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See you in London for the SAS Users (SUGUKI) Meetup on October 4th

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Practical ODS Graphics Course NotesSee you in London for the SAS Users (SUGUKI) Meetup on October 4th.

I’ll be presenting on Annotate and ODS Graphics, but you must register to be able to attend. More details can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6452528018387800065

SUGUKI SAS user group in the UK & Ireland – September & October updates

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SUGUKI is an independent SAS User Group, staffed by volunteers – and we are in continuous need of speakers, venues, sponsorship, and general support. Our web site can be found at https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI. We’d love to hear from you. We also now have a community on SAS Communities!!

Our events are always 6-8pm on a Thursday, with two SAS presentations and drinks. Sign up below!

06SEP2018 – London SUGUKI meetup – https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI/events/bvxtjpyxmbjb/ – Come and see David Shannon (Amadeus) present “Come on, Baby, Light My SAS Viya”.
20SEP2018 – Manchester SUGUKI meetup – https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI/events/253408203/
04OCT2018 – London SUGUKI meetup – https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI/events/bvxtjpyxnbgb/ – I’ll be presenting “Converting Annotate to ODS Graphics. Is it possible?” and offering copies of some of my latest ebooks in a free prize draw for attendees!

All these events are free, but you must register for security and capacity reasons.

Are you recruiting for SAS jobs in India? Would you like free advertising space?

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Are you recruiting for SAS jobs in India? Would you like free advertising space?

I am looking for recruiters to post on my blog site, at least 1 for each of the 5 regions: Americas, Europe, UK, India and Pacific, because the registered members come from all 5 regions. To maintain the free trial any recruiter must post at least one SAS job from their region in each calendar month, specifically in India, where more than 1/3 of the membership live and, in addition, more non-members visit the site from there too, but there are currently no active recruiters for India. You should be aware that posting in other regions will be perfectly acceptable, but only job posts in your specified region will maintain your free trial. Note, however, that if you miss a month, then the trial period will end, and you will need to decide whether or not you want to pay a subscription to regain Recruiter status.

Join us and register as a Free member on http://blog.hollandnumerics.org.uk and then reply to the registration email you will receive with your selected region to start your unending trial.

The SAS Forum UK 2018 Book Draw Winner was … Igor Khorlo!

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Subtitle: Never leave prize draw cards out for cleaners to see!

Congratulations to Igor Khorlo from Syneos Health, who won a copy of my latest book, “SAS Programming and Data Visualization Techniques”. Thank you also to all the SAS Forum UK 2018 attendees who entered the book prize draw, but didn’t win this time. I hope you will try again at another conference where I’ll be holding a book prize draw in the future.

Unfortunately, I have a confession to make. I presented “The Art of Defensive Programming: Coping with Unseen Data” on the 1st day at this conference, telling my unexpectedly large audience that I was running a free prize draw for my latest book. After my presentation I actually saw a queue of attendees filling in the prize draw entry cards and putting them in the bag. Regrettably, I left that bag at the SAS Analytics Hub stand overnight, and on the 2nd day it was gone, so everyone’s entry card from the 1st day had been thrown away by the cleaners!! I tried to tell as many attendees as I could on the 2nd day to re-enter the draw, but many of the original entries were lost, so I’m pleased that Igor did re-enter the draw, but sorry that many who entered on the 1st day were not able to win. I will try to learn from this in the future!

As far as the conference as a whole was concerned, it was a success for me:

  • Paul Kent’s keynote presentation “Using SAS in the best possible way, driving intelligence, putting it in to practice and gaining competitive advantage” was a great start to the 1st day.
  • England beating Tunisia in the World Cup, with the England and Tunisia themed food, was a great way to end that day.
  • SAS UK are always very welcoming at their events, and this conference was no exception.
  • My only concern would be that the Vox Conference Centre may be too small for the 2019 event, but only if the attendees continue to grow.

SUGUKI SAS user group in the UK & Ireland – see Tony Barr in London

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SUGUKI is an independent SAS User Group, staffed by volunteers – and we are in continuous need of speakers, venues, sponsorship, and general support. Our web site can be found at https://www.meetup.com/SUGUKI. We’d love to hear from you. We also now have a community on SAS Communities!!

Our events are always 6-8pm on a Thursday, with two SAS presentations and drinks. Sign up below!

All these events are free, but you must register for security and capacity reasons.

Have you registered for SAS Forum UK 2018 yet? I’m presenting there!

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Have you registered for SAS Forum UK 2018 in Birmingham yet? It is being held at The Vox Conference Centre, Resorts World, Birmingham B40 1PU (next to the NEC) from June 18-19, and I’m presenting “The Art of Defensive Programming: Coping with Unseen Data” on Monday afternoon.

My highlights of the conference will be:

  • Paul Kent’s keynote on Monday morning, “Using SAS in the best possible way, driving intelligence, putting it in to practice and gaining competitive advantage”.
  • My presentation, of course! 😉
  • I’m hoping to be able to run a free prize draw for a copy of my latest SAS book, as I did last year!
  • The drinks reception followed by the Customer Awards on Monday evening.
  • Live screening of England’s World Cup match against Tunisia on Monday evening, including an England and Tunisian themed dinner and drinks. Note that, if you are not an England football fan, there will still be food and drinks!
  • Charles Senabulya talking on Tuesday morning, “SAS Update: Getting you In The Know on SAS developments”.

You may disagree with my highlights, so feel free to investigate the conference yourself. Full details about the venue, agenda and registration can be found at https://www.sas.com/en_gb/events/2018/sas-uk-forum.html.

The winner of the Book Draw at the SUGUKI April18 meeting in London is … Chris Smith!

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The winner of the Book Draw at the SUGUKI April18 meeting in London was Chris Smith!

The meeting in SAS UK’s London offices was a great success. Hadley Christoffels presented on data management in the cloud after I’d presented my “Converting Plots from SAS/GRAPH to ODS Graphics” paper to a lively and appreciative audience.

A SUGUKI meeting in Edinburgh will be held on 19 April, before we return to SAS UK’s offices in London for the May meeting on 3 May. I’ll be presenting again at the July meeting, but you can find all the details about the SUGUKI meetings on their web site.

Want to see issue 56 (and beyond) of VIEWS News? I need 100+ to sign up!

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I have reported that the VIEWS web site had been closed down, and although the newsletter archive is still available on sasCommunity.org, that site is now read-only prior to being decommissioned. However, I have stored all 55 of the original VIEWS News PDF files on my blog site, which can be accessed via the VIEWS UK forum. This forum is available on request to all registered blog members, and those with access will be notified of any new content. The issues include the following features:

  • Ask the Expert
  • Did You Know?
  • Formats, Options & Functions
  • SAS News, Events and Reports

Some of the new content will include previously unpublished indexes I used to help me write the Formats, Options & Functions articles in the newsletters, which allowed me to see in a single view which features had already been described and when. I will also be including an authors list soon. All features that could help you find information that is difficult to find using standard searches. You also need to know that I intend to publish some new issues of VIEWS News too, but only if 100+ members request access to the VIEWS UK forum.

You might be thinking that, as I had emailed VIEWS members in the past, I could use that email list to include them automatically again. However, this new VIEWS environment has been built on an existing blog site, and, although theoretically I could register all the previous VIEWS members using their email addresses, I don’t know all of their real names and would, therefore, have to guess their new user names, so I don’t think forcing anyone to register on my blog site is at all appropriate. This is the reason I’m asking everyone interested to register themselves instead.

So, whether you have been a VIEWS member in the past, or not, here is how you can join the new VIEWS UK forum:

  1. If you are not already registered on my blog site, then join via the registration page.
  2. Once you have registered, then email views-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk, or use the site’s Contact Us link, to say you would like to join the VIEWS UK forum.
  3. I will manually update your blog profile to give you the required configuration and reply to your registered email address as soon as you have access to the new forum. You will then see VIEWS UK in the forum list when you next log into the blog site.

Note that, as I write this post, a total of 69 members now have access to the forum. If you’ve not yet requested access, then only 31 more members are required to give me the impetus to publish more VIEWS News issues!