Chapter 1. Setting Up the SAS® Software Environment
What is SAS? If you had never heard of SAS, most likely you would not have picked up this book. You may have thought about the airline, Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS), and wondered what an airline has to do with big data analytics. Other than the fact that airlines generate a lot of big data and they to analyze it just like any other business, we are not talking about the airline. This book is about the SAS Institute, which is officially described like this SAS is the world's largest privately held software company. Third-party guide for SAS trademarks, https://www.sas.com/en_us/legal/editorial-guidelines.html.
Privately held simply means the company is privately owned and does not sell stock. ...
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