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The Boston Area SAS Users Group
Message List - November 3, 1999
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Contents:
- Quarterly Meeting, December 3, 1999
- Our Web Site
- BASUG Contacts
- How to subscribe/unsubscribe from this Message List
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Meeting Announcement
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WHAT: Quarterly BASUG Meeting
WHEN: Friday, December 3, 1999 - 8:30AM to 12:30PM
WHERE: Wyndham Garden Hotel
30 Wheeler Road
Burlington, MA 01803 (directions below)
THEME: Webifying SAS: An Overview of the Technologies
for Web Based Information Delivery
AGENDA:
8:30 Coffee and registration
9:00 "Overview: 30,000 ft View of the Tools and
Approaches to Putting SAS on the Web"
10:00 "A Case Study of Static Web Publishing with the
SAS System"
11:00 "A Tour of Dynamic Webpplications with the
SAS System"
RSVP: If you plan to attend the meeting,
please send an e-mail to:
mmurphy@world.std.com
CONTACT: Elizabeth Axelrod
Tel: (617) 349-2458
E-mail: elizabeth_axelrod@abtassoc.com
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ABSTRACTS AND BIOS:
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9:00 - 10:00
"OVERVIEW: 30,000 ft View of the Tools and Approaches to
Putting SAS on the Web" by Greg Barnes Nelson and Mike Zdeb
* HTML
* SAS Output formatting tools
* Output Delivery System
* SAS/IntrNet
- Application Dispatcher
- htmSQL
* AppDev Studio
- webAF
- webEIS
10:00 - 11:00
"A Case Study of Static Web Publishing with the SAS System"
by Mike Zdeb
The New York State Health Department maintains an intranet
site known as the Health Information Network (HIN).
The HIN is to provide information to and receive information
from county health departments. One portion of this web site
is devote to data used by counties to prepare a health
planning document known as a community health assessment
(CHA). SAS is used to prepare all the material
on CHA portion of the HIN. DATA _NULL_ reporting is used
to write tables in HTML, and SAS/GRAPH is used to produce
graphics (bar charts and maps) in postscript that is
later converted to PDF files.
This is an example of not using any of the SAS-supplied
web tools to create web postings. Both HTML and PDF files
are common file structures used on the web. Custom, data
step programming was used since it was easier to create
the exact output desired rather than tailoring the output
to fit the SAS tools provided to create output for web
posting.
Some of the ODS tools provided in Version 8 are now being
used to produce maps that contain links to HTML tables.
These links show 10-year time trends in the data posted
in the tables created using the custom, data step
programming. In addition to the ODS tools, Version 8 also
provides a PDF graphics driver that eliminates the need to
convert SAS/GRAPH postscript output to PDF using other,
non-SAS software.
11:00 - 12:00
"A Tour of Dynamic Web Applications with the SAS System"
by Greg Barnes Nelson
In this hour, we will explore some of the SAS IntrNet
based tools for information delivery. Here we will walk
through a simple application as we move it from SAS/AF
to SAS/IntrNet to webAF showing the power and flexibility
of SAS as a web development tool.
This session is meant to show what SAS is capable of and
where these tools fit into an overall web framework.
Code and samples pages will be available for download and
step by step instructions on how to use them in your
organization will be provided.
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Mike Zdeb is a research scientist in the Division of
Family Health at the New York State Department of Health
and an Assistant Professor in the epidemiology program
at the School of Public Health at the State University
of NY at Albany. He conducts research on public health
topics using the various databases maintained by the health
department. Mike specializes in the area of computer
graphics and the computer- assisted mapping of health data.
He has been a SAS user for over ten years and has presented
papers on many occasions for local SAS user groups,
NESUG, and SUGI.
Greg Barnes Nelson is a Social Psychologist by training and
a technologist at heart. His company, STATPROBE Technologies,
develops web based information systems for research oriented
companies. He is currently writing a book on exploiting SAS
in server based environments. He serves on the steering,
planning and executive committees of regional and
international SAS user groups and just chaired the
SouthEast SAS Users Group Conference in Mobile, Alabama.
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DIRECTIONS:
Wyndham Garden Hotel
30 Wheeler Road
Burlington, MA
- From route 128, get off at Exit 32B.
- Turn LEFT at end of ramp.
- Turn LEFT at next set of lights (onto Wheeler Road).
- Wyndham Garden Hotel is on the LEFT.
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BASUG Web Site
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Our site on the World Wide Web always contains
the latest information concerning upcoming meetings,
positions available, coding tip of the week, and
consultants for hire. There are new job openings
added by local companies nearly every week.
Check us out at: http://world.std.com/~mmurphy/basug.html
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BASUG Contacts:
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The Boston Area SAS Users Group (BASUG)
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// WWW: http://world.std.com/~mmurphy/basug.html
// US Mail: PO Box 253, Boston 02117
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