VIEWS News issue 69 (2022Q3) is delayed and will appear in October 2022. I know this won’t be 2022Q3, but it will be close, and will include articles about SAS macros, SAS Studio and ODS Graphics, plus the other usual features.
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I’m interested in how SAS is used in a non-programming way for a future VIEWS News article. Please help me by answering the poll questions in the following link, if you would answer the following question with Y (Yes):
Do you use SAS specifically in a non-programming / business analysis manner (Y/N)?
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Last call for articles for VIEWS News 64: Become a VIEWS Consultant in May! I’m planning to publish VIEWS News issue 64 at the end of May 2021, which means that I need you to send me your short SAS-related articles by 17May2021 to views-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk.
Topics include:
Annoying SAS Programming Styles: I wrote Part 1 in issue 60 about indenting of SAS code, and have added more articles since then. Do you have your own example of an annoying programming style, and how to fix it?
Event previews and reports.
SAS-related book reviews.
Short articles on any SAS-related topics.
All the above examples will entitle the author to refer to themselves as a VIEWS Consultant!
There is also In Brief and Diary sections in each issue containing:
Links to interesting SAS-related web sites.
Announcements of SAS-related events occurring from mid-June onwards.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon…………..Phil
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Last call for articles for VIEWS News 61: Become a VIEWS Consultant this month! I’m planning to publish VIEWS News issue 61 at the end of August 2020, which means that I need you to send me your short SAS-related articles by 17Aug2020 to views-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk.
Topics include:
Annoying SAS Programming Styles: I wrote Part 1 in issue 60 about indenting of SAS code. Do you have your own example of an annoying programming style, and how to fix it?
Event previews and reports.
Short articles on any SAS-related topics.
All the above examples will entitle the author to refer to themselves as a VIEWS Consultant!
There is also In Brief and Diary sections in each issue containing:
Links to interesting SAS-related web sites.
Announcements of SAS-related events occurring from mid-September onwards.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon…………..Phil
I had a number of plans at the beginning of 2020, so how are they doing so far:
February 2020: Publish VIEWS News issue 59. Follow the link to learn how to get free access! – Published in early March 2020.
March/April 2020: Present a paper at SAS Global Forum (SASGF) in Washington DC – Conference cancelled due to COVID-19. However, my paper “How Many Shades of Guide: SAS Enterprise Guide to 8.1 and SAS Studio to 3.8 with SAS 9.4” will still be published here on my blog site.
May 2020: Publish VIEWS News issue 60. Follow the link to learn how to get free access! – Still OK.
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VIEWS UK forum has VIEWS News indexes for SAS Formats (& informats), Functions, and now Options (new!) too. These indexes cover every issue of VIEWS News, and links to these indexes can also be found on the individual VIEWS News issue pages.
There is also a Forum Tag Cloud for logged on users covering all of your registered forums. However, please note that the VIEWS UK forum is currently missing issues 47-55, which will have been added in time for the February issue of VIEWS News.
VIEWS News will now be resuming production, because 100 blog members have requested free access to the VIEWS UK forum!
Issue 56 will now be made available to download from the VIEWS UK forum in May 2019, but, in the meanwhile, I’ll be developing indexes in that forum for the existing 55 back-issues of VIEWS News. New issues will, hopefully, be published in February, May, August and November each year, so, if you have a suitable SAS-related article you’d like to have included, please contact me at views-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk.
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I’ve been posting on sasCommunity.org every now and then for nearly 10 years, including hosting VIEWS News and my SAS Author pages there, but a decision has now been made by the sasCommunity Advisory Team to set the site to Read-Only from 01Jan2018. Chris Hemedinger has added a blog post on The SAS Dummy giving a little more information on where the sasCommunity.org content could be relocated.
Note that the VIEWS News issues can now be accessed on this blog site in the VIEWS UK forum, which is a free resource for all registered blog members, but an access request is required after you have registered.
The wiki site was the first to be SAS-related and user-maintained, so that every registered SAS user could add and update their own content. This was long before GitHub appeared, and when LinkedIn and the SAS Communities had barely started.
I think I will leave the last words to the sasCommunity Advisory Team, who posted this announcement on the sasCommunity.org site on 07Dec2017:
sasCommunity.org to be Decommissioned
December 7, 2017 Notice from the sasCommunity Advisory Team
Today, SAS practitioners have unprecedented access to expertise from their fellow SAS users around the world. Using modern community forums and code sharing platforms, SAS users are learning from each other more than ever before.
Although there is a demonstrated increased interest in SAS topics in general, we’ve seen the traffic and contributions on sasCommunity.org remain flat (and even decline) over the past few years. The team has taken the decision to help users to focus on the newer, well-supported platforms — and decommission this wiki-based site.
Before we cover some logistics, we want to recognize the important role that sasCommunity.org – and all of its volunteers and contributors – has served over the past 10 years. The site pioneered peer-to-peer collaboration around SAS during an era when there were fewer alternatives. We are grateful to those who devoted countless hours to building and nurturing the site. Thank you!
Now…on to the future. Our first step will be to put the site into ‘Read Only Mode’ on January 1, 2018. This will allow the relocation of important and popular content responsibly, while eliminating the overhead of accepting new pages. We plan to support, as best we can, the owners of existing content to make sure they can find a new home for content and articles they want to preserve before the final decommissioning (that date is TBD).
Examples of content that we know that probably should be relocated:
Author Pages
User Groups pages
Historical Conference Proceedings
sasCommunity.org Planet (blogs aggregator)
Several unique and very popular articles
Some of this content may be relocated to the SAS Support Communities (communities.sas.com) with the help of SAS Institute. Historical proceedings might find a home alongside the other proceedings we have for more recent SAS conferences. Code-based projects may be a better fit on GitHub, a site designed specifically for sharing code related to any technology. All ideas are under discussion, and we welcome your input.
Thanks for your valuable support over the years, and we look forward to continued collaboration!
