Selected Publications & Presentations

Books

• Blum and Duggins. Fundamentals of SAS Programming: A Case Studies Approach. 2019, SAS Press.

Papers

• Gakpo, McKee, Dole, and Duggins. The Impact of Financial Aid on Graduation Rates: An Analysis of North Carolina State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. 2024 (accepted), College and University Journal

• Duggins and Blum. Methods and Tools for Publishing at SESUG and Beyond – Advanced Techniques. 2023, SESUG Proceedings

• Stearns, McKee, Dole, and Duggins. Academic profiles of students in a college of agriculture. 2023, NACTA Journal 67(1)

• Stearns, McKee, Dole, and Duggins. Uneven paths: The pathways that lead students to enroll. 2022, NACTA Journal 66(1)

• Duggins and Blum. PROC REPORT: Tips and Customizations for Quickly Creating Customized Reports. 2021, SESUG Proceedings.

• Blum and Duggins. Getting Started with Attribute Maps: Methods for Creating and Storing Custom Style Definitions for Graphs, Charts, and Maps. 2021, SESUG Proceedings.

• Duggins and Blum. The Past, Present, and Future of Training SAS Professionals in a University Program. (Invited) 2020, SASGF Proceedings

• Blum and Duggins. Getting Started with PROC DS2. 2019, SESUG Proceedings.

• Duggins and Blum. Web Scraping in SAS: A Macro-Based Approach. 2018, SESUG Proceedings.

• Blum, Duggins, Madi, and Kesler. Building Simulated CRF Data for Study Mock-Ups. 2018, PharmaSUG Proceedings.

• Duggins and Blum. SAS in the Classroom: Exploratory Data Analysis with SAS Studio. 2017, SESUG Proceedings

Presentations

• Methods and Tools For Publishing at SESUG and Beyond — Advanced Techniques. 2023 & 2024 SESUG

• PROC REPORT: Tips and Customizations for Quickly Creating Customized Reports. 2021 SESUG

• The Past, Present, and Future of Training SAS Professionals in a University Program. 2020 SAS Global Forum (Invited). [Cancelled due to COVID-19]

• Web Scraping in SAS: A Macro-Based Approach. 2018, SESUG.

• Building Simulated CRF Data for Study Mock-Ups. 2018, PharmaSUG.

Selected Short Courses & Workshops

Short Courses

• Exploratory Data Analysis Using R Markdown. 2021 — 2024, Data Matters: Data Science Short Course Series

• Introduction to Programming in R. 2021 — 2024, Data Matters: Data Science Short Course Series

• Professional Reporting: Beyond the Basics of PROC REPORT. 2021 & 2023 SESUG

• Advanced R: Automating Work and Sharing Workflow. 2020, Data Matters: Data Science Short Course Series

• Introduction to R for Data Science. 2016-2020, Data Matters: Data Science Short Course Series.

• Intermediate Programming in R. 2016 - 2020, Data Matters: Data Science Short Course Series.

Workshops

• From SAS to R: Concepts, Syntax, and Data Manipulations in R for SAS Programmers. 2024 DSA’s Data at Work

• Working in SGPLOT: Understanding the General Logic of Attributes. 2017, 2018, & 2023 SESUG

• Professional Reporting: Beyond the Basics of PROC REPORT. 2021, 2023 SESUG

• Getting Started with PROC DS2. 2019 & 2023 SESUG

• Working in SGPLOT: Understanding the General Logic of Attributes. 2017 & 2018 SESUG

• SAS in the Classroom: Exploratory Data Analysis with SAS Studio. 2017 SESUG

Professional Interests

• Curriculum-integrated programming

• Statistics education

• Quantile regression

• Changepoint analysis

• Nonparametric inference

Certifications*

• SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS 9

• SAS Certified Statistical Business Analyst Using SAS 9: Regression and Modeling

• SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9

• SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9

*SAS certifications are verifiable via the SAS Global Certified Professional Directory

Grants

• Some, but my favorite is Cary.