Poster Pavilion Schedule
Bellagio
Las Vegas
October 20–21
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Monday, Oct. 20
e-Poster
No.
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Poster Title
Author(s)
Organization
1
Best Global Expansion Strategies in Retail Industry
Marjan Orang
North Carolina
State University
2
How SAS Plays an Important Role in Statistical Consulting Projects at the
Statistical Consulting Center of the University of Georgia
Wenbo Wu, Lina Liao,
Kim Love-Myers
University of
Georgia
Alice Chi, Jiayi Lin
University of
Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
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Student Poster Winner
Minimizing the Catastrophic Impact of Hurricanes to Insurance Companies
4
Exploring Factors That Affect Patient’s Comfort During an In-Clinic Sleep Test:
Applications of SAS and NViVo Text Mining
Mercan Derafshi, Rupesh
Agrawal, Mahendran
Balasubramanian
Oklahoma State
University
5
Filtering Spam SMS Messages Using SAS Text Miner
Chaitanya Reddy Lebaka,
Sai Shivani Pogul
Oklahoma State
University
6
How Existence Check Simplifies Geoscientists’ Research
Chandra Shekar Pulipati
Oklahoma State
University
7
The More the Merrier: Exploring the Relationship Between Center Volume
and Heart Transplantation Survival
Christina McGraw,
Alyssa Woodwyk
Grand Valley State
University
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Monday, Oct. 20
1
11:00 - 11:40 a.m.
Student Poster Winner
Predicting the Lifetime of Transformers Using SAS Survival Analysis
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Balamurugan Mohan
Oklahoma State
University
Dennys Rosales, Kaleigh
Mulkey, Saniita Fasenntao
Kennesaw State
University
2
Modeling Traffic at an Intersection
3
Predicting the Weather-Induced and Baseline Power Usage
of Residential Consumers Using SAS
Ganesh Kumar
Gangarajula, Dheeraj
Srivatsava Jami
Oklahoma State
University
4
PROC ARBOR: Coding Decision Trees
Kevin Putschko
Grand Valley State
University
5
An Application of SAS Forecast Studio to Forecast Vehicle Sharing Demand
Kushal Kathed,
Ayush Priyadarshi
Oklahoma State
University
6
Regularized Autocovariance Function Estimation: An Innovative Approach
That Leads to an Accurate Prediction of Future Annual GNP Deflator
of US Using SAS
Lina Liao, Cheolwoo Park
University of Georgia
Application of Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews
About Amazon’s First Smartphone
Nandan Moza, Reshma
Jayarajan Palangat
Oklahoma State
University
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Poster Pavilion Schedule
Monday, Oct. 20
e-Poster
No.
1
2
2:30 –3:00 p.m.
Poster Title
Alien Nation: Text Analysis of UFO Sightings Using
SAS Enterprise Miner 13.1 in the US
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Student Poster Winner
How Does Temperature Affect Electricity Demand?
Author(s)
Organization
Pradeep Reddy Kalakota,
Naresh Abburi,
Zabiulla Mohammed
Oklahoma State
University
Bidong Liu, Jiali Liu, Juan
Fuentes, Jose Benavente,
Ahmed Al-Bouri,
Coley Hodges
University of North
Carolina at Charlotte
3
Analyzing Marine Pirate Attacks Using SAS Text Mining
Raghavender Reddy
Byreddy, Anvesh Reddy
Minukuri
Oklahoma State
University
4
A Model to Predict Crime Rate Based on Education and Economic Metrics
Reuben Hilliard
Kennesaw State
University
5
Identifying a Potential Addict Based on the Age at Which One Starts to Smoke,
Consume Alcohol, or Do Drugs
Shivkanth Lanka,
Sharat Govind Raj
Oklahoma State
University
6
Predicting Obesity Using SAS Enterprise Miner
Tejdeep Reddy Addula,
Sahitya Movva
Oklahoma State
University
7
Improving SAS Proceedings Using Text Mining
Vijay Singh,
Pankush Kalgotra
Oklahoma State
University
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Monday, Oct. 20
3:50 – 4:30 p.m.
1
Determining Personality Profile Through Text Mining Third-Person
Narratives in SAS Enterprise Miner 12.1
Mark Schneider,
Andrew Van Der Werff,
Divya Sridhar
Deloitte and Touche
LLP
2
Multistage Stochastic Optimization Problems Under Model Uncertainty
Bita Analui
University of Vienna
3
Analysis of Large Scale Genotype by Environment Interactions
With Random Coefficient Models Using SAS
Carlos F. Pavon
University of
Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
Bogdan Gadidov
Kennesaw State
University
4
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Population Stability and Model Performance Metrics Replication
for Business Model at SunTrust Bank
5
Application of Text Mining on Tweets to Collect Rational Information
on Type-2 Diabetes
Shubhi Choudhary,
Ankit Agrawal
Oklahoma State
University
6
Predicting the Number of Comments a Blog Post Will Receive in the
Next 24 Hours Using SAS Enterprise Miner
Zabiulla Mohammed,
Balamurugan Mohan
Oklahoma State
University
7
Text Mining in Credit Scoring: Enhancement or Maybe Fully Fledged
Modeling Approach?
Rafa‚ Wojdan
SAS Poland/Warsaw
School of Economics
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Tuesday, Oct. 21
e-Poster
No.
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Poster Title
Author(s)
Organization
Mining Medicare Beneficiaries and Healthcare Cost
Hong Jiang
Deloitte Consulting
2
The Prophet: Predicting the Outcomes of Tennis Grand Slam Matches
Ankita Chaudhari, Girish
Shirodkar
Oklahoma State
University
3
Proc X12: Adding Value to Time Series Forecasting
Pratyush Gupta, Mohit
Agarwal
Oklahoma State
University
4
Leveraging Data Simulation in SAS to Mitigate Business Challenges
Liz Schofield
Booz Allen Hamilton
David Wanik, Emmanouil
N. Anagnostou, Brian M.
Hartman, Maria E. Frediani,
Marina Astitha
University of
Connecticut
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5
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Storm Damage Modeling for an Electric Distribution Network in
Northeastern US
6
Text Analytics of New Media Comments
James Guenthner,
Russell Torres, Nick
Evangelopoulos
University of
North Texas
7
Modeling and Forecasting Hourly Electricity Load Using Time-Varying Splines
Abdelmonaem jornaz, V. A
Samaranayake
Missouri University
of Science and
Technology
Tuesday, Oct. 21
11:00 - 11:40 a.m.
1
Using SAS to Combine Regression and Time Series Analysis on US Financial
Data to Predict the Economic Downturn
Avinash Kalwani
Oklahoma State
University
2
Credit Scorecard Generation: An Application of the Credit Scoring Node
in SAS Enterprise Miner
Ayush Priyadarshi, Kushal
Kathed
Oklahoma State
University
3
Retail Analytics: Impact of Consumer-Created Contents as Big Data
Jiseon Ahn, Jingwei Cai
University of
Houston
4
Integrating Multiple Techniques in Clustering and Logistic Regression to Increase
Profitability in the Sub-Prime Credit Market
Kevin Robinson, Emmanuel
Brown
Kennesaw State
University
5
Time Series Cross-Sectional Analysis of Life Expectancy at Birth of Ten Selected
Nations Using SAS
Narmada Deve
Panneerselvam
Oklahoma State
University
Ramcharan Kakarla
Oklahoma State
University
Nitish Byri,
Ramcharan Kakarla
Oklahoma State
University
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7
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Student Poster Winner
Fundraising Analytics to Identify Potential Prospects Using SAS 12.1
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Insights to Competitive Smartphone Pricing
Tuesday, Oct. 21
2:30 - 3:00 p.m.
1
Forecasting Stochastic Volatility Using the Kalman Filter: An Application
to the US Treasury Bill Yields and Stock Returns
Rohit Bhensdadia
Shanti Business
School
2
An Application of Text Mining: Using Unstructured Repair Tickets Data
of a Leading Truck Manufacturing Company to Predict the Factors
Contributing to Truck Downtime
Ayush Priyadarshi
Oklahoma State
University
3
Increasing Profitability Through Cluster Analysis and Simplicity: Follow the Money
Sherrie Rodriguez
Kennesaw State
University
4
Can Twitter Be Used to Gauge National and Sub-National Sentiment Through R?
James Cho
United States
Military Academy
5
True Lift Modeling Using SAS Enterprise Miner
Sravan Vadigepalli
Oklahoma State
University
6
Predicting the Diabetic Patient Readmission Using Two Stage
Modeling Methodology
Girish Shirodkar,
Ankita Chaudhari
Oklahoma State
University
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