Spring 2023: Vancouver SAS User Group (VANSUG) Meeting

AliceYuan — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:59:22 GMT

On May 3, we had our first VANSUG Meeting since the pandemic. It was great to see SAS Users gather together to share their knowledge and reconnect, in-person!

Here was the agenda for the day.

8:30am - 9:00am	Registration and Refreshments
9:00am - 9:05am	Welcome Remarks Colleen McGahan, VANSUG President
9:05am - 9:20am	What's New at SAS? Alice Yuan, SAS Canada
9:20am - 9:40am	Form Over Function? Why Not Both? - Using SAS to Complete a Form Jeremy Hamm, BC Cancer
9:40am - 10:25am	Modernizing Your SAS Platform From SAS 9 to SAS Viya Suellen Ventura, SAS Canada
10:25am - 10:45am	Networking Break
10:45am - 11:25am	Journey of Open Source Programming in SAS Viya Deep Jariwala, SAS Canada Understanding Open source connection with SAS Viya Custom Demo 1: Python Coding in SAS Studio Custom Demo 2: Integrating SAS and Python Code using SAS Flows Custom Demo 3: Python Coding in Model Studio Custom Demo 4: Connecting Jupyter NB with SAS Viya environment R integration with SAS Viya SAS Studio extension and integration with Visual Studio Code
11:25am - 11:50am	SAS RWI: Putting the cell in Excel Mike Atkinson, BC Ministry of Health The SAS Report Writing Interface lets you wield a lot of control over the content and format of Excel workbooks. This presentation shows how to create a client‑ready Excel workbook that doesn’t need any manual tweaking afterwards.
11:50am - 12:00pm	Closing Remarks

In this post, you'll find the PDF versions of the presentations. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to me (Alice.Yuan@sas.com).

Hope to see you at the next one!

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