Expanding a good thing: SAS Users Groups LinkedIn Group

Michael Smith
Michael Smith|May 21, 2012

In August 2011, we expanded the scope of the SAS Global Forum blog and rebranded it as the SAS Users Group blog.   Our goal was to create one vibrant and dynamic spot for content related to SAS users groups and SAS user presentations.   The result has been terrific!  Many new [...]

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SESUG junior professional grants

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 14, 2012

SESUG (Southeast SAS Users Group Conference) is an annual conference held in the Southeast US – typically in September or October. This year, the conference will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham, North Carolina, October 14-16.   According to Peter Eberhardt, SESUG 2012 Academic Chair, the [...]

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SESUG student grants: Apply now

Julie Petlick
Julie Petlick|May 10, 2012

The semester is coming to an end and summer break is just around the corner, so why should you be thinking about conferences and grant opportunities?  Conferences like SESUG provide a lot of great benefits to students. tags: SESUG, student scholarship programs, US Regional Conferences

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Student scholarship programs available at SAS users group conferences

Julie Petlick
Julie Petlick|April 10, 2012

Chances are you have at least one paper or research project this semester. If you are using SAS as part of a project, there are some great student scholarship opportunities to allow you to attend a SAS users group conference this year. You can present your work and build your [...]

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Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Get a real job

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|March 30, 2012

There may be some of you who don’t remember this song, but in high school and early college it was one of my favorites. “Get a haircut and get a real job,” by George Thorogood and the Destroyers, really spoke to the rebel in me. Most of my rebellious days are behind [...]

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Managing big data at the speed of risk

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|March 28, 2012

“When I started using predictive analytics in 1991, I had a desktop computer with a 600 megabyte hard drive running SAS® 5.0 something,” said Olivia Rud, respected business intelligence thought leader and author of Data Mining Cookbook: Modeling Data for Marketing, Risk and Customer Relationship Management. Technology has vastly improved [...]

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Minimizing risk of bad data: a cross-industry problem

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|March 6, 2012

“Bad data does exist,” says Sunil Gupta, SAS author and Global Corporate Trainer, Gupta Programming. Gupta is an expert in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, but he volunteered this week to speak to an audience of SAS users in the insurance and financial services industries about minimizing the impact and [...]

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Q&A with PharmaSUG co-chair Josh Horstman

Michael Smith
Michael Smith|February 21, 2012

The smallest aircraft I’ve ever flown on was the one I took from Raleigh to Hilton Head, South Carolina to attend my first PharmaSUG – the Pharmaceutical Industry SAS Users Group.  That was in 1997, and it’s been my pleasure to work with this great group of volunteer SAS leaders [...]

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IFSUG Summit registration now open!

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|January 16, 2012

Are you a SAS professional working in the insurance or financial services industry? Are you looking for a place where you can talk with others who work in the those industries? Would you like to get together and network, face-to-face, or share ideas and best practices for using SAS? There is now a SAS Users Group just for you; [...]

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IFSUG Summit Call for papers

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|November 26, 2011

~Contributed by Rex Pruitt, IFSUG Chairman One of the newest SAS users groups has settled on a date, time and place for its first formal get-together. IFSUG (Insurance & Finance SAS Users Group) will meet March 4-6 in the new SAS Executive Briefing Center in Cary, NC. The IFSUG Summit will [...]

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