterprise Guide customised add-ins with C# using SAS templates |
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson | Getting value out of SAS indexing |
| 18 August 2005 | ||
| DEST | Chris Evans | Click in your macro parameters in Enterprise Guide |
| Department of Family and Community Services | Doug Gordon |
What are
the Options?? |
| SAS Institute | Gavin Goh | Stored Processes with SAS9 |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton | Live the Dream: Automatically Document SAS Programs |
| 19 May 2005 | ||
| SAS Institute | Neil Doody | "I've Only Got a Browser - What Can SAS Do For Me?" (Answer: Web Report Studio 2.1) |
| Department of Health and Aging | Debra Birkby | From CSV to ODS & DDE |
| ESRI Australia | Nigel Connolly | The SAS Bridge to ESRI |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton | Emailing with SAS |
|
2004
| 18 November 2004 | ||
| SAS Institute | Alison Morris | Text Mining: What's up .doc |
| Department of Family and Community Services | Doug Gordon | SAS9 Functions |
| SAS Institute | Falko Schulz | Customising and Extending Enterprise Guide |
| 19 August 2004 | ||
| Department of Family and Community Services | Bob Rehling | ASP .NET and SAS |
| Department of Family and Community Services | Doug Gordon | SAS9 - First Impressions |
| SAS Institute | Neil Doody | Enterprise Guide 3 |
|
DEST Softscape Solutions |
Christine Evans Jerry Le Breton |
Technical Tips & Traps - Merge traps and interesting variable names |
| 20 May 2004 | ||
| Department of Family and Community Services | Bob Rehling | .NETing Your SAS Data |
| Bureau of Tourism Research | Phil Carter | Publishing surveys results as HTML with ODS |
| SAS Institute | Jim Watson | How to Get SAS9! |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton | Technical Tips: INTNX funtion |
| 26 Feb 2004 | ||
| ABARE | Ray Lindsey | Using the VIM Editor with SAS |
| Department of Family and Community Services | Doug Gordon | A Simple SAS Program Documentation Method |
| SAS Institute | Greg Wood | Time Series Forecasting with SAS |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton | More Programming Secrets from the Dark Side |
2003
| 4 Dec 2003 | ||
| SAS Institute | Neil Doody | Under the Covers of SAS 9.1 |
| Department of Family and Community Services | Doug Gordon | Graphing with SAS - simplicity and beauty |
| SAS | James Redman | ETL Studio |
| IBM Global Services Australia | Doug Lean | IF I only knew WHERE |
| 21 Aug 2003 | ||
| SAS | Neil Doody | Heart of Darkness |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton | Programming on the Dark Side - Obfuscation Codified |
| Department of Family and Community Services | Doug Gordon | The Ways and Means of Proc Summary |
| Reality Training | Alan Davies & Mick Glasson | Effective Use of Web Technology |
| 22 May 2003 | ||
| SAS | Jarmo Rasi | The SAS Strategic Performance Management system |
| Softscape Solutions | Jerry Le Breton | Technical Tips |
| SAS | Jim Watson | Technical Tips (Exotic Data Types) |
| Reality Training | Alan Davies & Mick Glasson | How to stay ahead of the Pack - Useful tips, tricks and training aids |
| 27 February 2003 | ||
| Department of Family and Community Services | Doug Gordon | Web Resources for SAS Programmers |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | Fred Wensing | Preparing SAS code in a data step for later execution - two solutions |
| SAS | Brian Watts | Tips from Technical Support |
2002
| 28 November 2002 | ||
| SAS | Timothy Reed |
Introduction
 |
| Independent SAS Consultant | Jerry Le Breton |
What's In It
For Me? -- A V9 Overview
|
| IBM Global Services Australia | Doug Lean |
Do
Your Data Steps Look Like This?
|
| 22 August 2002 | ||
| SAS | Rodney Andriolo |
SUGA 2002 -
The Power of Intelligence
|
| Department of Education, Science & Training | Christine Evans |
Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Postcodes But Should (Not be Afraid to) Ask * (*apologies to Woody Allen)  |
| Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics | Sepideh Helali |
AgSurf -
Farm Surveys Data On The Web
|
| Qual IT Services | Michael Matthews |
Macro
Magic III
|
| 23 May 2002 | ||
| Department of Family & Community Services | Doug Gordon |
Look it
up in the dictionary
|
| Centrelink | Timothy Reed |
Reverse Engineering: Building a Software Component Map
|
| Independent SAS Consultant | Jerry Le Breton |
Merging Data Sets - Tricks & Traps
|
| SAS | Michael Dixon |
Technical Tips
|
| 28 February 2002 | ||
| Health Insurance Commission | Arthur Witerall |
An
Introduction to ODS Markup and Tagsets
|
| Scorpio Software Services | Alan Davies |
Distributed Data
|
| SAS | Dev Mookerjee |
SAS
Design Time Controls
|
2001
| 15 November 2001 | ||
| Australian Federal Police | John Blake |
The use of SAS
for Resource Management at the AFP
|
| SAS | Neil Doody |
What a
Long Strange Trip it's Been
|
| SAS | Doug Campbell |
Enterprise
Marketing Automation (EMA)
|
| 16 August 2001 | ||
| Medibank Private | Chris Raymond | Formatting
Web output using SAS: SAS styles vs Cascading Style Sheets vs XML
+ XSL - The pros and cons of each approach
|
| Independent SAS Consultant | Jerry Le Breton | Data
Step or SCL - or Both
|
| SAS | Emma Poulakas |
WebHound
|
| SAS | Paula Mathers |
SUGA
2001
|
| 24 May 2001 | ||
| Australian Bureau of Statistics | Fred Wensing | To
code or not to code
|
| Health Insurance Commission | Mick Glasson |
Getting
the most from V8 on MVS
|
| SAS | Stacey Costello |
Introducing
the i-Layer
|
| 22 February 2001 | ||
| Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource & Economics | Ray Lindsay | Using
SAS to visualise vast amounts of complex electricity supply data
|
| SAS | Jacek Kucieba |
What's
New in V8.2 and DataFlux
|
| SAS | Jamie Watson |
Fun
with SAS: 5 Things you probably didn't know you could do in SAS
|
2000
| All 2000 | ||
| Australian Institute of Health & Welfare | Gerard Fitzsimmons |
Advocating the use of SAS-GRAPH in Report Production based on past experiences
|
| Rationale | Jerry Le Breton | New Tricks for Untangling Strings in Version 8
|
| SAS | Jamie Watson |
Efficient Access to Large SAS Tables
|
| SAS | Emma Poulakas |
AppDev Studio
|
| SAS | Stuart Gregory |
Technical Update
|
| SAS | Tim Charlesworth |
Integration Technologies
|
| SAS | Ronnie Chan |
Adding e-Intelligence into web based processes
|