SAS Halifax Regional User Group

Meetings

SHRUG meets twice a year at a central location in Halifax. Meetings last about 3.5 hours and consist of technical presentations, tutorials, programming problem solving, guest speakers, news and information and free time to network with colleagues. Representatives from SAS Canada are on hand to provide updates about SAS products and events. Complimentary food and beverages are provided and meetings wrap up with door prizes.

Meetings are open to all. Advance registration required.

NEXT MEETING

To be announced

PREVIOUS MEETING

February 24, 2012, 12:00 noon – 4:00pm
Dalhousie University Student Union Building, Room 224
6136 University Ave., Halifax, NS

Agenda

12:00pm - 12:30pm: Lunch Buffet
12:30pm - 12:40pm: Welcome & Introductions
12:40pm - 1:20pm: Enterprise Miner 7.1 Lorne Rothman, Principal Statistician, SAS Canada
1:20pm - 1:40pm: Reporting Made Easier Devbani Raha, Staff Epidemiologist, Cancer Care Nova Scotia
1:40pm - 2:00pm: Networking Exercise
2:00pm - 2:20pm: Break
2:20pm - 3:00pm: Text Analytics Fiona McNeil, Global Product Marketing Manager – Text Analytics, SAS Canada
3:00pm - 3:20pm: Managing a Research Trial using PROC Report Dashboards Kevin Druhan, Research Officer, Department of Health and Wellness
3:20pm - 3:40pm: SAS Update Matt Malczewski, Communities Manager, SAS Canada
3:40pm - 4:00pm: Wrap-Up & Prizes

Details and presentation files from previous meetings are available on the downloads page.

Executive Team

John Fahey	President	SHRUG.president (at) gmail.com
Martha Cox		Martha.Cox (at) cdha.nshealth.ca
Jo-Anne Douglas	User List, Invitations	Jo-Anne.Douglas (at) gov.ns.ca
Barry Campbell	Website Administrator	barry.campbell (at) iwk.nshealth.ca

Events

SHRUG is a member of the North East SAS User Group (NESUG). NESUG 2012 will be held Nov 11-14 in Baltimore, MD. For details visit http://www.nesug.org. Be sure to check out proceedings from NESUG conferences.

SAS Global Forum 2012, April 22 - 25, Orlando, FL.

SAS Canada sponsors ongoing events for Canadian SAS users
http://www.sas.com/offices/NA/canada/3-events_en.html