Cheers to another meeting in the books! We hope everyone enjoyed the presentations...and the beer. 🍻 There's nothing quite like meeting other SAS Edmonton Users over a pint of beer, in my humble opinion. 😉
In case you need a refresher, here was the agenda for the afternoon.
| 12:30pm - 1:00pm |
Registration and Appetizers |
| 1:00pm - 1:05pm |
Welcome Remarks
Doug Dover, ESUG President |
| 1:05pm - 1:20pm |
What's New at SAS?
Alice Yuan, SAS Canada |
| 1:20pm - 1:55pm |
Diving Deeper Into SQL
John Fleming, Alberta Health Services
Often with SQL, we get some basic stuff like joins. But is there more we can do with SQL? Today, we are going to take a deeper look.
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| 1:55pm - 2:15pm |
Tips & Tricks
Doug Dover & Emily Blagdon, University of Alberta |
| 2:15pm - 2:45pm |
Networking Break & Refreshments |
| 2:45pm - 3:20pm |
SAS Automation for Pragmatic Randomized Trials
Erik Youngson, Alberta Health Services
The BedMed Frail study is currently enrolling patients to evaluate whether time of day blood pressure medications are taken in continuing care facilities impacts patient outcomes.
This talk will highlight several ways that SAS is utilized within Alberta Health Services to conduct the study including the following:
- Identifying eligible residents
- Connecting directly to a REDCap database
- Storing data in Oracle
- Randomization
- Securely emailing randomization lists
- Emailing summary results
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| 3:20pm - 3:50pm |
Case Use for SAS Visual Investigator – Combating Guns and Gangs in Alberta with the Correctional Services Intelligence Unit
Chris Gibson, Alberta Justice
Exploring the use of SAS Visual Investigator and analytics in the public safety sector including correctional settings and more. On a daily basis members of the Intelligence unit are conducting investigations to protect the people of Alberta and suppress crime. With the assistance of SAS technology we are seeing drastic increases in officer efficiencies and less intelligence gaps tracking both gang and firearm crimes across the province.
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| 3:50pm - 4:20pm |
SAS Graphing Tips & Tricks
Allison Scott, Alberta Health Services |
| 4:20pm - 4:30pm |
Closing Remarks |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm |
Optional: Happy Hour Networking |
PDF versions of the presentations can also be found in this post.
