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Hands-On SAS for Data Analysis: A practical guide to performing effective queries, data visualization, and reporting techniques

Gulati

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Paperback Sep 2019 346 pages 1st Edition

Gulati

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Key benefits

Build enterprise-class data solutions using SAS and become well-versed in SAS programming
Work with different data structures, and run SQL queries to manipulate your data
Explore essential concepts and techniques with practical examples to confidently pass the SAS certification exam

Description

SAS is one of the leading enterprise tools in the world today when it comes to data management and analysis. It enables the fast and easy processing of data and helps you gain valuable business insights for effective decision-making. This book will serve as a comprehensive guide that will prepare you for the SAS certification exam. After a quick overview of the SAS architecture and components, the book will take you through the different approaches to importing and reading data from different sources using SAS. You will then cover SAS Base and 4GL, understanding data management and analysis, along with exploring SAS functions for data manipulation and transformation. Next, you'll discover SQL procedures and get up to speed on creating and validating queries. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn all about data visualization, right from creating bar charts and sample geographic maps through to assigning patterns and formats. In addition to this, the book will focus on macro programming and its advanced aspects. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in SAS programming and have the skills you need to easily handle and manage your data-related problems in SAS.

Who is this book for?

Budding or experienced data professionals who want to get started with SAS will benefit from this book. Those looking to prepare for the SAS certification exam will also find this book to be a useful resource. Some understanding of basic data management concepts will help you get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

Explore a variety of SAS modules and packages for efficient data analysis
Use SAS 4GL functions to manipulate, merge, sort, and transform data
Gain useful insights into advanced PROC SQL options in SAS to interact with data
Get to grips with SAS Macro and define your own macros to share data
Discover the different graphical libraries to shape and visualize data with
Apply the SAS Output Delivery System to prepare detailed reports

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Product Details

Publication date : Sep 27, 2019

Length: 346 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781788839822

Vendor :

SAS Institute

Category :

Data

Languages :

SQL

Concepts :

Data Analysis

Tools :

SAS

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16 Chapters

Section 1: SAS Basics

Introduction to SAS Programming

SAS dataset fundamentals

SAS programming language – basic syntax

Data Manipulation and Transformation

Length of a variable

Case conversion and alignment

String identification

Dealing with blanks

Missing and multiple values

Interval calculations

Section 2: Merging, Optimizing, and Descriptive Statistics

Combining, Indexing, Encryption, and Compression Techniques Simplified

Introduction to combining

Power of Statistics, Reporting, Transforming Procedures, and Functions

Proc Freq

Proc Univariate

Proc Means and Summary

Section 3: Advanced Programming

Advanced Programming Techniques - SAS Macros

What are macros?

Macro variable processing

Macro resolution tracking

Macro definition processing

Comparing positional and keywords parameters

Data-driven programming

Leveraging automatic global macro variables

Macros that evaluate

Writing efficient macros

Summary

Powerful Functions, Options, and Automatic Variables Simplified

NOMPREPLACE and MREPLACE

NOMCOMPILE and NCOMPILE

MCOMPILENOTE

NOMEXECNOTE and MEXECNOTE

MAUTOCOMPLOC

MACRO and NOMACRO

Exchanging values between the DATA step and macro variables

CALL EXECUTE

Altering the CALL SYMPUT example

Resolving macro variables

Macro quoting

Summary

Section 4: SQL in SAS

Advanced Programming Techniques Using PROC SQL

Comparing data steps and Proc SQL

Deep Dive into PROC SQL

SAS views in Proc SQL

Making changes with Proc SQL

Identifying duplicates using Proc SQL

Creating an index in Proc SQL

Macros and Proc SQL

Summary

Section 5: Data Visualization and Reporting

Data Visualization

The role of data visualization in analytics

Histograms

Line plots

Vertical and horizontal bar charts

Scatter charts

Box plot

Summary

Reporting and Output Delivery System

Proc Tabulate

Specifying the ODS destination

Formatting ODS files

ODS Excel charts

Summary

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About the author

Gulati

Shekhar Gulati is a developer and OpenShift evangelist working with Red Hat. He has been evangelizing about OpenShift for the last 2 years. He regularly speaks at various conferences and user groups around the world to spread the goodness of OpenShift. He regularly blogs on the OpenShift official blog and has written more than 50 blogs on OpenShift. Shekhar has also written many technical articles for IBM developerWorks, Developer.com, and Javalobby.

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