The Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts held its inaugural “Hindsight Is 20-20” poster competition during JSM 2011. The competition encouraged authors to present a poster highlighting a difficult programming obstacle and detailing the solution(s). Posters were judged on usefulness and innovation of the solution, scope of the problem, and clarity of the poster’s message. Posters were judged during the poster presentation, and winners were announced at the Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts’ business meeting on August 2.

Prizes were awarded to the following presenters:

First Place ($800): Luke A. Reinbolt of Celerion for “Using PROC TEMPLATE to Convert SAS Data to Define.XML”

Second Place ($400): Ying Su of Merck for “There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Data”

Third Place ($200): Shuping Zhang and Xingshu Zhu of Merck for “A Single Imputation SAS Macro”

Congratulation to all winners, and thank you to all who participated in this year’s competition. Stay tuned for details about next year’s poster competition announcement.