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Favourite Papers from SAS Global Forum 2013
I’m back in Australia now after attending SAS Global Forum 2013 in San Francisco last week. As always it was a fantastic conference where I got to meet lots of other enthusiastic SAS users, see some great papers about SAS software (though I never…
SAS Global Forum shows "Strength in Numbers"
What a conference so far… SAS Global Forum is now in full swing, and the two big sessions (Opening Session last night, and the Tech Session this morning) have been packed with impressive material. The attendees I’ve spoken with have been suitably impressed and enthused. You can view the sessions […]
Hello from SAS Global Forum 2013!
SAS Global Forum 2013 is underway. So far we have focused on Visual Analytics and High Performance Analytics Server. All great advances in SAS computing power.
This conference is set to be a good one. If you weren’t fortunate enough to make it to San …
Debugging at SGF
Most people think that all insects are bugs, but, in fact, only species belonging to the order Hemiptera are considered by scientists to be “true bugs.” There are about 932,000 species of insects, but only 82,000 species of true bugs. Fortunately for us, there are a lot fewer species of SAS bugs. SAS bugs can […]
Three Things I Learned As a SAS LUG Leader
I recently had the privilege of speaking at a meeting of the Toronto Area SAS Society. It was a great meeting, and, honestly, I’m not saying this just because I was one of the speakers. TASS is the best run local user group I have seen. They have found the right balance of SAS Institute […]
SAS Global Forum Take-Out: Fast food for your SAS appetite
SAS Global Forum is like a BIG buffet of SAS knowledge, all served up in just a few days. There are so many good presentations and activities, but you cannot fit them all on your plate. You have to choose. To make the choices easier, the SAS Global Forum committee […]
An assortment of activity at Global Forum
This year at SAS Global Forum, the theme is “Strength in Numbers” and SAS Education is offering a number of training and certification opportunities to strengthen your SAS knowledge. We hope that you will take advantage of this unique chance to tak…