Congratulations to Best Paper Winners from MidWest SAS Users Group conference!   You'll want to read these, and check the MWSUG 2013 proceedings for other useful papers from the recent conference.  Start planning now for MWSUG 2014 in Chicago.

• Adventures in Path Analysis and Preparatory Analysis
  Brandy R. Sinco, MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Phillip L. Chapman, PhD, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
•  Beating Gridlock: Parallel Programming with SAS® Grid Computing and SAS/CONNECT®
  Jack Fuller, Experis, Portage, MI
• Advanced Multithreading Techniques for Performance Improvement of SAS® Processes
  Viraj R Kumbhakarna, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Columbus, OH
•  Efficient and Smart Ways to Manage Datasets for Clinical Data- Let SAS® Do the Dirty Laundry!
  Gowri Madhavan, Cincinnati Children?s Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
  Alan Leach, Cincinnati Children?s Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
• Using Microsoft® Windows® DLLs within SAS® Programs
  Rajesh Lal, Experis, Portage, MI
• Residential Energy Efficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
  Ryan Anderson, University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, Lincoln, NE
• Bordering on Success with PROC GMAP in SAS®: Utilizing Annotate Datasets to Enhance Your Maps
  Kathryn Schurr, M.S., Spectrum Health-Healthier Communities, Grand Rapids, MI
  Jonathan Wiseman, Spectrum Health-Healthier Communities, Grand Rapids, MI
•  Building a Better Bar Chart with SAS® Graph Template Language
  Perry Watts, Stakana Analytics, Elkins Park, PA
•  The JMP® Journal: An Analyst’s Best Friend
  Nate Derby, Stakana Analytics, Seattle, WA
•  SAS® and REDCap API: Efficient and Reproducible Data Import and Export
  Sarah Worley, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
  Dongsheng Yang, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
•  Increase Pattern Detection in SAS® GTL with New Categorical Histograms and Color Coded Asymmetric Violin Plots
  Perry Watts, Stakana Analytics, Elkins Park, PA
•  Don’t Get Blindsided by PROC COMPARE
  Joshua Horstman, Nested Loop Consulting, Indianapolis, IN
  Roger Muller, Data-to-Events.com, Carmel, IN
• Data Presentation 101: An Analyst’s Perspective
  Deanna Chyn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Anca Tilea, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI