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Today’s Agenda

Reports, Stats, Achievements and Discussion

• SAS Support Communities

• sasCommunity.org

• SAS groups on LinkedIn

• SAS-L

• SAS Professionals UK

• SAS Canada Community & Friends of SAS

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SAS Support Communities communities.sas.com

Chris Hemedinger


SAS Support Communities

• Hosted by SAS and actively moderated

• Find it: communities.sas.com

• Over 100,000 registered members

• Over 4,000 SAS employees listen/participate

• 73% of information seekers say “found my answer”


Thank you Super Users!


sasCommunity.orgArt Carpenter

sasCommunity.org “Green Thumb” Award User:PaulkaeferPaul is an IT Data Analyst with UnitedHealth Group, and he began using SAS in 2016.

Although Paul has been contributing to sasCommunity.org less than a year, he already has the fourth highest all time point total on the site.

You can congratulate him on his sasCommunity.org talk page.

http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/User_talk:Paulkaefer


SAS groups on LinkedInAndrew Howell


SasCommunity Linkup 2017 - LinkedIn stats

• Searched 721 LinkedIn groups with “SAS” in the name or description

• Removed irrelevant groups from results (some obvious, some “guesstimate”)

- Scandinavian Airlines, Semester at Sea (SAS) Alumni, etc..

• There are approx. 630 “SAS-relevant”(i.e, SAS Software) LinkedIn groups

• BTW, curious anomaly in membership figures between group searches& group home page..


SAS LinkedIn groups, ranked by membership

• Top 66 of 630+ SAS LinkedIn groups

• “Exclusively SAS”(i.e, vendor-specific) are in green

• Naturally, users can belong to multiple groups..

# Name Members # Name Members

1 Data Mining, Statistics, Big Data, Data Visualization, and Data Science 148,506 34 Business Intelligence (BI) - Brasil 4,725

2 Data Warehousing (Business Intelligence, ETL) Professional's Group 75,102 35 SAS Jobs Network (Europe) 4,713

3 Big Data, Analytics, Hadoop, NoSQL & Cloud Computing 72,960 36 SAS Business Intelligence 4,430

4 Data Warehouse - Big Data - Hadoop - Cloud - Data Science - ETL 65,217 37 SAS® Certified Professionals 4,141

5 SAS Professional Forum 43,573 38 SAS Professional Network 3,533

6 Business Intelligence & Analytics Group 42,836 39 SAS Advanced Certified Professionals 3,324

7 Mainframe Experts Network 37,455 40 SAS Alumni Group 3,216

8 Global Analytics Network 32,792 41 Biostatistic & SAS Programming Job Network 3,041

9 SAS Analytics & BI 32,001 42 SAS Administration Team 3,026

10 Clinical Trials in Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia (EMEAA). 24,795 43 CHANTAL BAUDRON SAS 3,022

11 SAS & Analytics Users 23,793 44 Big Data Analytics using Hadoop 2,883

12 CRM Specialist Network 20,455 45 SAS Jobs Network (Canada) 2,832

13 Statistician Jobs 19,445 46Campaign Management & Digital Marketing-Unica UMO Epiphany Siebel Aprimo SAS SEO SEM RADIAN 6 -India

2,768

14 SAS Jobs Network (USA) 18,826 47 Statistician / SAS Programmer - Clinical 2,749

15 Datastage (Infosphere) Developers Group 15,425 48 InForm,Oracle Clinical and SAS Users 2,562

16 SAS Programming Tips 13,920 49 Data Ware housing 2,562

17JOBS 2.0 IT (Information Technology): Internet Development Programming Computer Software & Hardware

13,878 50 SAS Data Mining and Analytics User Group 2,542

18 SAS Opportunities 13,519 51 GAP Consulting 2,501

19 Big Data | Data Science | A.I. | IoT | Machine Learning | Robotics 12,642 52 SAS Freshers 2,413

20Quant Masters- Data Scientist Deep Machine Learning Predictive Modeling NLP Mahout R Matlab Weka SAS

10,554 53 Biostatisticians Worldwide 2,375

21 SAS (Statistical Analysis) Professionals - GlocalCircles.com 10,471 54 Consumer Modeling and Analytics 2,355

22 Big Data Warehouse Jobs and Opportunity Group 9,832 55JOBS:Data Science, Big Data Analytics,Machine Learning, NLP, SAS, R, Python, MongoDB, AWS, Hadoop

2,326

23 Mainframe Professional Network Group 9,701 56 UK Data Analysts - SAS/SPSS 2,229

24 SAS, Biostat & Clinical Data Management 9,242 57 SAS and Stats 2,069

25 SAS Users Group 8,153 58 SAS Spearhead Professionals 2,046

26 ClinOps 7,851 59 SAS DI Studio 1,961

27 SAS Professional 7,394 60 Predictive Modeling in Insurance 1,954

28 India Analytics Network 6,966 61 SAS® DI and BI Professionals 1,945

29 SAS/SPSS Marketing & Data Analysts 6,954 62 CallCentre Search - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 1,708

30 Business Intelligence & Performance Management - Business Analytics Group 6,523 63BI BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE JOBS Japan China & Asia-Pacific incl. Korea Singapore Australia Hong Kong

1,670

31 Analytic Consulting (SAS,SPSS,MiniTab,Big Data) - Statistical Modeling 5,976 64 Learn Analytics...step at a time 1,634

32 SAS Jobs Network (India) 5,786 65 Training & Development in the Clinical Trial Space 1,534

33 BI Architecture 5,038 66 sasCommunity 1,497


630 “SAS” LinkedIn groups - summary

• Top 10% of groups have 92% of total membership

• 1/2 have 33 or fewer members

• 1/3 have 10 or fewer members

• Most groups are “benign”

• Superseded by more recent technology(blogs, twitter, etc)

• Minimal or no “genuine activity” otherthan receiving blog “broadcasts”

• Membership stagnant exceptfor the larger groups

“SAS exclusive”

groups

Remaining 98% of groups


Example: SAS Analytics & BI (23,549 members)

C

31 posts in 2 months

• All are blog broadcasts

• 5 likes

• 1 comment

• No actual “discussion”


SAS Professional Forum & sasCommunity

• SAS Professional Forum (43,573 members - largest “SAS only” LinkedIn group)• Previously moderated by Phil Holland, now by Andrew Howell & Nikola Markovic• 65 posts in 2 months

- 24 posts (37%) were “actual posts”, 41 posts (63%) were blog posts

• 45 posts (70%) were liked• 28 posts (43%) generated discussion (i.e, more than one comment)• Probably the only “active” SAS LinkedIn group, due to size and ongoing moderation

efforts by Phil, Andrew & Nik to ensure only “SAS value add” users can join.

• sasCommunity (1,497 members)• Moderated by Art Carpenter, Chris Hemedinger, Phil Holland & Andrew Howell• 21 posts in 2 months

- 1 post (5%) was an “actual posts”, 20 posts (95%) were blog posts

• 1 post (5%) was liked• 1 post (5%) generated discussion (i.e, more than one comment)


LinkedIn summary

• Very few groups add value (other than small focus groups)• Most were set up, then ignored.

• Useful to publicise your blog• Advantage: Reach large numbers of users (Hint: Focus on top 10-12 groups)

• Disadvantage: Draws discussion to your blog rather than centralising discussion

• Useful to advertise for jobs• Advantage: Reach large numbers of users (Hint: Focus on regional groups)

• Disadvantage: Most groups are global, job searches tend to be regional

• No longer effective as a (vendor-specific) discussion forum• Diluted by changes to LinkedIn group management policy

• Recommend discussion elsewhere (in SAS’ case: communities.sas.com)

Matt KastinPenn Valley, PA

SAS-L Counts

Version 31.0

• 418,441 postings

• 37,709 distinct e-mail addresses

• 18,950 of those used just once

• 30,135 used five or fewer times

• 523 used more than 100 times

• 5,039 addresses were mapped to

names, to support aggregation

SAS-L Archives

(Marist University and University of Georgia)

Let’s all do our part to enhance the

accuracy of these analyses!

Future Report Accuracy Depends on You!

View the current address mapping at Google Docs Spreadsheet!

Email Joe Matise ([email protected]) regarding any errors or omissions

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlZr8pw0HlvIdEx2Mzg0T1R2eWRfVEZnSTRfUU1oTUE

mailto:[email protected]

• Quantity is not necessarily quality

• There are errors and omissions – hopefully

minor!

Disclaimers

Most Frequent Posters, 1987-2016

Year Name # of Posts Year Name # of Posts

1987 Nelson Pardee 69 2002 Ron Fehd 7531988 Phil Miller 90 2003 Ron Fehd 7011989 Bob Hamer 165 2004 Toby Duhn 8811990 Bob Hamer 198 2005 David Cassell 2,1331991 Phil Miller 93 2006 David Cassell 2,5261992 Howard Schreier 148 2007 David Cassell 1,6051993 Tim Berryhill 113 2008 John King 1,5931994 Tim Berryhill 238 2009 Joe Matise 1,2781995 John Whittington 277 2010 Art Tabachneck 1,0801996 Tim Berryhill 359 2011 Art Tabachneck 7481997 Tim Berryhill 330 2012 Joe Matise 5481998 Karsten Self 282 2013 Joe Matise 6941999 Peter Crawford 420 2014 Joe Matise 7142000 Paul Dorfman 539 2015 Roger DeAngelis 6482001 Peter Crawford 455 2016 ? 1,058

Fewer Posts Again… but slowing delta? .. NO!

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#1: Roger DeAngelis(1,058 Posts)

#2: Joe Matise (371 Posts)

#3: Art Tabachneck (249 Posts)

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David Cassell 8777Howard Schreier 7809Toby Dunn 6826Ron Fehd 6696Arthur Tabachneck 6515John King 6481Joe Matise 5798Jack Hamilton 5084Richard DeVenezia 4562Gerhard Hellriegel 4458Nat Wooding 4363Ya Huang 4248Peter Crawford 4043Sig Hermansen 3883Jim Groeneveld 3710

Others in the Top 40: Mark Terjeson,

Dale McLerran, John Whittington,

Alan Churchill, Paul Choate, Daniel

Nordlund, Mike Raithel, Mary

Howard, Chang Chung, Kevin Viel,

Bill Viergever, Karsten Self, Yinglin

Wu, Mike Zdeb, Mike Rhoads, Tom

Abernathy, Joe Whitehurst, Chuck

Patridge, Harry Droogendyk, Quentin

McMullen

Ian Whitlock 3519Paul Dorfman 3472Roland Rashleigh-Berry 3134Roger DeAngelis 3112Peter Flom 3068

Most Calendar Months with more than 1% of Total Posts

Jack Hamilton 170

Ron Fehd 167

Howard Schreier 142

Arthur Tabachneck 131

John King 125

Ya Huang 123

Nat Wooding 115

Sig Hermansen 106

Joe Matise 100

Richard DeVenezia 100

Ian Whitlock 96

Peter Crawford 92

Toby Dunn 91

Peter Flom 90

Gerhard Hellriegel 88

Others in the Top 40: Tom Abernathy, Mark

Terjeson, Yinglin Wu, Karsten Self, Roland

Rashleigh-Berry, Roger DeAngelis, Bob

Hammer, Søren Lassen, Bill Viergever,

Quentin McMullen, Alan Churchill, Mike

Raithel, Fareeza Khurshed, Yevgeniy

Bolotin, Phil Gallagher, Mark Keintz, Tim

Berryhill, Chang Chung, Paul Choate

Jim Groeneveld 81

David Cassell 79

Paul Dorfman 76

Dan Nordlund 71

Dale McLerran 71

John Whittington 71

Phil Miller 71

(with more than 12% of the posts)

Roger DeAngelis 25

Arthur Tabachneck 1

Cristian Cugiu 1

Nat Wooding 1

Most Consecutive Weeks Posting to End the Year

new random criterion

Our Burgeoning Novelists (Most lines/post, min. 20 posts)

Irin Figvam 829

Yevgeniy Bolotin 655

Matthew Pirrtano 558

Jack Clark 502

Name Avg # lines

The most popular topics of 2016

Optimizing PC for SAS 49Reading next observation’s value 43 Macro variables 42 Sorting on many fields in large dataset 39 Hashing to get percentages 35 A code/logic help needed (thank you) 31 Length 29 Andrew Karp 28 How to validate huge output data values 28 Using retain to re-order variables in dataset 27

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What words were used most often in 2016

Using 695Variable 546 Macro 542 Excel 467 SQL 419 Not 405 Forum 399 Dataset 395 Variable 378 By 358R 355

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Up and Coming

Roger DeAngelis 648 1058Vincent Martin 68 110Rick Wicklin 91 118Quentin McMullen 101 125Arthur Tabachneck 227 249

Poster 2015 2016

The Other Direction?

Yevgeniy Bolotin 147 33

Yinglin Wu 444 147

Tom Abernathy 191 70

John King 313 127

Fareeza Khurshed 176 84

Nat Wooding 352 218

Matt Kastin 120 76

Joe Matise 583 371

Poster 2015 2016

Annual SAS-L Awards

Annual SAS-L Awards

These awards are not associated with any cash value, nor

marketing value (I doubt one will have a hiring or contractual

advantage based on his Hall of Fame, MVS, or Rookie of the

Year BOF award).

Paul Dorfman, April 19, 2002

First awarded at SUGI 19 (1994, Dallas)

Kernon Gibes

Howard Schreier

Ian Whitlock

SAS-L Hall of Fame

The SAS-L Hall of Fame honors SAS-L participants who have made outstanding contributions to the group over a period of years

Current members (year of induction)

Ian Whitlock (2000) Paul Dorfman (2001) Peter Crawford (2002) David Cassell (2003) Ron Fehd (2003) Dale McLerran (2004) Howard Schreier (2004)

Richard DeVenezia (2005) Toby Dunn (2007) Data _null_ (2009) Arthur Tabachneck (2011) Jack Hamilton (2011) Nat Wooding (2014) Joe Matise (2014) Søren Lassen (2016)

SAS-L Rookie of the Year (SASLROY)

Recognizes the person new to SAS-L making the most significant contribution to the discussions of the group

This year – for the 20th time out of 21 awards ...

A non-SAS employee was voted SASLROY!

Nikola Markovic

Congratulations to ..

Arthur Tabachneck (for the SAS Global Forum SAS-L Meetup Planning Committee)

Online Communities Meetup at SAS Global Forum 2017

Presents

SAS-L Rookie of the

Year (SASLROY)

To

Nikola MarkovicMAY 2nd, 2017

Arthur S. Tabachneck

Most Valuable SAS-Ler (MVS)

(No, not the old IBM operating system ...)

Recognizes people who contributed most significantly to SAS-L during the past year

One or more awards given based on the distribution of votes

Members of the SAS-L Hall of Fame no longer eligible for the MVS

Previous MVS winners who finish among the top vote-getters a second time are inducted into the SAS-L Hall of Fame

Most Valuable SAS-Ler (MVS)

congratulations to ..

Matt Kastin

Our 2017 MVS Winner

But Wait! Unlike the Academy Awards,we don’t make critical award mistakes!

There wasn’t just one MVS this year .. there was a three-way tie

congratulations to all three ..

Matt Kastin

Our 2017 MVS Winners

Rick Wicklin

Roger DeAngelis



Presents

Most Valuable SAS-Ler

(MVS)

To

Matt KastinMay 2nd, 2017




Presents


(MVS)

To

Rick WicklinMay 2nd, 2017




Presents


(MVS)

To

Roger DeAngelisMay 2nd, 2017


Many, many, many thanks

to Joe Kelley


SAS Canada Community & Friends of SAS

Matt Malczewski and Martha Casanova(as performed by Chris Hemedinger)


What is Friends of SASVIP Online Community

Learn about SAS

Connect with other SAS users

Share SAS best practices

Provide feedback

Nominate your peers for awards

Earn points

Rewards

Have Fun!


Examples of ChallengesEducation, Network, Fun and much more


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Thank you to all community members!

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