Business Analytics with SAS Studio

Author: Rajinder Kr. Chitoria
Publisher: BPB Publications
ISBN: 9391392733
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Analyzing business data points with greater precision, efficiency, and speed KEY FEATURES ● Exposure to work on large datasets, data mining techniques, and SAS built-in functions. ● Exciting examples and a step-by-step guide to the entire field of business analytics. ● Additional support of sophisticated SQL queries and the creation of strong visualization reports. DESCRIPTION This book teaches readers how to properly use SAS (R) Studio to enhance business analytics summaries and graphical reports to make more informed business decisions. Since the examples in the book are laid out in a logical sequence, no prior knowledge is required to get started with implementing what you learn in them. The book begins with configuring your SAS® OnDemand instance, complete with sample datasets and scripts. The book explains programming syntaxes before delving into sophisticated programming principles for managing data values and concludes with creating graphical reports for business data values. It explores how to implement datasets, read external files, execute conditional statements, loops, formats, text, date, numeric functions, and arrays. The book also helps writing SQL Statements such as joins, sets, index, views, etc. with Proc SQL, Univariate (PROC MEAN, PROC FREQ), Multivariate (PROC FREQ), and Design Graphs with the help of PROC SGPLOT. After reading this book, readers will be able to evaluate business data values and create excellent visualizations that will assist enterprises in making more informed business decisions. Readers will become confident to use SAS Studio's rich interface and develop analytical programs. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Configuring Online SAS® OnDemand for Academics. ● Writing BASE SAS Programming, and writing conditional, looping-based programs. ● Implementing SAS built-in text, date, numeric functions, and reading external data files. ● Using the SQL Statement with PROC SQL Processing. ● Plotting attractive data visualization using PROC SGPLOT. ● End-to-end case study on Employee Skill Development’s Data Analytics and Visualization. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for those who wish to learn how to use SAS Studio's rich interface and develop an analytical program that helps make better decisions. Having a basic understanding of how data analytics works helps. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introducing SAS Environment 2. Starting with SAS Programming 3. Data Mining and Storage Techniques in SAS 4. Controlling the Program Flow in SAS 5. Using SAS Built-In Functions 6. Working with Advanced Data Input Techniques 7. Getting Started with SQL Processing in SAS 8. Managing Database Tables in SAS 9. Working with Dataset in SAS 10. Data Visualization and Macro Programming with SAS 11. Case Study

Exploring SAS Viya

Author: Sas Education
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642954838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
This first book in the series covers how to access data files, libraries, and existing code in SAS Studio. You also learn about new procedures in SAS Viya, how to write new code, and how to use some of the pre-installed tasks that come with SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning. In the last chapter, you learn how to use the features in SAS Data Preparation to perform data management tasks using SAS Data Explorer, SAS Data Studio, and SAS Lineage Viewer. Also available free as a PDF from sas.com/books.

Big Data Analytics with SAS

Author: David Pope
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788294319
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Leverage the capabilities of SAS to process and analyze Big Data About This Book Combine SAS with platforms such as Hadoop, SAP HANA, and Cloud Foundry-based platforms for effecient Big Data analytics Learn how to use the web browser-based SAS Studio and iPython Jupyter Notebook interfaces with SAS Practical, real-world examples on predictive modeling, forecasting, optimizing and reporting your Big Data analysis with SAS Who This Book Is For SAS professionals and data analysts who wish to perform analytics on Big Data using SAS to gain actionable insights will find this book to be very useful. If you are a data science professional looking to perform large-scale analytics with SAS, this book will also help you. A basic understanding of SAS will be helpful, but is not mandatory. What You Will Learn Configure a free version of SAS in order do hands-on exercises dealing with data management, analysis, and reporting. Understand the basic concepts of the SAS language which consists of the data step (for data preparation) and procedures (or PROCs) for analysis. Make use of the web browser based SAS Studio and iPython Jupyter Notebook interfaces for coding in the SAS, DS2, and FedSQL programming languages. Understand how the DS2 programming language plays an important role in Big Data preparation and analysis using SAS Integrate and work efficiently with Big Data platforms like Hadoop, SAP HANA, and cloud foundry based systems. In Detail SAS has been recognized by Money Magazine and Payscale as one of the top business skills to learn in order to advance one's career. Through innovative data management, analytics, and business intelligence software and services, SAS helps customers solve their business problems by allowing them to make better decisions faster. This book introduces the reader to the SAS and how they can use SAS to perform efficient analysis on any size data, including Big Data. The reader will learn how to prepare data for analysis, perform predictive, forecasting, and optimization analysis and then deploy or report on the results of these analyses. While performing the coding examples within this book the reader will learn how to use the web browser based SAS Studio and iPython Jupyter Notebook interfaces for working with SAS. Finally, the reader will learn how SAS's architecture is engineered and designed to scale up and/or out and be combined with the open source offerings such as Hadoop, Python, and R. By the end of this book, you will be able to clearly understand how you can efficiently analyze Big Data using SAS. Style and approach The book starts off by introducing the reader to SAS and the SAS programming language which provides data management, analytical, and reporting capabilities. Most chapters include hands on examples which highlights how SAS provides The Power to Know©. The reader will learn that if they are looking to perform large-scale data analysis that SAS provides an open platform engineered and designed to scale both up and out which allows the power of SAS to combine with open source offerings such as Hadoop, Python, and R.

An Introduction to SAS Visual Analytics

Author: Tricia Aanderud
Publisher: SAS Institute
ISBN: 1635260442
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Focusing on the version of SAS Visual Analytics on SAS 9.4, this thorough guide will show you how to make sense of your complex data with the goal of leading you to smarter, data-driven decisions without having to write a single line of code ¿̐ư unless you want to. --

Exploring SAS Viya

Author: Sas Education
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642954906
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
Data visualization enables decision makers to see analytics presented visually so that they can grasp difficult concepts or identify new patterns. SAS offers several solutions for visualizing your data, many of which are powered by SAS Viya. This book includes four visualization solutions powered by SAS Viya: SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Visual Statistics, SAS Visual Text Analytics, and SAS Visual Investigator. SAS visualization software is designed for anyone in your organization who wants to use and derive insights from data-from influencers, decision makers, and analysts to statisticians and data scientists. Also available as a free e-book from sas.com/books.

Text Analytics with SAS

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642954821
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
SAS provides many different solutions to investigate and analyze text and operationalize decisioning. Several impressive papers have been written to demonstrate how to use these techniques. We have carefully selected a handful of these from recent Global Forum contributions to introduce you to the topic and let you sample what each has to offer. Also available free as a PDF from sas.com/books.

SAS Text Analytics for Business Applications

Author: Teresa Jade
Publisher: SAS Institute
ISBN: 1635266610
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Extract actionable insights from text and unstructured data. Information extraction is the task of automatically extracting structured information from unstructured or semi-structured text. SAS Text Analytics for Business Applications: Concept Rules for Information Extraction Models focuses on this key element of natural language processing (NLP) and provides real-world guidance on the effective application of text analytics. Using scenarios and data based on business cases across many different domains and industries, the book includes many helpful tips and best practices from SAS text analytics experts to ensure fast, valuable insight from your textual data. Written for a broad audience of beginning, intermediate, and advanced users of SAS text analytics products, including SAS Visual Text Analytics, SAS Contextual Analysis, and SAS Enterprise Content Categorization, this book provides a solid technical reference. You will learn the SAS information extraction toolkit, broaden your knowledge of rule-based methods, and answer new business questions. As your practical experience grows, this book will serve as a reference to deepen your expertise.

Machine Learning with SAS Viya

Author: SAS Institute Inc.
Publisher: SAS Institute
ISBN: 1951685377
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
Master machine learning with SAS Viya! Machine learning can feel intimidating for new practitioners. Machine Learning with SAS Viya provides everything you need to know to get started with machine learning in SAS Viya, including decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. The analytics life cycle is covered from data preparation and discovery to deployment. Working with open-source code? Machine Learning with SAS Viya has you covered – step-by-step instructions are given on how to use SAS Model Manager tools with open source. SAS Model Studio features are highlighted to show how to carry out machine learning in SAS Viya. Demonstrations, practice tasks, and quizzes are included to help sharpen your skills. In this book, you will learn about: Supervised and unsupervised machine learning Data preparation and dealing with missing and unstructured data Model building and selection Improving and optimizing models Model deployment and monitoring performance

Applying Data Science

Author: Gerhard Svolba
Publisher: SAS Institute
ISBN: 1635260566
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Book Description
See how data science can answer the questions your business faces! Applying Data Science: Business Case Studies Using SAS, by Gerhard Svolba, shows you the benefits of analytics, how to gain more insight into your data, and how to make better decisions. In eight entertaining and real-world case studies, Svolba combines data science and advanced analytics with business questions, illustrating them with data and SAS code. The case studies range from a variety of fields, including performing headcount survival analysis for employee retention, forecasting the demand for new projects, using Monte Carlo simulation to understand outcome distribution, among other topics. The data science methods covered include Kaplan-Meier estimates, Cox Proportional Hazard Regression, ARIMA models, Poisson regression, imputation of missing values, variable clustering, and much more! Written for business analysts, statisticians, data miners, data scientists, and SAS programmers, Applying Data Science bridges the gap between high-level, business-focused books that skimp on the details and technical books that only show SAS code with no business context.

The Data Detective's Toolkit

Author: Kim Chantala
Publisher: SAS Institute
ISBN: 1952363020
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
Reduce the cost and time of cleaning, managing, and preparing research data while also improving data quality! Have you ever wished there was an easy way to reduce your workload and improve the quality of your data? The Data Detective’s Toolkit: Cutting-Edge Techniques and SAS Macros to Clean, Prepare, and Manage Data will help you automate many of the labor-intensive tasks needed to turn raw data into high-quality, analysis-ready data. You will find the right tools and techniques in this book to reduce the amount of time needed to clean, edit, validate, and document your data. These tools include SAS macros as well as ingenious ways of using SAS procedures and functions. The innovative logic built into the book’s macro programs enables you to monitor the quality of your data using information from the formats and labels created for the variables in your data set. The book explains how to harmonize data sets that need to be combined and automate data cleaning tasks to detect errors in data including out-of-range values, inconsistent flow through skip paths, missing data, no variation in values for a variable, and duplicates. By the end of this book, you will be able to automatically produce codebooks, crosswalks, and data catalogs.