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Friday, February 24
CS01 Presentation and Storytelling
Fri, Feb 24, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
River Terrace 2
Chair(s): Cynthia R. Long, Palmer College of Chiropractic

9:20 AM The Statistician’s Role in Data Storytelling Projects: Case Studies and Best Practices
Haviland Wright, Boston University
10:05 AM Statistical Presentation Power: How to Reveal Your 'X Factor'!!!
Jennifer H Van Mullekom, Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA), Virginia Tech
 
CS02 Beyond the Basics: Advanced Modeling Methods
Fri, Feb 24, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
River Terrace 3
Chair(s): Shankang Qu, PepsiCo

9:20 AM Don't Be Silly; Do It Bayesian
Perceval Sondag, Arlenda
10:05 AM Improve Regression and Communicate Results Using Stochastic Gradient Boosting and LASSO
View Presentation View Presentation Charles William Harrison, Salford Systems
 
CS03 Data Wrangling and Visualization
Fri, Feb 24, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
City Terrace 7
Chair(s): Robert P. Yerex, University of Virginia Medical Center

9:20 AM Discover and Visualize the Golden Paths, Unique Sequences, and Marvelous Associations Out of Your Big Data Using Link Analysis in SAS Enterprise Miner
View Presentation View Presentation Delali Agbenyegah, Alliance Data Card Services
10:05 AM Data Scraping, Parsing, Wrangling, and Cleaning
View Presentation View Presentation Mark Daniel Ward, Purdue University
 
CS04 Keep It Simple with R
Fri, Feb 24, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
City Terrace 9

9:20 AM Reproducibility in Action
View Presentation View Presentation Richard Thomas Schwinn, U.S. Small Business Administration
10:05 AM Managing Many Models
Hadley Wickham, RStudio
 
CS05 Statistical Collaboration
Fri, Feb 24, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
River Terrace 2
Chair(s): Michael Latta, YTMBA Research & Consulting and Coastal Carolina University

11:05 AM Practical Examples and Challenges of Statistical Consulting in Health Settings
Laura H Gunn, Stetson University
11:50 AM Panel Discussion on Statistical Volunteers
David J Corliss, Peace-Work
 
CS06 Business Intelligence Practices
Fri, Feb 24, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
River Terrace 3
Chair(s): Madhuri Mulekar, University of South Alabama

11:05 AM On the Street: Conducting Business Research
View Presentation View Presentation Joyce Nilsson Orsini, Fordham University GBA
11:50 AM Bridging the Gap on Multi-Channel Attribution
View Presentation View Presentation John Lin, Epsilon Data Management
 
CS07 Surveys and Sentiment Analysis
Fri, Feb 24, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
City Terrace 7
Chair(s): Susan Simmons, NC State Institute for Advanced Analytics

11:05 AM The Nexus Between Data Science, Survey Design, and Statistical Practice
View Presentation View Presentation Steven B Cohen, RTI International
11:50 AM Sentiment Analysis of Brand Social Mentions: The Polarity Classification and Beyond
View Presentation View Presentation Jin Su, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
 
CS08 Interactivity with R Shiny
Fri, Feb 24, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
City Terrace 9
Chair(s): Edward Mulrow, NORC at the University of Chicago

11:05 AM Working with Shiny Things
View Presentation View Presentation Harlen Hays, Cerner Corporation
11:50 AM Rapid Data Visualization and Dissemination Using R and Shiny
View Presentation View Presentation Bogdan Alexandru Rau, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
 
CS09 Organizational Impact
Fri, Feb 24, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
River Terrace 2
Chair(s): Kathy Hanford, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2:05 PM Developing a Data Science Center of Excellence (DS CoE)
View Presentation View Presentation Celeste R Fralick, Unaffiliated
2:50 PM My Marathon Journey for Analytics Change
View Presentation View Presentation Terri Henderson, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
 
CS10 Probability Distributions
Fri, Feb 24, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
River Terrace 3
Chair(s): Kathleen Jablonski, The George Washington University

2:05 PM Modeling Proportions and Probabilities: The Beta Distribution Is Your Friend
View Presentation View Presentation Paul Teetor, William Blair & Co.
2:50 PM Probability Density for Repeated Events
View Presentation View Presentation Bruce Stephen Lund, Magnify Analytic Solutions
 
CS11 Text Analytics
Fri, Feb 24, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
City Terrace 7
Chair(s): Laura H Gunn, Stetson University

2:05 PM Predicting Regulatory Risk from Unstructured Text Data
View Presentation View Presentation Danielle Leigh Boree, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
2:50 PM Using Text Analytics and Signal Detection to Predict Medical Device Recalls
View Presentation View Presentation Lisa Ensign, Significant Statistics
 
CS12 Going Big on Bayesian
Fri, Feb 24, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
City Terrace 9
Chair(s): Alok Kumar Dwivedi, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

2:05 PM Introduction to Bayesian Analysis Using Stata
View Presentation View Presentation Chuck Huber, StataCorp
2:50 PM Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling
View Presentation View Presentation M'hamed Hamy Temkit, Mayo Clinic
 
CS13 Career and Personal Development
Fri, Feb 24, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
River Terrace 2
Chair(s): Rich Newman, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

3:50 PM Soft Skills for Succeeding Outside of Academia
View Presentation View Presentation Diahanna L Post, Nielsen
4:35 PM Career Development for Statisticians in a Collaborative Environment: Importance of Effective Mentoring and Development of Soft Skills
Jay N Mandrekar, Mayo Clinic
 
CS14 Addressing Statistical Problems and Issues
Fri, Feb 24, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
River Terrace 3
Chair(s): Bonita Singal, United States Department of Energy

3:50 PM Data Preparation: The Key for Meaningful Insights
Huiyu Qian, AutoAnything Inc.
4:35 PM Matched Case-Control Data Analysis
Yinghui Duan, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
 
CS15 Machine Learning
Fri, Feb 24, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
City Terrace 7
Chair(s): John Stevens, Utah State University

3:50 PM Tree-Based Techniques for High-Dimensional Data
View Presentation View Presentation Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin
4:35 PM Intro to Deep Learning with TensorFlow
View Presentation View Presentation Denisa A.O. Roberts, ASAPP Inc.
 
CS16 Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R
Fri, Feb 24, 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
City Terrace 9
Chair(s): Doug Lehmann, University of Miami

3:50 PM Constructing and Analyzing Generalized Linear Mixed Models
View Presentation View Presentation Christina P Knudson, Macalester College
4:35 PM Simulation and Power Analysis of Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Brandon LeBeau, University of Iowa
 
Saturday, February 25
CS17 Ethical Guidelines
Sat, Feb 25, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
River Terrace 2
Chair(s): Constantine Daskalakis, Thomas Jefferson University

9:20 AM How to Deal with Ethical Issues of Human Subjects, Difficult Colleagues, and Networking
View Presentation View Presentation Michael Latta, YTMBA Research & Consulting and Coastal Carolina University
10:05 AM How the New ASA Guidelines Help Practicing Statisticians
View Presentation View Presentation Alan C. Elliott, Southern Methodist University
 
CS18 Going Mainstream: Emerging Modeling Methods
Sat, Feb 25, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
River Terrace 3
Chair(s): Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, Medical University of South Carolina

9:20 AM Amazon Product Co-Purchasing Network Estimation Through ERGM Model Using Reference Prior
View Presentation View Presentation Sayan Chakraborty, Michigan State University
10:05 AM Integrating Text Analytics with Traditional Structured Analytics
Edward Jones, Texas A&M University
 
CS19 Guided and Automatic Model Selection
Sat, Feb 25, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
City Terrace 7
Chair(s): Inyoung Kim, Virginia Tech

9:20 AM Best Practices in Model Selection and Profiling
View Presentation View Presentation Scott Lee Wise, SAS Institute, Inc.
10:05 AM Designing Automated Workflows for Model Selection and Optimization
View Presentation View Presentation Christian Kendall, Salford Systems
 
CS20 A Graph Is Worth a Thousand Words
Sat, Feb 25, 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
City Terrace 9
Chair(s): Andrew D. Althouse, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

9:20 AM Geospatial Analysis with R
View Presentation View Presentation Michael Jadoo, Unaffiliated
10:05 AM How to Avoid Some Common Graphical Mistakes
View Presentation View Presentation Naomi B. Robbins, NBR
 
CS21 Communicating to Motivate and Influence
Sat, Feb 25, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
River Terrace 2
Chair(s): Yuanyuan Tang, Saint Luke's Health System

11:05 AM The Psychology of Influence
View Presentation View Presentation Colleen Mangeot, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
11:50 AM Strategic Marketing and Communication for Statistical Consultants and Collaborators
View Presentation View Presentation Renita Canady, Association of American Medical Colleges
 
CS22 In THIS Corner: X1! When Model Variables Compete
Sat, Feb 25, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
River Terrace 3
Chair(s): Michael Reiger, West Virginia University

11:05 AM Estimating with Weights: Common Sense vs. Unbiasedness
View Presentation View Presentation Tim Hesterberg, Google
11:50 AM Competing Risk Data and Semi-Competing Risk Data Analysis and Visualization in SAS and R
View Presentation View Presentation Ran Liao, Indiana University
 
CS23 Latent Variable and Mixed Effects Models
Sat, Feb 25, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
City Terrace 7
Chair(s): Xianggui (Harvey) Qu, Oakland University

11:05 AM Nonparametric Mixed-Effects Regression for Large Samples
View Presentation View Presentation Nathaniel Erik Helwig, University of Minnesota
11:50 AM Optimization of Processes and Products from Historical (Un-Designed) Data
View Presentation View Presentation John F. MacGregor, ProSensus, Inc.
 
CS24 It's a Package Deal
Sat, Feb 25, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
City Terrace 9
Chair(s): John Castelloe, SAS Institute

11:05 AM Introduction to JMP Software
Terrie Vasilopoulos, University of Florida
11:50 AM Logistic Regression Cross-Package Comparison
View Presentation View Presentation Lillian Ma, Capital One Bank