SAS Users Group of Maine
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[edit] Next meeting
Date: November 14, 2008
Time: 1:00 - 4:00
Place: UNUM offices click here for directions
[edit] Agenda
Using Dashboards to Keep Veterinarians Informed and Improve Animal Health
James Shields, IDEXX Laboratories
Abstract
Dashboards have become a popular way of presenting data. A variety of fields use dashboards to drive sales, monitor inventory, or keep the end user informed. SAS can be used to create static graphical presentations (mailings or power points) or frequently updated web based dashboards. This presentation will show some uses of dashboards and other graphics geared towards keeping customers informed of their activities.
Bio
James Shields is Marketing Analysis Manager at IDEXX Laboratories. In this role he supports statistical analysis and data mining for internal clients as well as analysis for veterinarians and external corporate groups. He has been using SAS/Graph for several years for data visualization and recently has focused on dashboards to extend data visualization to clients external to the company.
The WWW of the WIKI sasCommunity.org
Ray Cloutier, Health Dialog
Abstract
What is WIKI? Why use WIKI? Who should use WIKI? This paper will explain the 3 Ws of WIKI and try to entice users to go out and create their own WIKI page. In addition to learning how to traverse WIKI pages readers will also learn how to create their very own WIKI pages and join the growing online SAS community of the future at sasCommunity.org.
Bio
Ray Cloutier currently works as a Senior Data Analyst at Health Dialog. He enjoys blending technologies to create user-friendly environments. Ask him how he submits SAS jobs from a Windows text editor to a Linux SAS server (without using PC SAS or SAS/CONNECT).
Coder's Corner
Bob Nichols, Wright Express, Sending Emails from SAS
Glenna Wilder, Wright Express, DDE
Judy Loren, Health Dialog, What's New in 9.2 (Report from NESUG)
[edit] Notes from last meeting (August 21, MMC)
Here are the details of SUGME's most recent meeting in case you are looking for the links:
See http://www.albany.edu/faculty/msz03/temp/sugme_aug2008.zip for a copy of Mike Zdeb's PowerPoint and associated sas programs.
- Most Recent Meeting:
- Date: Friday, August 22
Time: 1:00 – 4:00
Place: Maine Medical Center, Dana Center Auditorium
Directions: http://www.mmc.org/mmc_body.cfm?id=1154#bramhall
Agenda:
Business Intelligence at Maine Medical Center Authors: Chingos, J. Peter; Wong, Rocket
Abstract: Maine Medical Center will demonstrate its use of SAS Information Delivery Portal, Automated reporting using Enterprise Guide and SAS Microsoft Add-in. Together these comprise the information delivery system to measure and manage organizational performance measures.
Maine Medical Center is leveraging the power of SAS' data warehousing capabilities and SAS/ACCESS to integrate data from multiple sources into one location for analysis.
Join us to see a live presentation of the SAS Information Delivery Portal and discuss real applications of BI. Biographies: J. Peter Chingos manages the SAS business intelligence platform at Maine Medical Center. He has 13 years of experience in healthcare performance management. He has MBA in Healthcare Management from Boston University. Rocket Wong is the Business Intelligence Developer for Maine Medical Center's Center (MMC) for Performance Improvement. He is an MSc in statistics from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. At MMC, Rocket is responsible for the Design, Development, and Testing of all Business Intelligence requests. He is the lead role in MMC's Balanced Scorecards. Prior to working at MMC, Rocket was an independent consultant to many industries, including, DOT.COM, Hospitals, Insurance, Banking and Government.
ALSO: Mike Zdeb (click here for a sasCommunity bio) on HOT Tips from SAS-L
HOT Tips from SAS-L
One way to improve your SAS skills is to spend some time with SAS-L. If you are already a SAS-L participant, you know that it is a wonderful resource. If you have never heard of SAS-L, this presentation will give you a brief introduction and then use a number of recent postings to demonstrate why it is worth at least an occasional look. Have you ever used two SET statements to read the same data set twice within one data step? Have you have ever used the same data set name twice within a SET statement (the wonders of the self-interleave)? Have you ever used the MOD function to help populate the elements of an array? Ever use CALL EXECUTE or a data step hash object? You probably have used a DO loop, but what about a DOW loop? If you are saying to yourself that you've gotten along fine without any of the above, perhaps a look at how all of the above (and more) have been used to solve problems posed on SAS-L will convince you that SAS-L is well worth a look. (Download Presentation and SAS Code Used in Examples)
