685 people attended

More than 200 presentations, including:

• 22 Posters
• 46 Coders' Corner presentations
• 8 Hands-On Workshops
• 109 other talks in 6 sections
• 4 half-day Sunday Workshops
• 6 full-day Pre-Conference Training Sessions
• 7 SAS super demos

More than 220 volunteers helped make it happen:

• Session coordinators
• Registration volunteers
• Presenters
• Section chairs
• Code clinicians
• Conference organizers

Sunday Evening Opening Session:

• Keynote address by Kathy Council, VP Publications at SAS
• NESUG: The Early Years by Ray Pass, NESUG co- founder and Conference co-chair for NESUG 1988 and NESUG 1999
• Recognition of co-chairs from 19 previous NESUG Conferences, including many who were in attendance
• Opening Session mixer, with music by Sarah Carlisle and wandering magic by entertainer and magician Dave Thomen

Monday evening:

• NESUG Jeopardy! with MCs Daphne Ewing and David Chapman (see below for details)
• A spectacular SAS-sponsored reception at the nearby National Aquarium, with food and drinks provided by Classic Catering, music by harpist Monica Vaskey and jazz trio led by Sarah Carlisle

Tuesday night attendee party with local dance band Swiftkick

Futures Forum -- a lively discussion of what's new and what's upcoming in SAS software, including a star- studded panel from SAS:

• Kathy Council
• Margaret Crevar
• Vince DelGobbo
• Jason Secosky
• Maura Stokes

NESUG Proceedings on CD, includuing:

• All papers from the 2007 Conference
• ALL the papers from the previous 10 Conferences - - all the way back to 1997

20th Anniversary Problem Solving Contest -- developed and scored by long-time NESUG presenter and SAS wiz, Bob Virgile. Contest winners are:

• First Place: Emily Quinn
• Second Place: David Franklin
• Third Place: Ian Whitlock

The ever-popular Code Clinic was a hit once again. Thanks to Elizabeth Axelrod for organizing everyone. Here are some interesting factoids she collected for us:

• The Clinic was open for a total of 10 hours.
• There were a total of 19 person/hours of labor.
• 33 clients came to the Clinic for a total of 499 minutes (~8.3 hours).
• The average visit length was 15 minutes.
• Each clinician saw an average of 2.357 clients.
• The busiest clinician saw 6 clients.
• The longest visit was 55 minutes.
• The shortest visit was 1 minute.
• The 1:30 time slots saw the most activity, with 6 and 5 clients on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
• Monday at 3:30 saw the fewest clients, with only 2 in that time slot.

Monday evening's NESUG Jeopardy! game featured 3 rounds of Jeopardy-style answers and questions for beginning, intermediate and advanced users. We had lots of fun and great discussions about the answers. Thanks to all who participated!

Round 1 (Advanced)

Judges:

• Bob Bertolatus (RCI - Wyndham)
• Joe Brenner (US Dept. of HHS/CMS)

Red Team - WINNER

• Mira Shapiro (Consultant)
• Kate Davis (Yale's International Center for Finance)
• August Treff (Bank of America)

Green Team

• Karol Katz (Yale School of Medicine)
• Peter Shao (Forest Research Institute)
• Leslie Somos (Great Works Informatics, LLC)

Round 2 (Beginning)

Judges:

• Clinton Rickards (GE Money - Americas)
• Kathy Council (SAS)

Red Team - WINNER

• Ken Edmonds (Bank of America)
• Venus Anderson (Census Bureau)
• Rupinder Khabra (Paradigm Technology, Inc.)

Green Team

• Jennifer Rhorer (NASS/USDA)
• Georgianna Onicescu (Johns Hopkins)
• Ching Xu (Constellation Energy)

Round 3 (Intermediate)

Judges:

• Catherine Schmit (Bureau of the Census)
• Steve Gorin (Pitney Bowes)

Red Team

• Anar Modi (Chase Card Services)
• Bei Wang (Census Bureau)
• Daniel Boisvert (Genzyme)

Green Team - WINNER

• Brendan Bartley (CBAR)
• Sheng Zhang (Merck & Co., Inc.)
• Jack Clark (Center for Health Program Development and Management)

We were pleased to finally meet Lex Jansen. Lex's website (www.lexjansen.com) has been a great tool for SAS users for some time now. He collects all the NESUG papers (and those from PharmaSUG and SUGI/SAS Global Forum, too) and provides a search capability for all of them. This is such a valuable resource that we didn't really believe there was actually a man behind the curtain -- but he was there and we were glad to have him participate. We welcome him to the NESUG community!

All of the papers presented at NESUG 2007 are on the CD you received in your bag. But if you need web access, you'll find them all on the NESUG site.

After a short nap, 2008 Program Chair Earl Westerlund and the rest of the NESUG team have already begun planning for the next conference -- September 14-17 in Pittsburgh, PA -- so mark your calendars. this is the time to start thinking about writing a paper or a poster and planning to volunteer. Watch our website (www.nesug.org) for details and we'll see you in Pittsburgh!!

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