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DCSUG recording of SAS Programming Efficiency for Beginners

ShelleySessoms — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:16:58 GMT

Bruce Gilsen, Federal Reserve, presents -

Title:: SAS ® PROGRAM EFFICIENCY FOR BEGINNERS

On Sept, 28, Bruce Gilsen shared simple efficiency techniques that can benefit SAS ® users at all levels of experience. Applications or data sets for which efficiency techniques are presented include the following:

Read long records from a flat file and keep selected records.
Subset a SAS data set to create a new data set or use in a SAS Procedure.
Test multiple conditions with IN, OR, or AND operators.
Read a SAS data set when you need only a few of many variables.
Concatenate two SAS data sets.
Execute a DATA step when no output SAS data set is needed.
Speed up processing by not dividing by zero.

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Bruce Gilsen's BIO:

In 35+ years as a SAS ® consultant at the Federal Reserve Board, he has answered thousands of SAS-related questions. Some of the most common problems encountered were discussed in seven previous "Tales from the Help Desk" papers. He is rated as one of the top-5 speakers of DCSUG, over the last 10 years.

Re: DCSUG recording of SAS Programming Efficieny for Beginners

Quentin — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:33:01 GMT

Thanks for sharing the recording, @ShelleySessoms . Bruce is terrific presenter! I was at a few DC SUG meetings when I lived in DC (about 20 years ago...) I learned a lot, and also made a connection that helped me get a new job. Glad to see it's still an active community.

Bruce presented a webinar for BASUG in 2021 on calling R from SAS. That recording is available at: https://www.basug.org/videos?wix-vod-video-id=b67d5218dbe24163ace0723ddfea38dd&wix-vod-comp-id=comp-klv807gt

Re: DCSUG recording of SAS Programming Efficieny for Beginners

ShelleySessoms — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:07:58 GMT

I agree, @Quentin. Bruce is a force to be reckoned with and pulled in 80 virtual attendees!

Re: DCSUG recording of SAS Programming Efficiency for Beginners

nbrucken — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:23:48 GMT

Thank you, Shelley! MSUG is always looking for speakers; maybe Bruce will consider presenting a webinar for our group, as well.

Thanks,

Nancy