Get a jump start on the conference by taking advantage of Sunday Workshops being offered on NESUG 2009 opening day! These workshops provide you an opportunity to explore a topic not otherwise offered during the conference, or to delve more deeply into a topic of interest to you. They are open to registered conference attendees for an additional fee of $150 per workshop. To participate, click the appropriate box when registering. Please note that space is limited and registration will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis at the conference.
Sunday, September 13
9:00 am - Noon
ODS: The Basics and Beyond
Lauren Haworth Genentech
Overview:
Beginning with basic syntax and progressing to more complex techniques and custom styles, you will learn to take basic SAS output and transform it into an HTML page, a word-processor-friendly RTF file, or printer-friendly PDF output. For this workshop, the primary focus will be on RTF and PDF, though most of the examples will work for HTML as well.
In addition, you'll learn how to generate a Table of Contents page for RTF and PDF files, generate bookmarks for PDF files and generate custom page numbering for those destinations. You will learn the basic concepts of changing style templates and using tagset templates to generate custom markup language tags and output. Other new features of ODS are discussed, such as the ODS Graphics Framework and the new statistical graphics procedures.
Audience: All levels of SAS users. Some topics require knowledge of basic reporting and graphics procedures, others may reference more advanced techniques.
Instructor's bio:
Lauren Haworth
is an Associate Director of Statistical Programming at Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco. She has been using SAS since 1988, and specializes in analysis and reporting for clinical trials. Lauren is the author of two books in the SAS Books by Users series: "PROC TABULATE by Example" and "Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond” (release date: Summer 2009).
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 is a powerful application that allows users to take advantage of the data processing and analysis power of SAS in a point-and-click tool. In this presentation, the following features will be addressed:
Navigating the SAS Enerprise Guide environment.
Accessing various types of data including SAS and Excel.
Creating summary statistics reports in HTML, PDF, and RTF formats.
Using the SAS Enterprise Guide query tool to subset data, compute new columns and join tables.
Creating tabular summary reports and interactive graphics using SAS Enterprise Guide's dynamic wizards.
Instructor's bio:
Kenneth Sucher is an advanced SAS certified instructor for SAS Education. He received his master's degree in sociology from Florida State University. Kenneth used SAS during grad school and he honed his SAS skills while working as a statistician for the Census Bureau and later as a demographer for the Urban Institute. Since coming to SAS 6 years ago, he has become an Enterprise Guide expert. Kenneth teaches and works on course development for Enterprise Guide as well as SAS programming courses including macro and SQL processing. Kenneth currently lives in Washington, DC.