Presentations
Meeting date:
20111028
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NESUG 2012 in Baltimore, MD: You're invited to the Northeast SAS User Group conference, Nov 11 - 14, 2012
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
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Welcome and Introductions:
Presenter: Jo-Anne Douglas, Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness
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Determining Nursing Inflow-Outflow in NS: Tracking the workforce using registration data from the College of Registered Nurses
Presenter: Hussain Jamshidi, Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness
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Looking Beneath the Surface of Sorting: Our guest speaker explains the nuances and pitfalls of sorting data in PROC SORT
Presenter: Andrew T. Kuligowski, Chair, SAS Global Forum 2012
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What's new at SAS?: The latest and greatest from SAS Canada including an
invitation to SAS Global Forum 2012, education resources, social
media, blogs and list servers, the SAS online community
site.
Presenter: Jamie Farnell, SAS Canada
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Experimental Design for Discrete Choice Experiments: A comparison of full factorial and fractional factorial experiment designs and the use of Warren Kuhfeld's marketing research macros to identify, choose and optimize the design.
Presenter: Chris Skedgel, Health Economist at Atlantic Clinical Cancer Research Unit, Capital Health
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Reporting using EG: Newbie overcomes love of punch cards
: Demo of SAS Enterprise Guide using data from the
Bluenose Marathon. What age are the fastest runners?
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
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Techie Tip 1 - Combining Lags and Arrays (and a wee bit of macro programming):
Presenter: Lynn Lethbridge, Dalhousie University Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and School of Health Administration
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Techie Tip2 - Correlated Subqueries in PROC SQL:
Presenter: Barry Campbell, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
Meeting date:
20110429
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Welcome and Introductions:
Presenter: Jo-Anne Douglas, Business Intelligence, Analytics and Privacy, Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness
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Survival Analysis using SAS: Biomedical researcher explains how she uses SAS to analyse survival data
Presenter: Kara Thompson, Research Office, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University
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Decision Trees Using SAS: Demonstration of 3 SAS tools for partitioning data into decision trees
Presenter: Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada Education
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Data holdings at Atlantic Research Data Centre (ARDC): Statistics Canada data available to local researchers.
Presenter: Heather Hobson, Atlantic Research Data Centre, Dalhousie University
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Techie Tip - BAD WORD: Finding and Eliminating Rogue Hex Characters in Text Fields.: Martha discovers a way to deal with spurious line feeds in comment fields
Presenter: Martha Cox, Cancer Outcomes Research Group, CDHA/CCNS
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An Intro to Debugging: Straightforward advice on reducing programming defects
in your SAS code. Comes with a handy tip sheet.
Presenter: Martha Cox, Cancer Outcomes Research Group, CDHA/CCNS
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SAS Update: The latest and greatest from SAS Canada including an
update on the recent SAS Global Forum, education resources, social
media, blogs and list servers, the worldwide SAS online community
site, and a new online community for staying connected with
your Canadian SAS peers.
Presenter: Matt Malczewski, Communities Manager, SAS Canada
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NESUG in Portland ME: You're invited to the Northeast SAS User Group
conference, Sept 11 - 14
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
Meeting date:
20101125
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Words of Welcome, Agenda:
Presenter: Jill Casey, Health Information Office, Business Intelligence, Analytics and Privacy, Department of Health
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What's New at SAS: Details about next SAS Global Forum, Customer Value Award nominations, SAS Canada training opportunities
Presenter: Wally Thiessen, Head of Customer Programs, SAS Canada
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Two SAS Bootstrapping Programs: Method to estimate a statistic's sampling distribution
Presenter: Lynn Lethbridge, Dalhousie University Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and School of Health Administration
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Multiprocessing: Demonstration of how to run SAS code using multiple processors on your PC
Presenter: Pantelis Andreou, Dalhousie University Department of Community Health and Epidemiology
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PROC FORMAT: The VALUE of Nothing: Different types of SAS formats including character, numeric, date and things you can do with them such as grouping, data cleaning, output labeling, and variable recoding.
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
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Example Involving Missing Values: Audience participation exercise to test your knowledge of SAS missing values.
Presenter: Gordon Flowerdew, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
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How Do I Look It Up If I Can't Spell It: An Introduction to SAS Dictionary Tables:
Presenter: Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group
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SAS and Social Media: What's in it for Me?: Results of SAS Canada's Social Media Engagement Survey and a look at social media resources available to SAS users
Presenter: Wally Thiessen, Head of Customer Programs, SAS Canada
Meeting date:
20100430
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Words of Welcome, Agenda:
Presenter: Martha Cox, Cancer Care Nova Scotia
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What's New at SAS: An update from SAS Canada
Presenter: Andrew Bowden, SAS Canada
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SAS Global Forum 2010, Seattle, WA:
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
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PROC REPORT for Newbies:
Presenter: Hussain Jamshidi, Nova Scotia Department of Health
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Determination of efficient pricing periods using SAS:
Presenter: Voytek Grus, Nova Scotia Power
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SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2: A Primer:
Presenter: Josee Ranger-Lacroix, SAS Canada
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The SET Statement and Beyond :
Presenter: Pantelis Andreou, Dalhousie University
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Saving DATA steps with the PROC SQL Self-Join:
Presenter: Yan Wang, Population Health Research Unit, Dalhousie University
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Using the Data Step in PROC SQL:
Presenter: Jill Casey, Nova Scotia Department of Health
Meeting date:
20091126
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Words of Welcome, Agenda:
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
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An Introduction to PCCF+: Using the Postal Code Conversion File to Geocode SAS Datasets
Presenter: Ron Dewar, Cancer Care Nova Scotia
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SAS Global Forum 2009: A first time attendee gives his impressions of SGF in Washington, DC, March 2009
Presenter: Barry Campbell, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
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A Brief Introduction to PROC TRANSPOSE: A detailed look at data transposition including SAS syntax and real life examples from the power utility industry
Presenter: Voytek Grus, Nova Scotia Power
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Hash Objects: Why Bother?: An introduction to hash objects in comparison with other SAS table lookup techniques
Presenter: Barb Crowther, SAS Canada Technical Training Specialist
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Combining Data Sets Containing Character Variables of Different Lengths: Demonstration of a SAS macro that solves the problem by automatically generating the appropriate SAS code
Presenter: Martha Cox, Cancer Outcomes Research Program, Cancer Care Nova Scotia
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A Macro for Loading Excel sheets into SAS: How to import, sort and plot data from a multi-sheet Excel file
Presenter: Pantelis Andreou, Dalhousie University
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Don't Import It!: Setting up a Libname to an Excel spreadsheet or Access database
Presenter: Kevin Druhan, Nova Scotia Dept of Health
Meeting date:
20090206
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Words of Welcome, Agenda:
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
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Using Enterprise Guide to Derive Insights From the Passenger List of the RMS Titanic: Demonstration of reporting techniques in the SAS Enterprise Guide environment.
Presenter: Matt Malczewski, SAS Canada
Titanic_2.zip: Zip archive containing passenger data in Excel file and Enterprise Graph file
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Data Quality Assurance with SAS: Tips and Tricks: Approaches to data management, data quality assurance, and reporting healthcare data.
Presenter: Kevin Druhan, Nova Scotia Department of Health
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Techie Tip: PROC TRANSPOSE or Data Step: Comparison of two techniques
Presenter: Dr. Pantelis Andreou, Dalhousie University
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Techie Tip: If you have a DATE, SAS has the TIME: How to parse date/time data from Excel into a SAS data set.
Presenter: Bev Lawson, Lecturer and Senior Research Associate, Family Medicine, Dalhousie University
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Time Series: An Introduction:
Presenter: Voytek Grus, Nova Scotia Power Inc., John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
Time_Series_Analysis_2.zip: John's slides: zip file containing raw data in PRN file, SAS data file, SAS code and log, GIF images, and PDF document
Meeting date:
20081024
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Agenda: What happened and who spoke.
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia
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Reporting Face-off 1: PROC FREQ
Presenter: Dr. Pantelis Andreou, CH&E, Dalhousie
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Reporting Face-off 2: PROC TABULATE
Presenter: Jill Casey, Dept. of Health
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Reporting Face-off 3: PROC REPORT
Presenter: John Fahey, RCPNS
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Tips and Tricks 1: Drill-down with ActiveX
Presenter: John Fahey, RCPNS
ActiveX.zip: ZIP file contains HTML files demonstrating embedded ActiveX component
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Tips and Tricks 2: Denormalizing data with PROC SQL
Presenter: Barry Campbell, RCPNS
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Fitting Structural Equation Models using the (T)CALIS Procedure: Today's Featured speaker presents on modeling using Covariance Analysis
of Linear Structural Equations
Presenter: Dr. Yiu-Fai Yung, SAS Institute, Cary, N.C.
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A Preview of SAS/STAT in 9.2: What's coming in the next version?
Presenter: Tim Trussell, SAS Canada
SAS_Fall_Update.pdf: Updates on SAS Global Forum, Customer Value Award, a contest, Insights newsletter and other subscriptions, new SAS communities and more.
Meeting date:
20080222
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Agenda:
What happened and who spoke.
Presenter: Alex Filimon, Novus Consulting (emcee)
Bios.doc: Short introductions for the speakers
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PROC REPORT for Dummies:
An introduction to SAS' very powerful reporting procedure.
Presenter: John Fahey, RCPNS
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Using SAS to answer the question: Where have all the meat buyers gone? :
Using SAS Enterprise Miner to explore meat purchase behaviour based on two years transaction data.
Presenter: Chen Chen, Masters of E-Commerce Student, Dalhousie University
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Techie Tips:
Using simulation to find the 87th percentile in your data. An audience
member also pointed out that PROC UNIVARIATE might be able to
answer your question.
Presenter: Prof. Pantelis Andreou, Comm. Health & Epidemiology
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Data Visualization: Some Introductory Thoughts:
Some Thoughts on Effective Data Display
Presenter: Bill Droogendyk, Quality Systems, ArcelorMittal
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Customer Value Plan Update:
Christy provided information on activities of the Customer Value
Team at SAS Canada
Presenter: Christy Hobley
Meeting date:
20071019
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JMPing Into the Data Mine:
JMP is SAS software designed for dynamic data visualization
Presenter: Alex Filimon, Novus Consulting
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Data Makes the Difference: Decision Support using SAS in Continuing Care:
How can we use data to make the best decisions about how we fund health care services?
Presenter: Kevin Druhan, NS Dept of Health
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Bayesian Methods in SAS :
Demonstration of PROC BGENMOD
Presenter: Dr. Pantelis Andreou, CH&E, Dalhousie
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Creating Custom HTML Output and ActiveX Graphs the easy way through EG :
Get your report looking just how you want it, in half the time.
Presenter: Tim Trussell, SAS Canada
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Techie Tip:
How to create a footnote that contains the date and the name of the program that generated it
Presenter: Martha Cox, Population Health Research Unit
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SAS Global Forum post-mortem:
Fun and excitement at Disney World - including all the papers from the talks I saw.
Presenter: John Fahey, RCP of NS
Meeting date:
20070223
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SAS/Graph: PROC GReplay:
Display multiple graphs simultaneously using this feature of SAS/Graph.
Presenter: Cory Russell, N.S. Department of Health
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SAS/Connect:
Accessing a DBMS Directly using SAS.
Presenter: Dan Ricard, Dalhousie Department of Math and Statistics
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Regression using SAS: Multiple Options:
Linear Regression Analysis with a focus on Influence
Diagnostics using PROC REG
Presenter: Voytek Grus, Nova Scotia Power
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Enterprise Miner - A case study on Organic Food Marketing in a Grocery Store :
Contact the presenter directly.
Presenter: Sue Walsh, SAS Institute Cary, NC, Susan.Walsh@sas.com
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BI Overview : SAS Business Intelligence tools and applications.
Powerpoint presentation at http://www.sas.com/offices/NA/canada/downloads/presentations/Caribbean/BI_Overview.pdf
Presenter: James Waite, SAS Institute (Canada), James.Waite@sas.com
Meeting date:
20061109
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Beyond Opportunity; Enterprise Miner:
Exploring SAS Enterprise Miner with an example from Ronalda's
consulting work.
Presenter: Ronalda Koster
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Techie Tip 1:
Multiple Inputs, Mulitple Outputs - as seen at NESUG 2006 in
Philadelphia.
Presenter: John Fahey
MIMO.zip: See readme.txt in zipfile for descriptions
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Techie Tip 2:
Getting Data into and out of SPSS and Excel
Presenter: Dr. Pantelis Andreou, Dept. of CH&E, Dalhousie University
spss.sas: SAS code to create an SPSS dataset or Excel spreadsheet
factor.xls: Excel spreadsheet created from within SAS
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Techie Tip 3:
Taking Out the Garbage - A simple macro to clear out potential problems and nuisances
when running multiple SAS programs.
Presenter: John Fahey p.p. Adam LaManna
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POWER PLAY:
Hockey Example of Proc Power - details available directly from
Tim.Trussell (at) sas.com
Presenter: Tim Trussell - SAS Canada
Meeting date:
20060224
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Welcome and Introduction:
Presenter: John Fahey, President, RCPNS and Christy Hobley, SAS Canada
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Using PROC LOGISTIC: Concepts and applications of logistic regression using SAS
Presenter: Voytek Grus, Nova Scotia Power Inc.
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"SAS Stored Processes - An analyst’s perspective: An overview of stored processes and how to create and distribute them for use with SAS Enterprise Guide and other applications
Presenter: Sylvain Tremblay, SAS Canada
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Techie Tips 1: Using Symput and Symget
Presenter: Pantelis Andreou, Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
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Techie Tips 2: Superscripts in SAS Output, The Skip Macro
Presenter: Martha Cox, Population Health Research Unit, Dalhousie University
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Final Jeopardy with Allegedly Fabulous Prizes: Quiz game fun
Presenter: John and Christy
Meeting date:
20050311
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Introduction and Welcome: Acknowledgement of speakers, information on NESUG, preamble to meeting, agenda.
Presenter: John Fahey, Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia (RCPNS)
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Application of SAS Software at Nova Scotia Power: Balancing the use of SAS and Excel for analytical and information needs of marketing and regulatory departments.
Presenter: Voytek Grus, Pricing Specialist, Marketing Dept., Nova Scotia Power
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"What's wrong NOW?!: An introduction to debugging SAS programs for beginners
Presenter: Martha Cox, Population Health Research Unit, Dalhousie University
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Creating Internet Applications with SAS/Intrnet Software: How to apply SAS programming knowledge to create dynamic SAS applications for the Internet
Presenter: David Ghan, Education, SAS Canada
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Techie Tips: File listing, array usage, password hiding, and a boxplot demo
Presenter: John Fahey, RCPNS
Meeting date:
20040227
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Welcome/Agenda:
The Game Plan for SHRUG itself and for each meeting.
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Presenter: John Fahey
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Output Delivery System:
Christie's presentation on ODS is available directly from her - Christy.Hobley (at) sas.com
Presenter: Christie Hobley
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Techie Tips:
Techie Tips are meant to be short presentations that provide a
tidbit to make your life simpler when using SAS. They can be
arcane or simple but all are meant to fit into the news you can
use category.
Presenter: John Fahey
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Using FSEDIT for Data Entry :
Pan's presentation on FSEDIT is available directly from him - Pantelis.Andreou (at) dal.ca
Presenter: Christie Hobley
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Integration with Third-Party Tools :
Luke's presentation on Third-Party integration is available directly from him,
see http://www.lucastech.ca/info_contact.html
Presenter: Luke Young
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SUGI Info:
Christy provided information on SUGI 29 - see her Insights article:
http://www.sas.com/offices/NA/canada/newsletter/insights/jan04/index.html
Presenter: Christie Hobley
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