CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
 

 

A Preview of Presentations, Posters & Workshops

Presentations are lecture style and will be 10, 20, or 50-minutes in length.  Most workshop sections are 50 or 75-minutes in length and may include the opportunity for hands-on the PC instruction.

Invited presentations are listed in bold at the beginning of each section.

Note: presentations may be added or modified. Attendees will receive a final schedule with their registration materials.

Analytics & Statistics Applications Development

SAS defines analytics as “data-driven insight for better decisions.” Popular topics in the section include all aspects of data modeling, mining, and forecasting, as well as demonstrations of analytic procedures, such as analysis of variance, logistic regression, factor analysis, and time series analyses.  Presentations offered include practical applications and results of statistical methods used to analyze data from a variety of fields.

This section features presentations that focus on the design, development, and implementation of SAS products that are jointly integrated as a business solution. These solutions may feature extensive use of metadata, web-enabled applications, and/or applications that integrate SAS software with other software products.  These presentations may describe an entire application or simply practical techniques used to create an application.

Business Intelligence Coders' Corner
Business Intelligence combines data integration, analysis, data mining and reporting to provide business solutions.  Topics include techniques using Enterprise Guide, predictive analytics, data mining, text mining, forecasting and optimization as well as the technology to build a flexible presentation layer, provide online analytical processing OLAP), implement an IT environment and promote self-service reporting.
This section offers “quick-hitting” 10-minute presentations that are a very popular venue for new and seasoned presenters alike. Topics include powerful and lesser known syntax and coding tips, hard-to-find errors and work-arounds, widely applicable algorithms or macros, and creative uses or undocumented features of SAS.

Data Capture, Validation, Manipulation, & Integration

Data Presentation
This section focuses on the design, creation, management, optimization and documentation of databases and warehouses. Popular topics include efficient transformation and handling of data, working with metadata and  large data sets, administration of databases and SAS servers, utilizing grid computing, as well as creating strategies for accessible data-driven information.
This section focuses on the use of SAS to convey information through various media. Topics include graphics, data visualization, publishing, and reporting. Popular topics in this section include the use of SAS/Graph, SAS Styles, Templates and ODS, as well as a variety of techniques used to produce SAS results in Microsoft Excel and other Office Applications
Hands-On Workshops Health Outcomes & Healthcare
Research Methodologies
HOW provides attendees ‘hands-on-the-keyboard’ interaction with SAS Software during each presentation. Experienced invited workshop presenters guide attendees through graduated examples of SAS Software techniques and capabilities while offering the opportunity to ask questions and to learn through practice.
As evidenced by the huge investment in Comparative Effectiveness enacted with the The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Health Outcomes and Healthcare research methods play a prominent role in the future of medical research.  This section focuses on SAS applications and statistical analyses supporting healthcare research.  Possible topics include the use of large secondary databases for Comparative Effectiveness Research, patient safety issues, quality of life research, clinical trials research, and issues of confidentiality and security for Protected Health Information.
Posters Resources
Participants in this section prepare a visual display that will be available to be viewed by all attendees throughout the conference, rather than conducting a lecture-style presentation.  The section often displays high-resolution graphics and/or thought-provoking concepts or ideas that require some independent study by conference participants.
This section helps SAS users understand how to immerse themselves in the rich world of resources that are devoted to achieving high quality SAS education/training, publication, social networking, consulting, certification, technical support, and opportunities for professional affiliation and growth.  If you are willing to share your roadmap to staying at the top of your SAS-game—the resources you tap, the support you provide, pitfalls you found, and the benefits you achieve—then this section is for you.

SAS Essentials Workshop

Tutorials
The section allows novice SAS users and others to attend a day-long series of presentations that will guide them through the fundamental concepts of the creation of Base SAS DATA step and PROC syntax, followed by two Hands-on Workshops the next day. All SAS Essentials presentations are conducted by experienced SAS users who are invited to present.
The section offers step-by-step presentations on a wide variety of topics and products, aimed at all levels of SAS users. All presentations are given by experienced SAS users who are invited to present.

Analytics & Statistics

Section Chairs: Arthur Li and Lida Gharibvand

Maura Stokes (SAS)

On Deck: SAS/STAT 9.3

Nate Derby
(Stakana Analytics)

An Introduction to the Analysis of Rare Events

David Pasta
(ICON Clinical Research)

"Before and After" Models in Observational Research using Random Slopes and Intercepts

Iuliana Barbalau (ClinOps)

Boost your confidence in a 2x2 standard table

Carol Conell
(Kaiser Permanente)

Estimating Disease Prevalence from Clinical Data Using Capture-Recapture

Miguel Garcia-Cerrutti
(CA Energy Commission)

Assessing resource adequacy uncertainty in California electricity summer demand using the MCMC procedure in SAS® Enterprise Miner

Jason Shilong Kuang
(Kelley Blue Book, Inc.)

What's happening if there is "B" in the general linear modeling output?

Ginny Lai
(ICON Clinical Research)

David R Mink, David J. Pasta

Beyond Breslow-Day: Homogeneity Across R x C Tables

Bryan Langholz
(University of Southern California)

David B Richardson

Fitting latency models in epidemiological studies

Yunfeng Li
(Cerexa, Inc.)

Lily Llorens, Ganesh Tamarana

Consistency of Treatment Effect cross Regions

Nadra Lisha
(University of Southern California)

Rachel Grana, Ping Sun, Louise Rohrbach, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Alan Reifman, Steve Sussman

Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood in a Sample of Continuation High School Students

Brian (Guanghui) Sun
(Rick Hansen Institute)

Why Dummy Variable Makes You SMART, and How to Do it SEXY

Chong Ho Yu
(University of Phoenix)

Principal component regression as a countermesue against collinearity

Applications Development

Section Chairs: Cynthia LeardMann and Renato Villacorte

Kevin Bickford (SAS)

Turbo-Charging Your Microsoft Office Environment with SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office 4.3

Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants)

Eric Sun

Protecting Macros and Macro Variables: It Is All About Control

Joe Perry
(Perry & Associates Consulting)

Managing Your Intellectual Property: Optimizing Your Investment Resources by Building a Searchable® Program Repository

Ezekiel Budda
(Department of Defense)

Automating file pulls for recurring jobs, ad-hoc reports or any SAS process.

Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants)

Dennis F Fisher

Reading and Writing RTDocuments as Data: Automatic Completion of CONSORT Flow Diagrams

Satish Garla
(Oklahoma State University)

Goutam Chakraborty

%GetTweet: A New SAS® Macro to Fetch and Summarize Tweets

Ale Gicqueau
(Clinovo)

How to easily convert clinical data to CDISC SDTM

Diana Shealy
(Cal Poly State Univ San Luis Obispo)

Benefits of JAVA Within SAS: Exploring the Differences of the new JavaObj and SAS/IML Studio

Patrick Thornton
(SRI International)

Iuliana Barbalau

Working the System: Our Best SAS® Options

Sy Truong
(Meta-Xceed, Inc.)

SAS Macros in an Era of Apps

Business Intelligence

Section Chairs: Tom Cross and Carter Sevick

Laura Higgins (SAS)

Create compelling visualizations with geographic data and JMP 9

Satish Garla
(Oklahoma State University)

Goutam Chakraborty, Gary J Gaeth

Comparison of K-means, Normal Mixtures and Probabilistic-D Clustering for B2B Segmentation using Customers' Perceptions

Matthias Kehder
(Modern Analytics)

Using Affinity Models for Buyer Behaviors

Rachel Poulsen
(TiVo)

Modeling Interactive Advertising on TiVo: Overcoming the Challenges of Collinearity, Efficiency, and Practicality

Donald Price
(Metropolitan State College of Denver)

If you imbed it...?

Coders' Corner

Section Chairs: Mary McCracken and Ethan Miller

Warren Kuhfeld (SAS)

HTMLBlue That’s Really, Really Where We’re Going To!

Thomas Billings
(Union Bank)

Output SAS® DATA Step Views: an Experimental Feature

Alice Cheng
(Independent)

Hunting for Columbus' Eggs in the SAS® Programming World: A Guidance to Creative Thinking for SAS® Programmers

Adam Chow
(Dept. of Veterans Affairs)

Macro Tabulating Missing Values, Leveraging SAS PROC CONTENTS

Chaitanya Chowdagam
(MaxisIT)

Exporting Variable Labels as Column Headers in Excel using SAS®

Sam/Seunghee Chung
(Educational Testing Service)

Maxwell Wise

Sam and Max's Adventure in SAS® Macro Land. (Quick and Easy tips for Macro programming)

Frank Fan
(Clinovo)

Sending emails in SAS to facilitate clinical trials

Olena Galligan
(Teikoku Pharma, USA)

Who opened my file? Find out before trying to update it.

Laura Kelly
(Bank of America)

SAS Date refresher: cleaning up legacy code using ANYDTDTEw., ANYDTDTMw. and ANYDTDTMEw. Informats

Jason Shilong Kuang
(Kelley Blue Book, Inc.)

Efficient Techniques and Tips in handling large datasets

Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)

Conditional Processing using the Case Expression in PROC SQL

Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)

You Could be a SAS® Nerd If . . .

Xiao Liu
(ICON Late Phase & Outcomes Research)

Stefanie Millar

Producing Cumulative Distribution Frequency Figures with Minimal Important Difference Reference Lines to Assess Quality of Life Treatment Effects

Maria Melguizo Castro
(Univ of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)

Jerry R Stalnaker,
Christopher J Swearingen

VBA Microsoft Access 2007 Macros to import Formats and Labels to SAS

Ethan Miller
(SRI International)

Tag It, Bag It, Put it out into Excel

Brandi Rhoads
(Franchise Tax Board)

SAS Data Step Debugger: Your Liberator from Logic Errors

Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)

Arthur L Carpenter

Macro Quoting to the Rescue: Passing Special Characters

Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)

Using PROC CONTENTS and a Macro to Convert Internal Data Values to their Associated Format Values

Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)

Kirk P Lafler

Assigning a User-defined Macro to a Function Key

Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)

Kirk P Lafler

Best Practices: Clean House to Avoid Hangovers

Sofia Shamas
(MaxisIT Inc)

Mansi Singh

Customized Graphics Made Simpler

Sofia Shamas
(MaxisIT Inc)

Mansi Singh

Creating SAS® Datasets From Varied Sources

Sarah Short
(ICON Clinical Research)

Dave P Miller

Are you taking it day by day or having an episode? Identifying and describing patterns in longitudinal data

David Tabano
(Kaiser Permanente)

Using PROC SQL to Calculate FIRSTOBS

Patrick Thornton
(SRI International)

Quick ODS OUTPUT Statements

Susan Wancewicz
(University of California, San Diego)

Adding PROC SQL to your toolbox for merging multiple tables without common variable names

Data Capture, Validation, Manipulation, & Integration

Section Chair: James VanCampen

Christine Riddiough
(SAS)

SAS® Formats and the FORMAT Procedure

Glenn Wright
(UCSF)

Denis Hulett

Probabilistic Record Linkage in SAS

William Benjamin Jr
(Owl Computer Consultancy LLC)

Array, Hurray, Array; Consolidate or Expand Your Input Data Stream Using Arrays.

Tasha Chapman
(State of Oregon - Department of Consumer and Business Services)

The many uses of SQL subqueries

Aleksandra Stein
(Celerion/University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Helping Students Become Effective Industry Statisticians: Supplementing Science with Data Savvy

Data Presentation

Section Chairs: Tom Cross and Carter Sevick

Tim Beese (SAS)

Tips and Techniques for Automating the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office with VBA

Dan Heath (SAS)

Now You Can Annotate your SG Procedure Graphs

Chevell Parker (SAS)

The Perfect Marriage: The SAS® Output Delivery System (ODS) and Microsoft Office

Chevell Parker (SAS)

Let's Give'em Something to TOC About: Transforming the Table of Contents of Your PDF File

Cynthia Zender (SAS)

SAS® Style Templates: Always in Fashion

Cynthia Zender (SAS)

Practically Perfect Presentations

Nate Derby
(Stakana Analytics)

Perry Watts

Using SAS GTL to Visualize Your Data when there is Too Much of it to Visualize

Sy Truong
(Meta-Xceed, Inc.)

Carey G Smoak

SAS® Data Query and Edit Checks Web 2.0

Steven Black
(W. L. Gore & Associates)

The Wonderful Wizard Of ODS - Using The EXCELXP Tagset Coupled With Proc Template, And Proc Report, To Twist Your World From Gray To All The Colors Of The Rainbow.

Aruna Buddana
(TiVo Inc)

Data Visualization of User Interface Navigation Using Interactive Treeview Diagrams

Tasha Chapman
(State of Oregon - Department of Consumer and Business Services)

Making the most of multi-label formats

Alice Cheng
(Independent)

Is the Legend in your SAS/Graph® Output Still Telling the Right Story?

Nate Derby
(Stakana Analytics)

Laura Vo, Perry Watts

Graphing a Progression of Time Series Plots with ODS Graphics

James Van Campen
(SRI International)

A Guide for Using SAS® and OpenXML to Create Charts in MS Excel®

Hands-on-Workshops

Section Chairs: Wei Cheng and Katie Martin

Vince DelGobbo (SAS)

Creating Stylish Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®

Sanjay Matange (SAS)
Wei Cheng

(Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

Statistical Graphics for Clinical Research Using ODS Graphics Designer

Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants)

PROC TABULATE: Getting Started

Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants)

PROC TABULATE: Doing More

Sunil Gupta
(Gupta Programming)

Ready To Become Really Productive Using PROC SQL?

Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)

Quick Results with PROC SQL

Kimberly LeBouton
(KJL Computing)

Getting Up to Speed with PROC REPORT

Susan Slaughter
(Avocet Solutions)

Lora Delwiche

Graphing Made Easy with SG Procedures

Health Outcomes & Healthcare Research Methodologies

Section Chair: Brenda Beaty

Sy Truong
(Meta-Xceed, Inc.)

Clinical Data Review on iPad with DEFINE.XML

Kalyani Chilukuri
(Clinovo)

Use CDISC SDTM as a data middle-tier to streamline your SAS infrastructure

Li-Hao Chu
(Kaiser Permanent Southern California)

Annie Gu, Aniket Kawatkar

A SAS Macro Program to Calculate Medication Adherence Rate for Single and Multiple Medication Use

Nadia Chung
(City of Hope)

Huiyan Ma, Jane Sullivan-Halley, Jenna Voutsinas, Sophia S Wang, Leslie Bernstein, James V Lacey Jr.

Linkage of hospitalization records with time series data to define chronic disease events in a prospective epidemiologic study

Sheila Dayog
(Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group)

Analyze This! Supporting Clinical Decisions Graphically When Not Enough Data is Available, A study case: Challenges in NCI CTCAE Version 4 Grading

Eric Elkin
(ICON)

Are You In Need of Validation? Psychometric Evaluation Of Questionnaires Using SAS

Andrea Masias
(Univ of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)

Effects of Timing on Surgery in Children with Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction: A Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) Database Study using SAS

Lori Miller
(University of Washington)

Using SAS Procedure Proc Mixed to Assess the Effects of School Health Policy Requirements on Change in Student Health Outcomes

Amanda Stevenson
(University of Texas at Austin)

Causal Methods for Observational Data

Glenn Wright
(UCSF)

Combining PROC SQL Summary Functions with Logical Expressions

Wuchen Zhao
(University of Southern California)

Arthur Li

Estimating Sample Size through Simulations

Beinan Zhao
(Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute)

Eric C Wong, Latha Palaniappan

Clinical Data Integration for Observational Studies Using Electronic Health Records: Examples with Defining Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes

Posters

Section Chairs: Raoul Bernal and Michael Zinkovitch

Megha Agarwal
(Clinovo)

SAS DM Statements Unveiled

Ross Bettinger
(Modern Analytics)

Is Your SAS Library a Disk Hog? Here's How to Put it on a Diet

Ross Bettinger
(Modern Analytics)

ChiD - A Chi-Squared Discretization Algorithm

Jian Dai
(Clinovo)

Solve Eight Queens Puzzle with SAS Macro

Richard Koopmann
(Capella University)

Using Vovici API in SAS 9.2

Gerardo Perez-Lizarraga
(University of Southern California)

Graphic versus Visual Displays for Representation of Data on Social Trends

Anpalaki Ragavan
(University of Nevada, Reno)

Taylor Series Based Linearization for Forecasting Time Series Data?

Zubair Shaik
(Oklahoma State University)

SAS® since 1976

Erin Vang
(Global Pragmatica)

JMP Scripting: Advanced Techniques

Yajie Wang
(VA Palo Alto HCS)

SAS Program as a Backup Tool for an Adaptive Randomization System

Resources

Section Chairs: Patrick Thornton and Kirk Paul Lafler

Kathy Council (SAS)

At Your Service: Your Roadmap to Support from SAS®

Jimmy Doi
( Cal Poly SLO)

Rebecca Ottesen, Ulric Lund, Karen McGaughey

This is how we do it: teaching SAS in the Cal Poly Statistics Department

Stanley Fogleman
(Harvard Clinical Research Institute)

What is a SAS Mentor and why do I need one?

Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)

Charles Shipp

Improving Your SAS® Skills and Expertise - Career Path Considerations

Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)

Top Ten SAS® Sites for Programmers: A Review

Rebecca Ottesen
(City of Hope / Cal Poly SLO)

Jimmy Doi, Ulric Lund, Karen McGaughey

This is how we do it: teaching SAS in the Cal Poly Statistics Department

Sy Truong
(Meta-Xceed, Inc.)

WUSS Conference Android App

SAS Essentials Workshop

Section Chairs: Isabel Jacobson and Sunil Gupta

AnnMaria De Mars
(The Julia Group)

SAS Essentials I: SAS Functions for a Better Functioning Community

SAS Essentials II: Better-looking SAS for a better community

SAS Essentials III: Statistics for Hamsters

Helen Carey
Ginger Carey
(Carey Consulting)

Tips and Techniques for the SAS® Programmer

Susan Slaughter
(Avocet Solutions)

Lora Delwiche

SAS Macro Programming for Beginners

Lily Xu
(Ohlone College)

Introduction to SAS Programming

Tutorials

Section Chairs: R. Scott Leslie and Richard Allen

Vince DelGobbo (SAS)

An Introduction to Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®

Warren Kuhfeld (SAS)

Creating Statistical Graphics with ODS in SAS Software

Sanjay Matange (SAS)

Tips and Tricks for SG Procedures and GTL for Clinical Graphs

Andy Ravenna (SAS)

Becoming a Better Programmer with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

Connie Robison (SAS)

Understanding the Anatomy of a SAS Deployment -- What's in My Server Soup?

Maura Stokes (SAS)

Up to Speed with Categorical Data Analysis

Ronald Cody
(self-employed)

An Introduction to SAS Character Functions

Gerry Hobbs
(West Virginia University)

Power Analyses: What is Available and What You Need to Know

William Krebs
(Self-empolyed)

SAS Macros for the Working Statistician

Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)

Powerful and Sometimes Hard-to-find PROC SQL® Features

Kimberly LeBouton
(KJL Computing)

HELP, My SAS® Program isn't Working: Where to Turn When You Need Help

Ethan Miller
(SRI International)

Getting Freqy With PROC REPORT

R. Scott Leslie
(MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.)

Statistical Analyses Using SAS Enterprise Guide