SAS Bowl XXXIII, SAS Explore 2023Are you a trivia nut? Whether you enjoy a game of Trivial Pursuit with the family, spout out random facts at the dinner table or are a regular at the local watering hole on Trivia Night, here’s your chance to combine your hobby with SAS.
Test your SAS (and other worldly) knowledge in a SAS Community Trivia event: The SAS Bowl! The live competition features a wide variety of questions, not just SAS related. All skill levels are welcome. To participate, all you have to do is show up, provide a game username (aka your community username), and compete for fabulous SAS Community swag. We’ll provide specific details as game day approaches.
When and how often?
Mark your calendars. The inaugural was held in August and we're planning on a monthly cadence. A detailed schedule appears at the end of this article. The image below offers a glimpse at the experience.
The game
Comprised of twenty multiple-choice questions and hosted live by an emcee, the game includes inquiries on SAS, analytics, relevant tech trends, math, and general trivia. Each session centers on a specific SAS topic based on a blog post, community article, video tutorial, etc. Links to the resource(s) will be released prior to the game. Read/watch/follow the topic before the event and have an advantage in the game. You get credit for correct answers and on how quickly you submit your response.
At game time, just visit the URL, provide your community username to display, and you’re logged into the game. Using your SAS Communities profile handle will allow us to identify you and can arrange delivery of your swag when you finish in the top three. Didn’t make the top three? Don’t worry, all participants earn a special community badge.
Games run around 30 minutes. Here’s what to expect:
- A brief welcome
- Game rules
- 3-5-minute commentary on the SAS topic of the day
- Trivia
- Wrap up
We’ll follow up each game with a Community post with game highlights, winners, and a recording of the session. We’re very excited to bring this event to the Community and hope to see you there! Game on.
Registration for the game is handled through form links in the calendar events. Following the links it the section below will take you to game details.
What's in a name?
Questions have surfaced on the naming origins of the event. Is it a play on the American football championship, a version of the Saturday morning Quiz Bowl airing on local TV stations throughout the US, or a rebirth of a SAS Users group event from times past? Who knows? Debate among yourselves. Maybe we just thought the name was catchy?
Schedule of SAS Bowl events
Next up
SAS Bowl XXXVII, SAS Customer Recognition Awards - Wednesday, January 10, 2023, at 10 AM ET - Take action and nominate a great SAS user story
Past events
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SAS Bowl XXXVI, Data Simulation - Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at 10 AM ET - Quickly create large data sets drawn from different distributions
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SAS Bowl XXXV, These are a few of my favorite Procs - Wednesday, November 16, 2023, at 10 AM ET - Let's talk about our SAS favorites
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SAS Bowl XXXIV, SAS Explore 2023 Highlights - Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at 10 AM ET - A recap of the 2023 SAS Explore user's event
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SAS Bowl XXXIII, SAS Explore 2023 - Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 10 AM ET - All things SAS Explore, our global, live, users conference
- SAS Bowl XXXII, Jupyter Notebooks - Wednesday, June 14, at 10 AM ET - Jupyter Notebook allows users to integrate with SAS Viya using various coding languages, namely Python, R, and even SAS
- SAS Bowl XXXI, SAS Support Communities - Wednesday, May 10, at 10 AM ET - Explore all that the SAS Communities have to offer
- SAS Bowl XXX, SAS Intelligent Decisioning - Wednesday, April 12, at 10 AM ET - Integrating models and decisions will empower you to use a Modelops approach, optimizing your agility and development cycles - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XXIX, The SAS Hackathon - Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 10 AM ET - Celebrate the SAS Hackathon which runs March 15 through April 15, 2023 - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XXVIII, SAS Studio Custom Steps - Wednesday, Feb 15, 2023, at 10 AM ET - Custom steps provide visual and flexible data manipulation/integration jobs with shared reusable components - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XXVII, CAS Actions - Wednesday, January 18, at 10 AM ET - See how to use CAS Actions to perform tasks in SAS Viya from a variety of clients - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XXVI, The SAS SWAT Package - Wednesday, December 14, at 10 AM ET - Find out more about connecting to SAS Viya from open source clients
- SAS Bowl XXV, SAS Extension for Visual Studio Code - Wednesday, November 16, at 10 AM ET - Find out more about the new SAS Extension for VS Code - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XXIV, Ethics in Data Science - Wednesday, October 12, at 10 AM ET - Learn how SAS is tackling the issue of bias in AI - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XXIII, SAS Explore - Wednesday, September 7, at 10 AM ET - Let's Explore the details of the upcoming SAS users event - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XXII, The SAS Batting Lab - Wednesday, August 17, at 10 AM ET - The SAS Batting Lab combines the American past time with teaching kids about analytics and data science - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XXI, SAS Analytics Pro - Wednesday, July 13, at 10 AM ET - Latest SAS Studio inside a portable, lightweight container - Recap of the event
- SAS Bowl XX, ODS Graphics - Wednesday, June 8, at 10 AM ET - Highlighting an essential graphing tool in SAS programming
- SAS Bowl XIX, SAS Studio Steps, Task, & Snippets - Wednesday, May 11, at 10 AM ET - SAS Studio low code/no code options
- SAS Bowl XVIII, SAS User Groups - Wednesday, April 6, at 10 AM ET - explore a variety of SAS User Groups
- SAS Bowl XVII, Sending emails from SAS - Wednesday, March 9, at 10 AM ET - learn about configuring and sending emails from SAS
- SAS Bowl XVI, SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office - Wednesday, February 9, at 10 AM ET - explore how to integrate SAS into Microsoft Office
- SAS Bowl XV, SAS Studio Python Editor - Thursday, December 9, at 10 AM ET -we're keeping on the Python theme and dedicating the game to the SAS Studio Python Code Editor
- SAS Bowl XIV, SASPy - Thursday, November 11, 2021, at 4 PM ET - Can't decide between SAS and Python? Use both, with SASPy.
- SAS Bowl XIII, Graphically Speaking blog - Tuesday, October 12, 2021, at 4 PM ET - We're dedicating the October edition of the SAS Communities trivia to the popular blog.
- SAS Bowl XII, Back to School - Wednesday, September 8, 2021, at 4 PM ET - We're dedicating the September edition of the SAS Communities trivia to new users and learners.
- SAS Bowl XI, ModelOps - Tuesday, August 10, 2021, at 3 PM ET - SAS Model Manager provides a proven ModelOps tool to deploy, govern, and manage all types of models.
- SAS Bowl X, SAS Viya, Cloud, Containers, and Kubernetes - Thursday, June 24, 10 AM ET - we'll introduce the SAS Community to cloud computing, containers and Kubernetes
- SAS Bowl IX, SAS Global Forum – Tuesday April 20, 4 PM ET – Let's talk about our global, annual event
- SAS Bowl VIII, SAS OnDemand for Academics – Tuesday March 16, 10 AM ET – powerful analytical software, for free!
- SAS Bowl VII, The Matching Game – Tuesday, February 9, 10 AM ET – table joins and data merges, proc psmatch, marriage proposals, and love-themed graphics
- SAS Bowl VI, SAS APIs – Tuesday, January 19, 10 AM ET – Featuring an introduction to using SAS APIs
- SAS Bowl V, Working with Data – Tuesday December 8, 2020, 10 AM ET – Featuring SAS Users blog posts by @LeonidBatkhan
- SAS Bowl IV, The SUGA Bowl – Tuesday November, 10, 2020, 2 PM EST – Featuring the SAS Users Group for Administrators & Architects (SUGA)
- SAS Bowl III, SAS Macros – Tuesday, October 27, 10 AM EDT
- SAS Bowl II, Free Data Friday – Tuesday, September 22, 10 AM EDT
- SAS Bowl I, Enterprise Guide Tips and Tricks – Tuesday, August 25, 10 AM EDT
* The Engage platform utilizes YouTube studio. If you have restricted YouTube access, you can still participate in the event, but you will not have audio or video capabilities.
