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.

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

Welcome from Data Services

Agenda to Follow

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.

Welcome from Data Services SAS CPD session

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

10:50-11:00 Break

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

• Getting started with enterprise guide and enterprise miner
• Macro in SAS
• Customer success team

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

12:30- 14:15 Interactive Session (1hr 15 mins)

• Truncating data/ sample date
• Working with Marco

• Using A&E synthetic dataset to create macro to help with real life requirements.

14:15 – 14:30 Presentation of exercise (15 Mins) – All

Questions about this event?

Name: Munsoor Miah

Email:munsoor.miah@nhs.net

Telephone:07811 681171