Los Angeles Basin SAS Users Group
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Los Angeles Basin SAS Users Group Los Angeles Basin SAS Users Group holds a once a year all day event to discuss SAS related issues and to learn new ways of exploiting existing systems to get our jobs done. Novice to experienced SAS users enjoyed quality presentations from fellow SAS users and SAS Institute.
We want to thank our primary sponsors, Western Users of SAS Software and SAS, for their continued support.
For registration, see www.labsug.org.
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SAS LA Forum Thursday, October 29, 2009
Location
Los Angeles Basin SAS Users Group will hold its annual one day conference at Kaiser Permanente Walnut Center in Pasadena to discuss SAS related issues. Detailed information provided with your registration.
Parking Information
Information will be provided with registration.
Agenda
| Time | Activity/Presentation | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 AM | Registration & Continental Breakfast | Networking with your local SAS Community |
| 10:00 AM | ODS Packages: Putting Some Zip in Your ODS Output | Eric Gebhart
SAS Institute Inc. |
| 11:00 AM | Coders' Corner | Two 15-Minute Presentations by LA Basin Speakers |
| 11:30 AM | Upping Your SAS Game with SAS 9.2 and SAS Enterprise Guide | Chris Hemedinger, Senior Software Manager in SAS R&D
SAS Institute Inc. |
| 12:30 PM | Round Table Lunches & Announcements | Kim LeBouton, Independent Consultant
KJL Computing |
| 01:30 PM | Where Do You Turn In A Downturn? A Guide to Finding and Keeping Work in an Economic Recession | Molly Meade Hall |
| 02:30 PM | What every SAS Programmer should know: Importing Files | Renato G. Villacorte, Vice-President, Information Systems
Fairbank, Maslin, Maulin & Associates |
| 03:30 PM | SAS® Visual Data Discovery | John Guerrero, Systems Engineer
SAS Institute Inc. |
| 04:30 PM | Closing | Final Give-a-ways |
So what's the best thing about attending the annual Los Angeles Basin SAS User Group?
Some might argue that the best thing about attending SAS LA Forum is that they get to learn new SAS knowledge and discuss SAS related issues. That's really great, but it's not the BEST thing.
Others might say that they really enjoy the quality presentations from fellow SAS users. Thank you to all of our past presenters over the years. We love the presentations, but that's still not the BEST reason to come to the meeting.
You might guess that the reason to come out and brave LA traffic is to see the always inspiring and high quality presentations put on by SAS. They are great presentations, but that is still not the BEST thing about attending the conference.
The cynical among us might argue that they enjoy the opportunity to miss a day work and have a yummy lunch (but we all love our jobs so that wouldn't be politically correct). And anyhow, that's still not the BEST thing.
Well, you might be wondering, is it the giveaways then? But not the best reason to come out.
Give up yet? Well, it's obvious, really. The best reason to make the effort, brave the traffic, miss a day of work, and come to the annual SAS user group meeting is to network, hang out with, gossip and collaborate with fellow SAS users!! Sure, there are bigger conferences with more SAS users, but this conference affords you the opportunity to meet other users here in our lovely community of Los Angeles.
Job Postings in the L.A. Area
Please use LinkedIn Jobs Posting or the Opportunity Registry. Feel free to link your postings back to this page.
SAS Blogs by L.A. Area Users or Presenters at SAS LA Forum
- The Julia Group
- Data Steps A regularly updated blog about programming with the SAS System.
- The SAS Dummy
SAS Get Togethers around Los Angeles
Please post events or casual get togethers in the area.
Topics that you would like to see at upcoming events:
- I'd like to see an event focused on SAS Enterprise Guide.
- I'd also like something on non-parametric statistics, as well as on presentation of statistical data so that even a hamster could understand it (BYOH - bring your own hamster).
Past Events
Past information posted on sasCommunity.org: Past LABSUG Events.
