BASUG Quarterly Meeting Announcement
Topic: SAS®
Efficiency and Use of Table Lookups
When: Wednesday, March 21, 2007,
Where: PLEASE NOTE NEW VENUE
: Holiday Inn
(Directions below)
How: Individual, On-Line Registration
Required. No Email!
To register, please visit: http://www.basug.org/register.php3
Contact: If you have questions
about the meeting contact Lori Goldman (Lori.Goldman@Ingenix.com) or Steve
Freitas (sfreitas76@yahoo.com)
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Agenda* |
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Sign in
and Refreshments |
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Meeting
Announcements and Introductions |
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Look
Me Up Baby: The whys and wherefores of
Table Lookup |
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Break |
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Coders
Corner |
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The
Most Important Efficiency Techniques |
*Times are approximate and subject to change; check the BASUG website
(www.basug.org) for updated information.
Abstracts and Bios
By Robert Rosofsky
Health Information Systems Consulting
Given one or more values, obtain another set of values. That is the principle of table lookup, found
as a frequently used function in all modern information systems. This presentation will discuss hard-coded methods, merge methods, and methods intrinsic to use of
SAS’s user-defined FORMATs for enabling table lookup in your systems.
The presentation will cover single and multiple keys to look
up values and methods for obtaining single or multiple values from within
tables. Both the functional requirements
and coding samples will be provided.
By Bob Virgile
How do you begin to make your programs more efficient? This presentation organizes programming tasks
into the types of functions we all perform (sorting data, manipulating files,
summarizing data, to name a few), and examines programming techniques to speed
up the process. While there are many
simple techniques and a few more complex ones, the overall level is geared
toward programmers who have been using SAS for around six months.
We will also have a “Coder’s Corner,” with the topic and speaker to be determined.
Speaker Biographies
Robert Rosofsky
To improve patient care and public health through the effective use of
information systems, Robert Rosofsky has been developing and implementing
health information systems for over two decades in both the public sector and
recently as an independent consultant.
He offers services in project management, systems analysis, SAS data
management/ statistical programming, and SAS training.
Bob Virgile
Bob Virgile is an independent SAS trainer and consultant, with over 20
years of experience designing and teaching SAS classes. He has written two books for SAS Institute,
and formerly composed the problem-solving contests for NESUG and SUGI. He is the only person to be formally barred
from participating in the NESUG SAS Bowl contest, due to superior SAS
knowledge.
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(This
is a New Meeting Venue for BASUG)
(Less
than 1/2 mile east of Coolidge Corner)
617-277-1200
From
From South of
From Western Mass: Take
I-90 East to Exit 18. When you exit
follow
From
From
Parking
The hotel has a parking
garage attached with an entrance off
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
See www.mbta.com for detailed T schedule. The T Stop across the street from the motel
is the St Paul Stop on the C Train on the Green Line.
The hotel’s Directions can be found here:
http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hotel/BKLMA/transportation
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