SAS Online Resources SAS OPUS Ottawa, June Tom Kari, Tom Kari Consulting

SAS Online Resources I use SAS online resources to: –Look up SAS concepts and syntax –Learn about parts of SAS that are new to me –See how other people use SAS –Keep up with “Corporate SAS” –Find best practices –Ask for help –Provide help to others –Chat and socialize with other SAS users 2

Look up SAS concepts and syntax Only one place to go: support.sas.com/documentation 3

Look up SAS concepts and syntax Two other suggestions SAS Programmer's Bookshelf support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/bookshelf/93/desktop.html Reference of key syntax sasopus.ca/sasref.html 4

What else is on the SAS websites 5

Some SAS-related websites Lex Jansen SAS papers repository (24,600 at last count) from various conferences bi notes Notes on how to use SAS BI tools platformadmin.com Paul Homes blogging on SAS® platform administration topics NOTE: The Blog of RTSL.eu SaaSInct Sharing with the world everything we discover about SAS PROC-X.com An online (unofficial) SAS® journal – written by bloggers (an aggregation of other sites) 6

And of course the user group sites! (NorthEast SAS Users Group, our “parent” group) (SAS User Groups central) 7

Looking for SAS in all the right places! When you’re SURE somebody, somewhere knows the answer to your question...  communities.sas.com communities.sas.com  l&D=1&H=0&O=D&T=1&m= l&D=1&H=0&O=D&T=1&m= (AKA SAS-L)  oft-sys.sas (newsgroup – go to groups.google.com, search for sas)  (wiki) A great way to learn new things, and help people! 8

And now the lighter side... Remember... Chat and socialize with other SAS users? Well, it’s not Perez Hilton, but...  sascanada.ning.com sascanada.ning.com SAS Canada’s social site (Strict note from John Ladds...join immediately!)  sasoutlier.blogspot.ca sasoutlier.blogspot.ca (The one and only Matt Malczewski's blog!) 9

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