1. SAS-L Counts Arthur Tabachneck Insurance Bureau of Canada

2. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS SAS-L archives (Marist University and University of Georgia) 1986 to 2009  352,193 postings  36,370 distinct e-mail addresses 18,627 of those used just once 29,380 used five or fewer times 432 used more than 100 times  4,687 addresses were mapped to people’s names, to support aggregation

3. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Future Report Accuracy Depends on You! Let’s all do our part to enhance the accuracy of Howard’s project  Logon to: http://www.howles.com/sas-l/ User: saslguy Password: caryncusa  email Howard regarding any errors or omissions that should be corrected

4. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS  Quantity is not necessarily quality  There are errors and omissions.. we hope and believe they are minor Disclaimers

5. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Numerous ways to analyze list postings

6. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Did the current analysis use such sophisticated approaches? Of course not!

7. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Most Frequent Posters, 1987-2009 1987 866 Pardee, Nelson (69) 1988 2,177 Miller, Phil (90) 1989 3,390 Hamer, Bob (165) 1990 3,488 Hamer, Bob (198 1991 3,867 Miller, Phil (93) 1992 5,166 Schreier, Howard (148) 1993 5,580 Berryhill, Tim (113) 1994 9,088 Berryhill, Tim (238) 1995 10,731 Whittington, John (277) 1996 12,801 Berryhill, Tim (359) 1997 12,697 Berryhill, Tim (330) 1998 11,261 Self, Karsten (282) 1999 14,126 Crawford, Peter (420) 2000 20,060 Dorfman, Paul (539) 2001 21,308 Crawford, Peter (455) 2002 25,946 Fehd, Ron (753) 2003 22,567 Fehd, Ron (701) 2004 24,053 Dunn, Toby (881) 2005 26,992 Cassell, David (2,133) 2006 33,963 Cassell, David (2,526) 2007 28,316 Cassell, David (1,605) 2008 28,578 Data_Null_ (1,593) 2009 25,135 ? (1,278)

8. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Posts, 1987-2009 (What determines how much we post on SAS-L each year?)

9. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Posts, 1987-2009 (What determines how much we post on SAS-L each year?) Could it be US home prices?

10. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS What determines how much we post on SAS-L each year? Could it be Competition?

11. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS What determines how much we post on SAS-L each year? or simply a failure to communicate?

12. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Most Frequent Posters in Calendar year 2009 Others in the top 40 [Name (Total Posts)]: Peter Flom (337), Ron Fehd (337), Jack Hamilton (335), Ya Huang (317), Sigurd Hermansen (297), Michael Raithel (277), Alan Churchill (258), Karma Tarap (252), Roger DeAngelis (249), Richard DeVenezia (244), Akshaya Nathilvar (227), Dale McLerran (225), Chang Chung (219), Joe Whitehurst (207), Daniel Fernández (205), Kevin Viel (204), Robin High (203), Phani Kumar (201), Paul Dorfman (190), OR Stats (188), Lou Pogoda (178), Liang Xie (166), Barry Schwarz (164), Anindya Mozumdar (154), Randy Herbison (132), Roland Rashleigh-Berry (132), Toby Dunn (128), Jack Clark (125), Tom Abernathy (124), Andrew Karp (116)

13. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Most Frequent Posters in Calendar year 2009 Others in the top 40 [Name (Total Posts)]: Kevin Viel (204), Robin High (203), Phani Kumar (201), Paul Dorfman (190), OR Stats (188), Lou Pogoda (178), Liang Xie (166), Barry Schwarz (164), Anindya Mozumdar (154), Randy Herbison (132), Roland Rashleigh-Berry (132), Toby Dunn (128), Jack Clark (125), Tom Abernathy (124), Andrew Karp (116)

14. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Most Frequent Posters in Calendar year 2009 Others in the top 40 [Name (Total Posts)]: Kevin Viel (204), Robin High (203), Phani Kumar (201), Paul Dorfman (190), OR Stats (188), Lou Pogoda (178), Liang Xie (166), Barry Schwarz (164), Anindya Mozumdar (154), Randy Herbison (132), Roland Rashleigh-Berry (132), Toby Dunn (128), Jack Clark (125), Tom Abernathy (124), Andrew Karp (116)

15. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Most Frequent Posters in Calendar year 2009 Others in the top 40 [Name (Total Posts)]: Kevin Viel (204), Robin High (203), Phani Kumar (201), Paul Dorfman (190), OR Stats (188), Lou Pogoda (178), Liang Xie (166), Barry Schwarz (164), Anindya Mozumdar (154), Randy Herbison (132), Roland Rashleigh-Berry (132), Toby Dunn (128), Jack Clark (125), Tom Abernathy (124), Andrew Karp (116)

16. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Most Frequent Posters in Calendar year 2009 Others in the top 40 [Name (Total Posts)]: Peter Flom (337), Ron Fehd (337), Jack Hamilton (335), Ya Huang (317), Sigurd Hermansen (297), Michael Raithel (277), Alan Churchill (258), Karma Tarap (252), Roger DeAngelis (249), Richard DeVenezia (244), Akshaya Nathilvar (227), Dale McLerran (225), Chang Chung (219), Joe Whitehurst (207), Daniel Fernández (205), Kevin Viel (204), Robin High (203), Phani Kumar (201), Paul Dorfman (190), OR Stats (188), Lou Pogoda (178), Liang Xie (166), Barry Schwarz (164), Anindya Mozumdar (154), Randy Herbison (132), Roland Rashleigh-Berry (132), Toby Dunn (128), Jack Clark (125), Tom Abernathy (124), Andrew Karp (116)

17. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS All-time leaders (Number of Posts) Poster Posts David Cassell8775 Howard Schreier7809 Toby Dunn5921 Ron Fehd5442 Jack Hamilton4462 Richard DeVenezia4306 Gerhard Hellriegel4164 datanull4159 Peter Crawford3985 Arthur Tabachneck3715 Ian Whitlock3456 Sig Hermansen3421 Ya Huang3328 Paul Dorfman3302 Jim Groeneveld3228 Mark Terjeson2491 Dale McLerran2460 Roland Rashleigh-Berry2433 Peter Flom2371 John Whittington2230 Others in the top 40: Paul Choate, Alan Churchhill, Nat Wooding, Tim Berryhill, Karsten Self, Bill Viergever, Mary Howard, Chang Chung, Kevin Viel, Chuck Patridge, Joe Matise, Mike Raithel, Mike Rhoads, Harry Droogendyk, Daniel Nordlund, Mike Zdeb, Dennis Diskin, Ed Heaton, Joe Whitehurst, Venky Chakravarthy

18. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS All-time leaders (most calendar months with more than 1% of posts) Poster Months Jack Hamilton146 Howard Schreier142 Ron Fehd111 Ian Whitlock98 Richard DeVenezia91 Peter Crawford90 Sig Hermansen90 Tim Berryhill82 David Cassell79 Gerhard Hellriegel77 Paul Dorfman74 Ya Huang73 Phil Miller71 Karsten Self65 Bob Hamer64 John Whittington63 Arthur Tabachneck61 Dale McLerran58 Jim Groeneveld58 Phil Gallagher57 Others in the top 40: Mark Terjeson, Toby Dunn, Melvin Klassen, Bill Viergever, Peter Flom, DataNull, Alan Churchill, Bernard Tremblay, Nelson Pardee, Roland Rashleigh-Berry, Barry Grau, Chuck Patridge, Paul Choate, Chang Chung, Evan Cooch, Nat Wooding, Pete Rikard, Philip Tejera, Sally Muller, Bob Snyder

19. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Most consecutive recent weeks with more than 1.6% of posts Poster Weeks Arthur Tabachneck27 Roger DeAngelis6 Mary Howard4 Daniel Fernández2 Joe Whitehurst2 Murphy Choy2

20. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS This year’s longest posts (in terms of # of lines for posters who had at least 20 or more posts) Poster Average # of Lines Joe Whitehurst186 John Gerstle159 Ted Kirby147 Ian Whitlock144 Roger DeAngelis131 Mark Keintz130 Irin Figvam130 Michael Herrington128 Muthia Kachirayan128 Don Henderson126

21. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS All-time Longest Running SAS-L Thread (314 posts to date)

22. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS All-time Longest Running SAS-L Thread (314 posts to date)

23. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS this year’s most popular topics Topic # of Posts R81 Friday Humor71 Chance to Make SAS-L History52 Data Manipulation48 Idea for a Collaborative Talk – Macros and Statistic45 Do this. Don’t do that. Can’t you read the signs?42 Slightly OT: Graphic of Unemployment in the US39 Can I use Proc in a Data Step?38 Performance Issues with 9.237 Who is Data_Null_? 37

24. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS our use of words continues to change % of all words used Word in 2008 in 2009 Delta discount0.0030.065+21.4% nike0.0050.112+19.5% paypal0.0050.050+9.7% air0.1600.155+8.6% jordan0.0140.138+8.6% payment0.0030.024+8.4% certified0.0060.035+4.8% jordans0.0030.019+4.8% cheap0.0020.010+4.0% shoes0.0130.058+3.4% Part 1: Did we get more spam this year?

25. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS % of all words used Word in 2008 in 2009 Delta data1.1171.054-5.6% code0.3200.341+6.5% variable0.2920.279-4.7% macro0.3070.255-17.0% time0.2570.239-6.9% date0.1910.211+10.5% variables0.2340.198-15.2% error0.1730.187+8.1% sql0.1850.182-1.7% format0.1810.179-1.7% our use of words continues to change Part 2: Changes in the use of our most popular words

26. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Up and Coming Poster 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Daniel Fernández....205 Liang (Oloolo) Xie....166 Tom Abernathy 1. 5.124 Søren Lassen....115 John Burton....107 Roger DeAngelis 4 5 18249 Kevin Myers4969214105 OR Stats394525188 Jason Monroe19107 Joe Matise2501278 Murphy Choy73367 Joe Whitehurst11053610974207 Mike Raithel56221253131277

27. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS The Other Direction? Ed Heaton9579 134 17110 Scott Bucher...16810 Stefan Pohl 513 515112 Howard Schreier92515191306 1226104 Hari Nath48113801019 Stephen Mcdaniel..1710414 Jim Groeneveld28360121111828 Roland Rashleigh-Berry250299302538132 Ajay Ohri...35092 Don Henderson559114614546 Peter Crawford22031325220768 Roy Pardee25117619314249 Poster 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

28. SAS-L BOF April 12, 2010 Forum SAS Author Contact Information Your comments and questions are valued and encouraged. Contact the author: Dr. Arthur Tabachneck Director, Data Management Insurance Bureau of Canada Toronto, Ontario L3T 5K9 Canada atabachneck at ibc dot ca or art297 at netscape dot net