Data Science Software CPD Forum - SAS

This event is only available for NHS England and NHS Improvement colleagues.

Data Services has established a Continuing Professional Development Forum which be used to engage NHS England and NHS Improvement professionals and allow them to develop and enhance their abilities in Tableau & SAS. The forums will be held on a monthly basis, alternating between Tableau and SAS on a month by month basis.

This session we be focusing on the use of SAS software, there will be 30 spaces for the session.

The forum will run for 4 1/2hrs and follow the below agenda:

Welcome from Data Services

10:00 – 10:20:  Introduction session- Welcome/Ice breaker

Sarah Blundell & Alex Cheung

10:20 – 10:50: What’s bugging you about SAS Q&A

- Bring your issues re speed/coding errors/current stumbling blocks- All colleagues

Break 10:50-11:00

11:00 – 12:00 : SAS Demo- (55mins)- Peter & Collette

• Visualisation – The evolution of SAS/Graph procedures - PLOT vs. GPLOT vs. SGPLOT and advanced options like using an annotation data set.
• Frequency Tables

12:00 – 12:30: Networking lunch (30 mins)

12:30- 14:15: Interactive Session (1hr 15 mins) – Christmas theme visualisation Intro by Sarah Blundell

• 12 days of Christmas

14:15 – 14:30: Presentation and (highlighting code) (15 Mins) – All

The aims of these sessions are to enable learning to become conscious and proactive, promote best practice techniques and idea sharing, all focused for an individual to improve and have effective professional development. Continuing Professional Development is essential in helping individuals, organisations or entire industries to keep skills and knowledge up to date. Providing CPD enables organisations to become a knowledge bank to key stakeholders of your organisation.

Questions about this event?

Name: Sarah Blundell

Email:sarahblundell@nhs.net

Telephone:07900715522