GVSUG Meets This Week

The Spring 2006 meeting will take place Wednesday April 5, 2006 at the RIT Inn and Conference Center. You can register online or on-site starting at 2:30 P.M. The meeting will begin at precisely 3:00, and last until about 6:15. As always, please join us for SAS ‘n Suds afterward, conveniently located in the hotel restaurant.

Please see the most current newsletter for a map and directions to the RIT Inn and Conference Center.

Presentations at Next GVSUG Meeting

Guest Speaker: Vincent DelGobbo (SAS Institute) "Moving Data and Analytical Results between SAS and Microsoft Office"

Nancy Farden "Use of SAS/GRAPH to Illustrate PMPM, Average Utilization and Average Cost for Healthcare Services"

Tips N' Tricks (as many as time permits)

Marla Miller "Using a Format to Create a Variable and Select Records"

Gina Lau "Got a Date?"

Adam LaManna "Let's Restart"

Mike Molter "The REPORT Procedure's Temporary Variable: What Is It? Why Do I Care?"

Michael Tomb "Use the MODULEN Functions to Say 'Hello World' and Get Back a Response"

Awards at SUGI

Two members of GVSUG received awards for their Coder's Corner presentations at SUGI 31. Bill Murphy was awarded Best Paper for his paper Squeezing Information Out of Data. This was the fourth consecutive SUGI he has received an award for one of his presentations. Mike Molter was awarded Honorable Mention for his paper The REPORT Procedure's Temporary Variable: What Is It? Why Do I Care? . This was the second time one of his Coders Corner's presentations has been recognized.

Congratulations, Mike and Bill!!!

SUGI Changes Name

Beginning in 2007, the SAS Users Group International (SUGI) conference will be known as SAS Global Forum. Click here for more information on SGF and next years conference.

Record Attendance at SUGI 31

There were over 4,200 attendees at the 31st SAS Users Group International held March 26-29, 2006 in San Francisco, CA. Among the congregation, 32% attended for the first time and almost 8% had participated in at least 25 SUGIs.

NESUG Deadline Approaches

The deadline for abstract submissions for NESUG is April 7, 2006.

GVSUG Newsletter Spring 2006

Read the full Newsletter and find out more about the upcoming meeting.

Spring 2006 Meeting Announcement

The Spring 2006 meeting will take place Wednesday April 5, 2006 at the RIT Inn and Conference Center. Register online or on-site registration will begin at 2:30, the meeting will begin at precisely 3:00, and last until about 6:15. As always, please join us for SAS ‘n Suds afterward, conveniently located in the hotel restaurant.

The keynote speaker will be Vince DelGobbo from SAS Institute. Vince’s paper "Moving Data and Analytical Results Between SAS and Microsoft Office" has been extremely popular at user group meetings across the nation. You can read a little more about it here. He has also prepared a follow-up to this paper which he will be presenting at NESUG this fall. We are not yet sure which of the two he will be presenting to us, but either one will be great.

The rest of the presentations have not yet been finalized. However, we will be dedicating a block of time to a session we are calling “Tips and Tricks”. If you have a useful technique or tip that others could benefit from, and you are willing to spend 5 to 10 minutes talking about it, please submit a brief abstract (just a few sentences) here, and please indicate 5 or 10 minutes where prompted.

Happy Hour Recap

Twelve members of GVSUG gathered at SPoT Coffee on 2/28/2006 to talk about SAS and to network with fellow users. Some of the topics of conversation were embedding charts in tabular output, the SAS certification program and PROC TRANSPOSE.

For the three scheduled GVSUG Happy Hours to date, between 10 and 15 members have attended each of the events. If you have any ideas for disucssion topics or locations for future gatherings, please contact anyone on the Executive Committee.