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Here’s our planned schedule of activities for all the days of SESUG 2003! As we add events, or if they are moved or canceled, we’ll get them to the Web as soon as we can! |
| Saturday, September 20th, 2003 | |
| 8:30 am - 12:00 pm | Workshop: Advanced SAS Programming |
| 8:30 am - 12:00 pm | Workshop: Introduction to Java for SAS Programmers: Part I |
| 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Workshop: Introduction to SAS/SQL |
| 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Workshop: Building and Applying Predictive Models Using the SAS System |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Workshop: SAS Essentials |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Workshop: Developing JAVA Applications - Part II |
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| Sunday, September 21st, 2003 | |
| 8:30 a - 12:00 pm | Workshop: SAS Performance Tuning for Programmers |
| 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Workshop: Advanced SAS/SQL Topics |
| 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Workshop: Summarizing and Reporting Data Using the SAS System |
| 12:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Baseball Package: Tampa Bay Devil Rays vs. New York Yankees |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Workshop: Accurate Manipulation of Data Sets (Tricks, Traps, and Techniques) |
| 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Salvador Dali Museum Package |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Conference Registration |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Presenter Meeting |
| 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Welcome Reception |
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| Monday, September 22nd, 2003 | |
| 7:30 am - 6:00 pm | Conference Registration |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 pm | Warm Up Session |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 pm | Volunteers Meeting |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 pm | Opening Session and Keynote Address |
| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |  Concurrent Sessions |
 10:00 am |
Data Presentation: Special Education Practice and Policy: What Principals Know and Need to Know., Dr. Wendy Dickinson, Dr. Tanice Knopp, Dr. Janice Fauske, University of South Florida (Snowy Egret) |
| Hands-On Workshops: Version 9 ODS (Output Delivery System) Basics, Dana Raifee, Dave MacPherson, Destiny (Glades) | |
| Intro to SAS: How SAS Thinks, Neil Howard, Ingenix Pharmaceutical Services (Jasmine) | |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: An Introduction to Genomics and SAS Scientific Discovery Solutions, Susan Flood, SAS Institute, Inc. (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: Pruning the SASLOG - Digging into the Roots of NOTEs, WARNINGs, and ERRORs, Andrew T. Kuligowski, Nielsen Media Research (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: How Regular Expressions Really Work, Jack Shoemaker,ThotWave Technologies, LLC (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 10:30 am |
Data Presentation: SAS/Intrnet and Census Mapping: How Low Would You Like to Get?, Lakshmi Pandey, William Joseph Smith, David Sjoquist, Fiscal Research Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State Universi (Snowy Egret) |
| 11:00 am |
Data Presentation: Using SAS and Other Tools to Move an Institutional Research (IR) Office from Hardcopy Reporting to a Web-Based Environmen Ms. Sabrina L. Andrews, Ms. Evangeline Collado, Ms. Patricia Ramsey, Office of Institutional Research, University of Central Florida (Snowy Egret) |
| Intro to SAS: Choosing and Using Base SAS PROCs, Debbie Buck, D. B. & P. Associates (Jasmine) | |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: An Algorithm for Screening of Genes and Clusters from Microarray Experiments, James Blum, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: SAS in the Office - IT Works, Peter Eberhardt, Fernwood Consulting Group Inc. (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: Table Lookup By Direct Addressing: From V8 To V9, Paul Dorfman, Independent Consultant (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Meet the Presenters Luncheon |
| 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 1:30 pm |
Data Presentation: Bookmarks, Links, and it looks great printed too, Come in and see what ODS PDF can do for you!, Kevin Delaney, Northrop-Grumman Mission Systems (Snowy Egret) |
| Hands-On Workshops: Multithreading Applications in Version 9.1, Dana Raifee, Dave MacPherson, Destiny (Glades) | |
| Intro to SAS: Passing Along SAS Data - SET, MERGE, and UPDATE, Andrew T. Kuligowski, Nielsen Media Research (Jasmine) | |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: Management of CABG Patient Mortality Using SAS Logistic Regression by Cohorts: Age, Sex and Cleveland Clinic d Lucinda Jenkins, BJC North Region @Christian Hospital NE (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: Version 9 Data Migration: How to do it and know you've done it right, Diane Olson, SAS Institute, Inc. (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: Dictionary Tables and Views: Essential Tools for Serious Applications, Frank DiIorio, Jeff Abolafia, (Frank) CodeCrafters, Inc. (Jeff) Rho, Inc. (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 2:00 pm |
Statistics and Data Analysis: EFFECT_CI: A SAS Macro for Constructing Confidence Intervals Around Standardized Mean Differences , Melinda Hess, University of South Florida (Banyan) |
| 2:30 pm |
Data Presentation: Tedious Template Made Easy, Cindy Stroupe, Inveresk Research (Snowy Egret) |
| Intro to SAS: A Gentle Introduction To SAS/GRAPH, Ben Cochran, Bedford Group (Jasmine) | |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: Using the SAS System to Construct n-Values Plots, Peter Wludyka, Amy Cox, University of North Florida (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: Dynamic SAS Programming Techniques, or How NOT to Create Job Security, Suzanne McCoy, Steven Beakley, (SUSAN) Lucid Analytics (Steven) Independent Consultant (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: Greetings from the Edge - Using javaobj in DATA Step, Richard A. DeVenezia, Remsen, NY (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 3:00 pm |
Data Presentation: Enterprise Reporting through the SAS V9.1 Business Intelligence Architecture, Jeff Shaughnessy, SAS Institute, Inc. (Snowy Egret) |
| 3:30 pm |
Hands-On Workshops: Macros - Basic, Dana Raifee, Dave MacPherson, Destiny (Glades) |
| Intro to SAS: The Elements of SAS Programming Style, Frank DiIorio, CodeCrafters, Inc. (Jasmine) | |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: Comparison of PROC MIXED and PROC GLM for Analysis of Repeated Measures Data, Hossein Yarandi, University of Florida (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: A Sampler of Code Techniques, Ian Whitlock, Westat (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: SAS Formats: Uses and Abuses, Carry Croghan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Human Exposure & Atmospheric Sciences Division, Durham, NC (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 4:00 pm |
Data Presentation: Pivoting Data. An Alternative to ACROSS Variables of the REPORT Procedure., Bikila (Kila) bi Gwet, VisualStat Computing, Inc. (Snowy Egret) |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: Too Many Choices! The IMPORTANCE of Rank-Ordering Independent Variables Prior to Exploratory Data Analysis, Gregg Weldon, Sigma Analytics & Consulting, Inc. (Banyan) | |
| Tutorials: A Peek at PROC DOCUMENT, Andrew Karp, Sierra Information Services, Inc. (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 4:30 pm |
Intro to SAS: Testing, Debugging, and the SAS LOG, S. David Riba, Neil Howard, JadeTek, Ingenix Pharmaceutical Services (Jasmine) |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: Developing a Marketing Geographic Segmentation System Using SAS Software, Kellie M Poulin, Allison N. Freeman, Marsh Affinity Group Services (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: Behind the Scenes at SAS-L, Joe Kelley, University of Georgia (Citrus) | |
| 5:00 pm |
Data Presentation: Building a Web-based EIS for Data Analysis, Ed Confer, KGC Programming Solutions (Snowy Egret) |
| Tutorials: An Animated Guide: Proc Report: The File Behind the Scenes, Russell Lavery, independent consultant (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Mixer in SAS Demo Room |
| 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm | SESUG 2004 Planning BOF |
| 7:30 pm - ??? | SESUG After Hours |
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| Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003 | |
| 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 8:00 am |
Applications Development: Information System for State Trauma Advisory Committee - An application of SAS/IntrNet, Ms. Xiao Zhuang & Dr. Sharon Schiro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Sawgrass) |
| Hands-On Workshops: Moving SAS Information to Word/Excel using DDE, Dana Raifee, Dave MacPherson, Destiny (Glades) | |
| Serendipity: Using an Array as an IF Switch, Ed Heaton, Nazik Elgaddal, Westat (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: Contrasting programming techniques for summarizing voluminous SAS output using the SAS Output Delivery System(ODS), Stuart Long, Lawrence P. Park, Westat (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 8:30 am |
Applications Development: A Hybrid Modeling Platform to meet Basel II Analytics in Banking, Jeffery Morrision, SunTrust Bank, Inc. (Sawgrass) |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: Methods of Dealing with Values Below the Limit of Detection Using SAS , Carry Croghan, Dr. Peter Egeghy, US-EPA (Banyan) | |
| 9:00 am |
Applications Development: A Journeyman’s reference: The Writing for Reading SAS Style Sheet: Tricks, Traps, Tips, and Templates, from SAS-L Ron Fehd, Center of Disease Control (Sawgrass) |
| Intro to SAS: Fun With Functions, Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting (Jasmine) | |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: A SAS Macro to Design Phase II Clinical Trials, Alan Cantor, Moffitt Cancer Center (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: Data Step Hieroglyphics - ?*)&:@|_%(}, Harry Droogendyk, Stratia Consulting Inc. (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: How to Implement the One-Time Methodology, Mark Tabladillo, markTab Consulting (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 9:30 am |
Statistics and Data Analysis: Identifying Person Duplicates of Short Geographic Distance by Computer Matching, Vincent T. Mule, U.S. Bureau of the Census (Banyan) |
| 10:00 am |
Applications Development: The Dataset Attribute Family of Classes, Mark Tabladillo, markTab Consulting (Sawgrass) |
| Hands-On Workshops: Version 9 ODS Intermediate, Dana Raifee, Dave MacPherson, Destiny (Glades) | |
| Intro to SAS: Working with SAS Date and Time Functions, Andrew Karp, Sierra Information Services, Inc. (Jasmine) | |
| Serendipity: "LAG with a WHERE" and other DATA Step Stories, Neil Howard, Ingenix Pharmaceutical Services (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: SAS MACROS: Tips, Techniques, and Examples, Andrew Traldi, Advanced Quantitative Solutions, Inc (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 10:30 am |
Statistics and Data Analysis: An Interactive Approach to Multiple Comparison Procedures, Peter Davis, U.S. Bureau of the Census (Banyan) |
| 11:00 am |
Applications Development: Developing and Deploying Java Applications Around SAS: What they didn't tell you in class, Greg Barnes Nelson, Jeff Wright , ThotWave Technologies, LLC (Sawgrass) |
| Intro to SAS: Do You Want to Know a Secret (or Two)? , Chris Toppe, Independent Sector (Jasmine) | |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: METAPERM: A SAS Macro for Permutation Tests of Linear Models in Meta-analysis, Jeffrey D. Kromery, University of South Florida (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: Keeping Up With the FUN: New Functions in SAS 9, Deb Cassidy, Cardinal Health (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: Am I Evil?: Proc Template Exposed!!!, Kevin Delaney, Northrop-Grumman Mission Systems (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Meet the Presenters Luncheon |
| 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 1:30 pm |
Applications Development: A Pinch of SAS, a Fraction of HTML, and a Touch of JavaScript Serve Up a Grand Recipe, Jonah P. Turner, U.S. Bureau of the Census (Sawgrass) |
| Data Management: Automated Testing and Real-time Event Management: An Enterprise Notification System, Greg Barnes Nelson & Danny Grasse, ThotWave Technologies, LLC (Royal Tern) | |
| Hands-On Workshops: Merge Processing and Alternative Table Lookup Techniques, Dana Raifee, Dave MacPherson, Destiny (Glades) | |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: An Analysis Tool for Reviewing Farm Economic Data Using SAS /AF, Van Johnson, U.S. Bureau of the Census (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: The Sublime Secrets of the SAS SQLheads, Sigurd W. Hermansen, Westat (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: Excel Exposed: Using Dynamic Data Exchange to Extract Metadata from MS Excel Workbooks., Koen Vyverman, SAS Institute - the Netherlands (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 2:00 pm |
Applications Development: A Beginners Guide to Incorporating SAS Output into MS Office, Vincent Del Gobbo, SAS Institute, Inc. (Sawgrass) |
| 2:30 pm |
Data Management: A Technique for Storing and Manipulating Incomplete Dates in a Single SAS Date Value, John Ingersoll, Independent Consultant (Snowy Egret) |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: Statistical Analysis of Genotype X Environment Interaction in Agricultural Research, K. Bondari, University of Georgia, Tifton (Banyan) | |
| Serendipity: That’s my Style, Himesh Patel, SAS Institute, Inc. (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: Creating a Compact Columnar Output with PROC REPORT, Walter R. Young, Wyeth (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 3:00 pm |
Applications Development: ODS for Microsoft Excel, David Shamlin, SAS Institute, Inc. (Sawgrass) |
| Statistics and Data Analysis: Missing Data Values: Analyzing their Effects on Rainfall Forecasts Using PROC EXPAND and the SAS Time-Series Richard March, South Florida Water Management District (Banyan) | |
| 3:30 pm |
Statistics and Data Analysis: Preparing Data using SAS for Paired Sample Comparison in Epidemiology Research, Wei Zhao, Hua Li, University of Miami (Banyan) |
| Data Management: Checking Datasets before Submitting Code, Mark Tabladillo, markTab Consulting (Snowy Egret) | |
| Hands-On Workshops: Macros - Intermediate, Dana Raifee, Dave MacPherson, Destiny (Glades) | |
| Serendipity: A Table-Driven ODS Macro, Diane E. Brown, eXponential Systems (Citrus) | |
| Tutorials: Getting What You Want Out Of A Many-to-Many Merge, Sonal R. Pathak, Shabnam Mehra, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 4:00 pm |
Applications Development: SAS Macros are the Cure for Quality Control Pains, Gary McQuown, Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc. (Sawgrass) |
| Tutorials: The Utter Simplicity and Power of the TABULATE Procedure, Dan Bruns, Tennessee Valley Authority (Palm/Sabal) | |
| 4:30 pm |
Data Management: Demand for Analysis-Ready Data Sets: An Introduction to Banking and Credit Card Analytics, Bikila (Kila) bi Gwet, VisualStat Computing, Inc. (Snowy Egret) |
| Serendipity: Charting a Course through Your Data and Procedures: Bar, Flow, Gant, Histogram, Process, Pie and so many others., Dr. Dawn Li, Gary McQuown, Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc. (Citrus) | |
| 5:00 pm |
Applications Development: SAS System on Network Appliance, Dr. Darrell Suggs, Network Appliance Inc. (Sawgrass) |
| Serendipity: Easy and Simple Job Tracking, Phil Busby, Independent consultant (Citrus) | |
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| Wednesday, September 24th, 2003 | |
| 8:00 am - 12:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions |
| 8:00 am |
Applications Development: A Hiker's Guide to Web Development, Steve James, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Sawgrass) |
| Training and Professional Development: SAS's Resources for Learning, Michele Ensor, SAS Institute, Inc. (Spotted Curlew) | |
| 8:30 am |
Coders Corner: SAS Dating Tips - A Beginner's Guide to SAS Dates, Erik S. Larsen, Independent Consultant (Snowy Egret) |
| 8:45 am |
Coders Corner: Libname Start Your Engines, Janet E. Stuelpner, none (Snowy Egret) |
| 9:00 am |
Applications Development: Bulletproofing and Knowledge Encapsulation in Statistical Macros, John K. Troxell, Merck & Co., Inc. (Sawgrass) |
| Coders Corner: Spreading the News: Using System Options, Deb Cassidy, Cardinal Health (Snowy Egret) | |
| Data Management: New Technologies for Delivering Data to Internal and External Clients, Sigurd W. Hermansen, Westat (Royal Tern) | |
| Training and Professional Development: Efficient Way to Learn SAS with Virtually No Cost, Mirjana Stojanovic, Statistical Programmer (Spotted Curlew) | |
| Tutorials: Dare to Compare - Tailoring PROC COMPARE Output, Mary Reiss, Wyeth, Collegeville, PA (Sabal) | |
| 9:15 am |
Coders Corner: Musical Macros: A Soothing Solution for a Recurrent Data Step Headache, Phil D'Almada, Rho, Inc. (Snowy Egret) |
| 9:30 am |
Coders Corner: The Evolution of a Macro Converting your SAS files to a Different Version, John C. Gober Jana L. Smith Debi Mullen, U.S. Bureau of the Census (Snowy Egret) |
| Training and Professional Development: SAS Consultants: Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing, Gary McQuown, Data and Analytic Solutions, Inc. (Spotted Curlew) | |
| 9:45 am |
Coders Corner: Processing Large Lists of Variables and Parameters Using SAS Arrays and Macro Language, Eugene Tsykalov, Ph.D., GlaxoSmithKline (Snowy Egret) |
| 10:00 am |
Applications Development: Building Drill-down SAS Applications, Kirk Lafler, Charles Edwin Shipp, Software Intelligence Corporation, Shipp Consulting (Sawgrass) |
| Coders Corner: Advantages of PROC SCORE, Mark Tabladillo, markTab Consulting (Snowy Egret) | |
| Data Management: Data-driven Validation Rules: Custom Data Validation without Custom Programming, Don Hopkins, Ursa Logic Co. (Snowy Egret) | |
| Tutorials: Using SAS and Other XML Tools Effectively, Scott E. Chapal, Ichauway, Inc. (Sabal) | |
| 10:15 am |
Coders Corner: Create a Simple, Informative Summary from Proc T-Test Output, Jennifer Warner, Marsh Affinity Group Services (Snowy Egret) |
| 10:30 am |
Coders Corner: Machine Reading of Warranty Claims for Classification, Robert McCurdy, Mack Trucks (Snowy Egret) |
| Training and Professional Development: So You Want to Write a paper? That paper about Writing a Paper, Dianne Rhodes, Westat (Spotted Curlew) | |
| 10:45 am |
Coders Corner: Using SAS Macro Language to Develop User-Written Functions, Deb Pine, ThotWave Technologies, LLC. (Snowy Egret) |
| 11:00 am |
Applications Development: The Revised NTP TDMS System, Gabriel Cano, Kevin McGowan, Jean Orelien, Analytical Sciences Inc. (Sawgrass) |
| Coders Corner: Using SAS system in very limited time/resource environment, Milorad Stojanovich, RTI International (Snowy Egret) | |
| Data Management: PROC SQL: Why Use It When Simple IF THEN Statements Work?, Susan Myers & Inga Allred, Research Triangle Instititute (Royal Tern) | |
| Training and Professional Development: Ten Things I Wish I Knew Before I Became a SAS Software Consultant, Andrew Karp, Sierra Information Services, Inc. (Spotted Curlew) | |
| 11:15 am |
Coders Corner: A "Real" Drill-Down Graph, Jenine Eason, Autotrader.com (Snowy Egret) |
| 11:30 am |
Coders Corner: How to Get What You Need, Part 1, Chris Toppe, Ph.D., Independent Sector (Snowy Egret) |
| Data Management: Using DDE and SAS/Macro for Automated Excel Report Consolidation and Generation, Sandra Archer, Mengxi Li & Russell Denslow, Sodexho USA (Royal Tern) | |
| 11:45 am |
Coders Corner: How to Get What You Need, Part 2, Chris Toppe, Ph.D., Independent Sector (Snowy Egret) |