| Tutorials | ||||
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/22/2024 | 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Getting Started with SAS Macro Language Basics | Josh Horstman |
| 1:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Arrays To Save the Day! DATA Step and PROC FCMP Usage | Troy Martin Hughes | |
| 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Utilizing National Healthcare Survey data in research and analysis using SAS | Jayanth Iyengar | |
| 1:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Mastering the Machine Learning Toolkit: A Hands-on-Workshop Leveraging Python’s Open-Source Libraries for Training Supervised ML Algorithms | Ryan Paul Lafler | |
| 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Efficiency Tips for Database Programming in SAS® | Mark Jordan | |
| 1:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Getting Started with Mixed Models | Danny Modlin | |
| 8:30 AM | 12:00 PM | The SASSY System | David Bosak | |
| 1:30 PM | 5:00 PM | PROC SQL Programming Masterclass Using SAS® | Kirk Paul Lafler | |
| Careers, Training & Education, Brookside A | ||||
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/23/2024 | 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Navigating Your Career: Interview Prep, Process, and Evaluation | Kelly Smith |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | SAS Job Searching and Interviewing tips – Strategies in the Post-Pandemic era | Jayanth Iyengar | |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | From Good to GREAT: The (Not-So-Technical) Qualities of Great Programmers | Tamar Roomian | |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities with Open-Source Software Integration | Kirk Paul Lafler; Ryan Paul Lafler; Stephen Sloan | |
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | A Comparative Analysis of SAS and Python for Statistical Analysis in Clinical Trials: Insights for Future Directions | Yoganand Budumuru | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Methods and Tools for Publishing SAS Papers, Books, and Other Documentation—Basic Techniques | Jim Blum; Jonathan Duggins | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | A Quick Start Guide to Writing a Technical or Research Paper | Kirk Paul Lafler | |
| 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Methods and Tools for Publishing SAS Papers, Books, and Other Documentation—Advanced Techniques | Jonathan Duggins; Jim Blum | |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Panel Discussion on Future of SAS Publications | Jonathan Duggins; Jim Blum | |
| 09/24/2024 | 9:45 AM | 10:00 AM | Calculating the Comorbidity Index with user designed flexibility using SAS and R | Geonhyeok Jeong; Ting Shi |
| 10:00 AM | 10:15 AM | Comparative Analysis of Sentiment Prediction Methods Using Aspects in Consumer Reviews | Harish Palakurthi | |
| 10:15 AM | 10:30 AM | Using SAS ® and R to Create Plot for Temperature Study | Abbas Tavakoli; Isabelle Renee Bennett; Robin B. Dail | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Leveraging SAS/IML for Audio Source Separation | Katharine Mary Scott | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Panel: RUGS in the post-COVID era | Jonathan Duggins; John Betz | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | The Essentials Given - Becoming an Expert of Statistical Programming in Pharma & Health Care Industry | Hongbo Li | |
| 2:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Adventures in Independent Consulting: Perspectives from Two Veteran Consultants Living the Dream | Josh Horstman; Richann Jean Watson | |
| 3:30 PM | 4:30 PM | Who's Bringing That Big Data Energy? A 47-Year Longitudinal Analysis of 30,000 Presentations in the SAS® User Community To Elucidate Top Contributors and Risin | Troy Martin Hughes | |
| Data Collection, Management & Manipulation, Brookside B | ||||
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/23/2024 | 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Lions, Tigers and Documentation??? | Alan Mann; Brett C. Peppe |
| 8:30 AM | 8:45 AM | Using Formats to Subset Impossibly Large SAS Datasets | Michael Raithel | |
| 8:45 AM | 9:00 AM | Using REDCap with SAS for Descriptive Statistics (Beginners) | Amita Patil | |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | REDCap © Your SAS Friend: Playing around in the API Playground | Brooke Ellen Delgoffe | |
| 9:30 AM | 9:45 AM | SAS® Programming Methods to Identify Episodes of Hospital Readmissions | Jennifer Cano; Cainnear K. Hogan; Taylor N. Whittington; Julien Weinstein; Scott J. Denstaedt; Sarah M. Seelye; Hallie C. Prescott | |
| 9:45 AM | 10:00 AM | A Simple SAS Utility to combine Documents (RTF) | Arti Makadiya | |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | The SAS Data Set Missing Values Analyzer | Michael Raithel | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Slaying Metadata-Driven Monster with LLM and Graph Databases | James Joseph | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Comparative Tools in SAS: Analyzing Self-Reported versus Imputed Values | Neesha Nathwani; Sarah Woodruff | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | Applying Different Data Cutoff Dates for the Analysis of a Study Milestone | Guowei Zhao; Hong Qi | |
| 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Simulating Realistic Clinical Trials Data with Synthea | Anna A. Yudovin; James Joseph | |
| 4:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Fontcase Macro | Ranjan Sitaula | |
| 4:30 PM | 4:45 PM | Streamlining Dataset Structure Comparison: A Comprehensive SAS Program for Data Managers and Programmers | Alison Celigoi; Nicole Gonzalez | |
| 4:45 PM | 5:00 PM | Optimize Environmental Exposure Variables with PROC EXPAND | Julie Plano | |
| 09/24/2024 | 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Unanticipated Results: Uncovering Five Unexpected Outcomes in PROC SQL Joins | Kiran Venna |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Examining the R datastep() Function | David Bosak | |
| 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Thinking outside the box: Leveraging "UNIX Tools" (GNU) for Data Analysis and Validation | David Horvath | |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | NHANES Dietary Supplement component: a parallel programming project | Jayanth Iyengar | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | C-SSRS Questionnaire Dataset Design for Assessing Suicide Risk in Neuroscience Studies | Anupriya Lakshmipathy | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Advanced DATA Step Look-Back and Look-Ahead Techniques | Josh Horstman | |
| 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Data Access Made Easy Using SAS® Studio | Kirk Paul Lafler; Shaonan Wang; Nuoer Lu; Zheyuan Walter Yu; Daniel Qian; Swallow Xiaozhe Yan | |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Using SAS In Analyzing Trends in Corn Yields, Surface Temperature, and Precipitation in U.S. South Atlantic Census Division States | Abdullah Khan | |
| 3:30 PM | 3:45 PM | Speed testing SAS, SQL, and Python on Medicare data in a Snowflake Cloud | Ethan Ritchie | |
| Foundational SAS Skills, Forest Glen | ||||
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/23/2024 | 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Five Easy Ways to Make Your SAS Code Run Faster | Mark Jordan |
| 8:30 AM | 9:30 AM | SAS Formats and the Format Procedure | Chris Riddiough | |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Operator, Please? Making the Most of SAS Language Operators | Josh Horstman | |
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | Introduction to Character Strings | Jason L. Ford | |
| 1:00 PM | 1:30 PM | The 5 CATs in the Hat – Sleek Concatenation String Functions | Kirk Paul Lafler | |
| 1:30 PM | 2:00 PM | The Dreaded Data Type Conversion, Character to Numeric, Numeric to Character, a Deep Dive. | Emily Zucker | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | Backpacking Through the World of SAS PROC PRINT | Megan Christine Vaughn; Bailey M. Glidden | |
| 3:00 PM | 3:15 PM | Using Visual Studio Code to Write SAS Code - A Primer | Bruce Nawrocki | |
| 3:15 PM | 3:30 PM | Make SAS do the Heavy Lifting | Victoria K. Hall | |
| 3:30 PM | 3:45 PM | Address Mayhem Managed | Brooke Ellen Delgoffe | |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Tales From a Tech Support Guy: The Top Ten Most Impactful Reporting and Data Analytic Features for SAS Programmers | Chevell Parker | |
| 09/24/2024 | 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Controlling Output with SAS Options | Tom Grant |
| 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Fun With Formats: A SAS Format Primer | Michael Raithel | |
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | SAS and Analytical Research: A Primer for Qualitative Analysis | Kelly Smith | |
| 1:00 PM | 1:30 PM | Log Reviewing Made Easy | Peter Knapp | |
| 1:30 PM | 2:00 PM | Utilizing SAS to Remedy Issues with Long Character Variables | Piotr Krzystek | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | A Gentle Introduction to Creating SAS and R Graphs | Dane A. Korver | |
| 2:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Import Data into SAS | Rachel McLawhon | |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Utilizing SAS to Create HTML Codebooks: Part Two! | William Smith | |
| Hands-On Workshops, Glen Echo | ||||
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/23/2024 | 8:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Hands-on Python PDFs: Using the pypdf Library To Programmatically Create, Complete, Read, and Analyze Copyright Grant Form (CGF) PDF Files Having Digital Signatures | Troy Martin Hughes |
| 9:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Utilizing the Medicare Part D Prescriber Public Use Data File as a "Training" Data Set | Louise Hadden | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM | Advanced Topics in ODS Graphics: Annotations, Attribute Maps, and Axis Tables | Josh Horstman | |
| 3:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Leveraging Public Data to Create a Feasibility Study for Future Clinical Trials or Real World Evidence Studies | Mira Shapiro | |
| 09/24/2024 | 8:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Complex Custom Clinical Graphs Step by Step with SAS® ODS Statistical Graphics | Richann Jean Watson; Josh Horstman |
| 9:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Data Diagnostics with Base SAS® | Mark Jordan | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM | How to Use Git with Your SAS Projects | Chris Hemedinger | |
| 2:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Introduction to Clustering Algorithms | Jason Brinkley | |
| Intermediate & Advanced SAS Skills, Salon A | ||||
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/23/2024 | 8:00 AM | 8:15 AM | Clinical Study Reports (CSR) with SAS and R for regulatory submissions | Roja R. Budumuru |
| 8:15 AM | 8:30 AM | This Works on So Many Levels: Building Summary Tables in SAS® with Hash Programming | David Cole | |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | A SAS MACRO to parse clinical conductor timesheets | Kennedy Kamau Gachigi | |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Sending Email via SAS - An Introduction and More Advanced Concepts | Bruce Nawrocki | |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Look Up Not Down: Advanced Table Lookups in Base SAS | Jayanth Iyengar | |
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | From Muggles to Macros: Transfiguring Your SAS® Programs With Dynamic, Data-Driven Wizardry | Josh Horstman; Richann Jean Watson | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | A Brief Introduction to DS2 | Mark Jordan | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | Just Stringing Along: FIND Your Way to Great User-Defined Functions | Richann Jean Watson; Louise Hadden | |
| 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Five Reasons To Swipe Right on PROC FCMP, the SAS Function Compiler for Building Modular, Maintainable, Readable, Reusable, Flexible, Configurable User-Defined Func | Troy Martin Hughes | |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Fifteen Functions to Supercharge Your SAS® Code | Josh Horstman | |
| 09/24/2024 | 8:00 AM | 8:15 AM | Efficient Way to Create Adverse Event (AE) Summary Tables by System Organ Class (SOC) and Preferred Term (PT) using PROC SQL in SAS | Hardik Sheth |
| 8:15 AM | 8:30 AM | One Click to Create a List of MEPS-HC ZIP Files' Download URLs: Web Scraping with SAS® and Python | Pradip Muhuri | |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Exploring the Power of Regular Expressions (RegEx) for Enhanced Pattern Matching and Replacement Operations in SAS® | Pratap Kunwar | |
| 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Automating Manual Processes with SAS: A Practical Example from Higher Education | Kelly Smith; Elizabeth S. Davis | |
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | The Battle of the Titans: DATA Step versus PROC SQL | Kirk Paul Lafler; Charu Shankar; Richann Jean Watson; Josh Horstman | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | A Fine Quotation: Macro Quoting in SAS | Mark Jordan | |
| 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Generating new variables from variable names and values in a DATA step | Bruce Gilsen | |
| 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Customizing SAS Studio in Viya – The Next Step | Danny Modlin | |
| Statistics, Modelling & Analysis, Strathmore | ||||
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/23/2024 | 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Data Literacy 101: Understanding Data and the Extraction of Insights | Kirk Paul Lafler |
| 8:30 AM | 9:30 AM | An Introduction to Obtaining Test Statistics and P-Values from SAS® and R | Brian Varney | |
| 9:30 AM | 10:30 AM | Interactive Modeling with SAS Visual Statistics | Danny Modlin | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Determine the Dimensionality of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire (PCOSQ-50) Using Factor Procedure and Parallel Analysis | Abbas Tavakoli; Pamela J. Wright; Robin M. Dawson | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | PROC BGLIMM The Smooth Transition to Bayesian Analysis | Danny Modlin | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | Special Control Charts for Rare Events: G-charts and T-charts | Melvin Alexander | |
| 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Identification and Analysis of Risk factors for International Forced Labor and Child Labor: A Match Case Control Study | David Corliss | |
| 4:00 PM | 4:30 PM | SAS and Python can complement each other in statistical modeling | Valentina Grouverman; Lindzee Smith | |
| 4:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Building and Validating a Recommendation system using Python and SAS | Patralekha Bhattacharya | |
| 09/24/2024 | 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Charting Your Organization's Machine Learning Roadmap | Ryan Paul Lafler |
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | Unveiling the Diagnostic Potential of Radiomics-Based PET and CT Imaging through Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques | Mostafa Zahed; Janet Kireta; Victor Aderanti; Maryam Skafyan | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Using PROC PSMATCH for Assembling Parallel Test Forms | Tsung-hsun Tsai; Yung-chen Hsu | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | Examining the Impact of ESG Performance on National GDP: A Comprehensive Analysis Using Sustainable Development Goals and SAS Tools | Harshita Budumuru | |
| 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | Unlocking Insights: Harnessing Supervised Machine Learning for Advanced Data Analysis | Vindhya Hegde | |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Towards understanding Neurological manifestations of Lyme disease through a machine learning approach with updated patient registry data | Mira Shapiro; Lara Kassab; Jingyi Liu; Deanna Needell; Lorraine Johnson | |
| 3:30 PM | 4:30 PM | Developing Artificial and Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification and Regression Tasks with Python's Keras API for TensorFlow | Ryan Paul Lafler; Anna Wade | |
| Visualization & Reporting, Linden Oak | ||||
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/23/2024 | 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Creating and Customizing High-Impact Excel Workbooks from SAS with ODS EXCEL | Josh Horstman |
| 9:00 AM | 10:00 AM | Building Amazing Dashboards Using SAS® Software | Kirk Paul Lafler; Joshua Cook | |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Creating a Publication-Quality Multi-Panel Graph For Longitudinal Generalized Linear Model Analysis. | Neeta Shenvi | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | From SAS to Power BI: Tips to Smooth the Way | Kelly Smith | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Comparative Examples of Geocoding and Mapping Techniques in SAS® and R Using Centers for Disease Control Survey Data | Joshua Cook; Louise Hadden; Swann Arp Adams | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | Using Data Visualization to Explore the Association Between Education and Mortality: Insights from the 2012-2018 National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortali | Cindy Zhang; Jessie Parker; Yeats Ye; Cordell Golden | |
| 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Next Level Reporting: ODS and Open Source | Chevell Parker | |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Creating Charts and Graphs using SAS Studio Tasks | Tom Grant | |
| 09/24/2024 | 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Ten Rules for Better Charts, Figures and Visuals | Kirk Paul Lafler |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Streamlining Vaccine Study Output Generation with a Versatile Efficacy Macro | Zhengyang Shi | |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Role of various factors impacting customer acquisition/ retention in a product-based organization using SAS®. | Sandeep Srivatsav Gangaraju; Kiran Venna | |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Empowering Educational Institutions: Utilizing SAS® Tools for the Development of Student Retention Dashboard | Raj Bhosale | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | A SAS® Automation Example for Completing Reporting Templates in Microsoft® Excel | Imelda Go; Abbas Tavakoli | |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Replicating SAS® Reports in R: The REPORTER Package | David Bosak | |
| 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM | Deduping Redundant Transactions in Commercial Lending | Patralekha Bhattacharya | |