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| Sunday, April 22 |
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| 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Creating Statistical Graphics with ODS in SAS
Warren Kuhfeld, SAS
|  | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM | SAS® Procedures for Analyzing Survey Data
Pushpal Mukhopadhyay, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
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| 08:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Best Practices in Base SAS® Coding
Brian Gayle, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
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| 08:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Excel VBA: When You Have to Step Outside SAS®
Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
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| 08:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Innovative Tips and Techniques: Doing More in the DATA Step
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
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| 08:00 AM - 11:30 AM | SAS® Administration: Understanding Architecture and Administration
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
Gordon Cox, Humana Inc.
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Data Simulation for Evaluating Statistical Methods in SAS®
Rick Wicklin, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Introduction to Bayesian Analysis Using SAS® Software
Maura Stokes, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
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| 12:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Building Powerful Reusable Tools with the SAS® Macro Language
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
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| 12:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Creating Complex Reports
Cynthia Zender, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
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| 12:30 PM - 04:00 PM | SAS® SQL: Building on the Basics
Davetta Dunlap, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
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| 12:30 PM - 04:00 PM | Statistical Graphics Procedures and ODS GRAPHICS for the Nonstatistician
Michele Ensor, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
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| 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Reception for Academic Attendees
| | Americas Seminar Room |
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| 05:15 PM - 06:30 PM | Opening Night Dinner
| | Walt Disney World Swan Resort,
Swan Resort, Swan Ballroom 5-6 |
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| 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM | SAS Global Forum Opening Session
| | Pacific Hall |
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| 08:30 PM - 11:00 PM | Get Acquainted Reception
| | Cabana Deck and Pool Area |
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| Monday, April 23 |
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| 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Technology Connection and Keynote Presentation
| | Pacific Hall |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Doing More with Your Reliability Data in SAS® 9.3
Robert Rodriguez, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Overview
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: PROC HPSummary
Scott Mebust, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Hadoop™
Howard Plemmons, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | What to Do with a Regular Expression
Scott Davis, Experis
| | Asia 5 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | A Survey of Some of the Most Useful SAS® Functions
Ronald Cody, Private Consultant
|  | Asia 4 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Applying Analytics to High-Performance Customer Profitability Models in Financial Services
Tony Adkins, SAS
Gary Cokins, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | De Rigueur: Adding Process to Your Business Analytics Environment
Falko Schulz, SAS
Diane Hatcher, SAS
Steve Sparano, SAS
|  | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Really? Don’t Trust Your Gut with Assortment Planning
Ann Ferguson, SAS
Scott Sanders, Sears Holdings
Pamela Parker, Marine Corps Exchange
Amy Clouse, Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.
| | Asia 1 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Platform Administration
Christine Vitron, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Zen and the Art of SAS Maintenance: Maintaining and Upgrading a Well-Oiled SAS Deployment
Donna Bennett, SAS
Shannon Leslie, SAS
Jason Losh, SAS
Mark Schneider, SAS
Jane Stovic, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM | How Analytics Can Help Turn IT Into True Business Results Drivers
Scott Vaughn, Tech Web
Hung LeHong, Gartner
Pauline Nist, Intel
Gary King, Chicos
Paul Kent, SAS
| | Gaylord Palms Resort,
Gaylord Palms Resort, Sun Ballroom |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM | SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.3: Finally a Programmer’s Tool
Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting LLC
Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting Inc.
|  | Southern Hemisphere I |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM | The SAS® Hash Object: It’s Time to .find() Your Way Around
Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.
|  | Southern Hemisphere II |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Handling Missing Data by Maximum Likelihood
Paul Allison, University of Pennsylvania
|  | Americas Seminar Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Code Doctors - Session 1
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
Lauren Haworth, Genentech Inc.
Diana Suhr, University of Northern Colorado
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: Introduction to the JMP® Application Builder
Daniel Schikore, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: Looking Inside SAS® Forecast Studio
Udo Sglavo, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: More than Doubled: Implications of Moving from 32-bit to 64-bit SAS on Windows
Chris Hemedinger, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: Multilingual Support in Financial Management Solution
Tony Zhang, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: What’s New in SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: What’s New with the SG Procedures in SAS® 9.3
Dan Heath, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Advanced XML Processing with SAS® 9.3
Thomas Cox, SAS
| | Asia 5 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: DMP – Master Data Foundations
Nancy Rausch, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Administration/Monitoring
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Mobile Apps: SAS on the Go
Meg Crawford, SAS
Kirsten Hamstra, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Using the EFFECT Statement in SAS/STAT® Linear Modeling Procedures
Funda Gunes, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Using the Macro Facility to Create HTML, XML and RTF streams
Rick Langston, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Lost in Wonderland? Methodology for a Guided Drill-Through Analysis Out of the Rabbit Hole
Stephen Overton, Zencos Consulting
|  | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | SAS® In-Database Capability: Smart Architecture
Gaurav Agrawal, US Major Financial Company
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Combating Insurance Claims Fraud
James Ruotolo, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office 5.1
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Understanding impact of social media on online retail
Alexander Soria, Zappos
| | Asia 1 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | PROC REPORT Basics: Getting Started with the Primary Statements
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| | Asia 4 |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Looking Inside SAS® Forecast Studio
Udo Sglavo, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Painless Non-Linear Modeling with JMP® 10
Don McCormack, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® Drug Development in an Enterprise Collaborative Environment
Matt Gross, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: So I've Got SAS® Deployed … Now What? Helpful Hints to Ease Administration
Jane Stovic, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Using New Map Data Sets for SAS/GRAPH®
Jeff Phillips, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: What’s New in SAS® Enterprise Guide®
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Another Way to Use SAS® to Monitor SAS or a SAS Server: A Tool for the User, Server Administrator, or Manager
LeRoy Bessler, Bessler Consulting and Research
Victor Andruskevitch, Valence Health
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | How to Create a Business Intelligence Strategy
Guy Garrett, Achieve Intelligence
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Yet Another Sudoku Solver, PROC FCMP
Matthew Kastin, I-Behavior, Inc.
Arthur Tabachneck, myQNA
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Exploration
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Sapphire and Pearl: Two New ODS Styles for Printing Color Output
Warren Kuhfeld, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® Data Integration Studio 4.4 ELT with Teradata
Malcolm Alexander, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Top 3 Reasons for Using DATA Step Functions over Macros
Jason Secosky, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | Retail Solutions Update
Saurabh Gupta, SAS
Deva Kumar, SAS
| | Asia 1 |
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| 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | Why SAS is an Institute
John Sall, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere C |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: JMP® Graph Builder for iPad®
Michael Hecht, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Leveraging LinkedIn: Discovering Groups and Other Users
Meg Crawford, SAS
Kirsten Hamstra, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: New and Future Geographic Mapping Capabilities
Jeff Phillips, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® High-Performance Marketing Optimization
Michelle Opp, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Securing Your SAS® Environment – What’s New?
Larry Noe, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: What Can Be Learned from Comments: Text Mining the AllAnalytics.com Blog Site
James Cox, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM | Analytic Infrastructure Design Considerations
Bryan Harris, Visti
Jessica Dunn, Bank of America
| | Gaylord Palms Resort,
Gaylord Palms Resort, Sun Ballroom |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Calling SAS® Procedures from the SAS/IML® Language
Rick Wicklin, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: DMP – Master Data Foundations
Nancy Rausch, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Designer (Report Layout)
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Windows PowerShell and SAS®: Use Them to Drive Each Other Crazy
Chris Hemedinger, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:10 PM | One Flip, Two Flip, Fat File Flat File
Ethan Miller, SRI International
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Clinical Graphs Using SAS® ODS Graphics
Sanjay Matange, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Experimental User Interfaces for Enterprise BI Content – A Demonstration Using Microsoft Surface and Kinect for Xbox 360
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Getting the Most from Analytics and the Latest Technology with Windows 2008 R2/Windows 7
Margaret Crevar, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: How to Write for the Digital Age
Meg Crawford, SAS
Kirsten Hamstra, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Incremental Response
David Duling, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® High-Performance Risk: Dynamic Risk Analysis
Jimmy Skoglund, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | How Readable and Comprehensible Is a SAS® Program? A Programmatic Approach to Getting an Insight into a Program
Rajesh Lal, Experis
Raghavender Ranga, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | Interesting Technical Mini-Bytes of Base SAS®—From DATA Steps to Macros
Airaha Chelvakkanthan Manickam, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pvt. Ltd.
| | Asia 5 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | Top Ten SAS® Performance Tuning Techniques
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Are You Awash in the Sea of Competitive Price Intelligence? Let Analytics Be Your Life Raft
Alex Dietz, SAS
Natalie Osborn, SAS
Tugrul Sanli, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | At the Crossroads: How to Decide on Your Graphics Path
Mike Kalt, SAS
Cynthia Zender, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | BI at Your Fingertips: Creating Immersive Mobile Reports with SAS® Visual Designer
Scott McQuiggan, SAS
David Coyle, SAS
Gregory Thorne, SAS
Philippe Sabourin, SAS
|  | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Building an Optimal Execution Plan for Liquidity Management Using SAS®
Wei Chen, SAS
Liping Cai, SAS
Jimmy Skoglund, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Developing a Predictive Model for Customer Trip Purpose to Be Integrated into Enterprise Strategy and Analytics
Jonathan Levine, Marriott International
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Improving Retail Decisions with Customer Analytics: Leveraging Actionable Customer Insights to Build Sales and Profits
Wanda Shive, SAS
Dwight Mouton, SAS
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Information Management Strategy
Gavin Day, DataFlux Corporation
Scot Campbell, Pinnacle Entertainment
| | Gaylord Palms Resort,
Gaylord Palms Resort, Sun Ballroom |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Knowledge (of Your Missing Data) Is Power: Handling Missing Values in Your SAS Data Set
Theresa Schwartz, NY Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University
Rachel Zeig-Owens, Montefiore Medical Center/FDNY
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Look Out: After SAS/STAT® 9.3 Comes SAS/STAT 12.1!
Maura Stokes, SAS
Fang Chen, SAS
Yang Yuan, SAS
Weijie Cai, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | My Friend, the SAS® Format
Andrew Karp, Sierra Information Services
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration Basics
Kari Richardson, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Using Custom Data Standards in SAS® Clinical Data Integration
Michael Kilhullen, SAS
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | What's New in SAS® Data Management
Nancy Rausch, SAS
Michael Ames, SAS
Wilbram Hazejager, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM | Finding the Winning Combination: An Application of Multivariate Testing from Digital Marketing
Robert Krutsick, True Action Network
| | Posters Area |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | “A Week in the Life”: A Visual Analysis of Internet Use by School-Age Students
Simon King, Cary Academy
Aaron Daniels, Cary Academy
Jacob Warwick, Cary Academy
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | A Corporate SAS® Community of Support
Barbara Okerson, WellPoint
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | A SAS® Tip-of-the-Day Web Page on an Intranet
Bruce Gilsen, Federal Reserve Board
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Application of Time Series Clustering Using SAS® Enterprise Miner™ for a Retail Chain
Karthik Nakkeeran, Oklahoma State University
Satish Garla, Oklahoma State University
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Calculating Multi-Rater Observation Agreement in Health Care Research Using the SAS® Kappa Statistic
Abbas Tavakoli, University of South Carolina
Bo Cai, University of South Carolina
Rita Snyder, University of South Carolina
Nathan Huynh, University of South Carolina
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Creating a Report in the SAS® Information Delivery Portal Using SAS® Information Maps
Jenine Milum, Wells Fargo & Co.
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Creating Pharmacokinetic Graphs Using SAS/GRAPH®
Katrina Canonizado, Celerion
Matthew Murphy, Celerion
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Easily Add Significance Testing to your Market Basket Analysis in SAS® Enterprise Miner™
Michael Faron, Oklahoma State University
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Examples of Building Traceability in CDISC ADaM Datasets for FDA Submission
Xiangchen Cui, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Hongyu Liu, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Tathabbai Pakalapati, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Getting Started with ODS: Generating Formatted Reports Using the ExcelXP Tagset
Allan Del Rosario, Marriott International
Jennifer Mefford, Marriott International
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | How Test Length and Sample Size Have an Impact on the Standard Errors for IRT True Score Equating: Integrating SAS® and Other Software
Yi-Fang Wu, Iowa Testing Programs, University of Iowa
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Investigating Host Plant Resistance to Aphid Feeding through SAS® Text Miner
Ning Song, Oklahoma State University
Jiawen Liu, Oklahoma State University
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
James Anstead, Pennsylvania State University
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | MV_META: A SAS® Macro for Multivariate Meta-Analysis
Julie Gloudemans, University of South Florida
Corina Owens, Battelle
Jeffrey Kromrey, University of South Florida
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | One at a Time; Producing Patient Profiles and Narratives
Joseph Hantsch, PharmaNet/i3
Janet Stuelpner, SAS
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Perils of Ignoring Social Media
Ping Shung Koo, Singapore Management University
|  | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Programming the Provider Previews: Extreme Reporting in SAS®
Christianna Williams, Independent Consultant
Louise Hadden, Abt Associates, Inc.
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Put a Little Zip in Your SAS® Program
Louise Hadden, Abt Associates, Inc.
Christianna Williams, Independent Consultant
| | Posters Area |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | The Path to Developing Your Organization's SAS® Skills
Jonathan Boase, Humana
Donald Kros, Futrix
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Using PHREG for Model Selection to Explore the Time Taking Immigrants in the GB to Find First Employment and Cross Validating Frailty Terms
JuYin Helen Wong, University of Manchester
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Wake Up Your Data with Graph'n'Go
Christopher Battiston, Hospital for Sick Children
| | Posters Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:40 PM | Go Beyond the Wizard with Data-Driven Programming
Renato Villacorte, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates
| | Southern Hemisphere II |
|
| 02:00 PM - 03:40 PM | The Armchair Quarterback: Writing SAS® Code for the Perfect Pivot (Table, That Is)
Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.
Louanna Kong, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere I |
|
| 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Code Doctors - Session 2
Ben Cochran, The Bedford Group
Kimberly LeBouton, K.J.L. Computing
David Scocca, Rho, Inc.
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Tales of SAS® 9.3: A Collection of Uses
David Shamlin, SAS
|  | Americas Seminar Room |
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| 02:15 PM - 02:25 PM | Sometimes One Needs an Option with Unusual Dates
Arthur Tabachneck, myQNA
Matthew Kastin, I-Behavior, Inc.
Xia Shan, Chinese Financial Electrical Company
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:40 PM | Intelligent PROC SORT NODUPKEY
Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman, Capital One
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Mobile
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Overview of the PLM Procedure
Funda Gunes, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® Data Integration Studio 4.4 Hadoop in Action
Malcolm Alexander, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: VALIDMEMNAME: International flavor for your Data Set Names
Mike Carney, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Macro Programming Best Practices: Styles, Guidelines and Conventions Including the Rationale Behind Them
Don Henderson, Henderson Consulting Services
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Security Hardening for SAS® 9.3 Enterprise BI Web Applications
Heesun Park, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Straight from Memory: ADDR, PEEK, POKE as SAS Programming Tools
Paul Dorfman, Paul Dorfman Consulting
William Viergever, Viergever & Associates
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 02:45 PM - 02:55 PM | Log Checks Made Easy
Yogesh Pande, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:10 PM | It's Now Your Project—Clean It Up and Make It Shine
Leonard Polak, Wells Fargo Dealer Services
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: An Introduction to AllAnayltics.com
Meg Crawford, SAS
Kirsten Hamstra, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: High-Performance Analytical Computing
David Duling, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Learn How SAS® Helps Companies Combat Fraud
Cameron Jones, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Multiple Language Support of SAS® OLAP Cubes
Steve Beatrous, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Quick Results with SAS® ODS Graphics Designer
Scott Singer, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® Strategy Management with SAS® Web Report Studio and SAS® BI Dashboard
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Speeding Up Discovery with JMP® 10
John Sall, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | 10,000 Leagues of Data... Divide and Conquer OLAP Cubes: Best Practices for High Volumes of Data
Stephen Overton, Zencos Consulting
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Building WOE Binned LGD Scorecards using SAS® Enterprise Miner™
Anthony van Berkel, Bank of Montreal
Naeem Siddiqi, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Propensity Score Analysis and Assessment of Propensity Score Approaches Using SAS® Procedures
Rheta Lanehart, University of South Florida
Patricia Rodriguez de Gil, University of South Florida
Eun Sook Kim, University of South Florida
Aarti Bellara, University of South Florida
Jeffrey Kromrey, University of South Florida
Reginald Lee, University of South Florida
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Revenue Assurance: Using SAS® to Identify Revenue Leakages
Ahmed Darwish, DIRECTV
Sunil Goklani, DIRECTV
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Use of Cutoff and SAS Code Nodes in SAS® Enterprise Miner™ to Determine Appropriate Probability Cutoff Point for Decision Making with Binary Target Models
Yogen Shah, FedEx Services
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Using SAS® PROC MIXED to Fit Health Policy-Based Hierarchical Models
Lori Miller, UC Davis Medical Center
Fred Wilds, Excellence in Travel Inc.
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Your “Survival” Guide to Using Time-Dependent Covariates
Melissa Bagnell, Henry Jackson Foundation
Teresa Powell, Henry Jackson Foundation
| | Oceanic 1 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Meet the Speakers Networking Session
Keith Collins, SAS
Scot Campbell, Pinnacle Entertainment
Gary King, Chicos
Hung LeHong, Gartner
Pauline Nist, Intel
Scott Vaughn, Tech Web | | Gaylord Palms Resort,
Gaylord Palms Resort, Sun Ballroom |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | SAS® Dates: Facts, Formats, and Functions
Debbie Buck, PharmaNet/i3
| | Asia 4 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | SAS® Markdown Optimization for Retail Round Table
Carrie Plaskas, Macy's
| | Asia 1 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | The Emergence of Patterns in SAS® Usage and Infrastructure
Chuck Kincaid, Experis Business Analytics
Mike Vanderlinden, Experis
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Using SAS® GTL to Visualize Your Data When There Is Too Much of It to Visualize
Perry Watts, Stakana Analytics
Nate Derby, Stakana Analytics
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 03:15 PM - 03:25 PM | Magic Spells with SAS®
Christopher Bost, MDRC
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:40 PM | Using SAS® to Build Web Pages Linking Photographs with Google Maps
Arthur Tabachneck, myQNA
William Klein, Retired
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Configuration Management in a SAS® 9.3 Deployment
Andrew Mott, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Data Management Platform in Action
Wilbram Hazejager, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: From Problem to Formulation to Code: Tackling Business Planning Challenges with SAS® Optimization
Ed Hughes, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Getting to the Good Part Faster
Audrey Ventura, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Modify the PROC LIFETEST Survival Plot Template
Warren Kuhfeld, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: New Features in SAS® 9.3 GTL
Prashant Hebbar, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Present Multilingual Information with SAS Add-In for Outlook and Portal
Steve Beatrous, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® 9.3 on z/OS, Serving Your Enterprise
Fred Forst, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Beyond Binary Outcomes: PROC LOGISTIC to Model Ordinal and Nominal Dependent Variables
Eric Elkin, ICON Clinical Research
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Developing a Flexible ETL Process to Let SAS® Capture Data Changes Efficiently in a Data Warehouse and Clean Up the Mess
Stephen Overton, Zencos Consulting
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Effect Modification, Confounding,Hazard Ratio, Distribution Analysis, and Probability of Non-normal Data for Head Neck Cancer
Manoj Agravat, MAVEN TECHNOLOGY
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Leveraging Analytics in Transportation to Create Business Value
Vijitha Kaduwela, Kavi Associates
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Macro Design and Usage in A Multi-Tier Architecture for ETL and Google Visualization API Integration
Manuel Figallo-Monge, DevTech Systems, Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Parallel Computing in SAS®: Genetic Algorithms Application
Alejandro Correa Bahnsen, Banco Colpatria
Darwin Amezquita, Banco Colpatria
Andres Gonzalez, Banco Colpatria
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Schedule Your SAS® Jobs and Go with the Flow: Maximize the Use of SAS with the Platform Suite
Laura Liotus, Community Care Behavioral Health
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Using PROC GAM to Forecast Claims Reserves in the Runoff Triangles
Ling Huang, Fulcrum Analytics Inc.
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Using the SAS® ODS Report Writing Interface to Create Clinical Study Reports
Rui Duan, University of Miami
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Constructing a Credit Risk Scorecard Using Predictive Clusters
Andres Gonzalez, Banco Colpatria
Alejandro Correa Bahnsen, Banco Colpatria
Ana Nieto, Banco Colpatria
Darwin Amezquita, Banco Colpatria
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 03:45 PM - 03:55 PM | Beep, Beep, Beep, Back It Up! A Foolproof Approach to Archiving with No Copying
Kristen Reece Harrington, Rho, Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:10 PM | Working the System: Our Best SAS® Options
Patrick Thornton, SRI International
Iuliana Barbalau, Roche Molecular Systems
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | A New Outlook into Your Business
Anand Chitale, SAS
Mike Barnhart, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | A SAS® Macro for Computing Point Estimates and Confidence Intervals of Effect Sizes Associated with Mediation Analysis
Merlande Petit-Bois, University of South Florida
Thanh Pham, Measurement and Research Department
Eun Kyeng Baek, University of South Florida
Jeffrey Kromrey, University of South Florida
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | A Simple Way to Program Power Calculations
Robert Lew, MAVERIC, VA Cooperative Studies Program, Boston V.A. Healthcare System
Hongsheng Wu, MAVERIC, VA Cooperative Studies Program, Boston V.A. Healthcare System
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Faking Esri ArcGIS Maps in SAS®
Anastasiya Osborne, Farm Service Agency, USDA
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Practical Application of SAS® Capabilities for Pharma Goaling and Performance Review
Ramya Purushothaman, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pvt. Ltd.
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Use the Full Power of SAS® in Your Function-Style Macros
Michael Rhoads, Westat
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Best Practices for Managing and Monitoring SAS® Data Management Solutions
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Factoring Upgrades into Overbooking Decisions for Hotels and Casinos
Alex Dietz, SAS
Natalie Osborn, SAS
Tugrul Sanli, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Global Risk Management: How SAS® Manages Financial Risk According to Diverse Financial Regulations
Ting Xu, SAS
Hao Qiu, SAS
Shibin Liu, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Optimizing Your SAS® Deployments
Douglas Shakshober, Red Hat
Barry Marson, Red Hat
Mike Guerette, Red Hat
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | SAS® Integrated Merchandise Planning Round Table
Amy Clouse, Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration Advanced
Kari Richardson, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Sudoku-Solving System by SAS®
Setsuo Suoh, The University of Hyogo
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Using the New Features in PROC FORMAT
Rick Langston, SAS
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 04:15 PM - 04:25 PM | Yes, We Can... Save SAS® Formats
John Ladds, Statistics Canada
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 04:30 PM - 04:40 PM | Best Practices: Clean House to Avoid Hangovers
Mary Rosenbloom, Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | A Bootstrapped Kappa Statistic for a Multiple-Rater Multiple-Category Problem
Yubo Gao, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | A Picture Is Worth a Lot of PUTs
Carol Martell, UNC Highway Safety Research Center
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | An Experimental Comparison of Classification Techniques for Imbalanced Credit Scoring Data Sets Using SAS® Enterprise Miner™
Iain Brown, SAS UK
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Managing Multiple Languages with a Single Cube Using SAS® 9.3
Tony Zhang, SAS
Ying Jin, SAS
|  | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Quick and Dirty Microsoft Excel Workbooks without Dynamic Data Exchange or the SAS® Output Delivery System
Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman, Capital One
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Using SAS® to Extend Logistic Regression
Dachao Liu, Northwestern University
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Applying Business Analytics to Optimize Clinical Research Operations
David Handelsman, SAS
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 04:45 PM - 04:55 PM | Convert Your Old Plots and Charts to New SG Plots and Charts: Here's How
Gabe Cano, Altarum Institute
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:10 PM | Analysis of Clickstream Data Using SAS®
Sumit Sukhwani, West Corporation
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
Satish Garla, Oklahoma State University
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | Comparison of K-Means, Normal Mixtures and Probabilistic-D Clustering for B2B Segmentation Using Customers’ Perceptions
Satish Garla, Oklahoma State University
Gary Gaeth, University of Iowa
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | Making Your SAS® Data JMP® Through Hoops
Mira Shapiro, Analytic Designers LLC
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | ODS PDF and RTF Application Development: Steps to Ensure Success and Examples of Useful Coding Techniques
Benno Kurch, Trading and Software Development, Incorporated
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | Storage 101: Understanding Storage for SAS® Applications
Bob Augustine, Hewlett-Packard
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | Becoming the Smartest Guys in the Room: An Analysis of the Enron Emails Using an Integration of Text Analytics and Case Management
John York, SAS
Doris Wong, SAS
Dan Zaratsian, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | How Does SAS® In-Database Analytics Impact Data Management?
Adrian Jones, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | Implementation of a Restaurant Revenue Management System at Walt Disney World
Haining Yu, The Walt Disney Company
Frederick Zahrn, The Walt Disney Company
Hai Chu, The Walt Disney Company
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | Monitoring the Variation in Your Multivariate Process: An Introduction to the MVPMODEL and MVPMONITOR Procedures
Blair Christian, SAS
Bucky Ransdell, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | SAS® Workshop: Creating SAS® Stored Processes
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | Simplifying Effective Data Transformation via PROC TRANSPOSE
Arthur Li, City of Hope/University of Southern California
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Toby Dunn, Dunn Consulting
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | Using SAS® and LaTeX to Create Documents with Reproducible Results
Tim Arnold, SAS
Warren Kuhfeld, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 05:15 PM - 05:25 PM | The DOW Loop: A Smarter Approach to Your Existing Code
Fuad Foty, U.S. Census Bureau
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Good Programming Practices: Creating Robust Programs
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
Jay Zhou, Amylin
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Integrating SAS with ERwin to Capture Design and Business Metadata
Jim Ferrari, Valencia College
Juan Olvera, Valencia College
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Predicting Electoral Outcomes with SAS® Sentiment Analysis and SAS® Forecast Studio
Jenn Sykes, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | Visualizing Spatial Data Using SAS® and Google Static Maps
Jizhou Fu, NORC at the University of Chicago
Yanwei Zhang, CNA
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Meetup: SAS Administration
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Meetup: SAS Partners
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | Mixer hosted by SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| Tuesday, April 24 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:10 AM | Ethnicity and Race: When Your Output Isn't What You Expected
Philamer Atienza, Alcon Laboratories, Inc
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | A Guide for Connecting Java to SAS® Data Sets
Ryan Snyder, Institute for Advanced Analytics
Johnston Hall, North Carolina State University
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | SAS Social Media or How I Learned to Love the Blog
Christopher Battiston, Hospital for Sick Children
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® to Coax Your Excel Data Into SAS®
Mira Shapiro, Analytic Designers LLC
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Defining the Development Process and Governance of Implementing ADaM within an Organization
Chris Decker, d-Wise Technologies, Inc.
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Empowering SAS® Enterprise Application with Collaboration and Search
Murali Nori, SAS
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Executing a PROC from a DATA Step
Jason Secosky, SAS
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Guidelines for Preparing Your Computer Systems for SAS®
Margaret Crevar, SAS
Tony Brown, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Inflated Beta Regression: Zero, One, and Everything in Between
Christopher Swearingen, UAMS Dept of Pediatrics
Maria Melguizo, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Zoran Bursac, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | It’s About Time: Discrete Time Survival Analysis using SAS® Enterprise Miner™
Sascha Schubert, SAS
Susan Haller, SAS
Taiyeong Lee, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Moving Data and Results Between SAS® and Microsoft Excel
Harry Droogendyk, Stratia Consulting Inc.
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Off the Beaten Path: Create Unusual Graphs with ODS Graphics
Prashant Hebbar, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | SAS® OLAP Cube Tuning and Query Performance Optimization
Tatyana Petrova, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: Creating SAS® Stored Processes
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Tips and Strategies for Mixed Modeling with SAS/STAT® Procedures
Kathleen Kiernan, SAS
Jill Tao, SAS
Phil Gibbs, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | What's New in SAS/ACCESS® and Process Improvements That You Apply to Your DBMS
Howard Plemmons, SAS
Michael Ames, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 09:40 AM | Queries, Joins, and WHERE Clauses, Oh My!! Demystifying PROC SQL
Christianna Williams, Independent Consultant
| | Southern Hemisphere I |
|
| 08:00 AM - 09:40 AM | Quick Results with ODS Graphics Designer
Sanjay Matange, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere II |
|
| 08:15 AM - 08:25 AM | Increase your OUTPUT with PROC MEANS and PROC FREQ
Julie Kezik, Yale University
Melissa Hill, Yale University
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 08:30 AM - 08:40 AM | A SAS® Macro to Zip and Unzip Files in MS Windows without Additional External Data Archiving Software
Kai Koo, Abbott Vascular
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | Converting Complex Microsoft Access Database Reporting Systems Using SAS® Enterprise Guide®
Scott Milbuta, University of Central Florida
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:20 AM | Integrating Your Java Web Application into the SAS® 9.2 or SAS® 9.3 Enterprise Business Intelligence Environment
Guillaume Curat, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:20 AM | Topic Discovery, Tracking, and Characterization of Social Media Conversations for Point of Origin and Dissemination Discovery
Barry deVille, SAS
Gurpreet Bawa, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 08:45 AM - 08:55 AM | Inventory Your Files Using SAS®
Brian Varney, Experis Analytics Practice
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM | Locally Visible, Remote Data and Format
Hsiwei Yu, Custom Software Systems
Kamau Njuguna, Lockheed Martin
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Automatic Consistency Checking of Controlled Terminology and Value Level Metadata between ADaM Datasets and Define.xml for FDA Submission
Xiangchen Cui, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Min Chen, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Custom Rollup: When the Cube’s Default Behavior Doesn’t Do the Right Job!
Paresh Patel, Shlomish Consulting,Inc
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Customizing SAS® OQ to Provide Business Specific Testing of SAS Installations and Updates
Steve Huggins, Amadeus Software Limited
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Dickens vs. Hemingway: Text Analysis and Readability Statistics in Base SAS®
Jessica Hampton, CIGNA
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | The Steps to Follow in a Multiple Regression Analysis
Theresa Ngo, Warner Bros. Home Video
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | A Sunny Outlook for Cloud Computing with SAS®
Craig Rubendall, SAS
Robert Stephens, SAS
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Are You in Need of Validation? Psychometric Evaluation of Questionnaires Using SAS®
Eric Elkin, ICON Clinical Research
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Creating the Perfect Plot with PROCs EXPAND and SGPLOT: The Dynamic Duo of Time Series Display
Andrew Karp, Sierra Information Services
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Is Your Failed Macro Due to Misjudged “Timing”?
Arthur Li, City of Hope/University of Southern California
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration Basics
Kari Richardson, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | The Alarm Effect of Statistical Process Control Process in Automotives Manufacturing
Ying Wang, Shanghai General Motor
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Using SAS® to Move Data between Servers
John Bentley, Wells Fargo Bank
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Why Does SAS® Say That? What Common DATA Step and Macro Messages Are Trying to Tell You
Charles Mullin, SAS
Kevin Russell, SAS
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 09:15 AM - 09:25 AM | Standardized Macro Programs for Macro Variable Manipulation
Chris Swenson, UW Health
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:40 AM | How to Use SAS/CONNECT® to Get Your Mainframe to Behave Like a Modern Computer in Your New Business Intelligence Platform
John Hennessey, Social Security Administration
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | At Your Self-Service: One Organization’s Journey from Mainframe Reporting to Enterprise Business Intelligence
Cheryl Sivertson, University of Victoria
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Building a Hosted Statistical Computing Environment: Is it Possible?
Chris Olinger, d-Wise Technologies, Inc.
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Combine Data Sets Using Inexact Character Variables in SAS®
Kulwant Rai, Darden Business School, University of Virginia
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Connect with SAS® Professionals around the World with LinkedIn and sasCommunity.org
Charles Shipp, Consider Consulting, Inc.
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Simple Version Control of SAS Programs and SAS Data Sets
Magnus Mengelbier, Limelogic Ltd
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Transforming Variables for Normality and Linearity: When, How, Why, and Why Nots
Steven LaLonde, Rochester Institute of Technology
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 10:20 AM | Get Your "Fast Pass" to Building Business Intelligence with SAS® and Google Analytics
Patricia Aanderud, And Data Inc
Angela Hall, SAS
|  | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 09:45 AM - 09:55 AM | A Macro to Summarize and Generate a Report of Variables on a SAS® Data Set
Greg Grandits, University of Minnesota
Greg Thompson, Division of Biostatitics, University Of Minnesota
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM | Deciphering PROC COMPARE Codes: The Use of the bAND Function
Joseph Hinson, Merck & Co., Inc.
Margaret Coughlin, Merck & Co., Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Analyzing Sentiments in Tweets about Wal-Mart’s Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Verdict Using SAS® Text Miner
Hari Hara Sudhan Duraidhayalu, Oklahoma State University
Satish Garla, Oklahoma State University
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Reordering Values within Observations: Beyond CALL SORTC(N)
Adish Jain, NORC at the University of Chicago
Kate Bachtell, NORC at the University of Chicago
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | SAS® Since 1976: An Application of Text Mining to Reveal Trends
Zubair Shaik, Oklahoma State University
Satish Garla, Oklahoma State University
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Sparklines in the DATA Step Graphics Interface from SAS/GRAPH®
Murphy Choy, School of Information System
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Standardized Difference: An Index to Measure the Effect Size between Two Groups
Dongsheng Yang, Cleveland Clinic
Jarrod Dalton, Cleveland Clinic
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Using SAS® Macros to Remediate Existing SDTM Data Sets for New Drug Application (NDA) Submission
Yanwei Han, Vertex
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | A Tutorial on the SAS® Macro Language
John Cohen, Advanced Data Concepts
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Finding Your Inner Query with SAS® Enterprise Guide®
Michael Burke, SAS
I-kong Fu, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Logging 101: Leveraging the SAS® 9.3 Enhanced Logging Facility
Margaret Crevar, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Making Exploration of Nonlinear Models Fast and Easy Using JMP® 10
Don McCormack, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Preparing for a SAS® EBI Platform Deployment or Migration
Brian Varney, Experis Analytics Practice
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | The New SAS® Programming Language: DS2
Jason Secosky, SAS
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | What Do You Mean, Not Everyone Is Like Me: Writing Programs for Others to Run
Jack Hamilton, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM | An Introduction to Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®
Vince DelGobbo, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere I |
|
| 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM | Using SAS® ODS Graphics
Chuck Kincaid, Experis Business Analytics
| | Southern Hemisphere II |
|
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Code Doctors - Session 3
William Benjamin Jr, OWL Computer Consultancy,LLC
Erik Larsen, Independent Consultant
Nat Wooding, J Sargeant Reynolds Community College
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 10:15 AM - 10:25 AM | Assigning a User-Defined Macro to a Function Key
Mary Rosenbloom, Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Using Pre-Formatted Microsoft Excel Templates with SAS®
George Mendoza, CIGNA
Subhashree Singh, The Hartford
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Overview
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Hadoop™
Howard Plemmons, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Using SAS® and LaTeX to Create Documents with Reproducible Results
Tim Arnold, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Using the Macro Facility to Create HTML, XML and RTF streams
Rick Langston, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | A Generalized Approach to Estimating Sample Sizes
Wuchen Zhao, University of Southern California
Arthur Li, City of Hope/University of Southern California
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | A Standard SAS® Program for Corroborating OpenCDISC Error Messages
John Gerlach, TAKE Solutions, Inc.
Ganesh Sankaran Thangavel, TAKE SOLUTIONS Inc
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Applications of PROC GEOCODE and Incorporation of Census Block-Level Data
John Havens-McColgan, Yale University
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Correlating the Analysis of Opinionated Texts Using SAS® Text Analytics with Application of Sabermetrics to Cricket Statistics
Praveen Lakkaraju, SAS
Saratendu Sethi, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Mix and Match: Diversity in Displaying Data
Melissa Hill, Yale University
Julie Kezik, Yale University
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Social Media and Networking: The Ins and Outs
Todd Case, Biogenidec
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Mobilizing Your SAS® Business Analytic Reports
Falko Schulz, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM | Create Multi-Sheet Excel Workbook for Large Data Sets by SAS® and VBA
Chao Huang, Oklahoma State University
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM | Excel Tool for Coding
Ronald Palanca, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: Implementing SAS® in a Hybrid Cloud Configuration
Cheryl Doninger, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: Introduction to the JMP® Application Builder
Daniel Schikore, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: Multilingual Support in Financial Management Solution
Tony Zhang, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: What’s Coming in SAS/ETS® 12.1?
Mark Little, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: What’s New for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | SUPER DEMO: What’s New with the SG Procedures in SAS® 9.3
Dan Heath, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | A Hitchhiker's Guide for Performance Assessment and Benchmarking SAS® Applications
Viraj Kumbhakarna, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pvt. Ltd.
Anurag Katare, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pvt. Ltd.
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Essential SAS® ODS PDF
Patrick Thornton, SRI International
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | SUPPQUAL—Where's My Mommy?
Sandra VanPelt Nguyen, PharmaNet/i3
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | A New Age of Data Mining in the High-Performance World
David Duling, SAS
Wayne Thompson, SAS
Jared Dean, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Decision Management, Speed, and Agility
Ryan Schmiedl, SAS
Michael Ames, SAS
Wayne Thompson, SAS
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Introduction to Predictive Modeling with Examples
David Dickey, North Carolina State University
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Macro Coding Tips and Tricks to Avoid "PEBCAK" Errors
Matthew Karafa, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Making it Happen: Using SAS® to Implement Business Intelligence and Analytics in Small and Midsize Organizations
Richard Hallquist, SAS
Dragos Coles, SAS
Lorrie Gallego, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration Advanced
Kari Richardson, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Speeding Up Discovery
John Sall, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | The FILENAME Statement: Interacting with the World Outside of SAS®
Christopher Schacherer, Clinical Data Management Systems, LLC
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Up Close and Personal with SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1
Anand Chitale, SAS
Lina Clover, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Using Facebook to Engage SAS® Users
Ping Shung Koo, Singapore Management University
Murphy Choy, School of Information System
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Where’s the LISTING Window? Using the New Results Viewer in SAS® 9.3
Cynthia Zender, SAS
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 11:15 AM - 11:25 AM | PROC REPORT: Dynamic Column Headings
Jason Levy, PPD
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM | Splitting Data Sets on Unique Values: a Macro That Does It All
Hans Sempel, Belastingdienst (Dutch Tax and Customs Administration)
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Bayesian Analysis with the GENMOD Procedure
Funda Gunes, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: DMP – Master Data Foundations
Nancy Rausch, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and More - Using Social Media to Connect with SAS
Meg Crawford, SAS
Kirsten Hamstra, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Administration/Monitoring
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SUPER DEMO: PROC HPSummary
Scott Mebust, SAS
| | Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Practice on the SAS® Scalable Performance Data Server Configuration for Maximum Performance
Danni Luo, Prime Therapeutics
David Bianchi, Prime Therapeutics
Stephen Bogacz, Prime Therapeutics
Greg Dorfner, Prime Therapeutics
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Sharing SAS programs between PC, Server and SAS Drug Development
Magnus Mengelbier, Limelogic Ltd
| | Oceanic 1 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | The Graph Template Language: Beyond the SAS/GRAPH® Procedures
Jesse Pratt, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Tracking and Reporting Account Referral Activity Using Hash Tables and SAS® Business Intelligence
James Beaver, Farm Bureau Bank
Tobin Scroggins, Farm Bureau Bank
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 11:45 AM - 11:55 AM | Techniques for Generating Dynamic Code from SAS® DICTIONARY Data
Jingxian Zhang, Quintiles, Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: It's a Small Deployment: Ways to Reduce Your Depot and SAS® Home
Shannon Leslie, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Painless Nonlinear Modeling with JMP® 10
Don McCormack, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® Drug Development in an Enterprise Collaborative Environment
Matt Gross, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: System Modeling with SAS® Simulation Studio
Ed Hughes, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Using New Map Data Sets for SAS/GRAPH®
Jeff Phillips, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: What’s New in SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM | SAS Brings Analytics Center Court with the Orlando Magic
Anthony Perez, Orlando Magic
| | Northern Hemisphere C |
|
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: 500 Control Charts or 5? The Power of Multivariate Process Monitoring
Blair Christian, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Exploration
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® Data Integration Studio 4.4 ELT with Teradata
Malcolm Alexander, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Windows PowerShell and SAS®: Use Them to Drive Each Other Crazy
Chris Hemedinger, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: 10-Minute Twitter Boot Camp
Meg Crawford, SAS
Kirsten Hamstra, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: A Quick Start to Informational Awareness
Saratendu Sethi, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: JMP® Graph Builder for iPad®
Michael Hecht, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: New and Future Geographic Mapping Capabilities
Jeff Phillips, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® 9.3 Enterprise BI Audit, Performance and Measurement Package
Steve Holzworth, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® High-Performance Marketing Optimization
Michelle Opp, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:40 PM | ODS Report Writing Interface Makes Our Reporting Simple and Better
Sijian Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: DMP – Business Data Network
Nancy Rausch, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Fitting Bayesian Random Effects with the MCMC Procedure
Funda Gunes, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Designer (Report Layout)
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Top 3 Reasons for Using DATA Step Functions over Macros
Jason Secosky, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM | Automation of Paper-Based Medical Surveys Using the SAS® BI Platform – Custom Web Forms for Real-Time Analysis
Ian Healy, BrightHeight Solutions
Rocket Wong, Maine Medical Center
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM | Leveraging an Upgrade to Improve Metadata
Brent Whitesel, Highmark Inc.
Angela Hall, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM | Solve the SAS® ODS Data Trap in PROC MEANS
Peter Crawford, Crawford Software Consultancy Limited
Myra Oltsik, Acorda Therapeutics
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM | Using SAS® Enterprise BI and SAS® Enterprise Miner™ to Reduce Student Attrition
Matt Bogard, Western Kentucky University
Chris James, Western Kentucky University
Tuesdi Helbig, Western Kentucky University
Gina Huff, Western Kentucky University
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM | Yes! SAS® ExcelXP WILL NOT Create a Microsoft Excel Graph, but SAS Users Can Command Microsoft Excel to Automatically Create Graphs from SAS ExcelXP
William Benjamin Jr, OWL Computer Consultancy,LLC
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Developing Custom Metadata Reports for SAS® Data Integration Studio
Michael Kilhullen, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Exploring DATA Step Merges and PROC SQL Joins
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Introducing the FMM Procedure for Finite Mixture Models
David Kessler, SAS
Allen McDowell, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Managing SAS® Technical Support in a Research Organization
Michael Raithel, Westat
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | ODS Document from Scratch
Kevin Smith, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office 5.1
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Take a Fresh Look at SAS® Enterprise Guide®: From Point-and-Click Ad Hocs to Robust Enterprise Solutions
Christopher Schacherer, Clinical Data Management Systems, LLC
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | The Future of SAS® Deployment: From MSI Packages to Web-Based Control
Mark Schneider, SAS
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Twitter and Facebook Analysis: It’s Not Just for Marketing Anymore
Jodi Blomberg, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Weighted Portmanteau Tests Revisited: Detecting Heteroscedasticity, Fitting Nonlinear and Multivariate Time Series
Thomas Fisher, University of Missouri-Kansas City
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 01:30 PM - 03:10 PM | How to Perform and Interpret Chi-Square and T-Tests
Jennifer Waller, Georgia Health Sciences University
| | Southern Hemisphere II |
|
| 01:30 PM - 03:10 PM | SAS® Enterprise Guide® with SAS® On-Demand for Academics: Everything You Need to Know After "It's Free"
AnnMaria De Mars, The Julia Group
| | Southern Hemisphere I |
|
| 01:45 PM - 01:55 PM | Finding Your Way Around a SAS® Generated Report
William Murphy, Howard M. Proskin & Associates, Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:10 PM | Let the DATA Step Drive the Report Assembly Line
Sijian Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Clinical Graphs Using SAS® ODS Graphics
Sanjay Matange, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Experimental User Interfaces for Enterprise BI Content – A Demonstration Using Microsoft Surface and Kinect for Xbox 360
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Performance and Scalability with Red Hat Linux and GFS2 Clustered File System in a SAS® Grid Deployment: An Internal Case Study
Ken Gahagan, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS Talks... How to Connect and Learn
Meg Crawford, SAS
Kirsten Hamstra, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® High-Performance Risk: Dynamic Risk Analysis
Jimmy Skoglund, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Super Bowl Commercials and Going Beyond Sentiment Analysis to Analyze Moods
Praveen Lakkaraju, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | SAS® BI Content Syndication with the REST Framework
Mike Vanderlinden, Experis
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | SAS® in the Office - IT Works
Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Error Reduction and Report Automation Approaches for Textually Dense Pharmaceutical Regulatory Conformance Incident Data
Barry deVille, SAS
Mark Wolff, SAS
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Getting to the Good Part of Data Analysis: Data Access, Manipulation, and Customization Using JMP®
Audrey Ventura, SAS
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | RTM and SASGSUB, the Power to Know… What Your Grid Is Doing
Erwan Granger, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Code Doctors - Session 4
John Bentley, Wells Fargo Bank
Lisa Eckler, Lisa Eckler Consulting Inc.
Ronald Fehd, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 02:15 PM - 02:25 PM | Uploading Your IPEDS Data Electronically Using SAS®
James Hume, Western Kentucky University
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:40 PM | A Simple Way of Importing from a REST Web Service into SAS® in Three Lines of Code
Philip James Busby, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Fitting Frailty Models with the PHREG Procedure
Funda Gunes, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Introducing SAS® Visual Analytics: Mobile
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® 9.3 on z/OS, Serving Your Enterprise
Fred Forst, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® Data Integration Studio 4.4 Hadoop in Action
Malcolm Alexander, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | After Analytics, What’s Next?
Ping Shung Koo, Singapore Management University
Murphy Choy, School of Information System
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Analyzing the Time Series of U.S. E-Commerce Using PROC UCM
Anders Milhøj, University of Copenhagen
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Selecting All Observations When Any Observation Is of Interest
Christopher Bost, MDRC
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | The Path, The Whole Path, And Nothing But the Path, So Help Me Windows
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| | Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort,
Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Beyond Star Schema: Exploring the Next Query Generation with the SAS® Enterprise BI Server
Fred Levine, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Custom Analysis and Reporting with the JMP® Application Builder
Daniel Schikore, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Modeling Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Healthcare Utilization by Parametric and Bayesian Methods
Joseph Gardiner, Michigan State University
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | SAS/FSP® Provides the Best Customizable Form Viewer
Peter Crawford, Crawford Software Consultancy Limited
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | SAS® Workshop: DataFlux® Data Management Studio Basics
Kari Richardson, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | User-Assisted Modeling: How SAS® Text Analytics Will Help You Pinpoint Data of Interest
James Cox, SAS
Saratendu Sethi, SAS
Richard Foley, SAS
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® As a Powerful Regulating Weapon
Guangzhi Zhang, CBRC
Xing Guo, CBRC
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Social Media Panel
Stephanie Thompson, Datamum
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 02:45 PM - 02:55 PM | Using SAS® and ZIP Codes to Create a Nationwide First Responders Directory
Andrew Hummel, Delta Air Lines
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:10 PM | Using DDE and VBA Techniques to Import Data from Microsoft Word Tables in Programming Specification Files into SAS
Mei Li, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Zemin Zeng, Forest Research Institute, Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Connecting with Thought Leaders and Industry Experts at the Knowledge Exchange
Meg Crawford, SAS
Kirsten Hamstra, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: High-Performance Analytical Computing
David Duling, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Learn How SAS® Helps Companies Combat Fraud
Cameron Jones, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Multiple Language Support of SAS® OLAP Cubes
Tony Zhang, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Quick Results with SAS® ODS Graphics Designer
Scott Singer, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: SAS® Strategy Management with SAS® Web Report Studio and SAS® BI Dashboard
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Speeding Up Discovery with JMP® 10
John Sall, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Cluster Mapping of Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Groups for ICD-10 Conversions
Keith Jones, Qualex Consulting
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | How to Administer a 9,000-User Community on a Multiple SAS® Metadata Environment
Frank Baars, SNS REAAL
Edwin Nijsen, SNS REAAL
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Import and Output XML Files with SAS®
Yi Zhao, Merck & Co., Inc.
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Matching Data Using Sounds-Like Operators and SAS® Compare Functions
Amanda Roesch, Educational Testing Service
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Seamless Reporting Automation through the Integration of JMP®, SAS®, and VBA
Rachel Poulsen, TiVo
Raghunathan Chakravarthy, TiVo Inc
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Successfully On-Boarding SAS® Analysts
Aaron Augustine, SymphonyIRI Group
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Variable Selection for Multivariate Cointegrated Time Series Prediction with PROC VARCLUS in SAS® Enterprise Miner™ 7.1
Akkarapol Sa-Ngasoongsong, Oklahoma State University
Satish Bukkapatnam, Oklahoma State University
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 03:15 PM - 03:25 PM | Sending E-mails in Your Sleep
Andrew Hummel, Delta Air Lines
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:40 PM | A Perfect Case of Capturing Data from Related Web Pages
Jinson Erinjeri, D.K. Shifflet and Associates
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: An Application of the FMM procedure
David Kessler, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Best Practices in IO Configuration for SAS®9 Applications: A Discussion of How to Configure Storage for SAS®9
Margaret Crevar, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SUPER DEMO: Data Management Platform in Action
Wilbram Hazejager, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Automated Process for Routine Clinical and Safety Data Monitoring Reports: An Integration of EDC Database, Microsoft Outlook, and SAS®
Songtao Jiang, Boston Scientific
Hsini Liao, Boston Scientific Corporation
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Case Study: Implementing and Administering SAS® Enterprise Guide® across the Enterprise as a Solution for Data Access Security
Linda Sullivan, University of Central Florida
Ulf Borjesson, University of Central Florida
Evangeline Collado, University of Central Florida
Maureen Murray, University of Central Florida
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Dynamically Evolving Systems: Cluster Analysis Using Time
David Corliss, Marketing Associates
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Let the Data Paint the Picture: Data-Driven, Interactive, and Animated Visualizations Using SAS®, Java and the Processing Graphics Library
Johnston Hall, North Carolina State University
Ryan Snyder, Institute for Advanced Analytics
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | SAS® Solutions Make HEDIS Measures Programming Easier
Qingfeng Liang, UPMC Health Plan, Inc.
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Serving SAS®: A Visual Guide to SAS® Servers
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Trend Analysis: An Automated Data Quality Approach for Large Health Administrative Databases
Mahmoud Azimaee, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES)
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | What Is a SAS® Mentor and Why Do I Need One?
Stanley Fogleman, Harvard Clinical Research Institute
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Combined Forecasts: What to Do When One Model Isn't Good Enough
Ed Blair, SAS
Michael Leonard, SAS
Bruce Elsheimer, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | High-Performance Statistical Modeling
Robert Cohen, SAS
Robert Rodriguez, SAS
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Platform Administration
Christine Vitron, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | SG Techniques: Telling the Story Even Better!
Chuck Kincaid, Experis Business Analytics
Jack Fuller, Experis
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Visualizing Data Techniques, Including Autocharting and Big Data
Justin Choy, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Write Once, Run Anywhere! How to Make Your SAS® Application Speak Many Languages
Mickael Bouedo, SAS
Steve Beatrous, SAS
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 05:10 PM | Doing More with the SAS® Display Manager: From Editor to ViewTable - Options and Tools You Should Know
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| | Southern Hemisphere I |
|
| 03:30 PM - 05:10 PM | HOW to DOW
Paul Dorfman, Paul Dorfman Consulting
Lessia Shajenko, Bank of America
| | Southern Hemisphere II |
|
| 03:45 PM - 03:55 PM | PROC FORMAT, a Speedy Alternative to Sort/Sort/Merge
Jenine Milum, Wells Fargo & Co.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:10 PM | Customizing ODS Graphical Output for SAS/STAT® Procedures
Yang Xiao, University of Cincinnati
Xiangxiang Meng, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Web Application Servers for the SAS® 9.3 Web Applications
Zhiyong Li, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Getting to the Good Part Faster
Audrey Ventura, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Monitoring Analytical Models
Wayne Thompson, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: New Features in SAS® 9.3 GTL
Prashant Hebbar, SAS
| | Demo Room |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:15 PM | SUPER DEMO: Present Multilingual Information with SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office and Portal
SAS Staff, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Demo Room |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | A Simple Yet Effective Way to Perform a Variable Cross Walk Between Multiple Data Sets
Binh Le, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Huong Pham, Macro International
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Exploring the Dimensionality of Large-Scale Standardized Educational Assessments Using PROC FACTOR
Jonathan Steinberg, Educational Testing Service
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Multisheet Workbooks Using the ODS Excelxp Tagset
Cynthia Stetz, Bank Of America Merrill Lynch
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | SAS® IOM and Your .Net Application Made Easy
Karine Désilets, Statistics Canada
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Best Practices for Administering SAS® Enterprise Guide®
Casey Smith, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Community Discovery: Best Tips and Features from Communities on SAS®
Renee Harper, SAS
Cynthia Zender, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Physician Practice Pattern Variation: Using Data Mining and Predictive Modeling to Identify and Control Costly Treatment Patterns
David Ogden, SAS
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | The Top Five Migration Considerations for Success
Andrew Mott, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 04:15 PM - 04:25 PM | How to Measure the SAS® BI Audience and Discover Information Needs
Plinio Faria, Bradesco
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 04:30 PM - 04:40 PM | Have Your Web Reports Remember the Filters of Your Users
Frank Poppe, PW Consulting
Andres Van Antwerpen, PW Consulting
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Proficiency in JMP® Advanced Visualization
Charles Shipp, Consider Consulting, Inc.
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | BIG Money PROC TABULATE—Generating Great Reports with the TABULATE Procedure
Ben Cochran, The Bedford Group
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Capitalizing on SAS® and Hadoop
David Shamlin, SAS
Howard Plemmons, SAS
Nancy Rausch, SAS
Rick Langston, SAS
Michael Ames, SAS
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Comparison of SAS® Graphic Alternatives, Old and New
LeRoy Bessler, Bessler Consulting and Research
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Evolving from Data Management to Master Data Management
Wilbram Hazejager, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-2 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Exploratory Factor Analysis with the World Values Survey
Diana Suhr, University of Northern Colorado
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Integrating Enterprise Search with Various Clients
Arvind Jagtap, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere V |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Let Oil and Gas Talk to You: Predicting Production Performance
Keith Holdaway, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | SAS® Workshop: Creating SAS® Stored Processes
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Van Gogh Your Data: Data Visualization Methods with SAS® Business Intelligence
Natalie Parsons, SAS
Scott McQuiggan, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 04:45 PM - 04:55 PM | %SPARKY: A SAS® Macro for Creating Excel Sparklines
Ted Conway, Chicago, IL
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:10 PM | Adding Count as a Data Label in a Scatter Plot
Suneetha Puttabasavaiah, Mayo Clinic
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | Hyperslicing with SAS®
Jonathon Khoo, Singapore Management University
Ping Shung Koo, Singapore Management University
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | Tales from the Help Desk 5: Yet More Solutions for Common SAS® Mistakes
Bruce Gilsen, Federal Reserve Board
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | Using Dynamic Views as a Supplement to SAS® Security to Enhance Multiple Levels of Access Requirements to Row-Level Data Upon SAS Server Startup
Christopher Bresson, Travelers
Marty Flis, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clustering Physicians Based on Professional Proximity Using SAS®
Niam Yaraghi, State University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo)
Anna Ye du, State University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo)
Raj Sharman, State University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo)
Ram Gopal, University of Connecticut
Ramaswamy Ramesh, State University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo)
Ranjit Singh, State University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo)
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Meetup: SAS-L + sasCommunity.org + SAS Discussion Forums
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 09:00 PM - 01:00 AM | Kick Back Party
| | Pacific Hall |
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| Wednesday, April 25 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:10 AM | Black Box PROCs: PROC LOGISTIC Discovered
Isabel Perry, Kaiser Permanente
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | CSI: Customer Segmentation Intelligence for Increasing Profits
Darius Baer, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | Encore Presentation of: Use the Full Power of SAS® in Your Function-Style Macros
Michael Rhoads, Westat
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | Implementing Control Selection Using Hash Tables: A Case Study
Craig Kasper, Manitoba Health
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Analyzing Survival Data with Competing Risks Using SAS® Software
Guixian Lin, SAS
Ying So, SAS
Gordon Johnston, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Enhanced Data Analysis Using SAS® ODS Graphics and Statistical Graphics
Patricia Berglund, University of Michigan-Institute for Social Research
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | New Features in SAS/OR® 12.1
Ed Hughes, SAS
Manoj Chari, SAS
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Not Just for Scheduling: Doing More with SAS® Enterprise Guide® Automation
Chris Hemedinger, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Oracle and SAS®: Clouds, Community, Collaboration, and Computing Creativity; Goodbye Cloudy with a Chance of Showers; Hello Cloud-eze and Clear Skies
Maureen Chew, Oracle Corporation
Thomas Mendicino, GE Capital
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | SAS & Greenplum: Disruptive Data Science in the Era of Big Data
Annika Jimenez, Greenplum
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | SAS® Regular Price Optimization Solution: Customer Case Study
Manoj Chopra, Michaels Stores
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office 5.1
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Services R Us
Kathy Council, SAS
Larry Stewart, SAS
Annette Harris, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | The Use and Abuse of the Program Data Vector
Jim Johnson, Ephicacy Consulting Group, Inc.
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Using SAS/GRAPH® to Create Visualizations That Also Support Tactile and Auditory Interaction
Ed Summers, SAS
Robert Allison, SAS
Julianna Langston, SAS
Jennifer Cowley, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 08:00 AM - 09:40 AM | Getting Up to Speed with PROC REPORT
Kimberly LeBouton, K.J.L. Computing
| | Southern Hemisphere II |
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| 08:00 AM - 09:40 AM | Taking Full Advantage of sasCommunity.org: Your SAS® Site
Don Henderson, Henderson Consulting Services
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| | Southern Hemisphere I |
|
| 08:15 AM - 08:25 AM | Optimized 1:N Case-Control Match Using SAS
Zhiwei Wang, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 08:30 AM - 08:40 AM | Utilize Dummy Datasets in Clinical Statistical Programming
Amos Shu, Endo Pharmaceuticsls
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
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| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | Classification of Customers’ Textual Responses via Application of Topic Mining
Anil Pantangi, Oklahoma State University
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | Quick and Dirty Microsoft Excel Workbooks without Dynamic Data Exchange or the SAS®
Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman, Capital One
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | The SAS® Log: A Wealth of Data and Job Flow Information
Steven First, Systems Seminar Consultants, Inc.
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Big Data Mining - SESSION FULL - SIGN UP REQUIRED
David Duling, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Big Data- SESSION FULL -SIGN UP REQUIRED
David Shamlin, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Calling All Ideas: SAS® Global Forum 2013 and Beyond! - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Rick Mitchell, Westat
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Crafting Analytic Solutions with JMP® and SAS® - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Anne Milley, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | How to Earn a SAS® Certification - SESSION FULL -SIGN UP REQUIRED
Terry Barham, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Maximize your SAS® Investment - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Stacy Hobson, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | SAS® Administration and Deployment - SESSION FULL - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Mark Schneider, SAS
Bryan Wolfe, SAS Institute Inc.
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | SAS® Audit and Performance Measurement - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Steve Holzworth, SAS Institute Inc.
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | SAS® Documentation - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Gary Meek, SAS Institute Inc.
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | SAS® Enterprise Guide - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Lina Clover, SAS
| | Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort,
SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | SAS® GRID Computing - SESSION FULL - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Cheryl Doninger, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | SAS® Partner Experiences - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Loretta Schlatzer, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Using PROC FORMAT - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Rick Langston, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Visual Analytics - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Stuart Nisbet, SAS Institute Inc.
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Working with SAS® Support - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Renee Harper, SAS
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM | Writing a SAS® Book—What Do I Need to Know? - SIGN UP REQUIRED
Shelley Sessoms, SAS Institute Inc.
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 08:45 AM - 08:55 AM | Using SAS® to Get a Date: Integrating Google Calendar’s API with SAS®
William Roehl, CrossUSA
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM | Batch Production of Driving Distances and Times Using SAS® and Web Map APIs
Ash Roy, Canadian Institute for Health Information
Yingbo Na, Canadian Institute for Health Information
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Bringing Optimization to the Business: Interfacing SAS/OR® with SAS® Stored Processes, Microsoft Excel, SAS® Enterprise Guide®, SAS® Forecast Studio, and Microsoft Project
Andrew Pease, SAS
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Consulting: Critical Success Factors
Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
Charles Shipp, Consider Consulting, Inc.
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Including the Salesperson Effect in Purchasing Behavior Models Using PROC GLIMMIX
Philippe Baecke, Ghent University
Dirk Van den Poel, Ghent University
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Innovative Uses of ODS and GTL
Kathy Chen, Genetech Inc. Part of Roche Group.
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Leave Your Bad Code Behind: 50 Ways to Make Your SAS® Code Execute More Efficiently
William Benjamin Jr, OWL Computer Consultancy,LLC
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Regular Expressions in SAS® Enterprise Guide®
Mark Tabladillo, MarkTab Consulting
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | SAS® Tools for Cost-Effective and High-Quality Clinical Trial Reporting
Paul Novotny, Mayo Clinic
Angelina Tan, Mayo Clinic
Nathan Foster, Mayo Clinic
Jeff Sloan, Mayo Clinic
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Utilize Red Hat Kernel Virtual Machine to Enable Your Development and Test Environment to Peacefully Co-Exist with Your Production Environment
Bob Augustine, Hewlett-Packard
Barry Marson, Red Hat
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Copy and Paste Almost Anything
Arthur Tabachneck, myQNA
John King, Ouachita Clinical Data Services, Inc.
Nate Derby, Stakana Analytics
Randy Herbison, Westat
Richard DeVenezia, Independent Consultant
Ben Powell, Genworth Financial
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Encore Presentation of: Applying Analytics to High-Performance Customer Profitability Models in Financial Services
Tony Adkins, SAS
Gary Cokins, SAS
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Excelling with Excel
Tim Beese, SAS
Greg Granger, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | SAS Promotional Price Optimization Solution: A Customer Case Study
Dave Eddy, Sobey's
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Platform Administration
Christine Vitron, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Using SAS® and Vertica to Increase Online Effectiveness and Revenues
Stephen Schultz, HP
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Code Doctors - Session 5
Peter Crawford, Crawford Software Consultancy Limited
Lisa Pyle, Merck
Stephanie Thompson, Datamum
| | SAS Support and Demo Area |
|
| 09:15 AM - 09:25 AM | Multidimensional Scaling on ZIP Codes
Chao Huang, Oklahoma State University
Xiangxiang Meng, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:40 AM | Three Simple Steps to Recovering and Inserting Data Using Do Loops, Indexed Macro Variables, and PROC SQL Update Statements
Stacey Collins, University of Michigan - Institute for Social Research
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Common Sense SAS® - Documenting and Structuring Your Code
Gary Pool, BNSF Railway
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Deep Dive into the PIM and DDI Data
Michelle Hopkins, Stratis Health
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Kass Adjustments in Decision Trees on Binary/Interval Target
Manoj Immadi, Oklahoma State University
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Make an Appropriate Page Break in a PDF When Using PROC REPORT
Xia Shan, Chinese Financial Electrical Company
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | SAS® User Groups: Why? How?
Rex Pruitt, PREMIER Bankcard, LLC
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | The Traveling Salesman Problem: Optimizing Delivery Routes Using Genetic Algorithms
Sabah Sadiq, Deloitte
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Using SAS® Enterprise Guide® the Same Way as Base SAS® and More
Rahman Sarker, RBC Royal Bank of Canada
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 10:20 AM | Evolution of Best Practices for Metadata Change Control in SAS® 9
Diane Hatcher, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 09:45 AM - 09:55 AM | Managing Analytic Processes with Paired SAS® Utility Macros
Zhongwen Huang, Walgreens
John Hou, Walgreens
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM | SAS® Output Delivery System ExcelXP Tagset: Customizing Cell Patterns, Borders, and Indention
Deepak Asrani, Medtronic, Inc
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Community Detection to Identify Fraud Events in Telecommunications Networks
Carlos Andre Pinheiro, Oi Telecom
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Encore Presentation of: How to Create a Business Intelligence Strategy
Guy Garrett, Achieve Intelligence
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Selecting Unrestricted and Simple Random With Replacement Samples Using Base SAS and PROC SURVEYSELECT
David Chapman, Consultant
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as a Standard: Beyond the Documentation
Dianne Louise Rhodes, U.S. Census Bureau
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Traffic Lighting: The Next Generation
Julie VanBuskirk, Baylor Health Care System
Jennifer Harper, Baylor Health Care System
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Using SAS® to Measure Airport Connectivity: An Application of Weighted Betweenness Centrality for the FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)
Hector Rodriguez-Deniz, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Wallet and Share of Wallet Estimation: A Flexible Methodology
Shira Witelson, Digitas
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Graphing Made Easy with SG Procedures
Lora Delwiche, University of California, Davis
Susan Slaughter, Avocet Solutions
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Optimizing That Which “…cannot be optimized….” Superfast SAS 9.2 + Searches and Fuzzy Linkage of Large Data Sets
Sigurd Hermansen, Westat
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Productivity Tips for SAS® Enterprise Guide® Users
Steven First, Systems Seminar Consultants, Inc.
Jennifer First, Systems Seminar Consultants, Inc.
| | Northern Hemisphere E-4 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | SAS and Teradata Partnership Customer Examples
Bob Matsey, Teradata
Jeff Livermore, SAS Institute Inc.
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: DataFlux® Data Management Studio
Kari Richardson, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM | Encore Presentation of Popular Topic (TBD)- HOW II
| | Southern Hemisphere II |
|
| 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM | Encore Presentation of: SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.3: Finally a Programmer’s Tool
Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting LLC
Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere I |
|
| 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM | SAS® Retail Planning 7.2 Demonstration
Kerri Devine, SAS
Elaine Markey, SAS
| | Asia 1 |
|
| 10:15 AM - 10:25 AM | Translating Foreign Language in SAS® with Google Translate
Murphy Choy, School of Information System
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | How to Dynamically Conditionalize a SAS® Data Integration Studio Job
Riku Jokinen, Aureolis
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | An Automatic Approach to Creating a Data Dictionary in SharePoint Using SAS®
Kevin Chung, Fannie Mae
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Automagically Herding 101 SAS® Users from Microsoft Active Directory to SAS Metadata
Stephen Overton, Zencos Consulting
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Comparing Stock Returns Forecasting Methods Using SAS®
Wei Wang, University of Arizona
Arthur Li, City of Hope/University of Southern California
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Customer Experience Modeling
Estelle Marianne, Telstra
Nick Merry, Telstra
Wendy Au, Telstra
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Measuring Consumer Involvement Profiles as a Second-Order Construct Using SAS® PROC CALIS
Anurag Srivastava, Shanti Business School
Vikram Suklani, Shanti Business School
Pranav Karnavat, Shanti Business School
| | Northern Hemisphere E-2 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | SAS® and Microsoft SharePoint: Project and Resource Management Tools and Techniques for Large, Globally Distributed Programming Teams
Stetson Line, Amgen, Inc
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Simplifying the Analysis of Complex Survey Data Using the SAS® Survey Analysis Procedures
Varma Nadimpalli, Westat
Katie Hubbell, Westat
| | Northern Hemisphere E-1 |
|
| 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM | An Advanced, Multi-Featured Macro Program for Reviewing Logs
Chris Swenson, UW Health
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM | Your Place or Mine: Data-Driven Summary Statistic Precision
Nancy Brucken, i3 Statprobe
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Formation of Optimum Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Leveraging SAS/OR®
Khasha Dehnad, AIMS Consulting
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Net Lift Model for Effective Direct Marketing Campaigns at 1800flowers.com
Roman Kubiak, 1800Flowers.com
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | “There’s an App for That”: It’s Called SAS® ODS! Mobile Data Entry and Reporting via SAS ODS
Michael Drutar, SAS
| | Asia 5 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | A Different Point of View with ODS PDF in SAS® 9.3
Scott Huntley, SAS
Woody Middleton, SAS
| | Asia 4 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | From Solo to Symphony: Scale Service Up Using Multiple Stored-Process Server Clusters
Qing Ye, SAS
Richard Nardin, SAS
Romon Williams, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere E-3 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Lean and Mean: Using Lean Six Sigma to Improve Your Analytic Processes
Robbie Reynolds, Aegon Direct Marketing Services
Rachel Alt-Simmons, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-3 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Modernize with SAS® Dashboards: Go Beyond a Collection of Gauges
Anand Chitale, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-4 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1
Eric Rossland, SAS
| | Asia 2 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Together at Last: Spatial Analysis and SAS® Mapping
Darrell Massengill, SAS
Jeff Phillips, SAS
Randy Tobias, SAS
| | Southern Hemisphere IV |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Using SAS® for the Design, Analysis, and Visualization of Complex Surveys
Sharon Lohr, Arizona State University
| | Americas Seminar Room |
|
| 11:15 AM - 11:25 AM | Generation Why: How Generation Data Sets Can Help
Lisa Eckler, Lisa Eckler Consulting Inc.
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM | Mining and Merging DATAMONITOR and WRDS Databases with SAS®
Niam Yaraghi, State University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo)
Rajiv Kishore, State University of New York (SUNY at Buffalo)
Rui Chen, Ball State University
| | Southern Hemisphere III |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Better, Consistent Customer Experience from Analytically Based Real-Time Decisions
Toshi Tsuboi, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere A-1 |
|
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | The Traveling Salesman Traverses the Genome: Using SAS® Optimization in JMP® Genomics to build Genetic Maps
Kelci Miclaus, SAS
Rob Pratt, SAS
Matthew Galati, SAS
| | Oceanic 1 |
|
| 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | Closing Session
| | Norhern Hemisphere C |
|
| 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | You Don't Have to Go Home…but You Can't Stay Here
Chris Hemedinger, SAS
| | Northern Hemisphere C |
