November 17th
12:30- 1:00pm EDT | Welcome from CMS Leadership
1:00 - 1:55pm EDT | CCSQ Data & Analytics Environment OverviewPresenter: Pete Grivas Presentation: Wondering about the SAS Viya environment and how it all works together? We'll provide an overview of technical details on SAS Viya, Hive, and AWS and how they all work together. Invitation:
1:55 - 2:00pm EDT | BREAK
2:00 - 2:55pm EDT | CDR Data OverviewPresenters: Curtis Smith and Manpreet Khural Presentation: The relationships between the key data sources in DR will be covered here. This presentation will cover how claims data works with provider & beneficiary data and how these sources relate to other CCSQ dat sources like iQIES, HQR, and EQRS. Invitation:
2:55 - 3:00pm EDT | BREAK
3:00 - 3:55pm EDT | Visual Analytics Overview Presenters: Mr. Lee Herman Presentation: SAS Visual Analytics provides a complete platform for analytics visualization. Interactive, self-service BI and reporting capabilities are combined with out-of-the-box advanced analytics so everyone can discover insights from any size and type of data, including text. Invitation:
3:55 - 4:00pm EDT | BREAK
4:00 - 4:55 | Hive SQL In-Depth Presenters: Pete Grivas, Junwen Wang, Yevgeiny Elbert, Sri Akula, and Shirish Tatikonda Panel Discussion: Take a deeper dive into execution plans, how the Hive works behind the scenes with partitions, and why explicit SQL is recommended over implicit SQL. Invitation:
4:55pm EDT | End of Day OneNovember 18th
12:00- 1:00pm EDT | Special Q&A with CMS LeadershipPanelists: Ken Howard, Brent Weaver, Mark Plaugher, Ginny Valles-McCullough, Indre Goble, etc. Presentation: Do you have some questions for ISG leadership? Come to this forum to submit questions in to be answered during this session. Invitation:
1:00 - 1:55pm EDT | SAS Troubleshooting Tips & TricksPresenter: Pete Grivas Presentation: Learn how to troubleshoot common issues in SAS Viya. SAS logging options and importing data will be covered as well as how to break your code into manageable components for testing. Invitation:
1:55 - 2:00pm EDT | BREAK
2:00 - 2:55pm EDT | SQL Optimization TechniquesPresenters: Curtis Smith and Manpreet Khural Presentation: During this presentation, we’ll cover user-submitted code before and after, and the approach we took to improving the performance of the code with the focus on sharing how other users of CDR can do the same. Invitation:
2:55 - 3:00pm EDT | BREAK
3:00 - 3:55pm EDT | Hive & CAS Working TogetherPresenters: Pete Grivas Presentation: CAS provides an in-memory solution to running SAS Programs while Hive provides a distributed approach to accessing large quantities of data. This presentation will cover the best way to integrate Hive and CAS using each in a way that plays to the strengths of each. Invitation:
3:55 - 4:00pm EDT | BREAK
4:00 - 4:55pm EDT | The Future of CAP Presenters: Pete Grivas Presentation: The CAP architecture is designed to abstract compute services from data. This extensible architecture allows multiple tools to access the data and allows a user to use the tools they are most comfortable with to perform their analyses. We’ll cover the future of CAP with a focus on future data science tools. Invitation:
4:55pm EDT | End of CCSQ Data & Camp |