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Thanks Chris That will be a great asset as a companion to the presentation. And I am sure you are a step ahead - but a link from the EXPLORE presentation video to that location would mean easy to find. ... View more

I was involved with starting an in-house group at the City of Dallas called 'the Mainframe SAS Users Group' back in 1984, co-founded the local users group in 1986 that still meet each quarter called the North Texas SAS Users Group (notsug.org). I was a co-founder and past president of a regional called South Central SAS Users Group (scsug.org), and served 4 times as a SUGI section chair, 10 times as a SUGI session coordinator, and worked as a room facilitator with the SGF held in Dallas. One thing that's common at each level is the desire to share SAS with fellow SAS Users. The rest comes together. Since starting a group and being involved is volunteering, keep it fun.  ... View more

Hi @Phil_NZ,   We have no limits to where we'll ship swag! Although we didn't ship anything for SASGF 2020...I don't know what we'll do for 2021. Keep your eyes peeled here for any updates on conference swag.    Best, Shelley ... View more

I always check out the SAS books to see if there are any new books or topics of interest that year.  If it's a new topic there may be a session I can attend to learn a bit more before I pick up the book.   The SAS presentation on Sunday before the opening session are always a must for me.  I get to learn a lot about the new and exciting things SAS and their partners have come out with and start thinking about how my team could utilize them. ... View more

Just a suggestion from experience and practical customer applications.  Data usually lives longer than a project or could cross many projects/departments.  I usually separate my data libraries away from any projects or departments and then assign the security as interest in the data grows (morphs).  I document who the owns the data such as using the description to put in business owner name for the folder or library for a quick reference so that I can contact them for approval grants of access of the data and for auditing.   If you move the data under projects or departments, you run the risk of lots of duplicate data, stale data and inaccurate reporting, and hard to manage security as well.  I just try to think of each data library as like a datamart and treat it as such.   - Data   - library   - library2   -etc projects (cross dept)   -project   -project2 department (only)     - branch or group     - branch          - project         - project2   ... View more

Hopefully a data needs assessment will help to determine what data is needed for SAS and they can do a shadow data lake closer to the users. If they are doing a lot of reading of operational data, maybe they should do scheduled pulls. Sounds like a fun project. ... View more

What a trip! Congratulations, @Kurt_Bremser, and safe travels home! ... View more

My swag-bag is unfortunately falling apart after lugging around notebooks and pamphlets for three days... Sad, but it gave good service while I needed it I guess. ... View more

I actually added the GitHub links - when defined - for all 2019 SAS Global Forum Proceedings.  See: https://www.lexjansen.com/sgf/2019   ... View more

No more SAS #tweetup sessions..??    [UnLike!] ... View more

Hola All,   According to the Weather Channel here is the Forecast for Dallas during SASGF 2019.  Last One.   Sunday April 28, 2019 Partly Cloudy HI 80 LO 64 Monday April 29, 2019 Cloudy HI 82 LO 69 Tuesday April 30 2019 60% Rain HI 82 LO 68 Wednesday May 1, 2019 50% Rain HI 77 LO 65   Celsius:   Sunday April 28, 2019 Partly Cloudy HI 27 LO 18 Monday April 29, 2019 Cloudy HI 28 LO 21 Tuesday April 30 2019 60% Rain HI 28 LO 20 Wednesday May 1, 2019 50% Rain HI 25 LO 19   See y'all at the conference. ... View more

Looking forward to your presentAtion ... View more

Goodness, that’s amazing!  Thanks Robert.  ... View more