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Past Meeting Info June 24^th,2010 Lisa Whitman – SAS Institute Best Practices for Displaying Effective Visualizations on a Computer Screen The Future of SAS Visualizations Friday, April 2^nd, 2010 Victor Pontes The Generic Macro Ian Whitlock Call Execute – Explained A Serious Look At Macro Quoting Recursion in SAS Macro (code zip file) Thursday, December 10^th, 2009 Lloyd Butler - Health Dialog More Than One Way to Age a Cat Ray Cloutier - Health Dialog Using Systask to Dynamically Create Libnames Craig Dickstein - Tamarack Professional Services, LLC Merge Without a By Statement: Don't Do It Grant Duston - Health Dialog Using SAS to Generate Random Numbers Christine Leonard – Data Scientist The Way of the Penguin Cindy Li - Health Dialog Creating CSV files from SAS Datasets Judy Loren - Health Dialog The Unexpected Retain Bruce Peel – Maine Department of Labor Variable Tables Jason Peng - Health Dialog OH NO! Someone Zipped my Dataset Friday, September 18^th, 2009 HEDIS^® Reporting: A SAS^® Healthcare Application Craig Dickstein, Tamarack Professional Services, LLC Derek Goodwin - Health Dialog Moving Mountains: Insights Into Processing Large Amounts of Data Friday, June 12^th, 2009 Kari Richardson Proc Tabulate SAS Enterprise Guide SAS Business Intelligence Platform Friday, April 17^th, 2009 Rob Krajcik on Why Does SAS Run Clockwise Rob Krajcik on Proc Compare as a Validation Tool Vanessa Hayden on Uses and Abuses of the Retain Statement Vanessa Hayden on Bulletproofing your SAS Results Friday, November 14^th, 2008 Ray Cloutier on SAS Wiki Community Bob Nichols on Sending Email from SAS James Shields on Dashboards Glenna Wilder on DDE Judy Loren with a NESUG / 9.2 Update Friday, August 22^nd, 2008 Mike Zdeb – Albany School of Public Health Hot Tips from SAS-L Peter Chingos & Rocket Wong – Maine Medical Center SAS Information Delivery Portal Friday, July 11^th, 2008 Marge Scerbo – National Study Center, UMB Everyone Needs a Raise (Arrays) Tips for Manipulating Data - SAS Efficiency Sandeep Gaudana Join, Merge, or Lookup: Expanding your Toolkit Friday, May 16^th, 2008 Rick Langston (SAS Institute) What's Coming in SAS 9.2 Advanced Features of PROC FORMAT Friday, December 7^th, 2007 Judy Loren Update from SAS Central SAS Proficiency Test – for results email Judy at jloren@healthdialog.com Kimball Lewis Dictionary Tables Glenna Wilder Proc Export Emailing with SAS® Ray Cloutier Wildcards Friday, August 24, 2007 Ron Cody Longitudinal Data Techniques Introduction to SAS Character Functions Friday, July 20, 2007 Vince Del Gobbo Creating AND Importing Multi-Sheet Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS Other links given by Vince: http://support.sas.com/news/feature/2006/workbooks.html http://support.sas.com/rnd/papers/index.html#2007 Ray Cloutier Useful SAS string functions Substr, Trim, Compress…etc Friday, March 9, 2007 Russ Lavery & Alan Dickson An Animated Guide©: Speed Merges with Key Merging and the _IORC_ Variable An Animated Guide©: Proc Report: The file behind the scenes The Internal Functions in SAS: INTCK and INTNX Friday, February 3, 2006 Lisa Horwitz Democode Hash Code Friday, October 22, 2004    Maura Stokes          Power and Sample Size Computations         Getting Started with ODS for Statistical Graphics  Friday, August 13, 2004    Robert Virgile   Proc Transpose vs Data Step Arrays Exception reports for zero observations Macro Language Overview Friday, April 2, 2004    Prashant Mittal   Macros: Code cutters or code generators? (Power Point)    James Shields Fuzzy Logic for Fuzzy Addresses February 6, 2004 Craig Dickstein and Ray Pass Data Step vs. Proc SQL: What’s a neophyte to do?    James Shields       A Short Demo of DDE with Excel Creating Excel Reports Using Dynamic Data Exchange (Power Point) June 27, 2003    Russ Lavery         -- An Animated Guide:The Map of the SAS Macro System        -- An Animated Guide: Resource Usage of Common SAS Processes        -- An Animated Guide: The Logic of Hypothesis Testing        -- An Animated Guide: The Logic of One Way Anova    Judy Loren         -- Using the Power of SAS Macro Language to Manage Variables        -- Paul Grant's paper, Creating Code Templates in the SAS Enhanced Editor Using Abbreviations and User Defined Keywords February 28, 2003    Judy Loren         -- SAS/Access to External Databases:  Wisdom for the Warehouse User November 8, 2002    David Shamlin         -- Version 9,  V9 Nuts & Bolts    Stephanie R. Raymond, Cindi L. Kreiman, Diana R. Smith, M.Ed.         -- From Medicare Data to Rates Dissemination and All the Steps In-Between,     Marge Scerbo and Craig Dickstein         -- Topics from their book: Health Care Data and the SAS System June 14, 2002    Mike Zdeb         -- Macros        -- Maps, Mapping examples on Mike's web pages at http://www.albany.edu/~msz03/maps.html January 25, 2002    Bob Virgile         -- How Merge Really Works   (PDF format)        -- Introduction to Arrays   (PDF format) September 28, 2001    Maura Stokes, DrPh         -- Tutorial on Logistic Regression        -- A SAS/STAT Odyssey May 18, 2001    Dr. Ron Cody         -- Data Cleaning,          -- PROC Summary,  March 16, 2001    Ralph Leighton         -- Some uses (and abuses) of PROC TRANSPOSE  (PDF format)    Judy Loren         -- SQL Step by Step  September 13, 2000    Greg Barnes Nelson         -- Web Site Personalization: From ASPs to Portals * Creating Dynamic Interfaces in Web Applications   March 16, 2001    Ray Pass         -- ODS, YES! Odious, NO!, An Introduction to the SAS Output Delivery System          -- I'll Have the TABULATEs a la ODS Please, With a Table of  Contents On the Side     Ken Friedman         -- Using PROC Datasets and Append for Efficient SAS Processing   July 10, 2000    Ben Cochran         -- Version 8 Output Delivery System   June 5, 2000    Jack Shoemaker         -- 10 Things to Know About PROC FORMAT      Alan Dickson         -- PROC SUMMARY AND PROC FORMAT:  A Winning Combination   March 22, 2000    Chris Olinger         -- Version 8 and the ODS   December 1, 1999    Judy Loren         -- SQL Step by Step: An advanced tutorial for business users

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