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.

Best Contributed Paper Author won a Best Contributed Paper Award at WUSS 2011.
Analytics & Statistics Applications Development
SAS defines analytics as “data-driven insight for better decisions.”  Popular topics in this section include aspects of data modeling, mining, and forecasting, as well as demonstrations of analytic procedures, such as analysis of variance, logistic regression, mixed models, 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, business intelligence approaches, web-enabled applications and/or applications that integrate SAS 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.
Quick 10-minute presentations of useful code and tips is the format of this section.  Topics include handy syntax, widely applicable macros, and creative uses or undocumented features of SAS.  SAS programmers of all levels present and attend this section. 
Data Management Data Presentation and Reporting
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 products to convey information through various media.  Topics range from graphics, data visualization, publishing and reporting.  Talks in this section include the use of ODS, SAS/GRAPH, styles and templates as well as a variety of techniques to produce results in Microsoft Excel and other MS Office applications.
Hands-On Workshops Health Outcomes & Healthcare
Research Methodologies
Hands-on Workshops allow 'hand-on-the keyboard' interaction with SAS software during each presentation.  Experienced invited presenters guide attendees through graduated examples of SAS software techniques and capabilities while offering the opportunity to ask questions and to learn through practice.
Presentations in this section emphasize methods and statistical analyses supporting health care research or outcomes research.  Possible topics include comparative effectiveness research, patient safety, quality of life research, health care data analysis, clinical trials research, and issues of confidentiality and security with handling patient records.
Posters SAS Enterprise Guide®
Participants in this section prepare a visual display, rather than conducting a lecture-style presentation, that is available to all attendees to view throughout the conference.  The section often displays high-resolution graphics and/or thought-provoking concepts or ideas that require some independent study by conference attendees.
This section demonstrates the flexibility of SAS Enterprise Guide to create solutions for users all levels by applying the application's programming and menu-driven functions.  Talks in this section include creating stored processes from existing programs, querying data using tasks,  representing data with reports and graphs, and exchanging data between different applications.
SAS Essentials Workshop
Tutorials
This section allows novice users to attend a day-long series of presentations that guide them through fundamental concepts of the 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 whom are invited to present.
Tutorials offer step-by-step presentations on a wide variety of topics and products for SAS users at all levels. All presentations are given by experienced SAS users whom are invited to present.
Analytics & Statistics
Section Chairs: Robin May and Carter Sevick
Tony An (SAS) SAS Procedures for Analyzing Survey Data
Gerry Hobbs
(University of West Virginia) 		Power Analysis: What is Available and What You Need to Know
Sanjay Matange (SAS) Now You Can Annotate Your Statistical Graphics Procedure Graphs
Maura Stokes (SAS)
Look Out: After SAS/STAT 9.3 Comes SAS/STAT 12.1!
Maura Stokes (SAS)
Up To Speed With Categorical Data Analysis
David Pasta
(ICON Late Phase & Outcomes Research)		 Being Continuously Discrete (or Discretely Continuous): Understanding Models with Continuous and Discrete Predictors and Testing Associated Hypotheses
Rachel Poulson
(TiVo)
BCP Author won a Best Contributed Paper Award at WUSS 2011.		 Collaborative Filtering Model Selection using PROC DISCRIM
Taylor Lewis
 (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) 		Weighting Adjustment Methods for Nonresponse in Surveys
Robin Way
 (Corios LLC) 		Building, Refining & Scoring Financial Transaction Sequence Analytics
Ross Bettinger
(Modern Analytics, Inc.)
SAS Rule-Based Codebook Generation fo Exploratory Data Analysis
Shelley Blozis
(UC Davis)
Sensitivity analysis of nonlinear mixed-effects models for longitudinal data that are incomplete
William Coar
(Axio Research)
Assessing Interim Data Using Figures
Kari Kelso, PhD
(VSP Global)
Moving Beyond Caveman Communication to Explain the Statistics Behind Your Model: So Easy a PhD Can Do It!
Deidre Kile, Brenda Beaty, Miriam Dickinson
(Colorado Health Outcomes Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)
Partitioning variance in generalized linear mixed effects models
Jason Shilong Kuang
(Kelley Blue Book, Inc)
The Hard Road to Good Consumer Segmentation
Evelyn Lawson
(Business Harmonics)
Next Best Product Analysis with You in Control
Chii Dean (Joey) Lin
(San Diego State University)
Sample Size Calculation and Power Analysis for Design of Experiments Using Proc Glmpower
Theresa Ngo
(Warner Bros. Home Video)
The Steps to Follow in a Multiple Regression Analysis
Akkarapol Sa-ngasoongsong, Satish Bukkapatna
(Oklahoma State University)
Automobile Sales Modeling using Granger-Causality Graph with PROC VARMAX in SAS® 9.3
Irena Stijacic Cenzer
(University of California, San Francisco)
Yinghui Miao
(NCIRE)
Katharine Kirby, John Boscardin
(University of California, San Francisco)
Estimating Harrell’s optimism on predictive indices using bootstrap samples.
Hui Wang
(UC Davis)
Comparison of Implementation of A Bayesian Approach to Nonlinear Mixed Effects Model in SAS and WinBUGS
Jennifer Wang
(University of Central Arkansas)
The influence of small sample sizes on empirical Bayes’ predictors in longitudinal data sets
Applications Development
Section Chairs: Tom Cross and Mary Rosenbloom
Chris Hemedinger (SAS) Windows PowerShell and SAS: Use Them to Drive Each Other Crazy
Laura Higgins (SAS)
Custom Analysis and Reporting with the JMP® Application Builder
Patrick Thornton
(SRI International)
BCP Author won a Best Contributed Paper Award at WUSS 2011.
Metadata, Macros, and Documenting SAS® Programs
Thomas Billings
(Union Bank)
Bridging the Gap Between SAS® Applications Developed by Business Units and Conventional IT Production
Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)
Art Carpenter
(CALOXY)		 Macro Quoting to the Rescue: Passing Special Characters
Jian Dai
(Clinovo)
Gulan Zhang
(Abbott Vascular)
An IOM Application Package for Producing Sophisticated Tables You Can Ever Mockup in Microsoft Word® with Simple SAS® Coding
Robert Springborn
(OSHPD/Healthcare Outcomes Center)
Set Yourself Free -Use ODS Report Writing Technology in SAS EG Instead of Dynamic Data Exchange in PC SAS
Business Intelligence
Section Chair: Isabel Jacobson
Patricia Aanderud
(And Data Inc)
Angela Hall (SAS) 		Get Your "Fast Pass" to Building Business Intelligence with SAS® and Google Analytics
Patricia Aanderud
(And Data Inc)
Angela Hall (SAS) 		Do I need a Dashboard or a Report?
Diane Hatcher (SAS) De Rigueur - Adding Process to Your Business Analytics Environment
Stephen Overton
(Overton Technologies) 		Guide Users Along Information Pathways and Surf Trhough the Data
Yingping Zhang
(Intel)
SAS® 9.3 BI Case Study: Performance Scalability and Tuning at Big Server
Coders' Corner
Section Chairs: Mary McCracken and Ethan Miller
Megha Agarwal
(Gilead Sciences)
The Power of the FILENAME Statement
William E Benjamin Jr
(Owl computer Consultancy LLC)
Array, Hurray, Array; Consolidate or Expand Your Input Data Stream Using Arrays
Thomas Billings
(Union Bank)
IFC and IFN Functions: Alternatives to Simple DATA Step IF-THEN-ELSE, SELECT-END Code and PROC SQL CASE Statements
William Coar
(Axio Research)
The Lost Sibling of the Semi-colon
Stanley Fogleman
(Harvard Clinical Research Insitute)
Out = is on the way out. Use ODS OUTPUT instead.
Jack Hamilton
(Kaiser Division of Research)
Creating a ZIP File using Native SAS Features
Julie Kilburn, Rebecca Ottesen
(City of Hope)
Nuisances of Report Automation that Involve Change Tracking
Mark Kirkham
(Merrick Bank)
I Hate Typing Variable Names
Rebecca Ottesen, Julie Kilburn
(City of Hope)
BCP Author won a Best Contributed Paper Award at WUSS 2011.		 Updating Reporting Data Sets for Recent Changes
Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)
Best Practices: PUT More Errors and Warnings in My Log, Please!
Mary Rosenbloom
(Edwards Lifesciences, LLC)
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)
Best Practices: Use Coding Shortcuts to Avoid Typsos and Add Flexibility
Charlie Shipp
(Consider Consulting, Inc.)
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)		 JMP® Coders 101 Insights
Patrick Thornton
(SRI International) 		A Concise Display of Multiple Response Items
Minghui Yang
(Boeing)
A Clean Way to Convert a Character String by Using SAS Functions
Data Management
Section Chairs: Lida Gharibvand and Kathy Doan
Rick Langston (SAS) Scalability of Table Lookup Techniques
Rick Langston (SAS) Using the New Features in PROC FORMAT
Arun Akkinapalli, Mithun Yarlagadda,
Gurudev Karanth, John Prenner
(eBay Inc.)
SAS In-Database Procedures on eBay’s Teradata System Reduces Processing Time by a Factor of 4
Kathy Doan
(Wells Fargo Bank)
Stop Hiring Losers! Tips for Weeding Out Unqualified Candidates and Bad Hires
David Franklin
(TheProgrammersCabin.com)
Countdown of the Top 10 Ways to Merge Data
Jack Hamilton
(Kaiser Division of Research)
Obtaining A List of Files in A Directory Using SAS Functions
Kari Kelso, PhD
(VSP Global)
100 things to do in your first 100 days as a New SAS Programmer
Chuck Kincaid
(Experis Business Analytics)
Developing an Analytics Center of Excellence (or the Care and Feeding of Magical Creatures)
Arthur Li
(City of Hope)
Simplifying Effective Data Transformation Via PROC TRANSPOSE
Kathryn Martin
(Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program, CA Department of Public Health)
Making Fuzzy Merges More Precise using the COMPARE Function in SAS®
Kai Yang
(City of Hope)
Biology research data cleaning technical
Wuchen Zhao
(University of Southern California)
Figure Out Your Programming Logic Errors via DATA Step Debugger
Data Presentation and Reporting
Section Chairs: Wei Cheng and Ren-Yu Tzeng
Justin Choy (SAS)
Visualizing Data Techniques, Including Autocharting and Big Data
Patrick Thornton
(SRI Internationa
BCP Author won a Best Contributed Paper Award at WUSS 2011.
A Reporting System using SAS® Macro Programs and PROC REPORT
William E Benjamin Jr
(Owl Computer Consultancy LLC)
Extend the Power of SAS® to Use Callable VBS and VBA Code Files Stored in External Libraries to Control Excel Formatting Routines
Frank Bereznay, Raff Rushton
(Kaiser/IBM)
Building Calendars with Proc Report
Alice Cheng
(Independent Consultant)
Justina Flavin
(SimulStat, Inc.)
Is the Legend in your SAS/Graph(R) Output Still Telling the Right Story?
Humberto Cisneros, Carrin Huff
(Arizona Supreme Court)
The Evolution of SAS Programs Used to Analyze Judicial Salaries
William Coar
(Axio Research)
Appending Reports: A Review and Fresh Look
David Franklin
(TheProgrammersCabin.com)
Rediscovering the DATA _NULL_ for Creating a Report, And Putting That Text File Into RTF Format In a Single Datastep
David Franklin
(TheProgrammersCabin.com)
PROC PRINT - the Granddaddy of all Procedures, Enhanced and Still Going Strong!
Ethan Miller
(SRI International)
Kirk Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)
How to Flipthatstuff Using HASH
Charlie Shipp
(Consider Consulting, Inc.)
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)
Proficiency in JMP® Data Visualization
Wen Song, Kamya Khanna, Baibai Chen
(ICF International)
An efficient method to create a large and comprehensive codebook
Hands-on-Workshops
Section Chairs: Richard Read Allen and Charlene Wong
Vince DelGobbo (SAS) An Introduction to Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®
AnnMaria De Mars
(The Julia Group)		 Basic Statistics with SAS Enterprise Guide: For Learners and Teachers
Peter Eberhardt
(Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.)		 The SAS® Hash Object: It’s Time To .find() Your Way Around
Peter Eberhardt
(Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.)		 The Armchair Quarterback: Writing SAS® Code for the Perfect Pivot (Table, That Is)
Kimberly LeBouton
(KJL Computing)		 Getting Up to Speed with PROC REPORT
Sanjay Matange (SAS) Quick Results with SAS ODS Graphics Designer
Renato Villacorte
(Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz, & Associates)		 Go Beyond The Wizard With Data-Driven Programming
SAS Essentials Hands-On Workshops
Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants)
Doing More with the Display Manager: From Editor to ViewTable – Options and Tools You Should Know
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)
Basic SAS® PROCedures for Producing Quick Results
Health Outcomes & Healthcare Research Methodologies
Section Chairs: Brenda Beaty and Grace Reynolds
Amanda Stevenson
(University of Texas at Austin)
BCP Author won a Best Contributed Paper Award at WUSS 2011.		 Exploratory and Descriptive Data Analysis for Site-Level Outcomes
Anton Bekkerman, Jake Morgan
(Montana State University)
Power plant emissions, pediatric asthma, and school attendance: A spatial identification analysis
Li-Hao Chu, Aniket A Kawatkar
(Kaiser Permanente) 		Calculating incidence, prevalence and event rate in different type of diseases in a dynamic population
Nadia Chung, Huiyan Ma, Jenna Voutsinas, Leslie Bernstein, Sophia Wang, James Lacey
(City of Hope) 		Composite Indices for Health Outcomes in Epidemiologic Studies: Multi-dimensional Coding Using SAS
Ruth Johnson
(Quintiles)
Dynamically Determine Treatment Populations and Denominators
Zhongmin Li, Geeta Mahendra
(University of California, Davis Medical Center)
A SAS Macro for Displaying Institutional Risk-Adjusted Performance: Forest vs. Funnel Plots
Chelsea Lofland
(Self-Employed)		 Longitudinal Analysis of College Dietary Patterns in Relation to Sleep, Stress, and Exercise
Rajkumar Sharma
(Genentech, Inc.)
Developing Integrated Summary of Safety Database using CDISC Standards
Rajkumar Sharma
(Genentech, Inc.)
Implementing the New ICH Development Safety Update Report(DSUR)
Diana Suhr
(University of Northern Colorado)
Exploratory Factor Analysis with the World Values Survey
David Tabano
(Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Research)
Modular processing for Prep-to-research anaylsis- interfacing Microsoft Excel, XML and SAS
Mark Takayesu
(Orange County Department of Child Support Services)
How Do Child Support Order Amounts Affect Payments and Compliance?
Wuchen Zhao
(University of Southern California)
PROC FREQ Is More than Just Simply Generating a 2-By-2 Table
Posters
Section Chair: William Benjamin
Richard Koopman
(Capella University)
BCP Author won a Best Contributed Paper Award at WUSS 2011.		 Building Macros and Tracking Their Use
Sriram Ghattamaneni, Agastya kumar Komarraju
(Oklahoma State University)
The Game Prophet
Anpalaki Ragavan
(University of Nevada, Reno)
Mixed Model Analysis of Protein Sequence Evolution of the GLUT Transporter
Anpalaki Ragavan
(University of Nevada, Reno)
Effects of ethnicity, height, weight and gender of cystic fibrosis patients on CFTR gene mutations
Charlie Shipp
(Consider Consulting, Inc.)
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation) 		Connect with Professionals Around the World with LinkedIn®, sasCommunity.org®, and Business Media
Chong Ho Yu
A(zusa Pacific University)
Blurring the line between confirmation and exploration: Model comparison of structural equation modeling in SAS
Michelle Wang
(Sangart)		 "PROC BOXPLOT" - Using the CLIPFACTOR Option to Produce More Readable Figures"
SAS Enterprise® Guide
Section Chair: Isabel Jacobson
Patricia Aanderud
(And Data Inc)
Angela Hall (SAS) 		SAS Enterprise Guide: It's More Than a Gift from Outer Space
Chris Hemedinger (SAS) Not Just for Scheduling: Doing More with SAS® Enterprise Guide® Automation
Sunil Gupta
(Gupta Programming)
SAS Enterprise Guide Best of Both Worlds – Is it Right for You?
Thomas Billings, Sreenivas Mullagiri
(Union Bank)
Update, Insert, and Carry-Forward Operations in Database Tables using SAS® Enterprise Guide®
Aruna Buddana
(TiVo Inc)
SAS Enterprise Guide: Point, Click and Run is all that takes…
Sunil Goklani, Ahmed Darwish
(DIRECTV)
Revenue Assurance: Using SAS® to Identify Revenue Leakages
Shanetta Robinson, Tara Jiles, AnnMaria Demars
(Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Education & Psychology – Educational Doctoral of Organizational Leadership Program)
I Want to Get Married Too: Assessing the Relationship between Marital Status and Education for African American Women
SAS Essentials Workshop
Section Chair: Cynthia LeardMann
Helen Carey
(Carey Consulting)		 SAS Programming Basics: Getting Your Data in and Understanding the Data Step
SAS Programming Basics; Manipulating and Checking Your Data
SAS Programming Basics: Producing Results from Your Data
Casey Cantrell
(Clarion Consulting) 		Habits that Help: Developing good Programming Style
Ben Cochran
(The Bedford Group)
44 Tricks with the Format Procedure
Kathy Council (SAS) Services R Us
Peter Eberhardt
(Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.)
The SAS® DATA Step: Where Your Input Matters
Kimberly LeBouton
(KJL Computing)

HELP, My SAS® Program isn't Working: Where to Turn When You Need Help
SAS Essentials Hands-On Workshops
Art Carpenter
(CA Occidental Consultants)
Doing More with the Display Manager: From Editor to ViewTable – Options and Tools You Should Know
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)
Basic SAS® PROCedures for Producing Quick Results
Tutorials
Section Chairs: Katie Martin and Dennis Fisher
Patricia Aanderud
(And Data Inc)
Angela Hall (SAS) 		Create Your First SAS Stored Process
Allison Booth (SAS)
PROC REPORT Unwrapped: Exploring the Secrets behind One of the Most Popular Procedures in Base SAS® Software
Diana Hatcher (SAS) Feedback on SAS Technology Directions - Big Data, High Performance Data Mining and Cloud Infrastructure
Maura Stokes (SAS) Look Out: After SAS/STAT 9.3 Comes SAS/STAT 12.1!
Chris Hemedinger (SAS) Not Just for Scheduling: Doing More with SAS Enterprise Guide Automation
Anton Bekkerman
(Montana State University)
SAS ``IML'' (Introduction at the Master's Level)
Arthur Carpenter
(CALOXY)
Innovative Techniques: Doing More with Loops and Arrays
Arthur Carpenter
(CALOXY)
 Programming With CLASS: Keeping Your Options Open
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation) 		Demystifying PROC SQL® Join Algorithms
Kirk Paul Lafler
(Software Intelligence Corporation)
Charles Edwin Shipp
(Consider Consulting, Inc.) 		Google® Search Tips and Techniques for SAS® and JMP® Users
Ethan Miller
(SRI International) 		Bend Excel to Your Will Using SAS TAGSETS and PROC REPORT
Stephen Philp
(Pelican Programming)
An Introduction to Git Version Control for SAS Programmers


 

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