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…
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NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2013 Feedback #sasgf13
I just completed the conference survey. Overall I had a good conference – nobody booed during either of my papers, so that’s a positive outcome! I liked the conference city (San Francisco), the conference venue was relatively compact (avoiding long wal…
NOTE: Editing SAS #sasgf13
I don’t get to write many SAS programs these days, less still Base SAS code. However, I couldn’t help but be impressed by the Macumba editor that was described and demonstrated by Michael Weisz of Bayer Pharma yesterday at SAS Global Forum. Sadly…
NOTE: SGF Technology Connection #sasgf13
Now that this morning’s Technology Connection plenary session is over (see it yourself at http://www.livestream.com/sasglobalforum), I have a much clearer picture of the range of new developments that SAS are introducing with v9.4 across 2013 (yes, not…
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 …
NOTE: SAS Global Forum Day #1 #sasgf13
It’s Monday morning at SAS Global Forum; the conference gets into gear today. Yesterday evening the 4,000 attendees in San Fancisco attended the Opening Session and heard SAS senior staff describe the key topics for the event. All were centred around t…
NOTE: Catching the SGF Agenda #sasgf13
I’ve never paid much attention to the SAS Global Forum (SGF) online agenda builder before. I’ve preferred the pen on paper approach, using the pull-out printed agenda in the conference programme. However, with the introduction of an Android version of …
NOTE: In The Picture #sasgf13
While I’m packing for my trip to SAS Global Forum, I thought I’d share some San Francisco pictures with you.
There’s a link at the end of this article.
They’re by Trey Ratcliff, who almost shares a surname with me, and they cover a mixture of San F…