SAS Users Group of Maine

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SUGME is soliciting short tips for its December meeting

Date: December 10, 2009

Time: 1:00 - 4:00

Place: Classroom 7, Dana Center, Maine Med, Portland

Topics: Anything and Everything

SUGME invites you to the podium on December 10, 2009 to share at least one tip/idea/instruction with your colleagues at SUGME. The December meeting of SUGME traditionally focuses on presentations from local users. We are always amazed at what even seasoned users can pick up by listening to others talk about their SAS experience. In particular, recent adopters pick up innovations more quickly than people with well-established habits. We are confident your contribution would be valued by attendees, no matter how early you are in your SAS career.

We do not require formal papers. It is helpful to have a slide or two to show as you describe your tip. For your efforts, you will earn the gratitude of SUGME, a reputation you can leverage in your career, and the opportunity to learn more about your topic by responding to questions and remarks from the audience.

Please email Judy Loren (address at SUGME Steering Committee ) with your idea, along with a time estimate for presenting it so we can make a schedule, and then make a note to have slides ready for Thursday, December 10, 2009. The meeting will be held in classroom 7 of the Dana Center at Maine Med starting at 1:00.

TIA for your contribution.

Papers volunteered so far:

Ray Cloutier Using Systask to Dynamically Create Libnames

Lloyd Butler More than One Way to Age a Cat

Craig Dickstein MERGE without a BY Statement: Don’t Do It?

Craig Dickstein Dropping Sparsely Populated Variables

Cindy Li %ds2csv

Grant Duston using SAS to generate a randomly selected lottery ticket number

Bruce Peel DATA step transpose

Judy Loren The Unexpected Retain

Christine Leonard XML with hierarchical data

Jason Peng Oh, no – someone zipped my dataset!

Details and directions will be posted below, and at SUGME Next Meeting

We are also soliciting volunteers for Steering Committee positions for 2010

our complete current Officer list is:

President - Alan Dickson

Liaison/Vice-President - Judy Loren

Treasurer - Joanne Cederna

Webmaster - Jeff Stoddard

Secretary - Bruce Peel

Refreshments - Craig Beisel

At-Large - Lori Travis

Contacts at SUGME Steering Committee