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Presentation Abstracts and Speaker Biographies
Rick Langston, BASE
SAS R&D, SAS Institute, Inc.
What’s Coming in Version 9.2 of BASE SAS
Software
Our morning keynote speaker will present an overview of various new
features that will debut in the forthcoming release of Version 9.2 of Base SAS
Software, including information on new functions, formats, ODS features,
options, procedures, and system features. This presentation will be of
interest to anyone who develops or maintains SAS code.
A Tutorial on PROC FORMAT [Beginner’s Track]
This presentation will introduce the new SAS user to PROC FORMAT and
what user-written formats can do. Included in this tutorial is a
discussion of the VALUE and PICTURE statements, the OTHER=clause, the CNTLIN=
and CNTLOUT= data sets, and understanding the management of format libraries
with the FMTSEARCH option.
- Rick Langston has been a SAS Software user for 30 years, 27 of which have
been at SAS Institute. He is the manager of the Core Systems Department
within the Platform R&D Division at SAS Institute. Rick's
responsibilities include PROC FORMAT, format processing, date/time processing,
licensing software, SAS/TOOLKIT Software, and managing the staff for
supporting various core-level subsystems in the Base product. He has
delivered keynotes on various aspects of SAS for many regional and local SAS
user group conferences in the past 12 years.
Chevell Parker,
Technical Support, SAS Institute, Inc.
Now...That’s Your Style!
This paper discusses how to use styles to enhance output or to overcome
a variety of problems that are frequently encountered using ODS. Solutions
to these problems involve a variety of methods that use styles and tagsets in
PROC TEMPLATE, CSS, scripting, XSL, and more. Some of the topics that are
addressed include the following: handling of page breaks in HTML;
preventing truncated printed HTML output; adding headers, footers, page margins,
and repeating headers; landscape printing with ODS HTML; and fine tuning your
printed HTML.
The Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions About the SAS
Output Delivery System
This presentation focuses on the most frequently asked questions by
users to SAS Technical Support consultants about the Output Delivery System
(ODS). Chevell will also briefly introduce some of the major enhancements
to ODS added through Release 9.1.3 of SAS System Software such as the ODS Markup
Language and the ODS Document facility. The final topic which Chevell will
cover are web-based resources available from SAS Institute that help you get the
most from ODS and how to effectively use Technical Support’s services to users.
- Chevell Parker is a Consultant in the BASE, Macro and ODS group within the
Institute's Technical Support Division at SAS Worldwide Headquarters in Cary,
NC. His group supports BASE SAS Procedures, the Macro facility, and the
Output Delivery System. He joined SAS Institute in 1993 and has been
using SAS Software for over 15 years. Prior to joining SAS he was with
FirstHealth in his home town of Richmond, Virginia.
SAS Efficiencies: Legal Steroids for Your SAS
Programs
Programmers want to write efficient code but certain practices may be
costing them processing time and computing resources. This presentation
examines common SAS programming tasks and ways to make them run faster and more
efficiently. Many of the examples show actual “before and after” results
of applying the an efficient versus non-efficient approach to the programming
requirement. Three simple techniques shown in this presentation are easy
to employ and can drastically reduce CPU and memory requirements, especially
when working with large SAS and raw data files.
- Terry Lessman has been a SAS Software user for 23 years and has presented
award-winning papers at Midwest SAS Users Group (MWSUG) and SUGI/SGF
conferences. For the past 16 years Terry has provided SAS support to the
400 SAS users at Mutual of Omaha. Cutting SAS code feeds his one
addiction of chasing the little white ball (golf, not crack).
Rex Pruitt, PREMIER
Bankcard, Inc.
Using SAS Macros [Beginner’s Track]
This presentation introduces some basic concepts surrounding the
effective use of SAS Macros. The examples provide some convenient tips
and/or tricks using the macro facility, hopefully, without confusing novice SAS
users. Over the years, I have found that understanding and using SAS
Macros appropriately can save a lot of time in the maintenance and coding of
Base SAS programs. Also, knowledge of how to use the SAS macro facility
can assist with understanding the background processing used in recently
developed tools such as Enterprise Miner.
Project Organization Proposal (POP) and Project
Leadership Plan Guide
In my 20+ years of experience using SAS and organizing projects, the success
or failure of any project, no matter how small or large, generally resulted from
how well a project was planned, organized and executed. This paper
presents an easy to use Project Organization Proposal (POP) that can be
implemented without adding additional resources to your organization’s MIS or IT
divisions. Also included in this paper is a Project Leadership Plan guide.
This guide serves as a critical planning document, or checklist, to ensure that
any project meets with success. If this guide cannot be completed, the
project should not be initiated.
- Rex Pruitt is a Business Analyst working for PREMIER Bankcard, Inc. in
Sioux Falls where he is responsible for portfolio data mining and modeling
using Base SAS Software and Enterprise Miner v5.2, among other project
leadership responsibilities. Rex has been using SAS Software since 1986
and is SDSUG’s Chair. Rex has traveled the world performing accounting
process audits and recommending business process improvements.
Andrew Karp, Sierra
Information Services
Working with SAS Date and Time Functions [Beginner’s
Track]
This presentation shows you how to get the most out of SAS System tools
for working with variables representing dates and/or times. Designed for
the beginning to intermediate user of SAS Software, this session discusses how
SAS “works” with date and time variables, how to create date and time variables,
and programming functions that are designed to simplify your work. You
will also learn about different approaches to how SAS calculates duration (the
number of time periods between events), the role of SAS Formats with date and
time variables, how SAS INFORMATS are used to create date and time variables
from raw data, and the new ANYDATE Informat added in SAS 9 Software.
Steps to Success with PROC MEANS [Beginner’s Track]
This presentation shows you the ten core functionalities of this
powerful data analysis/reporting tool in BASE SAS Software you need to know to
become successful using it. Starting with the basics, you will learn how
PROC MEANS analyzes the values of numeric variables in a SAS data set, and the
kinds of analyses you can perform with it. You will also learn how PROC
MEANS will display the results of its work in either your Output Window or save
the results in a new SAS data set. Going step-by-step through the series
of increasingly difficult/complex “steps,” the examples demystify the
procedure’s syntax, options and statements for newer users of the SAS System.
- Andrew Karp is a 25-year SAS user who runs his own SAS Software consulting
and training firm, Sierra Information Services from his home in the California
Wine Country. He has spoken at SAS user group event in eleven countries
and has presented SAS training classes throughout the world.
Multivariate Analysis
Using SAS Software
Multivariate analysis (MVA) or multivariate statistics is a process that
involves observations and analysis of more than one variable at a time. To
analyze such data, we need to use some of the powerful multivariate techniques
available in SAS. This paper looks at two important MVA procedures:
The Factor analysis and the Cluster analysis. Factor analysis allows
researchers and analysts to reduce a large number of variables, such as
questions and observable variables into smaller meaningful factors.
Cluster analysis unlike the factor analysis, involves classifying cases (or
variables) into groups on the basis of similarity across variables (or across
cases).
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Anil Jayaprakash is currently working as a
Statistical Analyst at Experian in Lincoln, NE. He is a SAS Certified
Professional and has over five years of experience using SAS. Anil has a
bachelor of engineering degree in Computer Science from Karnatak University,
India and a master's degree in Statistics from the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln.
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