2010
| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
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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
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