SAS-L Counts

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SAS-L Counts Arthur Tabachneck Insurance Bureau
of Canada
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SAS-L archives (Marist U. and U. of Ga.)
1986 to 2008

• 327,058 postings
• 35,200 distinct e-mail addresses

• 18,063 of those used just once
• 28,488 used five or fewer times
• 410 used 100 times (60 more than last year)

• 4,300 addresses were mapped to peoples names,
  to support aggregation

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Future Report Accuracy Depends on You!
Lets all do our part to enhance the accuracy of
Howards project

• Logon to http//www.howles.com/sas-l/
• User saslguy Password caryncusa

• Correct any errors or omissions that youre aware
  of

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Disclaimers

• Quantity is not necessarily quality.
• There are errors and omissions. We hope and
  believe they are minor.

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Numerous ways to analyze list postings
See http//www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/sashttp/SGF2009
/229-2009.pdf
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Numerous ways to analyze list postings
See http//www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/sashttp/SGF2009
/229-2009.pdf
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Did the current analysis use such a sophisticated
approach?
NO!
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Posts, 1987-2008

• 866 Pardee, Nelson (69)
• 2,177 Miller, Phil (90)
• 3,390 Hamer, Bob (165)
• 3,488 Hamer, Bob (198
• 3,867 Miller, Phil (93)
• 5,166 Schreier, Howard (148)
• 5,580 Berryhill, Tim (113)
• 9,088 Berryhill, Tim (238)
• 10,731 Whittington, John (277)
• 12,801 Berryhill, Tim (359)
• 12,697 Berryhill, Tim (330)
• 11,261 Self, Karsten (282)
• 14,126 Crawford, Peter (420)
• 20,060 Dorfman, Paul (539)
• 21,308 Crawford, Peter (455)
• 25,946 Fehd, Ron (753)
• 22,567 Fehd, Ron (701)
• 24,053 Dunn, Toby (881)
• 26,992 Cassell, David (2,133)

A Williams sister won Wimbledon
Euro
Angels won World Series
SAS 8.2
SAS 9.1.3
Dick Cheneys Shooting Incident
Smoking banned in Scotland bars
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Posts, 1987-2008 (Do the rest of us follow the
leader?)
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Calendar year 2008
Name Posts
datanull 1593
Howard Schreier 1226
Mary Howard 1009
Arthur Tabachneck 748
Ron Fehd 588
Gerhard Hellriegel 551
Roland Berry 538
Nathaniel Wooding 506
Jack Hamilton 414
Peter Flom 413
Alan Churchill 397
Ya Huang 384
Sig Hermansen 376
Ajay Ohri 351
Toby Dunn 326
Daniel Nordlund 315
Mike Zdeb 302
Chang Chung 284
Muthia Kachirayan 261
Kevin Viel 260
Others in the top 40 Mark Terjeson, Joe Matise,
Ian Whitlock, Richard DeVenezia, Karma
Dorjetarap, Dale McLerran, Peter Crawford, Paul
Dorfman, Lou Pogoda, Robin High, proccontents, Ed
Heaton, Akshaya Nathilvar, Scott Bucher, Paul
Choate, Stefan Pohl, Don Henderson, Randy
Herbison, Roy Pardee, WenSui Liu
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All-time leaders
Name Posts
David Cassell 8775
Howard Schreier 7705
Toby Dunn 5793
Ron Fehd 5105
Jack Hamilton 4127
Richard DeVenezia 4066
Peter Crawford 3917
Gerhard Hellriegel 3431
Ian Whitlock 3378
Jim Groeneveld 3200
datanull 3165
Sig Hermansen 3124
Paul Dorfman 3112
Ya Huang 3015
Arthur Tabachneck 2778
Roland Rashleigh-Berry 2301
Dale McLerran 2235
John Whittington 2210
Mark Terjeson 2123
Paul Choate 2048
Others in the top 40 Peter Flom, Tim Berryhill,
Karsten Self, Bill Viergever, Alan Churchill,
Chang Chung, Chuck Patridge, Nat Wooding, Kevin
Viel, Mary Howard, Harry Droogendyk, Michael
Rhoads, Dennis Diskin, Ed Heaton, Venky
Chakravarthy, Michael Raithel, Shiling Zhang,
David Johnson, Roy Pardee, Joe Kelley
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Calendar months with more than 1 of posts
Name Months
Howard Schreier 140
Jack Hamilton 139
Ron Fehd 104
Ian Whitlock 96
Peter Crawford 90
Richard DeVenezia 86
Sig Hermansen 83
Tim Berryhill 82
David Cassell 79
Paul Dorfman 71
Phil Miller 71
Gerhard Hellriegel 66
Ya Huang 66
Karsten Self 65
Bob Hamer 64
John Whittington 63
Jim Groeneveld 58
Phil Gallagher 57
Dale McLerran 53
Toby Dunn 52
Others in the top 402 Melvin Klassen, Arthur
Tabachneck, Bill Viergever, Mark Terjeson, Peter
Flom, Bernard Tremblay, Nelson Pardee, Barry
Grau, Chuck Patridge, Roland Rashleigh-Berry,
Paul Choate, Alan Churchill, datanull, Chang
Chung, Pete Rikard, Philip Tejera, Sally Muller,
Bob Snyder, June Genis, Andrew Cary, Dennis
Diskin, Hal German
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Most consecutive recent weeks with more than .8
of posts
Name Weeks
Howard Schreier 30
Arthur Tabachneck 7
Dale McLerran 4
Ian Whitlock 4
Joe Matise 4
Karma Dorjetarap 4
Kevin Viel 4
Mary Howard 4
Nat Wooding 4
Ron Fehd 4
datanull 4
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Longest Posts (in terms of of lines for
posters who had at least 20 or more posts)
Name Average of
Lines
Irin Figvam 200
Joe Whitehurst 157
SAS 9 BI User 154
John Gerstle 130
Mark Keintz 129
Tom White 126
Warren Schlechte 122
Jack Clark 120
Nat Wooding 115
Mary Howard 115
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Most Popular Subjects
Subject
of Posts
Friday Humor 88
Chance to Make SAS-L History 83
Rant I Really Hate SAS Pricing Structure 73
SASs Future 61
Programmer Skill Set 50
Friday SAS Community Forum Editing 48
What Exactly is Data Mining 47
Program to Get Source Code of Compiled Macro 44
SAS Certification 43
Keep/Drop Array Variables 41
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Our Use of Words Has Changed
Part 1 SAS-Ls use of words in 2008 that Toby
used in 2007
Word Toby 2007 Used 2008
List Used Delta
reckoning 0.5 .00001 -99.99
knickers 0.5 .00001 -99.99
sacrifice 0.3 .00010 -99.97
enemy 0.3 .00011 -99.96
paint 0.3 .00011 -99.96
compromise 0.3 .00015 -99.95
stars 0.3 .00015 -99.95
knot 0.5 .00030 -99.94
buddy 0.3 .00027 -99.91
hell 0.7 .00075 -99.89
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Our Use of Words Has Changed
Part 2 SAS-Ls increased use of words in 2008
compared with 2007
Word Used in 2007 Used
in 2008 Delta
yes 0.030 0.050 66.67
sex 0.014 0.023 64.29
cc 0.025 0.039 56.00
join 0.027 0.042 55.56
flag 0.016 0.024 50.00
logistic 0.023 0.034 47.83
dates 0.020 0.029 45.00
array 0.059 0.085 44.07
weight 0.016 0.023 43.75
import 0.022 0.031 40.91
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Up and Coming
Name 2004 2005
2006 2007 2008
Mary Howard 3 8 2 203 1009
Ajay Ohri . . . . 351
Mike Zdeb . 1 . 5 302
Joe Matise . . . . 250
Karma Dorjetarap . . . 4 219
Akshaya Nathilvar . . . . 169
Scott Bucher . . 3 . 168
Stefan Pohl 25 5 13 5 148
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The Other Direction?
Name 2004 2005
2006 2007 2008
David Cassell 513 2133 2526 1605 23
Audimar Bangi . . . 152 55
Jake Bee . . 69 121 29
Jiann-Shiun Huang . 25 477 159 1
Robert Bardos 35 17 97 178 .
Syb It . . . 143 21
Toby Dunn 551 1190 2000 1366 326
Ken Borowiak 5 24 134 153 57
David Johnson . 4 5 529 .
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In Memoriam David Johnson 1956 to 2008
Above picture was taken at SUGI 31 in 2006
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Author Contact Information
Your comments and questions are valued and
encouraged. Contact the author
Dr. Arthur Tabachneck Director, Data
Management Insurance Bureau of Canada Toronto,
Ontario L3T 5K9 Canada 416-445-5912 atabachneck
at ibc dot ca or art297 at netscape dot net