• Materials from past DCSUG programs, including June 2008 presentations by Anastasiya Osborne on quick graphs and Michael Raithel on supporting SAS
• DCSUG quarterly meeting on 3 June, featuring Michael Raithel on supporting SAS, Anastasiya Osborne on automating custom formats, and Gary McQuown and John Zheng on identifying Medicaid fraud
• DCSUG special evening meeting on 20 February featuring Heidi Markovitz on PROC SORT and David Kiasi on Data Integration Studio
• DCSUG newsletter (2007 Q4)
• 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.

2008 Meeting Dates

• March 11, 2008
• June 3, 2008
• September 9, 2008
• December 9, 2008

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.

For information regarding DCSUG’s newsletter (deadlines for articles, placing ads, etc) contact Arlene Siller.

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:

• 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: (Vacant)
• Secretary: Anastasiya Osborne (Acting)
• SAS Institute Liaison: Roger Goodwin
• Treasurer: Anastasiya Osborne

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 Anastasiya Osborne.

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

Larry Altmayer: 301-763-2569; 301-763-8804 (fax);

Karen Dennis: 301-390-8050;

Frank Fry: 703-250-9272;

Roger Goodwin (SAS Institute Liaison): 304-724-9976;

Paul Gorrell: 301-628-3237; 301-628-3201 (fax);

Yesvy Gustasp (Desktop SIG Co-Chair): 301-625-9576; 202-307-5888 (fax);

Doug McAllaster: 703-588-1837;

Joe Mirabal (Desktop SIG Co-Chair): 703-265-4620;

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

Howard Schreier: 703-979-2720;

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

Christopher Zogby: 703-380-0973;

	Bureau of Labor Statistics Jobs in Washington DC
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	The Thomson Corporation Career Opportunities To apply for SAS opportunities please submit your profile and reference job #: TEC00001305.
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	Zogby Enterprises, Inc. Professional SAS Consulting Services

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