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November 17th 

 12:30- 1:00pm EDT  |  Welcome from CMS Leadership

 1:00 - 1:55pm EDT  |  CCSQ Data & Analytics Environment Overview

Presenter: 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 Overview

Presenters: 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 One

November 18th 

 12:00- 1:00pm EDT  |  Special Q&A with CMS Leadership

Panelists: 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 & Tricks

Presenter: 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 Techniques

Presenters: 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 Together

Presenters: 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

Who is encouraged to attend?

Everyone who utilizes SAS Viya, CDR, or have an interest in CCSQ Data & Analytics in the CCSQ Community are welcome to attend. iQIES QBIC SAS Viya users should contact us to ask questions about whether certain sessions will be beneficial to them. 

Do I need to attend all the sessions to reap the benefits of this event?

Feel free to join the sessions you are interested in - Please review the schedule and see specific details of each event. 

What happens if I cannot attend a session due to a conflict?

All of our meetings will be recorded for future reference. 

Will I be able to participate in the sessions?

Yes - we encourage users to input their questions into the chat during the sessions as each session will end with a Q&A.

Can I have a copy of the presentations?

For sessions that have PowerPoint presentations, they will be posted shortly after the event.