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Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Time: Noon - 1:00 PM ET
Place: Online 
Cost:  Free!  However, please register by Tuesday, January 21 in order to receive the webinar link. Webinar information will be sent out on Wednesday, January 22.  Registration will open soon.

Agenda 
  • SAS® PROC GEOCODE By Example: A Case Study - Louise Hadden, CORMAC
Reporting on missing and/or non-response data is of paramount importance when working with longitudinal surveillance, laboratory, and medical record data. For a CDC surveillance project with thousands of variables and weekly deliveries, an efficient and comprehensive assessment of missing values was required. PROC FREQ with the NLEVELS option, PROC REPORT and traffic-lighting, and PROC UNIVARIATE OUTTABLES can produce an effective, data-driven visualization. Data processing was performed using SAS 9.4 M7. This presentation is suitable for all skill levels.
  • Looking for the Missing(ness) Piece - Louise Hadden, CORMAC
Numerous international and domestic governments provide free public access to downloadable databases containing health data. One example is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Care Compare data, which contains address information for providers. This paper and presentation will describe the process of downloading data and creating an analytic data base; running SAS®'s PROC GEOCODE (part of Base SAS®) using Tiger street address level data to obtain latitude and longitude at a finer level than zip code; modeling the data points using SAS/Stat, and finally using PROC SGMAP (part of Base SAS®) with annotation to create a visualization of a proximity analysis. Data processing was accomplished using BASE SAS® ( SAS 9.4 M7). This presentation is suitable for all skill levels.

Louise Hadden presented at her first SAS conference in 1996 and has never looked back, presenting at multiple conferences across the continent over the years. She has given over 200 SAS user group presentations! She supports file building and analytic programming for CORMAC, most frequently on contracts with government agencies such as CMS and CDC, and specializes in reporting and data visualization. In her spare time, she reads voraciously, volunteers with the MSPCA, donates platelets with the Red Cross (up to 35 gallons!), and dabbles with photography.
 

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The Michigan SAS Users Group is organized to further the interests of programmers and users of the SAS Software System. Members share information on building applications with SAS Software and how to better use programming tools and user interfaces. MSUG also provides a forum for informing attendees and members of career opportunities.

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