SAS Halifax Regional User Group

Share knowledge and techniques. Get the most out of your SAS software.

Meetings

SHRUG meets twice a year at a central location in Halifax. Meetings run about 3.5 hours and consist of technical presentations, tutorials, programming problem solving, guest speakers, news and information and free time to interact with fellow SAS 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 however advance registration is required.

MOST RECENT MEETING

Thursday, November 26, 2009, 12:30 - 4:00 pm
Room 224, Dalhousie Student Union Building
6136 University Avenue, Halifax, NS

Agenda
12:30 pm Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm Welcome and Introductions - John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
1:25 pm Using Postal Code to Geocode SAS Datasets using PCCF+ - Ron Dewar, Cancer Care Nova Scotia
1:55 pm SAS Global Forum 2009 in Washington, DC Postmortem - Barry Campbell, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
2:05 pm A Brief Introduction to PROC TRANSPOSE - Voytek Grus, Nova Scotia Power
2:20 pm Coffee Break
2:40 pm Hash Objects: Why Bother? - Barb Crowther, SAS Canada
3:10 pm Combining Data Sets Containing Character Variables of Different Lengths - Martha Cox, Cancer Outcomes Research Program, Capital Health
3:20 pm A Macro for Loading Excel sheets into SAS - Pantelis Andreou, Dalhousie University
3:30 pm Don't Import It! Setting up a Libname to an Excel spreadsheet or Access database in 10 seconds or less - Kevin Druhan, Nova Scotia Dept of Health
3:40 pm Wrap-up and Prizes

Presentations from previous meetings are available on the downloads page.

Executive Team

John Fahey President, Secretary/Newsletter SHRUG.president (at) gmail.com
Voytek Grus Vice-President, ISIG Co-ordinator voytek.grus (at) nspower.ca
Pantelis Andreou Treasurer, User-Exchange Co-ordinator pantelis.andreou (at) dal.ca
Kevin Druhan SAS User List, Invitations Kevin.Druhan (at) gov.ns.ca
Barry Campbell Website Administrator barry.campbell (at) iwk.nshealth.ca
Jill Casey Member at large Jill.Casey (at) gov.ns.ca

Events

SHRUG is a member of the North East SAS User Group (NESUG). NESUG 2010 will be held November 14-17 in Baltimore, MD. For details visit http://www.nesug.org. Be sure to check out proceedings from NESUG 2009 and previous conferences.

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

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