Queensland Users Exploring SAS Technology
Michelle Homes
Q2 2015
WELCOME TO QUEST
AGENDA• Welcome
• Michelle Homes, Business Development Manager, Consultant & Trainer, Metacoda
• A SAS Journey – Some Know Hows from Building a Commercial Credit Rating Data Mart
• Sebastian Schnelle, Credit Risk Control Manager, Bank of Queensland
• Big Data Analytics – The Future of Analysis
• Peter Hughes, Principal Business Analytics Solutions Consultant, SAS Australia
• Break
• Hot Fuzz – Using SAS Fuzzy Data Matching Techniques to Identity
Duplicate and Related Customer Records
• Stuart Edwards, Head of Analytics, Collection House
• Networking with Random Draw & Prizes
QUEST UPDATE
• Committee Members
• Alice Conomos is on secondment in Sydney
• Amanda Maker and Meng Zhang are on maternity leave
• Michelle Homes, Burton Wu, Leonard Scuderi and Alan Davies
• Interested in joining the committee? Let us know!
• Present at a QUEST (remember the SAS User Group Presenter Incentive!)
• Let us know if you are interested in presenting
• At each QUEST a prize is awarded to the best presentation content voted by users
• The person is then put into the random drawer for a major draw prize
• Winner for Q4 2014 QUEST meeting was Paul Smith
• Driving Forward: Followmont Transport’s journey on SAS Visual Analytics
SASGF15 UPDATE
• Bronwen Fairbairn – best presenter award
• Presented at Q3 2014 meeting on SAS and Data Vault Warehousing
• Won the random draw prize to SAS Global Forum with expenses paid by SAS Australia
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SAS TECHNOLOGY ROADSHOW
• Instead of a Q3 2015 QUEST meeting…
• SAS Technology Roadshow in August
• Presentations
• Data competition
• Awards evening with various prizes including a trip to SAS Global Forum 2016
• Keep posted for details
https://communities.sas.com/groups/sanzoc
CONNECT WITH US…
• QUEST LinkedIn Group: linkd.in/SASquest
• SANZOC : communities.sas.com/groups/sanzoc/
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/SASAustNZ
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/sas_anz
• YouTube: www.youtube.com/SASAsiaPacific
• Blog: blogs.sas.com/content/anz
UPDATE & EVALUATION
• SAS User Community Update
• Q3 2015 No QUEST event – SAS user technical road shows in August
• QUEST LinkedIn group - http://linkd.in/SASquest
• SANZOC – https://communities.sas.com/groups/sanzoc
• Paper evaluation – fill it in for the random draw prizes!
• Don’t forget to let us know if you’d like to present at a future
QUEST… (mentoring is provided)
• Let us know if you want to join the QUEST committee
REMINDERS
• SAS User Community Update
• Q3 2015 No QUEST event – SAS user technical road shows in August
• QUEST LinkedIn group - http://linkd.in/SASquest
• SANZOC – https://communities.sas.com/groups/sanzoc
• Paper evaluation – fill it in for the random draw prizes!
• Don’t forget to let us know if you’d like to present at a future
QUEST… (mentoring is provided)
• Let us know if you want to join the QUEST committee