SAS in Practice

Video description

Are you looking to become a data analyst or data scientist? If so, there are various tools and techniques to implement data analytics, but SAS offers many benefits as your first programming language to master: it’s easy to learn and has a user-friendly GUI. To date, it holds the highest market share of all the analytics tools available. If you have little or no programming background and want to get started with SAS, then this is the right course for you!

This course will help you become a confident and proficient data analyst and SAS programmer by giving you the hands-on knowledge and in-depth understanding of the SAS programming suite and how to utilize it effectively. Additionally, it will help you master different techniques in SAS to manipulate your data. You’ll learn how to work with SQL queries and generate effective data reports. Moreover, this course will provide all the content you’re looking for to prepare for the SAS Base certification exam.

By the end of this course, you’ll have a thorough understanding of the fundamental SAS concepts, along with rich hands-on experience of the SAS suite.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand the importance of SAS and its usage and install the Base SAS University edition
  • Understand and use the fundamentals of the SAS programming language
  • Access different types of data (Excel, SAS or text), explore it, then prepare it in a clean and analytical format
  • Manage and manipulate datasets by working on SAS data libraries, sorting, applying conditional logic, assigning, modifying and aggregating variables, and validating and cleaning data
  • Analyze and prepare reports on data using different procedures and export results to common formats such as PDF and Excel
  • Understand PROC SQL, its syntax, and the power of macros to create modular programs
  • Identify and resolve programming logic errors and examine and resolve data errors, thus enabling error handling in SAS

Audience

This course is suitable for analysts who have little or no programming background and want to work with SAS, or who are new to SAS programming and wish to learn how best to utilize it. If you’re a professional and want to add SAS programming skills to your portfolio for future growth, or are a graduate and want to build your career in data analytics and data science, this course will also provide key information to support your SAS skills development.

About The Author

Ekta Saraogi: Ekta Saraogi has been a computer engineer for the past 12 years. She started her career as a Java developer. One thing that has always intrigued her is the power of data to drives business outcomes by the right tools.

She ventured into the field of data science to get the best out of her technical and business experience and drove and delivered cost-effective business analytics solutions for global businesses.

She is now a freelancer, a corporate/online trainer, and a mentor in data science with SAS, R, and Python. She is working on various projects across different domains for global clients across the US and UK. She is also the author of the 'SAS in Practice' video course Published by Packt.

Product information

  • Title: SAS in Practice
  • Author(s): Ekta Saraogi
  • Release date: April 2019
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781838824921