Boston Area SAS Users Group

We provide a forum for members to develop SAS skills, promote new ideas regarding SAS software, and help advance our members' professional skills and knowledge.

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BASUG proudly welcomes attendees, presenters, and exhibitors to @PharmaSUG 2026. To everyone arriving today: welcome to Boston, welcome to the Seaport, and welcome to PharmaSUG 2026. We are excited to have such extraordinary programming and data prowess gathered here this week

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Boston is taking the center stage this summer as #PharmaSUG2026 arrives at the Boston Seaport from May 31 through June 3. PharmaSUG brings 2.5 days of paper presentations, hands-on training, and panel discussions through their 15 academic tracks! #Boston #SAS #DataScience #BASUG

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Today’s #Free #Live BASUG webinar with Jack Shoemaker, “Ten Things You Should Know About PROC FORMAT.” If you can, pop in early for casual 'pre-game' chat with Jack starting around 11:45am ET and/or stay late to participate in the 'hallway chat' session. See you soon!

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PROC FORMAT is one of the most powerful, and often underutilized, tools in SAS. Join Jack Shoemaker for a #FREE #BASUG webinar and discover why PROC FORMAT might be the most underrated tool in your SAS toolbox.
🗓️ Wed, May 13 🕛12 PM ET 🔗https://t.co/k1Fhy3x5QU
#BASUG #SAS

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While many programming concepts translate across platforms, PROC FORMAT stands apart. Catalog storage, CNTLIN/CNTLOUT workflows, picture clauses, hybrid formats, & multi-value labels... this #FREE BASUG webinar covers 10 essential capabilities every SAS programmer should know

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Curious how AI is actually being used in statistical programming today? In the @PharmaSUG 2026 Training Seminars (Boston, MA), Phil Bowsher has real-world examples of how AI is transforming programming environments, workflows, & clinical data applications in the pharma industry.

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Kirk Paul Lafler is leading a @PharmaSUG @SASsoftware and R programming bootcamp in Boston on June 3. Kirk over 40 years of experience teaching SAS, SQL, and data science concepts (that’s why his coding muscles are so huge).

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Want to confidently switch between Python, R, & SAS® for your statistical analyses? The @PharmaSUG 2026 Training Seminar (Boston, MA) with Ryan Paul Lafler delivers a practical, cross-platform approach to parametric and non-parametric testing, exploratory data analysis, & ANOVAs

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This @PharmaSUG 2026 Training Seminar by Kevin Lee and Nathan Lee (@Clinvia) is focused on real-world applications of Generative Artificial Intelligence, agentic workflows, and AI-powered development. Join them on May 31st in Boston, MA to participate in this hands-on seminar

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@PharmaSUG 2026 Training Seminars are bringing a hands-on data visualization training to Boston this summer. Richann Watson is a fabulous instructor who will demonstrate SAS and R code to transform your basic plots into polished, customized visualizations

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This PharmaSUG Boston Training Seminar with Prafulla Girase (AstraZeneca) covers through the complexities of electronic regulatory submissions for clinical study data. Prafulla brings over two decades of experience and will provide insight into the eSUB package.

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Mario Widel & Vee Gonzalez are instructing a @PharmaSUG 2026 Training Seminar (Boston, MA) at the end of May. The seminar addresses complex and ambiguous CDISC ADaM design scenarios, offering attendees a deeper understanding of how to choose among ADaM data structures

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This PharmaSUG Training Seminar with Bhavin Busa (Clymb Clinical) introduces the ARS data model, demonstrates its application to common safety displays, and highlights its potential to enable traceability from analysis outputs back to source data, protocols, and SAPs

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Your clinical trial is wrapped up & you have all the components for a regulatory submission package: ✔️ SDTM ✔️ ADaM ✔️ Define.xml ✔️ Reviewer guides
…but do these data, metadata, & documentation align? This @PharmaSUG Training Seminar with Nate Freimark Friemark is here to help

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David Izard (Merck) is bringing to Boston decades of experience and ~150 global filings into one focused session at @PharmaSUG 2026 Training Seminars. David’s seminar provides an in-depth look at global regulatory submission requirements: America’s FDA; Japan’s PMDA; China’s NMPA

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If you program with @SASsoftware, then you’ve used functions such as 𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙿(), 𝙸𝙽𝙿𝚄𝚃(), 𝚂𝚄𝙱𝚂𝚃𝚁(), and 𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳(). But did you know that you can 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄 your own user-defined functions within SAS? Troy Hughes is teaching a @PharmaSUG 2026 Training Seminar

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On May 31, Bart Jablonski (@yabwon) will teach advanced @SAS programming techniques in a @PharmaSUG 2026 Training Seminars in Boston. Bart’s seminar gently introduces programmers to the SAS hash object syntax, a powerful yet often underutilized feature of the SAS language.

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Today’s #Free #Live BASUG webinar with Danny Modlin, “PROC BGLIMM: The Smooth Transition to Bayesian Analysis.” If you can, pop in early for casual 'pre-game' chat with Danny starting around 11:45am ET and/or stay late to participate in the 'hallway chat' session. See you soon!

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On March 18th, Danny Modlin (SAS) will demonstrate how PROC BGLIMM enables Bayesian modeling of non-normal responses and random effects, compare it to PROC MCMC, and walk through Bayesian diagnostic output.
🗓️ Wed, Mar 18 🕛12 PM ET 🔗https://t.co/k1Fhy3x5QU
#BASUG #SAS

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Thinking about going Bayesian but not sure where to start? Danny Modlin will show that PROC BGLIMM makes a smooth transition to Bayesian analyses. You’ll learn when to use Bayesian analyses and understand the diagnostic outputs.
🗓️ Wed, Mar 18 🕛12 PM ET 🔗https://t.co/k1Fhy3x5QU