SAS Visual Text Analytics: Exploring Literature for Drug Safety Signals

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Presenter: Ari Zitin

Explore the capabilities of SAS Visual Text Analytics by searching abstracts from biomedical and life sciences research literature for adverse event signals. In this workshop you will build a text analytics pipeline to extract key pieces of information from the literature that identify a safety risk in some previously marketed drugs. We use literature abstracts extracted from the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed database to explore adverse event signals around cancer and cancer causing chemicals in the generic drug Ranitidine. We create custom concept rules in SAS Visual Text Analytics to highlight some of these safety signals, and we also see how to visualize these results in SAS Visual Analytics. This workshop is designed to be accessible to SAS users with no background in pharmacovigilance, the topic area was chosen to illustrate the use of text analytics on real-world data in the context of a real historical safety issue.