MY GLOBAL FORUM EXPERIENCE

Roy Finzel

CVA Winner

Over 300

Presentations.

29 SECTIONS

Applications Development; Banking, Financial Services and Insurance; Business Intelligence and Analytics; Code Doctors Coders' Corner; Customer Intelligence; Data Integration; Data Mining and Text Analytics; Hands-on Workshops; Healthcare Providers & Insurers; Management; Operations Research; Pharma ;Planning and Support; Posters; Pre-Conference Seminars; Pre-Conference Statistical Tutorials; Programming: Beyond the Basics; Programming: Foundations and Fundamentals; Reporting and Information Visualization; Retail; SAS Enterprise Guide Implementation and Usage; SAS Futures; SAS IT Management; SAS Workshop Series; Social Media and Networking; Statistics and Data Analysis; Systems Architecture and Administration; and Travel, Hospitality and Entertainment.

The Registration ‘Bible’ ……

OPENING SESSION …Dr Jim Goodnight , an ‘old friend’ and the conference chair, Debbie

Buck – her highness.

Monday Social at the

swimming Pool.

MY FIRST DAY OF SESSIONS

• This is where it’s at!

The Presidents Dinner (7th) at

Wolfgang Puck’s ‘Spago’.

SAS Canada’s president, Carl

Farrell is a regular to this

event.

Pictures courtesy John Ladds.

SAS Canada Night Out

Kick Back Party – PURE

Nightclub.

MY AWARD LIST

Sentiment Mining Using SAS® Text Miner®

Patricia Cerrito, University of Louisville

ABSTRACT

In the past, attempts to capture sentiment in studies have used survey questions with Likert scales or qualitative

analysis with a very small number of observations. With the use of text analysis provided in SAS Text Miner, it is

now possible to use open-ended questions to analyze for sentiment. There are many terms in medical research

that have different meanings to different players: patients, physicians, hospitals, payers, and government

bureaucracies. With the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), there will be additional accountability by providers as

well as attempts to ration care based upon the definition of the terms, effectiveness, futility, necessary, and

reasonable as well as the concept of quality of life. Such attempts are already occurring for the cancer drugs,

Avastin and Provenge. Currently, quality of life surveys are based upon one concept developed largely by

providers. Quality of life is defined on the basis of functioning only and not upon the basis of social relationships.

It is the purpose of this study to examine how open ended questions and SAS Text Miner can be used to

investigate how different groups and individuals tend to understand crucial terminology in a practicing discipline

and how the term, quality of life, can be better understood.

SAS® Workshop: SAS® Business Intelligence

Eric Rossland

ABSTRACT

Using the SAS Information Delivery Portal

Accessing and Analyzing Information Using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office

Building Reports with SAS Web Report Studio

Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort

Orlando, Florida

Sunday, April 22 thru Wednesday, April 25

Conference Chair: Andrew T. Kuligowski

SAS GLOBAL FORUM 2012

SAS GLOBAL

FORUM 2013

Moscone Center

San Francisco,

California

Sunday, April 28

thru Wednesday,

May 1, 2013

Conference Chair:

Rick Mitchell