• DCSUG quarterly meeting, morning on Tuesday, June 4. Program will feature Bruce Gilsen's Top 10 new features, and Gary McQuown on fraud detection.
• Materials from past DCSUG programs, including March 5 presentations by Kirk Paul Lafler on (1) Microsoft integration and (2) Google search strategies.
• Election of 2013 officers took place at the December 2012 meeting. Elected were:
  • Jason Ford as Chair
  • Beth Schreiber as Secretary
  • Arthur Furnia as SAS Institute Liaison
  The election process did not produce a treasurer. By a consensus vote and in accordance with the bylaws, the steering committee chose Carl Barsky to serve as treasurer for 2013.
• Employment opportunities with DCSUG corporate sponsors: current full-text announcements.
• Yesvy Gustasp's SAS Enterprise Guide links

Where: Usually at Bureau of Labor Statistics, Postal Square Building (across from Union Station)

At these half-day meetings, members of the SAS user community present papers, exchange ideas, and generally find out what others are doing with SAS. The papers, given by members of our local group as well as experts from outside, stimulate discussion and provide instruction. Our meetings are free and open to the public.

2013 Meeting Dates

• Tuesday, March 5, 2013
• Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Definitive times and locations to be announced

Through the generous support of the SAS Institute, DCSUG members enjoy a speaker from SAS Institute at one meeting each year. DCSUG also participates in the Speaker Exchange Program of the NorthEast SAS Users Group (NESUG) and the SouthEast SAS Users Group (SESUG). These regional groups are able to bring us speakers from outside the DC area to speak on a variety of topics. In addition, speakers from our own area contribute their expertise, so DCSUG meetings always offer a stimulating mix of ideas.

Online versions of the newsletter are delivered in Adobe Acrobat portable document format (PDF), which means you need a copy of the Acrobat Reader on your computer in order to view or print them. This is free software; if you need a copy, it is available from Adobe.

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Currently available:

• This is the Modern World: Simple, Overlooked SAS^® Enhancements (Bruce Gilsen)
• SAS^® System Options Are Your Friends (Ed Heaton, 306k)
• The Redmond to Cary Express - A Comparison of Methods to Automate Data Transfer Between SAS & Microsoft Excel (Mike Mumma)
• I'll Have the TABULATEs a la ODS Please, With a Table of Contents On the Side (Ray Pass, 311k)
• PROC REPORT: Doin’ It in Style! (Ray Pass, 307k)
• PROC TABULATE: Doin’ It in Style! (Ray Pass, 207k)
• IN & OUT of CNTL with PROC FORMAT (Nancy K. Patton)
• Hidden Nuggets in Version 8: New Informats, Formats, and Functions (Mike Rhoads)
• Getting Started with Frame Technology (Chris Roper; 279k)
• A Health Care Claims Data Mart: Construction and Exploitation (Marge Scerbo and Stuart B. Levine; 415k)
• Getting Started with Dynamic Data Exchange (Howard Schreier; 133k)
• Graphs Without SAS/GRAPH (Howard Schreier; 207k)
• Using the FTP Access Method (Howard Schreier)
• How MERGE Really Works (Bob Virgile)
• The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Common Programming Mistakes (Bob Virgile)
• A SAS Programmer's View of the SAS Supervisor (Ian Whitlock)
• Experience Learned in Deploying htmSQL-based Application (Hsiwei Yu and Chap Gleason; 761k)

• Chair: Jason Ford
• Secretary: Beth Schreiber
• SAS Institute Liaison: Arthur Furnia
• Treasurer: Carl Barsky

DCSUG also offers group memberships for $50 a year. An organization holding such a membership receives our newsletter and may freely distribute it to its SAS users, and can send as many SAS users as it wishes to our meetings. Like individual members, group members can place ads in our newsletter at the going rate.

For information on membership status contact Beth Schreiber.

While not a part of DCSUG, the Special Interest Group in Statististics for Capital PC Users Group is of interest to many DCSUG members.

Marie Byrd Alexander:

Karl Barsky: 202-691-7651;

Karen Dennis: 301-390-8050;

Jason Ford (Chair): 202-691-6267

Frank Fry: 703-250-9272;

Arthur Furnia (SAS Institute Liaison): 202-267-9481

Roger Goodwin: 304-724-9976;

Sunil Gupta: 805-577-8877;

Yesvy Gustasp (Chair Emeritus): 301-625-9576; 202-307-5888 (fax);

Heidi Markovitz: 305-803-8407;

Joe Mirabal: 703-265-4620;

Anastasiya Osborne (Treasurer): 202-690-0446;

Dianne Rhodes: 202-659-3826;

Catherine Ann Loveless-Schmitt: 301-763-2997;

Beth Schreiber (Secretary): 202-622-4731;

Howard Schreier: 703-979-2720;

Mira Shapiro:

Arlene Siller: 301-458-4498; 301-458-4032 (fax);

Christopher Zogby: 703-380-0973;

These organizations often have employment opportunities. See current full-text announcements and/or follow pertinent links below.

	Accenture Careers
	Altarum Institute Systems Research for Better Health Careers
	Buccaneer Computer Systems & Service, Inc. Current Job Listings
	Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc. Careers
	Henderson Consulting Services LLC Contact
	Johns Hopkins University Master of Science in Applied Economics
	Mathematica Policy Research Employment
	Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group Kaiser Permanente Careers
	Sierra Data Science Data Science. Delivered.™ Seminar Descriptions
	Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. an employee-owned company Career Opportunities
	Vector Conssulting Beyond quality, a true experience.
	Westat An Employee-Owned Research Corporation Career Opportunities
	Zogby Enterprises, Inc. Professional SAS Consulting Services