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Section/Event DescriptionsThis year's conference sections will span the range of tasks that SAS performs and offer presenters and attendees a variety of presentation formats. Check back for updates.
For more information, please contact the section chair(s).
The Foundations and Fundamentals Section provides an overview of tools and core conceptswhicharequite usefulinbuilding a solid understanding of SAS® programming. This section includes learning opportunities for newer SAS® users as well as best practices appealing to those with more experience. Presentation topics may include Data Step processing, Macros and macro coding, SQL, ODS, SAS Formats, SAS Procedures and moving data between SAS and Microsoft Excel or other external databases.
Graphics and Data Visualization The Graphics and Visualization section highlights techniques for presenting data in innovative, effective, and aesthetically appealing ways. Over the years SAS has made significant advances in the tools available for information dissemination. This section features presentations ranging from how to get started with standard SAS/Graph procedures to customizing RTF output using your own tagset. Featured among other presentations are the new SG (statistical graphics) procedures, including both an introduction to SG and more advanced talks on using GTL (graphics template language) with the SG procedures. There are also presentations on how to use SAS/Graph to construct Google maps, preparing graphics with both SAS and R, and on facilitating analysis of genetics data with graphical methods.
The Health Care and Life Sciences Section is devoted to presentations on using SAS technologies and solutions within the Health Care and Life Sciences industries. This section shares experiences from health insurers who have benefited from SAS strategies for insurance rating, providing real-time analyses, monitoring quality, or for partnering with providers to develop effective disease and case management strategies.
In the Posters Section a hard-copy display can be used to convey virtually any material, but is especially well suited to complex visual concepts. Viewers will have the opportunity to examine the material at their own pace and revisit it, as these displays are available for a day or more during the conference. Presenters are at their displays for a brief period of time to explain their work and interact directly with the viewers.
The Programming Beyond the Basics Section is focused on going beyond the basics in a wide range of more advanced uses of SAS programming techniques and products. Topics include new features available in SAS 9.2, innovative uses of the macro language, writing high performance programs, using ODS to format your output, ensuring the quality of your programs, and other useful advanced SAS coding techniques. See how to use Google and Google maps with SAS. Learn how to take advantage of the hash objects both to handle large data sets and to make your programs faster. Increase your understanding of ODS templates and tagsets. The practical examples will provide the knowledge you need to implement enhanced techniques and take your SAS skills to a higher level.
The Statistics and Analysis section will cover a wide range of uses of SAS for data analysis, including modeling, pattern recognition, forecasting, quality improvement and optimization. Papers can either describe the use of SAS-provided procedures and products or present user-crafted implementations built with the DATA step, the IML procedure, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/QC, SAS/ETS, SAS/OR or similar tools. Authors can either present fundamental statistical methods or report on statistical applications in particular disciplines, industries, or organizational functions. In addition, we are particularly interested in papers that focus on applications of some of the newer procedures in SAS/STAT, such as those for survey data analysis (e.g., SURVEYREG or SURVEYLOGISTIC), linear models (e.g., GLIMMIX, GLMSELECT, or QUANTREG), and Bayesian analysis (BGENMOD, BLIFEREG, or BPHREG), as well as ODS Statistical Graphics. Papers that present uses of SAS Business Intelligence (BI) software for analytic goals are also welcome here.
At NESUG 2010, Code Clinicians from all over the Northeast will gather to give first aid to your SAS programming problems and vexing questions. Whether it involves Base SAS Code, SQL, macros or something else, our staff of volunteers will work to find the cure. As they operate on your confounding code, a puzzling data set or SAS related process, our expert Code Clinic staff may even help alleviate your stress level. The Clinic will be equipped with several PCs loaded with SAS so that solutions can be demonstrated on the spot. In addition, printers will be available to produce a hard copy of the code used to solve the problem.
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