WW10 Advanced Reporting Using the Output Delivery System     Sun, All Day

Andrew Karp
Sierra Information Services, Inc.    Email: SFBAY0001@aol.com
Abstract: This workshop builds on the concepts covered in Saturday’s “Summarizing and Reporting” seminar. In this full-day session you will learn advanced SAS reporting techniques and tools as well as core functionalities in the Output Delivery System . You will see how to apply ODS tools to create SAS data sets from procedure-generated output, apply Data Step processing with the ODS-generated data sets, create HTML, RTF and PDF files containing your SAS generated output, customizing the output using TEMPLATES, and h ow to include graphics in your ODS-generated reports. You will also see a brief overview of PROC DOCUMENT, which will be a core ODS feature in Version 9 of the SAS System The materials presented in this seminar assume either prior attendance at the Saturd ay “Summarizing and Reporting” session or an equivalent level of understanding of the material covered there.

Biography: Andrew Karp is President of Sierra Information Services, Inc. a SAS Institute Alliance Partner™ located in the historic Calfiornia wine country city of Sonoma, north of San Francisco. A 20-year user of SAS System software, Andrew is a SAS Certified Profess ional for Version 8 of the SAS System and has presented numerous papers at SAS user group meetings in six countries. His consulting practice focuses on using the SAS System for data mining, predictive modeling and other analytic processes, as well as on de veloping and presenting training classes on numerous SAS Software topics. He is currently writing a book to accompany the recently released SAS Learning Edition for SAS Institute’s Books by Users Press. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.