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SAS Viya
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SAS Viya

by Kevin D. Smith, Xiangxiang Meng
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
306 pages
8h 11m
English
SAS Institute
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What Does This Book Cover?

This book is an introduction to using the Python client on the SAS Viya platform. SAS Viya is a high-performance, fault-tolerant analytics architecture that can be deployed on both public and private cloud infrastructures. Although SAS Viya can be used by various SAS applications, it also enables you to access analytic methods from SAS, Python, Lua, and Java, as well as through a REST interface using HTTP or HTTPS. Of course, in this book we focus on the perspective of SAS Viya from Python.

SAS Viya consists of multiple components. The central piece of this ecosystem is SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS). CAS is the cloud-based server that all clients communicate with to run analytical methods. The Python ...

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ISBN: 9781629608839