I follow Julius Solaris on LinkedIn and you should, too. He is a leader in the event space and has lots of great insight and ideas. His latest post is about why registrations are flat and some ways to change that: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/juliussolaris_registrations-are-flat-for-many-events-several-activity-7378796306636525568-z-N8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACIS7sBEjGm-IW78815NVeG9b4QoJWjmFE     ... View more

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Tuesday, June 24 for the PhilaSUG webinar. We were excited to have Jay Iyengar from Data Systems Consultants LLC present two topics:   Look Up Not Down: Advanced Table Lookups in Base SAS Validate the Code, ot Just the Data: A System for SAS Program Validation     The slides are attached below.   Stay tuned for information on the in-person PhilaSUG meeting, likely held in October. ... View more

First come first served- if you’d like a dozen or so PharmaSUG t-shirts, please let us know by this evening Pacific time, and send mailing address to Nancy.brucken@pharmasug.org. Thanks! ... View more

Another eSUG Meeting in the books! 🕺   It was a gloomy day, but it was brightened up by lots of presentations and discussions about AI and LLMs. It's always a great day to learn. 😉   Thank you to all of our presenters for sharing their knowledge. Thank you to everyone who came out to join us and make the meeting another fruitful one. Made better by the Oilers winning the series and moving on to Round 3! 💪   If you have something to share with the group - a 2 min tip/trick, a cool project you recently worked on, review on a SAS book you got from the meeting - please let us know. 😁   Here is the agenda for your reference. You will also find the presentations attached to this post.   8:30am - 9:00am Registration and Refreshments 9:00am - 9:05am Welcome Remarks Doug Dover, eSUG President 9:05am - 9:20am What's New at SAS? Alice Yuan, SAS Canada 9:20am - 9:50am SAS Innovate 2025 Highlights Walie Aktary (@speaker), SAS Canada Won't be able to attend SAS Innovate this year? Hear about the major announcements and hot topics from this year's conference. 9:50am - 10:20am How Computers Understand & Generate Language: From Basics to Breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) Mehrdad Yousefpoori-Naeim, Government of Alberta 10:20am - 10:40am Networking Break 10:40am - 11:20am How to Make Your LLM Work For You @Sundaresh1, SAS US (Virtual Presentation)   Join SAS expert, Sundaresh Sankaran, as he explores the core techniques for effectively building with large language models (LLMs). 11:20am - 11:50am SAS Observability Tools @nicosigal, SAS Canada 11:50am - 12:00pm Closing Remarks ... View more

Happy New Year, Edmontonians! 💃 Hope you're ready for what 2025 has in store.   I know this post is overdue. But...better late than never? 😥   I am sharing the meeting agenda for your reference and all the presentations. 8:30am - 9:00am Registration and Light Breakfast 9:00am - 9:05am Welcome Remarks Doug Dover, ESUG President 9:05am - 9:20am What's New at SAS? Christine Jackson, SAS Canada 9:20am - 10:20am Productive AI and Analytics @PV7  & @DeepJariwala027 , SAS Canada   Join Pat Valente, solution specialist at SAS for an informative overview on some of the extended capabilities that SAS has rolled out in the Viya platform over the last few years. If you are interested in modelling, we will have a look at some options for open-source coding or low code/no-code visual methods. We will then move to some more extended use cases surrounding how SAS can support Computer Vision modelling, Text Analytics of unstructured data and finally some examples of how synthetic data creation can now be easily accommodated in SAS. Hopefully this will spark your interest in further exploring with SAS Viya. 10:20am - 10:50am Networking Break 10:50am - 11:20am Tips & Tricks: Easy-to-read Regression Results with PROC REPORT Emily Blagdon, University of Alberta 11:20am - 11:50am Beyond the Surface: Diving Deep into Graphs with DFS using SAS 9.4 Anthony Wu, Government of Alberta This presentation covers the motivation behind DFS and its applications in undirected graphs, such as identifying connected components and cycles, using PROC OPTNET. 11:50am - 12:00pm Closing Remarks   See you at the next one! 👋 ... View more