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NESUG 2009 Early Registration discount ends soon!
If you haven't already registered for the 2009 NESUG Annual Conference (September 13 - 16 in Burlington, VT), you're about to miss out on a great opportunity -- and great savings. As always, NESUG 2009 will be the best value available in SAS education. Register on or before July 22nd and save $100!
There's so much content in the conference, we can only hit the highlights in this newsletter. For complete conference details, hotel information and links to attractions in the Burlington area, visit our website.
Hope to see you in Burlington in September!
Sue Douglass and Mike Molter
Conference Chairs
P.S. I just did a short video on why you should attend this conference. Click here to view it. Mike |
Limited Sunday Workshop space still available
Sunday Workshops explore topics not otherwise offered during the conference,and delve more deeply into the topics. Here are the 2009 Workshop offerings:
9A - noon ODS: The Basics and Beyond - presented by Lauren Haworth (Genentech)
1:00P -4:00P Exploring SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.2 (Hands-on) - presented by Kenneth Sucher (SAS)
Click here for detailed Workshop descriptions.
Workshops are open to registered conference attendees for an additional fee of $150 per workshop.
To enroll, just check the appropriate box when you register for the conference.
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A "Can't Miss" Keynote Address
Don't miss our special keynote presentation presented by SAS Chief Information Officer, Suzanne Gordon. For some time the economic climate has had all of us watching the news, reading the newspaper, and wondering how our own situation would be affected. For many of us, our job is tied closely to the effects of economic changes on SAS usage.
How have companies changed the way they use SAS? How has the value of your SAS experience changed in the marketplace? Or how has your SAS expertise kept you employed, and what can you do to make it impossible for your employer to lose you?
In her address entitled "Prospering in a Down Economy: Strategies for SAS Users," Suzanne will offer valuable, objective information to those who have dedicated their careers to SAS software.
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A Plethora of Presentations
Here are just a few of the presentations you can attend at the 2009 NESUG Conference:
- Look Ma, No Hands! Or How We Move SAS® Into Microsoft Excel® With No Manual Intervention
John J. Cohen, AstraZeneca LP
- Houston, We Have a Macro
Gregory P. Fagan, Genzyme Corporation
- Improve Your Dating: The INTNX Function Alignment Value SAMEDAY
Bruce F. Gilsen, Federal Reserve Board
- Taming the Box Plot
Sanjiv Ramalingam, Octagon Research Solutions Inc.
- Going Postal - Automating Distribution of Formatted Reports Using Base SAS®
Tracy DeCanio, The Nature Conservancy
- A Row is a Row is a Row, or is it? Get Comfortable with Transposing your Data
Christianna S. Williams, Abt Associates Inc.
- So You're Still Not Using PROC REPORT. Why Not?
Daphne Ewing, Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc
Ray Pass, Ray Pass Consulting
- Purrfectly Fabulous Feline Functions
Louise S. Hadden, Abt Associates Inc.
- Tiptoe Through the Templates
Cynthia Zender, SAS
Don't see anything that tickles your fancy in this list? There are dozens more to chose from! No matter what your SAS experience level, no matter what industry you're in, you'll find lots of great content.
Click here for a complete list of presentations and workshops. |
Technical Tip
 by Lauren Haworth
Lauren Haworth is an Associate Director of Statistical Programming at Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco. She has been using SAS since 1988, and specializes in analysis and reporting for clinical trials. Lauren is the author of two books in the SAS Books by Users series: "PROC TABULATE by Example" and "Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond" (release date: Summer 2009). Lauren will be the Conference Chair of SAS Global Forum 2010 in Seattle.
Lauren will preview the most essential intermediate ODS topics in her September 13th NESUG Sunday Workshop. The content comes from the new book mentioned above featuring broad coverage of the best ODS features in SAS 9.2.
A Sneak Peek at a New ODS Book (and NESUG Sunday Workshop)
A favorite new tip from the book:
Adding a date to a header or footer provides useful information about when a file was created or modified. By default, ODS inserts an RTF control string that corresponds to the Word date field in the page header of RTF output. This means that the date value is updated to the current date each time the file is opened. If you'd prefer the document to reflect the date the program was run, you just need to add one option to your ODS RTF statement:
ODS RTF FILE='StaticDate.rtf' SASDATE;
By adding this option, SAS will insert text for the current date when the program was run. Remember that the SAS date is actually the time and date that you started your SAS session. So, if a programmer keeps his/her session open for days at a time, this date might not correspond to the actual date the program was run.
About the book:
Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond goes beyond Lauren Haworth's original ODS text to demonstrate the many new and enhanced features of ODS and SAS 9.2. With SAS 9.2, ODS provides a myriad of choices for reporting and displaying analytical results with a greater variety of formatting selections and output destinations. As experienced SAS users, Lauren E. Haworth, Cynthia L. Zender, and Michele M. Burlew know how important it is to be able to produce customized output in different formats to meet the needs of clients. Geared toward all levels of SAS users, Output Delivery System is an example-driven book that presents each of the wide array of ODS techniques in an easy-to-use, two-page layout, with the text and code on one page and the resulting output on the facing page.
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We'll be in touch with more details about NESUG 2009. In the meantime, check our website frequently for the latest information.
Sincerely,
Sue Douglass and Mike Molter
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NorthEast SAS Users Group
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