Thursday's dinner on the Great Lawn of the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University.
Discovery Summit
Exploring Data | Inspiring Innovation
SAS World Headquarters, Cary, NC | September 19-23, 2016
Event Highlights
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Tour guides lead people through the garden for an up-close look at the 10-acre site.
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Musicians entertain the dinner guests.
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The garden, nationally acclaimed for its diverse collection of landscape plants, is a beautiful backdrop for the final conference dinner.
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Attendees mingle before dinner begins.
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Predictum President Wayne Levin presents a poster on managing and reusing data and analyses.
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Matthew Goodlaw, Director of Assessment and Evaluation for the New Mexico Public Education Department, explains his poster on using JMP to build applications that encourage use.
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Attendees learn about prototype testing and analysis for the Mars 2020 coring drill from Kristopher Kriechbaum, a mechatronics engineer for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology.
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Professor Jim Grayson, Augusta University, uses a case study to show how to effectively tell a data story.
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During meet the developers, attendees learn about enhancements in upcoming versions of the software and share hopes and suggestions for new features.
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Forty-eight breakout sessions occur over the course of the conference.
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In this breakout session, Mary York of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center examines the relationship between employee satisfaction and factors such as relationship with managers, relationship with co-workers, organizational culture and job fit.
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The Networking Hall is a great place for conversation and benchmarking.
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Breakout sessions run four at a time, so attendees make tough choices about which ones to attend.
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Corning's Casey Volino demonstrates an informative way to describe misshape of round objects using JMP.
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Veera Kullatham, a Life Cycle and Reliability Engineer at GE Power Services, gives a talk on driving big data business decisions through modeling and scripting.
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Plenary session attendees applaud for the Thursday morning session.
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Stonehill College Professor of Business Adminstration Robert Carver on speeding up the dirty work of analytics.
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JMP Principal Software Developer Nascif Abousalh-Neto presents "Scoring Outside the Box."
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Conference-goers use the mobile app to read about development staff, connect with fellow attendees, build an agenda and earn badges and prizes in an interactive game.
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Poppy Zhang, a research assistant at NYU, talks about text analytics capabilities in JMP 13 Text Explorer.
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JMP Director of Research and Development Brian Corcoran shares advanced tips in JMP 13 for working with Excel.
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There is standing room only in many of the breakout sessions.
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Mark Chahl of ExxonMobil Chemical and Jerry Cooper of SAS encourage everyone to let go of Excel and embrace the Formula Editor.
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Chris Nachtsheim, Professor and Chair of Operations Management at Carlson School of Management at University of Minnesota, speaks about the past, present and future of DOE.
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Developers take questions from users on a variety of topics.
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DOE experts Chris Nachtsheim and Bradley Jones are frequent collaborators.
Papers and Posters
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Thursday's Live Blogs
- Chris Nachtsheim Keynote
9:15 - 10:15 a.m. EDT