Big thanks to everyone who came to the debut meetup of SAS User Group Germany last night! 19 curious SAS users from healthcare and financial industries came. We had fantastic talks about Lua and SAS® Stored Processes.
Recap
Rowland Hale opened up a session with a talk about Lua language integration in SAS, and we have a big discussion and comparison with old-fashioned SAS Macro. It was a totally groundbreaking experience to see a comparison of the performance in terms of CPU, i/o, memory usage, and WORK library size, which Nik made for PROC LUA and SAS Macro code using ESM.
The second talk was from guys from Boemska, where Allan Bowe showed the User Navigator and Data Controller, and gave us many tips on how to develop SAS Stored Process web applications. Nikola Markovic made a gentle introduction to SAS Metadata and explained how they simplify the process of development, testing and deployment of SAS Stored Process applications with h54s (which is an open sourced framework) and AppFactory. That was a truly interesting talk and demo from a business perspective as well as from a developer perspective.
Big thanks to the sponsors of the debut meetup – Syneos Health who gladly provided us with a venue and made this event possible, and SAS Germany who made this event even better by treating us with pizza and craft beer from a local Berlin brewery.
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Slides
Slides are here:
- SUGG Greeting
- The LUA Procedure and why you should know it – Rowland Hale, Syneos Health
- Slides in the format of Jupyter notebook
- Additional material for a people curious about Lua
- Building an Analytics Experience with SAS and HTML5 – Nikola Markovic, CTO of Boemska and Allan Bowe, Director at Boemska
Photos & Videos
Photos from the event are available on Meetup.
Please see the recap from the meetup in the video format our YouTube:
PS
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Social
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Cheers and see you next time!
SUGG