[IEEE-bhpjobs] [Fwd: RT SAS User Group Nov 15th meeting at SAS, 2:30pm]

[esther L]

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Subject: [sug-l] Please RSVP - RTSUG Nov 15th meeting at SAS, 2:30pm
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:08:23 -0500
From: Foley at unc.edu
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Hello everyone,
   Our next RTSUG meeting will be held at SAS (in the main auditorium
in Building V) on Nov 15th (next Wed).
   There are two great speakers, at 20% discount on SAS books, food, and
door prizes!  As usual, all is free.  Below is the schedule and the
information on each of the presentations and the speakers.
   If you plan on coming please RSVP your name to: rtsug.officers at yahoo.com
   Regards,
     Mal

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       Meeting schedule:
           2:30-2:50 - Refreshments and networking
           2:50-3:00 - Announcements
           3:00-3:50 - "Data Management: Building a Dynamic Application"
                            by Arthur L. Carpenter
           3:50-4:00 - Break
           4:00-4:50 - "Creating Zillions of Labels (and Other Documents)
                       the Easy Way with ODS and Microsoft WordTalk"
                            by Vince DelGobbo           4:50-5:00 - Door 
prizes

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TITLE
Data Management: Building a Dynamic Application

ABSTRACT
You have written a series of interesting and often complex SAS®
programs that perform a variety of data entry operations, data checks,
exception reporting, statistical analysis, and summary reporting.
Since the next study is somewhat similar to the last one, you are
planning to build another set of programs based on (cannibalized from)
the ones that you just used.

We have been there before, but STOP.  Wouldn't you rather build and
validate the programs just once?

The solution lies in building and using data dictionaries that act as
control files.  These control files are in turn used to create a series
of SAS macro variables that are available as arrays to each of the
various programs.  All project, data set, and variable specific
information is stored in the macro variables and hence never in the
programs themselves.  Once implemented all the programs in your
application become data independent.

Let them change the data. Let them redefine the project.  Your code is 
ready.

BIO
Arthur L. Carpenter
Art Carpenter's publications list includes three books on SAS topics
(Annotate: Simply the Basics, Quick Results with SAS/GRAPH® Software,
and Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS® Macro Language, 2nd
Edition), two chapters in Reporting from the Field, and over six dozen
papers and posters presented at various user group conferences.  Art
has been using SAS since 1976 and has served in a variety of positions
in user groups at the local, regional, and national level.


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TITLE
Creating Zillions of Labels (and Other Documents) the Easy Way with ODS
and Microsoft Word

ABSTRACT This talk provides a quick and easy way to generate address
labels or other data-driven documents from your SAS data.  The first
step is to use the SAS Output Delivery System (ODS) to convert your
data into a format that Microsoft Word can import.  Then you use Word's
Mail Merge Wizard to guide you through the steps to create your
document.  The technique is easy, requires only Base SAS version 8 or
later, and will work on any platform where SAS is installed (even if
SAS is installed on a mainframe).  This technique can also be used with
SAS version 6 by using the SAS HTML Formatting Tools instead of ODS.

BIO
Vince DelGobbo is a Senior Systems Developer in the Web Tools group at
SAS.  This group is responsible for developing the SAS/IntrNet
Application Dispatcher and SAS Stored Processes.  He is the developer
for the HTML Formatting Tools and the SAS Design-Time Controls, and is
developing other new Web- and server-based technologies, as well as
integrating SAS output with Microsoft Office.  He is also involved in
the development of the ExcelXP ODS tagset.  Vince has been a SAS
Software user since 1982, and joined SAS in 1992.

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