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MWSUG 2015 Interactive Schedule Grid

Welcome to the MWSUG 2015 Interactive Schedule Grid. Use the following links to jump directly to a specific half-day block or just scroll down to browse the entire schedule. Click on an individual paper title to view the names of the authors and a brief summary.

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Note: Schedule subject to change. Last updated 17-Oct-2015.

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Section 8:00 AM 8:10 AM 8:20 AM 8:30 AM 8:40 AM 8:50 AM 9:00 AM 9:10 AM 9:20 AM 9:30 AM 9:40 AM 9:50 AM 10:00 AM 10:10 AM 10:20 AM 10:30 AM 10:40 AM 10:50 AM 11:00 AM 11:10 AM 11:20 AM 11:30 AM 11:40 AM
Advanced Analytics Can you STOP the guesswork in your marketing budget Allocation?? Marketing Mixed Modeling using SAS® can help!! Insurance Predictive Analytics Morning Break (Refresh- ments Available) Shifting Expectations: A practical algorithm for detecting level shifts using robust rolling statistics Advanced Techniques for Fitting Mixed Models Using SAS/STAT® Software
Beyond the Basics Getting Started With the SAS Add-in For Microsoft Office Product GreenSpace: A Macro to Improve a SAS Data Set Footprint An Autoexec Companion, Allocating Location Names during Startup Beyond a One-Stoplight Town: A Base SAS Solution to Preventing Data Access Collisions through the Detection, Deployment, Monitoring, and Optimization of Shared and Exclusive File Locks Just passing through... Or are you? Determine when SQL Pass-Through occurs to optimize your queries Retrieving Survey Data using the Qualtrics REST API with SAS
Career Development What's Hot, What's Not - Skills for SAS® Professionals SAS® Software as an Essential Tool in Statistical Consulting and Research Preparing for Future Careers in Big Data, Marketing Analytics and Data Warehousing Career Development Panel Discussion
Pharmaceutical Applications Transitions in Depressive Symptoms After 10 Years of Follow-up Using PROC LTA in SAS® and Mplus Automated Project Management of SAS Tasks - Excel Dashboard without Using any Program How to Build a Hierarchical Mixed Model in SAS Plotting LSMEANS and Differences in Generalized Linear Models with GTL Ushering SAS Emergency Medicine into the 21st Century: Toward Exception Handling Objectives, Actions, Outcomes, and Comms
Rapid Fire Why Would You Not Want to Learn about PROC DOCUMENT? Building PROC FORMAT Code from Data Dictionary Automatically SAS Dates with Decimal Time Reading a Column into a Row to Count N-levels, Calculate Cardinality Ratio and Create Frequency and Summary Output In One Step 'V' for... Variable Information Functions to the Rescue Automated LSTtoRTFtoPDF Converter Macro to Create Multiple SQL In-clauses from One Column of Data Essentials of macro quoting functions in SAS %SYSFUNC Is Your Friend A Macro for Systematic Treatment of Special Values in Weight of Evidence Variable Transformation
SAS 101 The REPORT Procedure: A Primer for the Compute Block Introduction to PROC SQL SAS Enterprise Guide for Managers and Executives
In-Conference Training Building Dynamic Programs and Applications Using the SAS® Macro Language
Meet the Presenter Keith Renison Vince DelGobbo Jane Eslinger
Super Demo You Want ME to use SAS® Enterprise Guide® ?? SAS® Visual Analytics Overview Using SAS® Data Loader to Clean Your Data

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Section 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:30 PM
Advanced Analytics Need Help Finding Something? Why Not Ask Your (Artificial) Community! Applying Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems to Increase Engagement and Credit Sales Predictive Modeling Using Artificial Neural Networks in SAS® Enterprise Miner Afternoon Break (Refresh- ments Available) Base SAS Sentiment Analysis Using Catchprases
BI / Customer Intelligence Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks with SAS(r): The Basics and Beyond Part 2. In Search of the LOST CARD Staying Relevant in a Competitive World: Using the SAS® Output Delivery System to Enhance, Customize, and Render Reports Introduction to ODS Graphics
Beyond the Basics Controlling Colors by Name; Selecting, Ordering, and Using Colors for Your Viewing Pleasure Color, Rank, Count, Name; Controlling it all in PROC REPORT Wow you did that with SAS Stored Processes? Tips and Tricks for getting the most out of the SAS Macro facility
Data Visualization and Graphics Cutpoint Determination Methods in Survival Analysis using SAS®: Updated %FINDCUT macro A Macro to Easily Generate an interactive Google Map Report Sales Force Alignment Visualization with SAS® Visualize the Geography of your Business Insights using SAS MAP tools Getting Productive Fast in SAS ODS Graphics -- a " Simple Look-See" Approach Intuitive Demonstration of Statistics through Data Visualization of Pseudo-Randomly Generated Numbers in R and SAS
SAS 101 Pruning the SASLOG - Digging into the Roots of NOTEs, WARNINGs, and ERRORs Let SAS Cleanse Your Dirty Data
In-Conference Training Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond
Meet the Presenter Chevell Parker Edoardo Riva Gordon Brown Rex Pruitt
Super Demo What's New in SAS® 9.4 SG Procedure What's New in SAS® 9.4 Graphics Template Language Getting Started with Enabling Your End-User Applications to Use SAS® Grid Manager 9.4 Highlights of SAS/STAT® 14.1
Super SAS Bowl SUPER SAS BOWL

Tuesday AM

Section 8:00 AM 8:10 AM 8:20 AM 8:30 AM 8:40 AM 8:50 AM 9:00 AM 9:10 AM 9:20 AM 9:30 AM 9:40 AM 9:50 AM 10:00 AM 10:10 AM 10:20 AM 10:30 AM 10:40 AM 10:50 AM 11:00 AM 11:10 AM 11:20 AM 11:30 AM 11:40 AM
Advanced Analytics Using SAS for the Longitudinal Analysis of Difference Scores Cross-Cultural Comparison of the School Factors Affecting Students' Achievement in Mathematical Literacy: Based on the Multilevel Analysis of PISA 2012 Morning Break (Refresh- ments Available) Two-Stage Attribute Match and Its Applications in Loyalty Marketing Get the highest bangs for your buck using Incremental Response Models in SAS® Enterprise Miner TM
BI / Customer Intelligence Introduction to SAS® Data Loader: The Power of Data Transformation in Hadoop The Joinless Join ~ The Impossible Dream Come True; Expanding the Power of SAS® Enterprise Guide® in a New Way Intermediate ODS Graphics Easy Come, Easy Go  Interactions between the DATA Step and External Files Debt Collection Through SAS® Analytics Lens
Beyond the Basics Five Little Known, But Highly Valuable and Widely Usable, PROC SQL Programming Techniques Table Lookup Techniques: From the Basics to the Innovative Do we need Macros? An Essay on the Theory of Application Development Data Labs with SAS and Teradata: Value, Purpose and Best Practices
Rapid Fire A Simple Adjustment for Selection Bias Through Use of Propensity Scoring Using a Picture Format to Create Visit Windows Making Historical Versions of SAS Code While Developing in Enterprise Guide 7.1 Find your Way to Quick and Easy Table Lookups With FINDW
SAS 101 Getting and Staying Organized: Tips for Improving the SAS Data Analysis/Analyst Experience Are You Missing Out? Working with Missing Values to Make the Most of What is not There Importing multiple spreadsheets in an Excel Workbook: An introduction to Macros Improving Data Collection Efficiency and Programming Process Flow using SAS Enterprise Guide with Epi Info Downloading, Configuring, and Using the Free SAS® University Edition Software Beyond IF THEN ELSE: Techniques for Conditional Execution of SAS Code
Tools of the Trade You Can't Spell 'Assume' without S.A.S. Dynamic Dashboards Using Base-SAS® Software Leveraging Hadoop from the Comfort of SAS Multiple Imputation for Arbitrary Missing Data: SAS vs R
In-Conference Training Manipulating Data Using DO Loops and Arrays
Meet the Presenter Kathleen Kiernan Ted Durie Vince DelGobbo
Super Demo SAS 9.4M3 ODS Excel Destination ODS 9.4 in a Nutshell Clinical Graphs using SAS® 9.4
Code Clinic CODE CLINIC (in Networking and Innovation Area)

Tuesday PM

Section 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
Advanced Analytics Fitting and Evaluating Logistic Regression Models Slice and Dice your customers easily by using SAS® Clustering Procedures Afternoon Break (Refresh- ments Available)
BI / Customer Intelligence SAS® Enterprise Guide® System Design Decision Management with DS2 Using E-Miner to Create Model Documentation and/or Reproducible Research
Beyond the Basics Cleaning Dirty Data with Just a Handful of SAS Functions Securing Software Portability through Self-Extracting, Self-Spawning, Spontaneously Combustible Code When Reliable Programs Fail: Designing for Timely, Efficient, Push-Button Recovery
Pharmaceutical Applications Utilizing Propensity Score Analyses to Adjust for Selection Bias: A Study of Adolescent Mental Illness and Substance Use
Rapid Fire Essential PROC SQL Join Techniques Using SAS® University Edition Software Essential DATA Step Merge Techniques Using SAS® University Edition Software
SAS 101 Basic SAS® PROCedures for Producing Quick Results Good SAS Programming Practices Top Ten SAS® Performance Tuning Techniques
Tools of the Trade SAS® Enterprise Guide® Base SAS® Program Nodes ~ Automating Your SAS World With a Dynamic FILENAME Statement, Dynamic Code, and the CALL EXECUTE Command; Your Newest BFF (Best Friends Forever) in SAS Using SAS Programs to Conduct Discriminate Analysis A Demonstration of SAS Analytics in Teradata
In-Conference Training Penalized Regression Methods for Linear Models in SAS/STAT®
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