Best Contributed Paper Awards
from SAS Global Forum 2012
(Due to the varying number of sessions, some sections have more than one "Best Paper".)
Applications Development
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 004-2012
Use the Full Power of SAS in Your Function-Style Macros,
Mike Rhoads
Applied Business Intelligence
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 020-2012
Lost in Wonderland? Methodology for a Guided Drill-Through Analysis Out of the Rabbit Hole,
Stephen Overton
Honorable Mention
Paper: 031-2012
Using SAS® Enterprise BI and SAS® Enterprise MinerTM to Reduce Student Attrition,
Matt Bogard, Chris James, Tuesdi Helbig, Gina Huff
Coders' Corner
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 428-2012
Proc Format, a Speedy Alternative to Sort / Sort / Merge,
Jenine Milum
Data Management
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 123-2012
Trend Analysis: An Automated Data Quality Approach for Large Health Administrative Databases,
Mahmoud Azimaee
Data Mining and Text Analytics
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 134-2012
Combine Datasets using Inexact Character Variables in SAS®,
Kulwant Rai
Operations Research
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 162-2012
Using SAS® to Measure Airport Connectivity: An Application of Weighted Betweenness Centrality for the FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS),
Hector Rodriquez-Deniz
Pharma and Health Care Providers
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 176-2012
A Standard SAS® Program for Corroborating OpenCDISC Error Messages,
John R. Gerlach, Ganesh Sankaran Thangavel
Planning and Support
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 187-2012
Successfully On-Boarding SAS Analysts,
Aaron Augustine
Posters
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 214-2012
Put a Little Zip in Your SAS® Program,
Louise S. Hadden, Christianna Williams
2nd Place
Paper: 217-2012
Wake Up Your Data with Graph'n'Go,
Christopher Battiston
Programming: Beyond the Basics
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 233-2012
Seamless Reporting Automation through the Integration of JMP®, SAS®, and VBA,
Rachel Poulsen, Raghunathan Chakravarthy
Programming: Foundations and Fundamentals
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 252-2012
Selecting All Observations When Any Observation Is of Interest,
Christopher J. Bost
Reporting and Information Visualization
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 264-2012
Quick and Dirty Microsoft Excel Workbooks without Dynamic Data Exchange or the SAS® Output Delivery System,
Andrea Wainwright-Zimmerman
SAS® Enterprise Guide® - Implementation and Usage
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 296-2012
Case Study: Implementing and Administering SAS® Enterprise Guide® across the Enterprise as a Solution for Data Access Security,
Linda Sullivan, Ulf Borjesson, Evangeline Collado, Maureen Murray
Social Media & Networking
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 306-2012
Analyzing Sentiments in Tweets about Wal-Mart's Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Verdict Using SAS® Text Miner,
Hari Hara Sudhan Duraidhayalu, Satish Garla, Goutam Chakraborty
Statistics and Data Analysis
Best Contributed Papers
Paper: 350-2012
Including the Salesperson Effect in Purchasing Behavior Models Using PROC GLIMMIX,
Philippe Baecke, Dirk Van den Poel
Paper: 329-2012
Dynamically Evolving Systems: Cluster Analysis Using Time,
David J. Corliss
Systems Architecture
Best Contributed Paper
Paper: 374-2012
Using Dynamic Views as a Supplement to SAS® Security to Enhance Multiple Levels of Access Requirements to Row-Level Data Upon SAS Server Startup,
Christopher Bresson, Marty Flis
