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| Sunday, March 22 |
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| 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Introduction to Bayesian Analysis Using SAS® Software
Maura Stokes, SAS Institute Inc.
Fang Chen, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Introduction to Logistic Regression Using SAS® Software
Bob Derr, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 08:00 AM - 11:30 AM | An Introduction to Data Cleaning
Ronald Cody, Private Consultant
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 08:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Building Reusable Macro Tools with the SAS® Macro Language
Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 6 |
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| 08:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Leadership 101: What Everyone Should Know About Managing SAS Programmers
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 08:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Printable Reporting in SAS®: The Power of SAS and ODS
Pete Lund, Looking Glass Analytics
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Analyzing Survey Data Using Replication Methods in SAS® Software
Anthony An, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Creating Statistical Graphics with ODS in SAS® 9.2
Robert Rodriguez, SAS Institute Inc.
Jeff Cartier, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Adding SQL to Your SAS® Programming Repertoire
Warren Repole, SAS Institute Inc.
Su Chee Tay, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 6 |
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| 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Best Practices in SAS® Coding
Linda Jolley, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Exploring SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.2
Kenneth Sucher, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM | What Is a Hash Object and How Do I Use It?
Jane Stroupe, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM | First Timers’ Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 05:15 PM - 06:30 PM | Opening Night Dinner
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George A |
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| 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM | Opening Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Potomac Ballroom |
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| 08:30 PM - 11:00 PM | Get Acquainted Reception
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George E |
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| Monday, March 23 |
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| 08:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Technology Connection and Keynote Presentation by Dave Barry
| Gaylord National Resort,
Potomac Ballroom |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | A Quick Start to Solving SQL Performance Issues
| Demo Room |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Best Practices in Data Integration for Enterprise Data Management
| Demo Room |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Deployment Enhancements for SAS 9.2
| Demo Room |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Improve Web Site Effectiveness with Web Analytics
| Demo Room |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | You've Got Mail! Distributing Reports with SAS Web Report Studio
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Java Graph Components
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Use SAS Text Miner to Hear What Your Customers Are Saying!
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Visualization with SAS®9 BI using JMP® and SAS Business Intelligence
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | What’s New in SAS Forecast Server 3.1
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Automate Dummy Variable Created from Large Longitudinal RDBMS Tables
Melissa Skanderson, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Xiaoqiang Wang, Center for Human Equity Research and Promotion
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Creating SAS® Data Sets from HTML Table Definitions
Rick Langston, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Achieving High Availability in a SAS® Grid Environment
Daniel Wong, Platform Computing Inc
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Advanced PROC REPORT: Getting Your Tables Connected Using Links—Part I Tutorial
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Filtered Monte Carlo Simulation for Inverse Design Using JMP 8
Patrick Biltgen, Bae Systems, Inc
| National Harbor 11 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | For Base SAS® Users: Welcome to SAS® Data Integration!
Jeff Stander, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | In-Database Procedures with Teradata: How They Work and What They Buy You
David Shamlin, SAS Institute Inc.
David Duling, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 7 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Introduction to the SAS® 9 Business Intelligence Platform
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | ODS Graphics Designer: Your Tool of Choice for Interactive, Batchable Graphics
Sanjay Matange, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Test-Driving the Improvements to the INFOMAPS Procedure and LIBNAME Engine
Bill McNeill, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | THINK Before You Type… Best Practices Learned the Hard Way
Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Translating DNA of Customers into Business Value through Analytics
Reyzi Pamir, Garanti Bank
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Using SAS® OnDemand for Academics to Meet Changing Student Needs, Reduce Software Access Barriers, and Grow SAS® Skills
Tom Edds, SAS Institute Inc.
Ron Statt, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | What’s New in SAS® Training for SAS® 9.2
Amy Peters, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Using PROC SGPLOT for Quick High-Quality Graphs
Lora Delwiche, University of California, Davis
Susan Slaughter, Avocet Solutions
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Business Intelligence
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Designing Experiments for the Process
George Milliken, Kansas State University
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 6 |
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| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Monday Morning Code Doctors
Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.
Malachy (Mal) Foley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM | Variable Names Don't Begin with the Same Characters? No Problem: How to Create Variable List without Copying, Pasting or Excel Intervention
Xu Zeng, Independent Consultant
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Extending SAS/ACCESS® Capabilities
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | High-Volume Profitability
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Linguistic Sollation: Not Just for Internationalization!
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Using Web Services with SAS
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | You've Got Mail! Distributing Reports with SAS Web Report Studio
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | SAS® as SaaS: The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing an Enterprise-Scale SAS Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Shared Service
Tim Walters, Collaborative Consulting
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
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| 11:15 AM - 11:25 AM | Using Functions SYSFUNC and IFC to Conditionally Execute Statements in Open Code
Ronald Fehd, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM | LAG: The Very Powerful and Easily Misused SAS® Function
Yunchao (Susan) Tian, Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Graphs in FLASH
| Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Use SAS Text Miner to Hear What Your Customers Are Saying!
| Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Visualization with SAS®9 BI using JMP® and SAS Business Intelligence
| Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | What’s New in SAS Forecast Server 3.1
| Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Boot Camp for Programmers: Stuff You Need to Know That's Not in the Manual—Best Practices to Help Us Achieve Reproducibility
Elizabeth Axelrod, Abt Associates, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | High-Performance Grid and Cluster Computing Industry Trends
Dana Rafiee, Destiny Corporation
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Publish SAS® Formats in Your Teradata Server; Impress Your Friends
Jeffrey Bailey, SAS Institute Inc.
Pat Bostic, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 7 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Using the DATA Step as a POP3 Mail Client
Erik Tilanus, Synchrona
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | BI Strategy at the Belgian Federal Government Economy
Frank De Saer, Belgian Federal Government Economy
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Confidence Information of ROC Curves, AUC, and Partial AUC with JMP®
David Meintrup, STATCON
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Dashboard Reports for Predictive Model Management
Jifa Wei, SAS Institute Inc.
Emily Gao, SAS Institute Inc.
Frank Wang, SAS Institute Inc.
Robert Chu, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Fifty Ways to Lose Your Data (And How to Avoid Them)
Linda Jolley, SAS Institute Inc.
Jane Stroupe, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Improving the Trust Factor: What’s Your Reporting IQ?
Lisa Dodson, SAS Institute Inc.
Pat Herbert, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | The Platform for SAS® Business Analytics as a Centrally Managed Service
Greg Henderson, SAS Institute Inc.
Joe Zilka, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | The SAS® 9.2 Software Deployment: A Deployment Experience Your Mother Would Love
Alec Fernandez, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | Tips and Tricks for Creating the Reports Your Clients Need to See
Michael Molter, INC Research
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM | What's New in SAS® Data Integration Studio 4.2
Eric Hunley, SAS Institute Inc.
Gary Mehler, SAS Institute Inc.
Nancy Rausch, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 11:45 AM - 11:55 AM | Selecting a Stratified Sample with PROC SURVEYSELECT
Diana Suhr, University of Northern Colorado
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM | Using IN:( ) to code Character Comparisons with Criteria Having Different Lengths
Paul Grant, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Copy and Append
| Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Metadata Promotion
| Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | You've Got Mail! Distributing Reports with SAS Web Report Studio
| Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | SAS® and Teradata: Accelerating the Power to Know
Robert Ray, SAS Institute Inc.
Wayne Thompson, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 7 |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | The Many Hats of the SAS® Administrator
Shiva Srinivasan, PJM Interconnection LLC
Fabian Robinson, PJM Interconnection LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | The Science of Application Debugging
David Scocca, Rho, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Very Large Dataset Performance as Measured Across Multiple SAS 9.1.3 Data Storage Options.
Don Kros, Humana
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
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| 12:15 PM - 12:25 PM | Creating Code Templates in the SAS Enhanced Editor using Abbreviations and User Defined Keywords
Paul Grant, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Create Your Graphs with ODS Graphics Designer
| Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Modifying ODS Statistical Graphics Templates in Four Easy Steps
| Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Unlocking the Value in Your Unstructured Data
| Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Visualization with SAS®9 BI using JMP® SAS Business Intelligence
| Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM | Monday Lunch with Featured Presentation by Greg Schwem
Greg Schwem, Comedian
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George A |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Analhyze This! -- What the SAS Code Analyzer Can Do for You
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Empowering Inbound Marketing with Real-Time Decisions
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | On the Go with SAS® BI and Handheld Devices
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Star Schema Performance Optimizations with SPD Server
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Stored Processes in SAS 9.2
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | Modifying ODS Statistical Graphics Templates in Four Easy Steps
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | Network Visualization Workshop
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | Unlocking the Value in Your Unstructured Data
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | What's New in SAS® Web Report Studio 4.2 and Information Map Studio 4.2
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | At the Controls: An Approach to Security via SAS® Management Console
Lisa Frank, BD
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Change Data Capture and the Benefits to the Modern Enterprise Data Warehouse
David Barkaway, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Stationarity Testing in High-Frequency Seasonal Time Series
David Dickey, North Carolina State University
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 6 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | The Future of Revenue Management
Kelly McGuire, SAS Institute Inc.
Steve Pinchuk, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Troubleshoot Your Performance Issues: SAS® Technical Support Shows You How
Michael Williams, SAS Institute Inc.
Gretel Easter, SAS Institute Inc.
Steve Bradsher, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 01:30 PM - 03:15 PM | More Tips and Tricks for Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way with SAS®
Vince DelGobbo, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
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| 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM | Platform for SAS® Business Analytics Overview
Christine Vitron, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake H |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Building High-Performance Data Integration Job Flows
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Make the Most of your Marketing Contacts with SAS Marketing Optimization
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | On the Go with SAS® BI and Handheld Devices
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Publish SAS Formats in Your Teradata Server
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Using Internal Accounts in SAS 9.2
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | Identifying Complications and Overcoming Problems Using SAS® Enterprise BI Server
Clare Nicklin, The Open University
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | Realizing Value Quickly from a Newly Installed SAS® Enterprise BI Platform
Brian Varney, COMSYS Information Technology Services, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | BI as a Management Tool to Drive Frankfurt Airport
Dieter Steinmann, Fraport AG
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Building Your First Dashboard Using the SAS® 9 Business Intelligence Platform: A Tutorial
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | ODS 101+
Erik Tilanus, Synchrona
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | SAS® and JMP® Integration for Implementing a Clustering Algorithm for High Dimension Low Sample Size Data
George von Borries, Universidade de Brasilia
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | The Use of Electronic Metadata: Panel Discussion
Jeffrey Abolafia, Rho, Inc.
Chris Decker, d-Wise Technologies, Inc.
Frank DiIorio, CodeCrafters, Inc.
Gregory Steffens, Eli Lilly and Co.
Sy Truong, Meta-Xceed, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Tips and Techniques for Analytic Web Services
Dan Jahn, SAS Institute Inc.
Brad Klenz, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Using the SAS/OR® OPTMODEL Procedure to Assign Students to Schools in the Wake County Public Schools System
Ivan Oliveira, SAS Institute Inc.
Charles Dulaney, Wake County Public School System
Rob Pratt, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | A Discussion of Various Possibilities for Data Entry Using SAS®: An Evergreen
Barbara Schneider, University of Vienna
Kristan Schneider, University of Vienna
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Automating Your SAS® Jobs
Paul Anderson, Alere
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Behind the Scenes with SAS®: Using Custom Graphics in SAS® Output
Louise Hadden, Abt Associates, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Better, Faster, and Cheaper SAS® Software Lifecycle
Edmond Cheng, Bureau of Labor Statistics
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Bubble, Bubble: Less Toil, No Trouble
Wendy Dickinson, Ringling College of Art and Design
Bruce Hall, University of South Florida
Constance Hines, University of South Florida
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Combining Pieces and Parts to Create a Comprehensive Program
Gary McQuown, Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc.
John Zheng, Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Create State and County Plots Easily Using a Set of SAS/GRAPH® Utility Macros
James Ribble, Columbus Technologies, Inc.
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | E-Mail z/OS CICS Exception Reports in Plain Text Format Using DATA _NULL_ and MXG® Software
Neal Musitano Jr., U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Evolution of the Investigator Satisfaction Ranking Report: The Advantage of Using the PROC REPORT Procedure/ODS Excel versus a CROSSTAB Output or CROSSTAB/ODS Excel
Mollie Van Loon, Penn State University
John Shingler, Penn State University
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Examining Mediator and Moderator Effect Using Rural-Women HIV Study
Kirby Jackson, USC
Linda Moneyham, UAB
Abbas Tavakoli, University of South Carolina
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Generate a Customized Axis Scale with Uneven Intervals in SAS® Automatically
Perry Watts, Independent Consultant
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Graphs in Flash, using Graph Template Language (GTL)
Himesh Patel, SAS Institute Inc.
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Mapping CDISC Metadata Attributes: Using DATA _NULL_ and PROC DATASETS in SAS®
Rita Tsang, Averion International Corp.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Measuring Campaign Performance by Using Cumulative Gain and Lift Chart
Tariq Jaffery, Javelin Direct
Shirley Liu, Javelin Direct
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Merging Data Eight Different Ways
David Franklin, Independent Consultant
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | ODS Graphics Designer
Sanjay Matange, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Parsimony vs. Complexity: A Monte Carlo Investigation of Hierarchical and Cross-Classified Modeling Using SAS® PROC MIXED
Bethany Bell, University of South Carolina
Corina Owens, University of South Florida
Jeffrey Kromrey, University of South Florida
John Ferron, University of South Florida
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | PROC SQL and SAS® Macro: Beyond the Basics
Louie Huang, Baxter International INC.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | SAS® in Financial Research: Embracing Data
Taras Zlupko, CRSP, University of Chicago
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | SAS® Macros Toolkit for Graphical Representation of Complex Data
Ashok Chaurasia, University of Connecticut
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | SAS® Magic Squares
Gary Foster, St. Joseph's Hospital
Charles Goldsmith, St. Joseph's Hospital
Lehana Thabane, Mc Master University
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Simulating Time Series Analysis: Examining the Long-Run Relationships (Cointegration) – Part II
Ismail Mohamed, L3 Communications
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Simulating Time Series Testing: The Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) Test – Part I
Ismail Mohamed, L3 Communications
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Source of Nitrogen in Q-BOP Steel (Statistical Analysis)
Arkady Kushnir, American Express
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Testing your SAS® Code against Known Data
Sharon Schiro, UNC-Department of Surgery
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Using SAS/GRAPH®, JavaScript, and ODS to Create Interactive HTML Output
James Ribble, Columbus Technologies, Inc.
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Using SAS® System and Dataset Options to Control Your Data
David Franklin, Independent Consultant
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Using SAS® to Analyze System Performance Metrics
Chris Helwig, student
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Using SAS® to Explore the Impact of a Care Management Maternity Program
Barbara Okerson, HMC
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Wandering Cross-Reference Lines in PROC GPLOT
Sharon Avrunin-Becker, Westat
Marie Alexander, Westat
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Why Is SAS® Certification Helpful in Enhancing Your Career as an Analyst and SAS Programmer?
Murphy Choy, Programmer
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Wow! You Did That Map with SAS/GRAPH®?
Louise Hadden, Abt Associates, Inc.
Mike Zdeb, U@Albany School of Public Health
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 03:45 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Business Visualization
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
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| 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Monday Afternoon Code Doctors
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
Lora Delwiche, University of California, Davis
Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | Java Graph Components
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | R U There?
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | SAS Enterprise Miner™ 6.1 in Action
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | What's New in SAS® Web Report Studio 4.2 and Information Map Studio 4.2
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Fitting Cox Model Using PROC PHREG and Beyond in SAS®
Lea Liu, Maryland Medical Research Institute
Sandy Forman, Maryland Medical Research Institute
Bruce Barton, Maryland Medical Research Institute
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Interrogate the Interrogator: Presenting SAS® Usage Information Using BI Tools
Emilio Power, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
Shawn Edney, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Supporting a SAS® Server Architecture
Angela Hall, Zencos Consulting LLC
| National Harbor 10 |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Useful by Association: Adding Practical Value by Analyzing SAS® 9 Data Integration Metadata
Steve Morton, Applied System Knowledge Ltd
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Carbon Footprint Modeling with SAS® for Sustainability Management: Beyond Calculation
Keith Renison, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Running SAS® on Windows 32-Bit Systems: Ceilings, Limitations, and Realities
Tony Brown, SAS Institute Inc.
Margaret Crevar, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | The SAS® OLAP Server: Understanding and Solving Common Problem Situations
Adam Budlong, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Campaign Management Made Easy with SAS Marketing Automation
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | How Base SAS PROCs Leverage the Teradata MPP Architecdture
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Metadata Authorizations and Inheritance
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | On the Go with SAS® BI and Handheld Devices
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | What’s New in SAS Data Quality Including DataFlux® Technologies?
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Analysis of Survival Data with Clustered Events
Lida Gharibvand, Department of Statistics
Lei Liu, Univ. of Virginia
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Building Analytic Services with SAS® Business Intelligence
John Leveille, d-Wise Technologies, Inc.
David Kratz, d-Wise Technologies, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Min Logistikk: Using SAS® BI Web Services in a Service-Oriented Architecture at Norway Post Delivering Information Securely to Customers on the Extranet
Truls Andersen, Know IT Information Management, Oslo
Shiraz Bhaiji, Avenir AS
Frode Langseth, SAS Institute Inc.
Stein Nyfløt, ErgoGroup AS
| Maryland 3 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Assessing SAS® Skill Level during the Interview Process
Jenine Milum, Wachovia a Wells Fargo Company
| National Harbor 10 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Get Your Data Squeaky Clean with SAS® Data Quality Server
Faron Kincheloe, Baylor University
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Implementing a Repair Heuristic for Unplanned Work in Resource Constrained Project Schedules Using Base SAS® and SAS® PROC CPM
Sandra Archer, University of Central Florida
Robert Armacost, Higher Education Assessment and Planning Technologies
Julia Pet-Armacost, University of Central Florida College of Medicine
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Innovation, Implementation, and Integration: Building a DataWarehouse with SAS® Data Integration Studio and MS SQL Server
Soeren Junk, Bankdata
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Integrating Financial and Non-Financial Information to Enhance Strategic Decision-Making Capabilities at McMaster University
Debbie Weisensee, Mc Master University
Anne McInnis, Mc Master University
Lars Hult, Business Minds
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | SAS® Enterprise BI Client Components in the Research Area of the Bank of Italy: First Experiences
Giuseppe Bruno, Bank of Italy
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | The Basics of Experimental Design for Multivariate Analysis
Steve Figard, Abbott Laboratories
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | Understanding the SAS® DATA Step and The Program Data Vector
Steven First, Systems Seminar Consultants, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | Got ADDRESSES? Find Out Why You Need PROC GEOCODE
| Demo Room |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | R U There?
| Demo Room |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | SAS Enterprise Miner™ 6.1 in Action
| Demo Room |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | What's New in SAS® Web Report Studio 4.2 and Information Map Studio 4.2
| Demo Room |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | An Analysis of Market Shares on the Danish Alcohol Market Using Unobserved Components
Anders Milhøj, University of Copenhagen
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Retirement of Legacy Clinical Systems and Moving to SAS® Drug Development, Much More than Just Moving the Data
Fred Forst, Eli Lilly and Co.
John Standefer, SAS Institute Inc.
| Maryland 3 |
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| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Methods, Models, and More: New Analyses Available with SAS/STAT® 9.2
Maura Stokes, SAS Institute Inc.
Robert Rodriguez, SAS Institute Inc.
Tonya Balan, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Reject Inference Techniques Implemented in Credit Scoring for SAS® Enterprise Miner™
Billie Anderson, SAS Institute Inc.
Susan Haller, SAS Institute Inc.
Naeem Siddiqi, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | SAS® EBI: What Is It, What Will It Do for Me, and Does It Really Work?
Frederick Pratter, Eastern Oregon University
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | SAS® Profitability Management and SAS® Activity-Based Management: What's All the Buzz about?
Tony Adkins, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 03:30 PM - 05:15 PM | The SAS® Hash Object in Action
Paul Dorfman, Paul Dorfman Consulting
Koen Vyverman, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Beyond SAS/Genetics™
Amina Barhdadi, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal University
Yassamin Feroz Zada, Heart Institut of Montreal
Marie-Pierre Dube, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal University
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Exploring the Metadata Family Tree
Elena Muriel, Amadeus Software Ltd.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Roles in Business Intelligence
Janus Mens, PricewaterhouseCoopers
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Getting from SAS® 9.1.3 to SAS® 9.2: Migration Tools or Promotion Tools
Diane Hatcher, SAS Institute Inc.
Sandy McNeill, SAS Institute Inc.
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Obtaining, Growing, and Retaining Your Professional SAS® Staff: A Panel Discussion
Lauren Haworth, Genentech Inc.
Rick Mitchell, Westat
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
Stephen Noga, Rho, Inc.
| National Harbor 10 |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Optimizing the Marketing Mix
Patralekha Bhattacharya, Thinkalytics
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Setting Up the Marketing Plans for Lotte Department Store
Won-Suk Woo, Korea University
JA HEE Hwang, Korea University
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Tales from the Help Desk 3: More Solutions for Common SAS® Mistakes
Bruce Gilsen, Federal Reserve Board
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Use of DOE to Determine the Critical Parameters and Design Space for Production of Biotherapeutic Proteins
Vincent Wingate, Biolex Therapeutics
Jeff Regan, Biolex Therapeutics
Lynn Dickey, Biolex Therapeutics
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Using PROC TABULATE and ODS Style Options to Make Really Great Tables
Wendi Wright, CTB McGraw-Hill
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
|
| 04:00 PM - 05:45 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Business Intelligence
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
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| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Easier Exploratory Analysis for Epidemiology: A Grad Student “How-To” Paper
Elisa Priest, UNT HSC SPH
Brian Adams, Baylor Health Care System
Lori Fischbach, UNT HSC SPH
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Information Maps That Rock: How to Design for Optimal Performance While Balancing Cost and Other Business Requirements
Paul Christenson, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Susan Trelstad, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Data Integration in a Grid-Enabled Environment
Cheryl Doninger, SAS Institute Inc.
Gary Mehler, SAS Institute Inc.
Nancy Rausch, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Dear Ms. SAS® Answers: A Guide to Efficient PROC SQL Coding
Linda Jolley, SAS Institute Inc.
Jane Stroupe, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Structural Analysis of Time Series Using the SAS/ETS® UCM Procedure
Rajesh Selukar, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | The XML Super Hero: An Advanced Understanding of Manipulating XML with SAS®
Richard Foley, SAS Institute Inc.
Paul Kent, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Visual Guide to SAS® Web Application Development: Techniques and Methodologies for Efficient Web Application Development for SAS®
Sy Truong, Meta-Xceed, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | More than Just the Kappa Coefficient: A Program to Fully Characterize Inter-Rater Reliability between Two Raters
Michael Cunningham, University of Pittsburgh
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | The Interactive Data Warehouse: Introducing Transactional Data Marts and “Smart Applications” to Interact with Data Warehouse Data
Stein Arve Finnestad, Capgemini Norge AS
Gisle Karlsen, ConocoPhillips Norge AS
Rune Lekve, SAS Institute AS
Pål Navestad, ConocoPhillips Norge AS
Terje Strømstad, Capgemini Norge AS
Odd Jarle Tednes, Capgemini Norge AS
| Maryland 3 |
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| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | A Little Stats Won't Hurt You
Nathaniel Derby, Statis Pro Data Analytics
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | Configuring and Customizing SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.2 in the SAS® Platform Environment
Lina Clover, SAS Institute Inc.
Cummins Mebane, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | Cross Validation and Learning Curve Model Comparison with JMP® Genomics and Grid Computing
Tzu-Ming Chu, SAS Institute Inc.
Cheryl Doninger, SAS Institute Inc.
Glenn Horton, SAS Institute Inc.
Stan Martin, SAS Institute Inc.
Pei-Yi Tan, SAS Institute Inc.
Russ Wolfinger, SAS Institute Inc. | Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | New Features in Optimization with SAS/OR®
Ed Hughes, SAS Institute Inc.
Trevor Kearney, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | Panel Discussion: sasCommunity.org
| National Harbor 10 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:50 PM | What's New in SAS® Add-In 4.2 for Microsoft Office
Tim Beese, SAS Institute Inc.
Casey Smith, SAS Institute Inc.
Lynne Smith, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 05:30 PM - 05:50 PM | ISO's Evolution to BI on the Grid: A Customer Perspective
Phil Hatfield, ISO
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Social Media 101 Birds of a Feather Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | Mixer Hosted by SAS
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | SAS 9 Administration Birds of a Feather Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM | SAS-L Birds of a Feather Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 07:30 PM - 08:00 PM | MidWest SAS Users Group (MWSUG) 2009 Conference Planning & Introduction Birds of a Feather Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 08:30 PM - 10:00 PM | Children's Book Drive Broadway Benefit Concert
Franc D'Ambrosio, Entertainer
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| Tuesday, March 24 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:05 AM | Welcome to SAS Retail User Group and SAS Global Forum
Bryan Ramsey, Finish Line
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:10 AM | PROC REPORT: Titling It Right, with Footnotes to Boot
William Murphy, Howard M. Proskin & Associates, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | Changing the Game: Technology and Analytics
Stephen Brobst, Teradata
Paul Kent, SAS Institute Inc.
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | Formats, MP/Connect, and Other Efficiency Techniques to Save Time and Space
John Gober, U.S. Census Bureau
Arumugam Sutha, U.S. Census Bureau
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Best Practice: Optimizing the Cube Build Process in SAS® 9.2
Mary Simmons, SAS Institute Inc.
Michelle Wilkie, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Beyond the Apprentice Model: The Challenge for Business Analytics in Insurance
Mark Gorman, Mark B. Gorman & Associates
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 12 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Building Interactive Web Applications Using Stored Processes
Philip Mason, Wood Street Consultants Ltd.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Competing on Web Analytics
Eric Peterson, Web Analytics Demystified, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Data-Driven Story-Telling: Showcasing Visualization and Analytic Techniques with SAS® and JMP®
Udo Sglavo, SAS Institute Inc.
Jon Weisz, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Doing More with Less
Ben Zenick, Zencos Consulting LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Experimenting Outside the Box: Using SAS/QC® for Modern Applications of Experimental Design
Sharad Prabhu, SAS Institute Inc.
Randall Tobias, SAS Institute Inc.
Tonya Balan, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | HL7, CDISC, and the FDA—Moving on Down the Path to Data Standards
Steve Wilson, FDA
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Model Fitting and Data Analyses in SAS/ETS® Software Using ODS Statistical Graphics
Jan Chvosta, SAS Institute Inc.
Mark Little, SAS Institute Inc.
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | SAS/ACCESS® to PC Files Data Access Demystified
Howard Plemmons, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | SAS® IT Intelligence for VMware: Resource Optimization and Cost Recovery
Frank Lieble, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Time Series Prediction Using Neural Networks
Atul Goel, IBS
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Using SAS® Software to Generate Textbook-Style Histograms
Perry Watts, Independent Consultant
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
|
| 08:00 AM - 09:45 AM | Advanced PROC REPORT: Getting Your Tables Connected Using Links—Part II Practicum
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
|
| 08:00 AM - 09:45 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Business Intelligence
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
|
| 08:05 AM - 08:55 AM | Embracing Customer Centric Retailing to Deliver Top-Line Results
Alexi Sarnevitz, SAS Institute Inc.
Terence Westmacott, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
|
| 08:15 AM - 08:25 AM | Learn the Basics of PROC TRANSPOSE
Douglas Zirbel, Wells Fargo and Co.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 08:30 AM - 08:40 AM | Let SQL Write SQL Scripts for You – Counts Report
Christine Teng, Merck Research Laboratories
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | An Algorithm for Verifying Contiguity in a Set of Linked Entities
David Vandenbroucke, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
|
| 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Tuesday Early Morning Code Doctors
Paul Choate, California Department of Developmental Services
Peter Crawford, Crawford Software Consultancy Limited
Sunil Gupta, Quintiles
Pete Lund, Looking Glass Analytics
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
|
| 08:45 AM - 08:55 AM | A Propaedeutics for PROC SQL Joins
Lisa Mendez, SRA International
Toby Dunn, Dunn Consulting
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM | Exploring the Undocumented PROC SQL _METHOD Option
Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Image Is Almost Everything: Displaying Statistics via ODS
R. Scott Leslie, MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Using SAS® to Create Proportional Venn Diagrams
Shiqun (Stan) Li, Minimax Information Services
| National Harbor 4 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | ART (Advanced Reporting Tools)
Danilo Ballanti, Società per gli Studi di Settore Spa
Claudia Settimi, Società per gli Studi di Settore Spa
Alessia Cuminetti, Società per gli Studi di Settore Spa
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Cabela's Tames Two Wild Animals: Integrating SAS® and Teradata
Ryan Coldwell, Cabela's
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Customer Intelligence Panel
Rob Berman, Teradata
Aaron Cano, 1-800-FLOWERS
Todd Wermerson, Northern Tool
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Doing More with Less: SAS® Response
Jonathan Hornby, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | From Obscurity to Utility: ADDR, PEEK, POKE as DATA Step Programming Tools
Paul Dorfman, Paul Dorfman Consulting
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | How SAS® Data Integration and Data Quality Tools Can Be Applied to Solve the Data Migration Paradox
David Barkaway, SAS Institute Inc.
Jeff Stander, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Risk-Based Portfolio Optimization Using SAS®
Wei Chen, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 12 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | SAS® and Microsoft Excel: Two Extreme Worlds. Learn How SAS Works with Excel Data and How Excel Exploits the Power of SAS
Henri Theuwissen, BI Knowledge Sharing
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | SAS® Marketing Automation and SAS® Marketing Optimization: Take Your Marketing Campaigns to the Next Level
Mark Brown, SAS Institute Inc.
Dwight Mouton, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Supporting CDISC Standards in Base SAS® Using the SAS® Clinical Standards Toolkit
Peter Villiers, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | The Problem of Regression Assumptions and the Use of Predictive Modeling
Patricia Cerrito, University of Louisville
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Transitioning to a Business Analytics Environment
Yves Lapierre, Bell Canada
| Gaylord National Resort,
Annapolis 4 |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Using SAS® Arrays to Manipulate Data
Ben Cochran, The Bedford Group
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Virtualization: What Does It Mean for SAS®?
Karl Fisher, SAS Institute Inc.
Clarke Thacher, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
|
| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | What's New in SAS® Enterprise Guide® 4.2?
Anand Chitale, SAS Institute Inc.
Chris Hemedinger, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 09:15 AM - 09:25 AM | PROC FORMAT, A Speedy Alternative to Sort Sort Merge
Jenine Milum, Wachovia a Wells Fargo Company
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:40 AM | Effectiveness and Cost of SAS® Compression
Hitesh Sharma, GCE Solutions Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | %QLS SAS® Macro: A SAS Macro for Analysis of Longitudinal Data Using Quasi-Least Squares
Hanjoo Kim, Univerisity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Justine Shults, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | GTL (Graphics Template Language) in SAS® 9.2
Philip Holland, Holland Numerics Ltd
| National Harbor 4 |
|
| 09:45 AM - 09:55 AM | %LibDoc: A Library Documentation Macro
Richard Koopmann, Jr., Capella University
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM | Another Way to Make Use of Variable Labels
Stephanie Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Copy and Append
| Demo Room |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Dashboards in SAS®9 BI
| Demo Room |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Star Schema Performance Optimizations with SPD Server
| Demo Room |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Using Web Services with SAS
| Demo Room |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Creating Common Information Structures Using Lists Stored in SAS® DATA Step HASH Objects
Shawn Edney, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Getting the Most Out of the SAS® Survey Procedures: Repeated Replication Methods, Subpopulation Analysis, and Missing Data Options in SAS® 9.2
Pat Berglund, University of Michigan-Institute for Social Research
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | SAS® Graphs in Small Multiples
Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman, Capital One
| National Harbor 4 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | A Row Is a Row Is a Row, or Is It? Get Comfortable with Transposing Your Data
Christianna Williams, Abt Associates, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Active Use of Data Mining in the Customer Life Cycle Management Process of a Telecom Operator
Mattias Andersson, 3
Robert Moberg, 3
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Assortment Planning
Richard Flaks, The Children's Place
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Avoiding Common Traps When Accessing RDBMS Data
Michael Rhoads, Westat
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Data Warehouse and SOA: Using Web Services in the Insurance Industry
Janus Mens, PricewaterhouseCoopers
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 12 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Implementing CDISC When You Already Have Standards: A Case Study
Sandra Minjoe, Genentech, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Mainstreaming Web Data with SAS® Web Analytics
Kimberly Weller, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Panel Discussion: How to Roll Out a Powerful, Effective Business Analytics Framework
Keith Collins, SAS Institute Inc.
Gail Richmond, Waitrose
Anne Robinson, Cisco
Eric Williams, Catalina Marketing Corp
| Gaylord National Resort,
Annapolis 4 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Revolutionary BI: A Vision for Business Intelligence
Charles Kincaid, COMSYS
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Rule Development Experimentation: Determining the Best Marketing Message
Howard Moskowitz, MJI Design Lab
Dana Rafiee, Destiny Corporation
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | The Wisconsin Department of Revenue Case Study Data Warehousing: Finding Efficiencies
Janna Baganz, Wisconsin Department of Revenue
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Top Ten SAS® DBMS Performance Boosters for 2009
Howard Plemmons, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Using Base SAS® and SAS® Enterprise Miner™ to Develop Customer Retention Modeling Strategies
Rex Pruitt, PREMIER Bankcard, LLC & SDSUG
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Using SAS® 9.2 Metadata Security Reporting and Auditing Features
Forrest Boozer, SAS Institute Inc.
Diane Hatcher, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Tuesday Late Morning Code Doctors
Nancy Brucken, i3 Statprobe
Daniel Downing, CVS Caremark
Ronald Fehd, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
| Gaylord National Resort,
Demo Room |
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| 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | How to Use ARRAYs and DO Loops: Do I DO OVER or Do I DO i?
Jennifer Waller, Medical College of Georgia
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
|
| 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
|
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Platform for SAS® Business Analytics Overview
Christine Vitron, SAS Institute Inc.
| Chesapeake H |
|
| 10:15 AM - 10:25 AM | Copy and Paste from Excel to SAS
Arthur Tabachneck, Insurance Bureau of Canada
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | “Excel”lent SAS® Formulas: The Creation and Export of Excel Formulas Using SAS
Collin Elliot, Itron, Inc.
Eli Morris, The Cadmus Group
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | An Introduction to JMP 8
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Create Your Graphs with ODS Graphics Designer
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Integrating SAS®9 BI with Microsoft Sharepoint
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | SAS Model Manager 2.2 In Action
| Demo Room |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Extreme Survey Weight Adjustment as a Component of Sample Balancing (a.k.a. Raking)
David Izrael, Abt Associates, Inc.
Michael Battaglia, Abt Associates, Inc.
Martin Frankel, Abt Associates, Inc.
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Show Them What’s Important with Communication-Effective SAS® Graphs: Solutions for a Finite Work Day in an Era of Information Overload
LeRoy Bessler, Assurant Health
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Maximum SAS®: Analyzing and Increasing Performance
Myron Chandler, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM | SCL Is Gone: How Do I Get Variables from My Users into SAS® Enterprise Guide®?
Patricia Hettinger, IBS
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:10 AM | Choosing the Right Technique to Merge Large Data Sets Efficiently
Qingfeng Liang, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Building High-Performance Data Integration Job Flows
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Campaign Management Made Easy with SAS Marketing Automation
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Dashboards in SAS®9 BI
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | How Base SAS PROCs Leverage the Teradata MPP Architecdture
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Stored Processes in SAS 9.2
| Demo Room |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | A SAS® Programmer’s Guide to Generating Define.xml
Michael Molter, INC Research
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Adaptive Contact Planning
Brent Lever, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Advanced Features of User-Defined Formats and Informats
Ronald Cody, Private Consultant
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Bayesian Modeling Using the MCMC Procedure
Fang Chen, SAS Institute Inc.
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | CSOSA Case Study: Doing More with Less
Calvin Johnson, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA)
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Discover and Drive Brand Activity in Social Networks
Barry DeVille, SAS Institute Inc.
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Exploring JMP® 8 Integration with SAS® 9.2: A Rich Set of Development Tools for the Analytic/Dynamic Report Application Developer
Jon Weisz, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Going from Good to Great: The Value of an Analytic Grid Platform at ISO
Marty Ellingsworth, ISO Innovative Analytics
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 12 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | How to Maintain Happy SAS® 9 Users
Margaret Crevar, SAS Institute Inc.
Tony Brown, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Make Your Tables Pop: Adding Micrographics to PROC REPORT Output
Pete Lund, Looking Glass Analytics
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Prevention of Work-Related Accidents with Text Mining
Kerem Tezic, AFA Insurance
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Reporting Panel
Chris Hunter, AutoZone
Bob Schafer, Retailigent Solutions
Wes Stewart, Family Dollar
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | The Five Faces of Business Intelligence
Allan Russell, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Annapolis 4 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | The Ins and Outs and Ups and Downs of Sorted Data
Andrew Kuligowski, FCCI Insurance Group
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | The University of Phoenix Wins Big with SAS® Grid Computing
Daqing Zhao, Aptimus
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | You Wanted It When? Case Study of a Successful Installation of SAS® Customer Intelligence 5.1 in Two Weeks
Darryl Lawrence, Old Mutual
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 11:15 AM - 11:25 AM | Let Me Look At It! Graphic Presentation of Any Numeric Variable.
Anastasiya Osborne, Farm Service Agency, USDA
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | An Introduction to JMP 8
| Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Integrating SAS®9 BI with Microsoft Sharepoint
| Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Network Visualization Workshop
| Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | SAS Model Manager 2.2 In Action
| Demo Room |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | SAS® Abbreviations Are Your Friends; Use a Template Method to Code!
Elizabeth Ceranowski, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Secret Sequel: Keeping Your Password Away from the LOG
Paul Sherman, self
Art Carpenter, CA Occidental Consultants
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 12:00 PM - 01:30 AM | Tuesday Lunch with Featured Presentation by Dr. Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George A |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Dashboards in SAS®9 BI
| Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | FASTLOAD and MULTILOAD: What Are They and Wy Should I Care?
| Demo Room |
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| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Server Management in SAS 9.2
| Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Extending the Reach of SAS Analytics with JMP
| Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Forecasting with Little or No History
| Demo Room |
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| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Integrating SAS®9 BI with Microsoft Sharepoint
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Deployment Enhancements for SAS 9.2
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Make the Most of your Marketing Contacts with SAS Marketing Optimization
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | See Through the Clouds - SAS and Cloud Computing
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | Surfacing Analytics in SAS®9 BI with JMP®
| Demo Room |
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| 01:00 PM - 01:15 PM | What’s New in SAS Data Quality Including DataFlux® Technologies?
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | Customize Your Graphs with ODS Graphics Editor
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | Extending the Reach of SAS Analytics with JMP
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | Forecasting with Little or No History
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:45 PM | Levaraging OLAP Technology with SAS®9 BI
| Demo Room |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM | A Class of Predictive Models for Multilevel Risks
Wensui Liu, Chase
Chuck Vu, Acxiom Corporation
Sandeep Kharidhi, Acxiom Corporation
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 01:30 PM - 01:50 PM | A SAS® Macro for Adaptive Regression Modeling
George Knafl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
| Maryland B |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | CSSSTYLE: Stylish Output with ODS and SAS® 9.2
Cynthia Zender, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Demand-Planning Statistical Forecasting Tool ECD
Renato Lantin, BASF Corporation
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Developing an IT Merchandise Roadmap
Bob Schafer, Retailigent Solutions
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Don't Be a SAS® Dinosaur: Modernizing Programs with Base SAS® 9.2 Enhancements
Warren Repole, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Event-Driven Marketing Using SAS® Customer Intelligence
Andy Bober, SAS Institute Inc.
Toshi Tsuboi, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Exploring PROC SQL Joins and Join Algorithms
Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Group Sequential Analysis Using the New SEQDESIGN and SEQTEST Procedures
Yang Yuan, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Inline Formatting with ODS Markup
Eric Gebhart, SAS Institute Inc.
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Keynote Presentation, Digital Medicine: The Future of Information Technology in Healthcare
Jeff Goldsmith, Health Futures Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Massively Scaling Concurrent Users of SAS® Financial Management
SriSatish Ambati, Azul Systems
Chris Bailey, SAS
Shyam Pillalamarri, Azul Systems
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Maximizing the Performance of Your SAS® Solution: Case Studies in Web Application Server Tuning for n-tier SAS Applications
Nicholas Eayrs, SAS Institute Inc.
Tanya Kalich, SAS Institute Inc.
Graham Lester, SAS Institute Inc.
Stuart Rogers, SAS Institute Inc.
| Maryland 3 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Modifying ODS Statistical Graphics Templates in SAS® 9.2
Warren Kuhfeld, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Targeting in Three Dimensions
John Styers, Moblico, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 7 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM | Winning The BI Contest
Daymond Ling, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 12 |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM | Benchmarking Internationally: The Need Confronts the Reality
Andreas Schleicher, OECD Directorate for Education
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 01:30 PM - 03:15 PM | Get Your Hands Dirty Cleaning Your Data with SAS® Data Quality Server
Faron Kincheloe, Baylor University
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
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| 01:30 PM - 03:15 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Business Visualization
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | A Quick Start to Solving SQL Performance Issues
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Best Practices in Data Integration for Enterprise Data Management
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Improve Web Site Effectiveness with Web Analytics
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Metadata Authorizations and Inheritance
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Surfacing Analytics in SAS®9 BI with JMP®
| Demo Room |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM | A Flexible Count Data Regression Model Using SAS® PROC NLMIXED
Nan-Ting Chou, University of Louisville
David Steenhard, LexisNexis
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM | Predictive Models Based on Reduced Input Space
Taiyeong Lee, SAS Institute Inc.
David Duling, SAS Institute Inc.
Dominique Latour, SAS Institute Inc.
| Maryland B |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | Build and Solve Optimization Models with OPTMODEL
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | Java Graph Components
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | Learn How Students Can Access SAS® Enterprise Guide® via the Internet
Ron Statt, SAS Institute Inc.
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | Levaraging OLAP Technology with SAS®9 BI
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM | Quick Start to the MCMC Procedure
| Demo Room |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Configuration Management for SAS® Software Projects
Steven O'Donoghue, SAS Institute Inc.
Andrew Ratcliffe, RTSL.eu
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Geospatial Analysis Using SAS® and the Google Map API
Mai Nguyen, RTI International
Shane Trahan, RTI International
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Turn the Tables on Boring Reports with SAS® 9.2 and RTF Tagset Options
Louise Hadden, Abt Associates, Inc.
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM | Using GEE to Model Student's Satisfaction: A SAS® Macro Approach
Teck Kiang Tan, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, Nanyang Technological University
Trivina Kang, Nanyang Technological University
David Hogan, Nanyang Technological University
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | “Trends in Government Health Information Technology”
John Stultz, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | A Comprehensive Credit Assessment Framework: Overview and Implications for the Subprime Crisis
Clark Abrahams, SAS Institute Inc.
Sunny Zhang, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 12 |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Branding SAS® Web Applications for Your Enterprise
John Davis, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Customer Lifetime Value Methodology: A Step-by-Step Approach to Quantifying and Optimizing Economic Returns
David Ogden, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 7 |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Data Convergence in Life Sciences and Healthcare: Overview and Implications
Gregory Nelson, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | IIUM Manages Strategic Performance Using SAS®
Ahmed Zailan bin Shaari, International Islamic University Malaysia
Mohd Azmi Omar, International Islamic University Malaysia
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Know Your Customer, the Last, True Bastion in an Economic Downturn
Manya Mayes, SAS Institute Inc.
Michael Pawlak, SAS Institute Inc.
Mary-Elizabeth Eddlestone, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | MERGING vs. JOINING: Comparing the DATA Step with SQL
Malachy (Mal) Foley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
|
| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | Secrets of the SG Procedures
Dan Heath, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | The Essentials of SAS® Dates and Times
Derek Morgan, Washington University School of Medicine
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | The SAS® Scalable Performance Data Server® – Controlling the Beast!
Abdel Etri, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM | User Adoption Projects
Todd Kizer, SAS
Mike Wilson, SAS
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM | The Increased Utilization of Analytics and How Academic Programs Are Responding to Job Market Demands by Leveraging Predictive Modeling with SAS® Enterprise Miner™ Certification
Goutam Chakraborty, Oklahoma State University
Jerry Oglesby, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Extending SAS/ACCESS® Capabilities
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | High-Volume Profitability
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Linguistic Sollation: Not Just for Internationalization!
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Metadata Promotion
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Surfacing Analytics in SAS®9 BI with JMP®
| Demo Room |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Building Drill-Down Capabilities Dynamically in SAS® Output Using Base SAS®
Mark Beardsley, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Barbara Kolln, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Ronald Palanca, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Hong Zhang, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Test Linearity between Continuous Confounder and Binary Outcome First, Run Multivariate Regression Analysis Second
Jiming Fang, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Peter Austin, ICES
Jack Tu, ICES
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | Using SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 to Reduce the Cost of Diabetic Outpatients in Medicare
Xiao Wang, University of Louisville
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM | You Use SAS®, Your Boss Uses Excel. Guess Where Your Results Are Going to Appear! Using ODS to Create Your Results in Excel
William Benjamin Jr, OWL Computer Consultancy,LLC
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM | A SAS® Output Delivery System Menu for All Appetites and Applications
Chevell Parker, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | Build and Solve Optimization Models with OPTMODEL
| Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | Got ADDRESSES? Find Out Why You Need PROC GEOCODE
| Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | Levaraging OLAP Technology with SAS®9 BI
| Demo Room |
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| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | Quick Start to the MCMC Procedure
| Demo Room |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Automatic Generation of Titles, Footnotes, and Superscripts for Tables with Macros and PROC REPORT
Paul Cascagnette, Health Quality Council
| National Harbor 4 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Generalizations of Generalized Additive Model (GAM): A Case of Credit Risk Modeling
Wensui Liu, Chase
Jimmy Cela, ChoicePoint Precision Marketing
Chuck Vu, Acxiom Corporation
| Maryland B |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Interactive Outlier Review and Regression Analysis in SAS® Stat Studio
Robert Seffrin, U.S. Department of Agriculture
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM | Talking Past Each Other? How to Communicate with Medical Writers When Preparing Clinical Research Manuscripts for Journal Submission
Scott Thompson, Medtronic
Stephanie Thompson, Rochester Institute of Technology
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | CIBC Case Study: Risk Management and SAS® Tools
Rick Miller, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 12 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Demo to Purchase: Using Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis to Improve Downloadable Game Conversion Rates
Rett Crocker, ZapGun
Jay King, SAS Institute Inc.
Richard Phillips, ThotWave Technologies, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 7 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Fraud Detection in Social Services Data Using SAS®
Jim Georges, SAS Institute Inc.
Sanjay Arangala, SAS Institute Inc.
Jin-Whan Jung, SAS Institute Inc.
Jay King, SAS Institute Inc.
John Brocklebank, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Is There a Shortcut to Business Intelligence? Case Tapiola Group
Kalle Ahola, Tapiola-group
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
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| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Real-Time Business Decisions
Susan Davis, Hewlett-Packard
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | SAS® Business Intelligence Web Application Security Configuration Primer
Heesun Park, SAS Institute Inc.
Brian English, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Scalability of Table Lookup Techniques
Jody Graham, SAS Institute Inc.
Rick Langston, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Simple Applications of SQL
Howard Schreier, Howles Informatics
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | The Power to Show: Ad Hoc Reporting, Custom Invoices, and Form Letters
Daniel O'Connor, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:20 PM | Traffic-Lighting Your Reports the Easy Way with ODS and PROC REPORT
Andrew Karp, Sierra Information Services
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM | Using a Portal Environment to Strategically Manage Enrollment: The Integration of People, Relationships, and Information
Amanda Yale, Slippery Rock University
Carrie Birckbichler, Slippery Rock University
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
|
| 03:30 PM - 05:15 PM | A “SAS® Programmer’s Guide” to SAS® Enterprise Guide®
Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting LLC
Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
|
| 03:30 PM - 05:15 PM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Data Integration
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | A Framework to Customize Frame: Building an Interactive Report Web Portal by ODS
Xin Wei, Hoffmann La Roche
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 4 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Clinical SAS® Programming: Analysis and Mitigation of Risk
Parag Shiralkar, Eliassen Group
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Designing Multi-Step Fractional Factorial Split-Plots: A Combined JMP® and SAS® User Application
Jose Ramirez, W.L Gore and Associates, Inc
Jon Weisz, SAS Institute Inc.
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM | Developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Using the SAS® Intelligence Platform
Robert Lill, BNL Consulting LLC
Steven Tuttle, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | Asked and Answered -- How to Overcome the 10 most common challenges in MI Implementation/Use
Tad Bickford, SAS Institute Inc.
Mark Sakowski, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
|
| 04:00 PM - 04:50 PM | The Next Generation: SAS® Enterprise Miner™ 6.1
David Duling, SAS Institute Inc.
Wayne Thompson, SAS Institute Inc.
| Maryland B |
|
| 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM | Using SAS® to Manage, Monitor, and Control the SAS® BI Server: User-Developed Custom Tools for the SAS® Server Administrator, User, or Manager
LeRoy Bessler, Assurant Health
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Choice Experiments for Market Research and Other Features in JMP® 8
John Sall, SAS Institute Inc.
| Chesapeake 6 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Getting Ready for Harry Potter
Alicia Acebo, Rock Paper Data
Supra Dey, NBC Universal, Orlando
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 7 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Integrating SAS® Business Intelligence with Microsoft SharePoint
David Henderson, SAS Institute Inc.
Sean Alexandre, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Intelligently Targeting Physicians Using SAS® Enterprise Miner™
John Shipway, SAS Institute Inc.
Mark Wolff, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Keeping Things Going with SAS® Reporting: A Look at Various SAS® 9.2 Server Options for Performance Considerations
Diane Hatcher, SAS Institute Inc.
Justin Choy, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | ODS Packages: Putting Some Zip in Your ODS Output
Eric Gebhart, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | SAS/GRAPH® for the Timid
Earl Westerlund, University of Rochester
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | The DOW-Loop Unrolled
Paul Dorfman, Paul Dorfman Consulting
Koen Vyverman, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | The Path to Profitable Analytics: Via Predictive Analytics to Marketing Automation
Petr Ptacnik, Ceska sporitelna, a.s.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 12 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Tiptoe through the Templates
Cynthia Zender, SAS Institute Inc.
| National Harbor 4 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Using SAS® Clinical Data Integration Server to Implement and Manage CDISC Standards
Michael Kilhullen, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM | z/OS SAS® Deployment: This Isn't Your Father's Install Anymore!
Dan Taylor, SAS Institute Inc.
Keefe Hayes, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
|
| 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM | IR Reporting Portal: One-Stop Shopping for Business Intelligence
M. Paige Borden, University of Central Florida
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | Cloud Computing with SAS®: Software Is Going through a Fundamental Shift from Shrink-Wrapped in a Box to the Cloud
Sy Truong, Meta-Xceed, Inc.
| Maryland 3 |
|
| 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM | Optimizing Product Formulation with JMP® and SAS® Enterprise Miner™
John Leveille, d-Wise Technologies, Inc.
Wayne Levin, Predictum Inc.
| Maryland B |
|
| 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Annual SAS Update to Retail Merchandise Intelligence Users
Shiva Kommareddi, SAS Institute Inc.
Deva Kumar, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
|
| 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Social Media 101 Birds of a Feather
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
|
| 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM | Get to Know DCSUG Birds of a Feather Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
|
| 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM | South-Central SAS Users Group Birds of a Feather Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 8 |
|
| 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM | PharmaSUG Birds of a Feather Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
|
| 08:00 PM - 01:00 AM | Kick Back Party
| Gaylord National Resort,
Potomac Ballroom |
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| Wednesday, March 25 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:10 AM | The Perils of End-of-File Processing When Subsetting Data
Leonard Landry, Statistics Canada
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | How to Leverage Oracle Bulkload for Performance
Jun Cai, Qwest Communications International Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | Power You Didn’t Know You Had: Using PSAX to Create Self-Generating Web Libraries with SAS®
Turner Bond, Human Interface Systems
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:20 AM | Using SAS® to Build the Managed Care Data Warehouse at Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Mary Doyle, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Qingfeng Liang, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Gretchen Ciocco, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Michele Mesiano, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
Shouqiang Wang, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | A Cup of Coffee and PROC FCMP: I Cannot Function without Them
Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | All the Cows in Canada: Massive Mixed Modeling with the HPMIXED Procedure in SAS® 9.2
Tianlin Wang, SAS Institute Inc.
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Building a Better IT Business Case
Dr. Stephen Timme, FinListics Solutions
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | If I Only Had a Map. Getting from Here to There: Common Approaches to Solving Data Step Logic Issues
Kim Wilson, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Improving SAS® I/O Throughput by Avoiding the Operating System File Cache
Leigh Ihnen, SAS Institute Inc.
Michael Jones, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | Leading the Way to the Third Industrial Revolution
Jeremy Rifkin, Foundation on Economic Trends
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | New Language Features in SAS® 9.2 for the Global Enterprise
Manfred Kiefer, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | What’s New in SAS® Web Report Studio 4.2
Rick Styll, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM | You Need to Consolidate Massive Amounts of Data? Select the Fastest Method or Go for Minimal Memory Requirements to Build Your Result
Henri Theuwissen, BI Knowledge Sharing
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 08:00 AM - 09:45 AM | SAS® Macro Programming Tips and Techniques
Kirk Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
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| 08:00 AM - 09:45 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Business Intelligence
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
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| 08:15 AM - 08:25 AM | Renaming in Batches
Vincent Weng, Educational Testing Service
Ying Feng, CTB/McGraw-Hill
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 08:30 AM - 08:40 AM | Which SASAUTOS Macros Are Available to My SAS® Session?
Harry Droogendyk, Stratia Consulting Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | Customizing SAS® Data Integration Studio with Plug-Ins to Turn Off Automap
Chris Olinger, d-Wise Technologies, Inc.
Stephen Baker, d-Wise Technologies, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | MedDRA Data as SAS® Formats
Jim Groeneveld, OCS Biometric Support, Leiden, NL
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | The SAS® Terminator: An Ultimate Killer of UNIX Processes
Houliang Li, FINRA (fka NASD)
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM | Visualizing Two Social Networks Across Time with SAS®: Collaborators on a Research Grant vs. Those Posting on SAS-L
Larry Hoyle, Institute for Policy and Social Research – Univ. of Kansas
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 08:45 AM - 08:55 AM | The Pros and Cons of PROC DOCUMENT
Philip Holland, Holland Numerics Ltd
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:10 AM | Time Travel: How to Easily Create, Loop Through and Manipulate Data with Names Containing YYYYMM
Jingjing Shan, JPMorgan Chase
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Custom Calculations Are a Snap When Using MDX and OLAP
Brian Miles, Zencos Consulting LLC
Ben Zenick, Zencos Consulting LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | Quantifying Energy Risk Exposure Using SAS®: Analyzing the Impact of the Weather and the Economy during Volatile Time
David Hamilton, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
Craig Carothers, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:20 AM | The Second CDISC Pilot Project: Standards for Integrating Databases
Ian Fleming, Genentech, Inc.
Gregory Steffens, Eli Lilly and Co.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | BI User Roles: Managing and Integrating your BI Environment
Anand Chitale, SAS Institute Inc.
Justin Choy, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Dynamic Prompts Make Data Cascading Easy: Introducing New Features in SAS® 9.2 Prompt Framework
Diane Hatcher, SAS Institute Inc.
LanChien Hsueh, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Forecasting
Dave Hunter, Acosta, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | How to Leverage DataFlux® and SAS® for Operational Empowerment
Scott Chastain, SAS Institute Inc.
Lisa Dodson, SAS Institute Inc.
Pat Herbert, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Learning When to Be Discrete: Continuous vs. Categorical Predictors
David Pasta, ICON Clinical Research
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | SAS® Enterprise Guide® for the Business Analyst
Lina Clover, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Statistics and Samples: Judging Time Series Models Automatically
Udo Sglavo, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Sustainability the Smart Way
Jonathan Hornby, SAS Institute Inc.
| National Harbor 11 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Tips and Tricks IV: More SAS/GRAPH® Map Secrets
Darrell Massengill, SAS Institute Inc.
Jeff Phillips, SAS Institute Inc.
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | Using SAS® Data Integration Studio as a Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tool
David Kiasi, Applications Alternatives
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM | You Might Be a SAS® Energy Hog If ...
Michael Raithel, Westat
Michael Rhoads, Westat
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 09:15 AM - 09:25 AM | Playing Favorites: How to Manage Date Conflicts When Some Date Ranges Are Preferred Over Others
Eric Wong, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 09:30 AM - 09:40 AM | Keeping Up to Date: Using Build Tools with SAS®
Robert Burnham, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Backpacking Your Way through CDISC: A Budget-Minded Guide to Basic Concepts and Implementation
Rachel Brown, Westat
Jennifer Fulton, Westat
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Is This Macro Parameter Blank?
Chang Chung, Princeton University
John King, Ouachita Clinical Data Services, Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 09:30 AM - 09:50 AM | Optimal Data Management for Utility AMI: Smart Grid Data
Brian Crow, SAS Institute Inc.
Bob Bolen, Southern Company
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 09:45 AM - 09:55 AM | One-Step Change from Baseline Calculations
Nancy Brucken, i3 Statprobe
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:10 AM | Proper Housekeeping: Developing the Perfect “Maid” to Clean Your SAS® Environment
Chuck Bininger, COMSYS
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Building a Data Repository Using Base SAS®
Ellen Krawiec, Monitoring Analytics, LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Enhancements to Maps Using the Annotate Data Set
David Corliss, Marketing Associates
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Parameter-Driven Data Integration Using SAS® Stored Processes
Evangeline Collado, University of Central Florida
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | A Look into the Future: SAS® Enterprise Guide®, SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office
Lina Clover, SAS Institute Inc.
Cummins Mebane, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Ad Hoc Data Preparation for Analysis Using SAS® Enterprise Guide®
I-Kong Fu, SAS Institute Inc.
Wayne Thompson, SAS Institute Inc.
Mike Porter, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Comparison of Features and Applications of Four Linear Models Procedures
Larry Douglass, L&S Statistical Consulting and Data Management
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Creating Your Own Worksheet Formats in exportToXL
Nathaniel Derby, Statis Pro Data Analytics
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Exploring System Performance with SAS® Simulation Studio
Ed Hughes, SAS Institute Inc.
Hong Chen, SAS Institute Inc.
Emily Lada, SAS Institute Inc.
Phil Meanor, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Manipulating OLAP Cubes: Advanced Techniques for SAS® Programmers
Rupinder Dhillon, Dhillon Consulting Inc.
Harry Droogendyk, Stratia Consulting Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Metadata Reporting Using the SAS® Configuration Troubleshooter: A Best Practice
Jessica Fraley, SAS Institute Inc.
Tanya Kalich, SAS Institute Inc.
| Maryland A |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Practice Makes Perfect: Training and Performing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Sunil Gupta, Quintiles
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | SAS® Tile Charts: Thousands of Business Tips with One Click
Martha Hays, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Solvency II
Subrahmanyam Munagala, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | A Gentle Introduction to SAS/GRAPH® Software
Ben Cochran, The Bedford Group
| Gaylord National Resort,
Prince George B |
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| 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM | SAS® Workshop: SAS® Business Visualization
Kari Richardson, SAS Institute Inc.
Eric Rossland, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake D |
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| 10:15 AM - 10:25 AM | Dynamically Allocating Exported Data Sets by the Combination of Pipes and X Statement
Xin Wei, Hoffmann La Roche
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:40 AM | Implementing Stack and Queue Data Structures with SAS® Hash Objects
Larry Hoyle, Institute for Policy and Social Research – Univ. of Kansas
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Cool Maps with Custom Areas
Devi Sekar, GlaxoSmithKline
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Wholesale Electric Energy Market Analysis with Electronic Quarterly Reports Data
Sarah Whittier, ISO New England
| National Harbor 2 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Admin functions in SAS Merchandise Planning and Intelligence
Amy Clouse, Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.
Ann Ferguson, SAS Institute Inc.
Kelly Richie, Academy Sports
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM | Using SAS® OLAP Server for a ROLAP Scenario
John Graas, Teradata
Brian Mitchell, Teradata
Tatyana Petrova, SAS Institute Inc.
Mary Simmons, SAS Institute Inc.
Michelle Wilkie, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 3 |
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| 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM | Mission Possible: Putting a Table and Multiple Graphs on a Single-Page PDF with ODS and Basic GOPTIONS
Jennifer Harper, Baylor Health Care System
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | A Faster Index for Sorted SAS® Datasets
Mark Keintz, Wharton Research Data Services
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Could You Remind Me? Creating Calendar Events from SAS®
Clarke Thacher, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Distribution Interruption Performance Reporting: A Complete Solution
Chris van der Westhuizen, Fifth Discipline Group
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 2 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Sentiment Analysis in Context
Emmanuel Roche, Teragram, A Division of SAS
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Adobe Flash & SAS: Intelligent Interactivity
Michael Thomas, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 5 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Applications of the GLMSELECT Procedure for Megamodel Selection
Robert Cohen, SAS Institute Inc.
| Chesapeake 6 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Breaking New Ground with SAS® 9.2 ODS Layout Enhancements
Daniel O'Connor, SAS Institute Inc.
Scott Huntley, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland D |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Clinical Trial Reporting Using SAS/GRAPH® SG Procedures
Susan Schwartz, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 10 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Emerging Markets
Marie Lowman, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 11 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Have It Your Way: Rearrange and Replay Your Output with ODS DOCUMENT
Cynthia Zender, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 1 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | Notes from an Intersection: Google Earth @ SAS®
Carol Martell, UNC Highway Safety Research Center
| National Harbor 4 |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | SAS® Fundamentals for Survey Data Processing
Renato Villacorte, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland C |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM | SAS® Stored Processes: Going beyond the Current Capabilities of the Stored Process Wizard
Joe Flynn, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland A |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | PROC GEOCODE: Creating Map Locations from Your Data
Darrell Massengill, SAS Institute Inc.
Ed Odom, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland B |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | SAS Retail User Group Discussion
Bryan Ramsey, Finish Line
| Gaylord National Resort,
National Harbor 3 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | So, You’ve Got Data Enterprise Wide (SAS®, ACCESS, EXCEL, MySQL, and Others); Well, Let SAS® Enterprise Guide® Software Point-n-Click Your Way to Using It
William Benjamin Jr, OWL Computer Consultancy,LLC
| Gaylord National Resort,
Maryland 6 |
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| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | Web Crawling and Search as a First Step to Textual Data Gathering
Yves Schabes, Teragram Corporation
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake A |
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| 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | Closing Session
| Gaylord National Resort,
Potomac Ballroom |
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| 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM | SAS Enterprise Miner 6.1 in Action
Wayne Thompson, SAS Institute Inc.
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 6 |
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| 02:40 PM - 03:40 PM | Predicting Segments from a Market Research Study Using SAS Enterprise Miner™
Randy Collica, Hewlett-Packard
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 6 |
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| 03:50 PM - 04:50 PM | A Demonstration of Text Mining Using the Voluntary Reporting of Adverse Events
Patricia Cerrito, University of Louisville
| Gaylord National Resort,
Chesapeake 6 |
