Chapter 10: Example 1: SAS and Social Media Data

Overview

This chapter steps through an example using SAS with open data from the internet. We will step through the process of accessing data from publicly available websites. Open-data scraping is a popular technique for analysts today and opens a world of possibility to practice skills and augment other data sets that are in use for your analysis.

Audience

This example is for an intermediate SAS user. The steps can be followed by any user with skills in data analysis and data structures; however, anyone can follow along with this to further understand the capabilities in SAS Visual Analytics on SAS Viya.

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