Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:11:55 +0000
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From: toby dunn <tobydunn@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Unofficial 2005 Year-End Review
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OKay at SUGI this year I dont wanna hear about anyone making fun of how many
posts I had this year as David more than doubled mine from last year
Toby Dunn
From: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Reply-To: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Unofficial 2005 Year-End Review
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:42:22 -0500
I received some posts, off line, asking how I prepared the unofficial year-
end review. I presume it was very similar to how Ron and Howard
accomplish the task each year. People were most interested in why the
numbers were different than what a Google search reports.
Since so many posts haven't made it to Google this year, I downloaded all
of the posts from the listserv.
Don't do the following unless you care to use up about 60mb from your
email account and hard drive.
That said, if one sends an email to listserv@listserv.uga.edu, with the
subject 'get sas-l', and with the body of the email containing get
statements for every file you want. For example,
GET SAS-L LOG0501A
GET SAS-L LOG0501B
etc.
The names are in the form of yymm with A, B, C, D and E representing the
weeks. This year there were five weekly files for each month, except
February, which had four. In 2004, every month had five files.
My SAS code for analyzing the file is too long to include here, but I'd be
glad to share it if you send me a request off-line. The code was used to
parse the downloaded files into a record for each posting, and captured
the subject, sender and content. Since so many of us use multiple email
addresses, most of the code attempts to standardize the addresses.
The code does not attempt to evaluate content. The decision rule I used
for determining who was a rookie was manual. I put together a spreadsheet
showing postings for both 2004 and 2005 and, if anyone had a lot of 2005
posts but few or none for 2004, I searched Howard's list to see if they
were on it.
Howard posted info about his list project a couple of year's ago, namely:
http://www.howles.com/sas-l/
User: saslguy
Password: caryncusa
Upon reviewing the list since I posted it, I noticed that I had not
included Excel-Hari on the Rookie list, but should have. There are likely
others that were inadvertently ommitted, as well, and if you let me know
I'll be glad to update the summary.
And, while I only included the top 15 old-timer and top 15 rookie posters,
I noticed that Ron's summaries had always included the top 50. Thus, to
make up for that ommission, here is a list of the top 100. My appologies,
in advance, for over intruding on anyone's printer or bandwidth.
Art
2005 Not On SAS-L
Rank sender 2004 2005 Howard's List Status
---- ------------------- ---- ---- ------------- ------
1. DAVID L CASSELL 499 2046 HOF
2. TOBY DUNN 860 1124 ROY
3. HOWARD SCHREIER 830 884 HOF
4. RICHARD A DEVENEZIA 779 655 HOF
5. RONALD J. FEHD 629 514 HOF
6. PAUL CHOATE 665 422
7. ARTHUR TABACHNECK 202 417
8. MARK TERJESON 153 346
9. SIGURD HERMANSEN 345 346
10. HARRY DROOGENDYK 252 321
11. IAN WHITLOCK 126 309 HOF
12. JACK HAMILTON 452 302 MVS
13. CHANG CHUNG 459 295 ROY
14. PERTER FLOM 146 282
15. JIM GROENEVELD 537 274
16. ALAN CHURCHILL 139 264
17. DALE MCLERRAN 255 253 HOF
18. DENNIS DISKIN 192 233
19. ROY PARDEE 194 233
20. TALBOT KATZ 52 232
21. ROLAND BERRY 113 226
22. PETER CRAWFORD 144 212 HOF
23. YA HUANG 236 207
24. BEN POWELL 194 204
25. STPHANE COLAS 130 204
26. SHILING ZHANG 28 180
27. GERHARD HELLRIEGEL 148 165
28. NATHANIEL WOODING 111 160
29. SCOTT BASS 150 *
30. WENSUI LIU 7 149
31. PAUL M. DORFMAN 313 149 HOF
32. VENKY CHAKRAVARTHY 172 138
33. KEVIN ROLAND VIEL 121 136
34. MIKE RHOADS 98 124
35. CAROL SRNA 122
36. PUDDING MAN 108 107
37. ANDRE WIELKI 96 106
38. DATA _NULL_; 105 *
39. JIM SIMMONS 102 *
40. F.J. KELLEY 57 102
41. BARRY A SCHWARZ 49 100
42. KUMAR SRIDHAR 14 94 *
43. EXCEL HARI 92
44. MONAL KOHLI 91
45. ED HEATON 99 91
46. MICHAEL MURFF 53 91
47. JOE WHITEHURST 37 85
48. MICHAEL S ZDEB 58 85
49. VENITA DEPUY 174 85
50. NICK . 6 79 *
51. PAIGE MILLER 59 77
52. NEVIN KRISHNA 35 73
53. GREG CURSON 71 *
54. CHARLES HARBOUR 36 68
55. DAVID FICKBOHM 116 68
56. PAUL SWANK 40 67
57. JOEP STEEMAN 2 66
58. ADEL TANGI 63
59. ROBERT SLOTPOLE 6 62 *
60. MIGUEL DE LA HOZ 61
61. RUNE RUNNESTOE 50 61
62. BOB ABELSON 43 59
63. NINA HARRIS 22 59
64. BENPUB7 45 58
65. STEVE RAIMI 68 57
66. FRANK SCHIFFEL 56
67. DAVID NEAL 12 55
68. LOU POGODAJR 113 55
69. MICHAEL RAITHEL 44 54
70. TIM MUIR 52 *
71. GREGG SNELL 52
72. NISHANT DHOLAKIA 52
73. DON HENDERSON 77 52
74. JEFF VOELLER 53 49
75. KEVIN MYERS 77 49
76. HARI NATH 48 *
77. JULES BOSCH 72 46
78. GUIDO T 21 45
79. PHILIP PRIMAK 2 44
80. RANDY HERBISON 49 44
81. DIANNE RHODES 43 43
82. TONY YANG 42 *
83. ALEX PAVLUCK 11 42
84. QUENTIN MCMULLEN 165 42
85. RICHARD RISTOW 61 42
86. JAIRAJ SATHYANARAYANA 41 *
87. TANWAN 41 *
88. XIANGYANG YE 4 41 *
89. ERIC YOUNT 10 40
90. ROBIN HIGH 30 40
91. ARJEN RAATELAND 12 39
92. KEN BARZ 1 39
93. PAUL THOMPSON 44 39
94. OMUGEYE 38 *
95. BAOGONG JIANG 2 36 *
96. HAMANI ELMAACHE 52 36
97. JEFF MORISON 16 36
98. PHIL MASON 21 36
99. DANIEL NORDLUND 35 *
100. JIANPING ZHU 35 *
100. PA PA 35 *
100. JOHN GERSTLE 25 35
100. MICHAEL L. DAVIS 42 35
100. ROBIN TEMPLER 35 35
