We are pleased that Luke Reinbolt of DataCeutics Professional Services division presented a paper on an Alternate Log Axis Using SAS PROC GPLOT®, he volunteered to be a session coordinator for the data visualization and graphics session and he also volunteered to help with the pre-conference seminars. Luke enjoyed volunteering this year as it gave him an opportunity to help others and meet and greet new people. Luke particularly liked the following presentations and recommends that you take a few minutes to check them out.

• AD05: Running OpenCDISC in SAS – http://pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/AD/PharmaSUG-2013-AD05.pdf
• DG09: Creating High Quality Statistical Graphs for Publications- http://pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/DG/PharmaSUG-2013-DG09.pdf. DG09 is a good paper on graphing. It talks about a few different ways to alter graphs and some different graphical presentation strategies.

Our own Tim Harrington, also from our Professional Services division volunteered to man the Digital Media Kiosk and was able to show several people how to use the PharmaSUG App and how they could use it to find the time and location of a given talk, seminar, paper abstract, poster or other events. Tim was excited that there was a live Twitter feed and feels that while volunteering, he learned quite a bit! If you weren’t able to make PharmaSUG, Tim suggests that you take a few minutes to check out the following two papers which he thinks would be of benefit. One concerns the QC process itself in situations where a clean PROC COMPARE may not mean a ‘correct’ result and the second paper concerns AE data and SMQs.

• IB09: Is Your Data Set Really Validated: Beware of Blind-Fold Validation – http://pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/IB/PharmaSUG-2013-IB09.pdf
• HO02: Practice of SMQs for Adverse Events in Analysis of Safety Data and Pharmacovigilance - http://pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/HO/PharmaSUG-2013-HO02.pdf

While all of the papers are located at the following link, http://pharmasug.org/2013-proceedings.html, here are a few others our team suggests you check out. Beth Reinbolt of DataCeutics Professional Services proposes that you take a few minutes to read:

• TF25: SAS Creating and Customizing the Kaplan-Meier Survival Plot in PROC LIFETEST - http://pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/TF/PharmaSUG-2013-TF25-SAS.pdf. In this paper, Warren created user friendly macros for updating the Template code behind Proc Lifetest, so we have the ability to customize the output graph from the procedure instead of outputting the data and using SGPLOT or GPLOT.
• CC17: Numeric and Decimal Place Alignment in RTF File with Non-Monospaced Fonts. – http://pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/CC/PharmaSUG-2013-CC17.pdf. This is a clean, simple solution to line up decimals in proc report summary output using the escape character and decimal tab.
• CC16: An alternate log axis using SAS PROC GPLOT  by Luke Reinbolt of DataCeutics http://pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/CC/PharmaSUG-2013-CC16.pdf

At last, Paul Gilbert, President of DataCeutics Professional Services, suggests you take a look at the below paper as this is a nice overview of three easy ways to generate graphics in SAS 9.3.

• SP09: SAS 9.3: Better graphs, Easier lives for SAS programmers, PK scientists and Pharmacometricians – http://pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/SP/PharmaSUG-2013-SP09.pdf.

We look forward to seeing you in San Diego at PharmaSUG 2014!

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