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Tricia AanderudAugust 7, 2012 0

Road trip: WUSS meets in Hollywood this year!

Okay - not exactly Hollywood – but it’s only 30 minutes away – so you could visit during the evening or stay the weekend after the conference to do some star-sightings. Long Beach is outside of Los Angeles and close to Hollywood! It’s not too late to sign up for the WUSS (Western

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Rich La Valley, SUGI 14 chair

Waynette TubbsJune 27, 2012 0

Building a treasure trove: Donate your old SAS proceedings

For all of you whipper snappers (a loving term applied to generations younger than yourself) who haven't been around SAS since the beginning of time - like Phil Miller, Art Carpenter and Kathy Council have - you may not remember when SAS Users Groups conference proceedings weren't offered online. That's right

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Waynette TubbsJune 22, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Use CDISC data for patient profiles

According to Janet Stuelpner and Joseph Hantsch, the authors of the 2012 SAS Global Forum paper, One at a Time; Producing Patient Profiles and Narratives, patient profiles are used several ways depending upon the 'customer' need.

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Waynette TubbsJune 15, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - A billion rows on the fly

The first time that I saw a demonstration of SAS Visual Analytics Explorer was awesome, but it didn't give me goosebumps. I got goosebumps the size of golfballs during SAS Global Forum Opening Session when Dr. Goodnight sat down at a computer screen and began to demonstrate how effortlessly users can

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Waynette TubbsJune 12, 2012 0

IASUG 2012: Illuminate your career path

When the IASUG conference founder and 2012 co-chair John Xu was asked what makes this one-day event so successful year after year, he said, “The most important factor is the leadership. We are lucky that we have core conference volunteers committed to supporting the conference.”

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Waynette TubbsJune 8, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Develop Your Org's SAS Skills

In this Flipcam video by SAS' Steve Polilli, Don Kros and Jon Boase discuss the methodology they developed to help SAS users in their organization advance their SAS skills. Kros and Boase submitted a poster, which you'll see in the video, and a paper "The Path to Developing Your Organization's SAS Skills,"

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Tricia AanderudJune 6, 2012 0

User conferences = Busy summer

It’s going to be a busy summer with a lot of travel. I’ve been invited to several user conferences so I’m really excited to get to meet even more SAS users, pick up some great tips for others, and wear myself out chatting.

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Waynette TubbsJune 1, 2012 0

MWSUG 2012 - Call for Papers EXTENDED!!

If you live anywhere in the Midwestern United States (you know who I'm talking about, those of you in the 12 states in the map to the right), you must be breathing a sigh of relief right about now. Why? Because the MWSUG (MidWest SAS Users Group) Call for Papers deadline

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Waynette TubbsJune 1, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - High-performance analytics with Jim Goodnight

One of the coolest things that I saw at SAS Global Forum was Dr. Goodnight dissecting a hologram of a SAS high-performance server and describing how the technology works with analytics. This is the height of innovation. You have got to watch this! Here are a few great

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Waynette TubbsMay 28, 2012 0

Why do you love SAS Global Forum?

I found this great video on AllAnalytics.com. It was shot while you guys were at SAS Global Forum and has soooo many great SAS users talking about the reasons that you love to go to SAS Global Forum. Take a look: Now that you have heard their reasons, tell me

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Waynette TubbsMay 24, 2012 0

Congratulations Best Contributed Paper Winners PharmaSUG 2012!

If you missed PharmaSUG - as I did - you still like to stay on top of the great information that comes out of the conference. I found the list of Best Contributed Papers and decided to post them here for you. There is a lot of other great information

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Waynette TubbsMay 23, 2012 0

How can I spend a long SAS user weekend?

If you're looking for some good stuff to read ... I mean great stuff for SAS users, I've had this list brewing in my head for a few weeks now. (The reason that I ask is because in the US, this weekend will be a three-day holiday to commemorate Memorial Day. So, many families will

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Learn SAS | SAS Events

Shelly GoodinMay 22, 2012 0

10 bestselling books at SAS Global Forum

Sales figures are in for our bestselling books at SAS Global Forum. Books on a variety of topics made the list. New titles were (not surprisingly) very popular with users, as well as books written by authors presenting at the conference. If you didn’t get a chance to browse our bookstore

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Michael SmithMay 21, 2012 0

Expanding a good thing: SAS Users Groups LinkedIn Group

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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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Waynette TubbsMay 18, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Jenine Milum creates a report

At SAS Global Forum, one of the most difficult areas for me to show to you are the poster presentations. This year, I asked Steve Polilli, a colleague who is great with a Flipcam, to video a few for me. I picked out three that I will use in the

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Waynette TubbsMay 17, 2012 0

So long from SAS Global Forum 2012

Here is the last video from the last day at SAS Global Forum 2012. This one is great! Make sure you stay in there long enough to watch the outtakes: they are so funny!

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Waynette TubbsMay 16, 2012 0

SAS User Feedback Award Winner: Pete Lund

Annette Harris spends several minutes during this video extolling many of the high-performance virtues of Pete Lund, Information Systems Manager, Looking Glass Analytics. One thing she didn't mention (it was mentioned to me later) is that Pete is a long-time member of SAS-L. Do you know how many other SAS

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Waynette TubbsMay 14, 2012 0

SESUG junior professional grants

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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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Waynette TubbsMay 11, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - High schoolers analyzing high schoolers

Part of what captivated me about this paper and poster presentation were the presenters - these guys are high school kids using SAS to do a visual analysis of Internet use by high schoolers. The idea was so compelling that Anna Brown and Inside SAS Global Forum went to talk

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Julie PetlickMay 10, 2012 0

SESUG student grants: Apply now

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.

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Waynette TubbsMay 9, 2012 0

How the Orlando Magic relies on SAS Analytics

So, when you go to the game, do you buy a hot dog, a beer and a banner before the first quarter? Do you buy them all from the same vendor? Do you go back during the half? Does the score impact how much money you spend on concessions? All

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Waynette TubbsMay 8, 2012 0

How to be a SAS mentor

Stanley Fogleman says that SAS can be hard to learn on your own - not because it is a difficult language - but because of the various business requirements. In fact, even college students entering the workforce are often ill-prepared in some ways. That's why Fogleman believes that a SAS mentoring program

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Waynette TubbsMay 7, 2012 0

SAS has amped up mobile

SAS already has some cool mobile Business Intelligence apps. Now, Scott McQuiggan tells Anna Brown, in this Inside SAS Global Forum interview, that you can view the really cool high-performance analytics reports that you've created on your desktop - right from your mobile device. Check this out!!

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Iain BrownMay 4, 2012 0

Sentiment analysis: Mining the hearts and minds

It is becoming more and more apparent that social media is a gold mine of unstructured data that is just waiting to be analysed so that the nuggets can be extracted. At SAS Global Forum, I was particularly impressed with the diversified use of sentiment analysis and the exploration that

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Events

Waynette TubbsMay 4, 2012 0

Friday's Innovation Inspiration - A trend, fraud sniffer

Jenn Sykes (you probably remember her from this great sentiment analysis post last year about American Idol), presented Predicting Electoral Outcomes with SAS® Sentiment Analysis and SAS® Forecast Studio at SAS Global Forum 2012. In addition to predicting elections, Sykes tells Anna Brown from Inside SAS Global Forum, that there is a lot of unstructured data

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Waynette TubbsMay 2, 2012 0

Congratulations Best Contributed Papers at SAS Global Forum

Congratulations to all of you who presented at SAS Global Forum. It takes a lot of hard work to put together the research, write a paper and presentation, and then stand on stage and present to a crowd of people you have never met. You are amazing. From all of

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Waynette TubbsMay 1, 2012 0

Statistician: The sexy job of the next decade

Google's Chief Economist Hal Varian says the sexiest job of this decade will be statistician. Anna Brown interviewed George Hurley, a Senior Research Manager, to find out what the big deal is. Take a look at his answer and then tell me why you think being a statistician is the hot

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Andrew KuligowskiApril 30, 2012 0

SAS Global Forum Chair Andrew Kuligowski: Just another face in the crowd

Waynette is exhausted after everything she did at SAS Global Forum, so she asked me to write a blog post for her so she can take some time to rest up. ??? Hey, Waynette, like you think I’m a bundle of energy after chairing the event ??? I mean, I

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