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SAS Online Resources
SAS OPUS Ottawa, June 12 2013
Tom Kari, Tom Kari Consulting
SAS Online Resources
I use SAS online resources to:
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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
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Look up SAS concepts and syntax
Only one place to go:
support.sas.com/documentation
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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
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What else is on the SAS websites
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Some SAS-related websites
Lex Jansen
SAS papers repository (24,600 at last count) from various conferences
www.lexjansen.com
bi notes
Notes on how to use SAS BI tools
www.bi-notes.com
platformadmin.com
Paul Homes blogging on SAS® platform administration topics
www.platformadmin.com
NOTE: The Blog of RTSL.eu
www.notecolon.info
SaaSInct
Sharing with the world everything we discover about SAS
www.saasinct.com
PROC-X.com
An online (unofficial) SAS® journal – written by bloggers (an aggregation of other sites)
www.proc-x.com
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And of course the user group sites!
• www.oasus.ca
• www.sasopus.ca
• www.nesug.org
(NorthEast SAS Users Group, our “parent” group)
• http://support.sas.com/usergroups/
(SAS User Groups central)
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Looking for SAS in all the right places!
When you’re SURE somebody, somewhere knows
the answer to your question...
communities.sas.com
www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1305b&L=sasl&D=1&H=0&O=D&T=1&m=324214
(AKA SAS-L)
http://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/comp.s
oft-sys.sas
(newsgroup – go to groups.google.com, search for sas)
www.sascommunity.org
(wiki)
A great way to learn new things, and help people!
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And now the lighter side...
Remember...
Chat and socialize with other SAS users?
Well, it’s not Perez Hilton, but...
sascanada.ning.com
SAS Canada’s social site
(Strict note from John Ladds...join immediately!)
sasoutlier.blogspot.ca
(The one and only Matt Malczewski's blog!)
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