Genesee Valley SAS Users Group

A group supporting SAS® Users in the Genesee Valley (Rochester, NY) region. Welcome!

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Welcome to Fall - Let's Get Together!

GVSUG's Fall Meeting is coming up on October 17th starting at 3:00 (sign-in begins at 2:30 pm). We have become quite comfortable at the RIT Inn & Conference Center where, once again, the meeting take place. More details will be forthcoming in the next edition of our newsletter. Register for the meeting here.

In the meantime, here are three details on the agenda that should peek your interest.:

Our keynote speaker will be Charles Hallahan at the USDA Economic Research Service. Charlie will be flying in to present :

Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 for Statistical Analysis.
This tutorial will center on using the most current SAS interactive interface, during which, by example, you will learn how code that’s generated by SAS Enterprise Guide can be customized, stored, and re-run. All in the context of the most familar Statistical Procedures. Charlie has sucessfully presented papers on this topic at both SUGI and NESUG.

Continuing in the theme of putting Enterprise Guide to work, will be our second talk: Guido’s Guide to PROC FREQ: Enterprise Guide Edition, given by GVSUG's own Executive Commitee chair: Joseph Guido. Joe's talk is an adaption and extension of content in his upcoming paper at NESUG 2007.

At the GVSUG executive commitee meetngs, we work to bring the best of past, present (and future!) regional and national SAS conference right here to Rochester. You can join our team in time to help plan the next meeting. This is because we are having our annual elections at the next meeting and the nomination form is right here. So nominate yourself and come join us. But hurry as your self-nomination must be received by October 14th in time to be voted on at the meeting.

*** Please note, if you nominated yourself for a GVSUG Executive Commitee position prior to October 3, 2007, we may have lost your entry, please re-submit it using this link

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

NESUG 20th Anniversary Edition



Time is running out to pre-register at discount rates for the 20th Anniversary NESUG Conference:


Go here to do it now

If you have never attended a NESUG before, this conference is great place to start. Here's a partial list of some of the special events taking place at the 20th edition of NESUG:

  • A special commemorative opening session

  • Keynote address by Kathy Council of SAS about the long and successful relationship between SAS and NESUG

  • A gala reception at the National Aquarium sponsored by SAS

  • A nostalgic display of NESUG memorabilia

  • A 20th anniversary problem solving contest

And then there are over 150 presentations, workshops and posters that make it all worthwhile, including a reprisal of some of the best and most informative talks of the last few years. Click here to get the registration booklet with much more detail or go to http://www.nesug.org/

The NESUG conference is entirely a volunteer effort, so for a little more fun, why not join the team?