Data Science with SAS

Course Overview:

In this Data Science with SAS Training, you’ll become an expert in analytics techniques using the SAS data science tool. It offers a comprehensive learning foundation that you can build your analytics career on. Big Data Preparation, Statistics, and Visual Exploration, and also you can learn Predictive Modeling, Advanced Predictive Modeling.

Course Content:

Introduction

♦ Introduction and History of SAS

♦ Significance of SAS software solutions in various industries

♦ Demonstrate SAS Capabilities

♦ Job Profile / career opportunities with SAS worldwide?

Base SAS Fundamentals

♦ Explore SAS Windowing Environment

♦ SAS Tasks

♦ Working with SAS Syntax

♦ Create and submit a SAS sample program

Data Access & Data Transformation

♦ Accessing SAS Data libraries

♦ Getting familiar with SAS Data set

Reading SAS data set

♦ Introduction to reading data

♦ Examine structure of SAS data set

♦ Understanding of SAS works

Reading Excel worksheets

♦ Using Excel data as input

♦ Create as sample program to import and export excel sheets

Reading Raw data from External File

♦ Introduction to raw data

♦ Reading delimited raw data file (List Input)

♦ Using standard delimited data as input

♦ Using nonstandard delimited data as input

♦ Reading raw data aligned to columns (Fixed or column input)

♦ Reading raw data with special instructions (Formatted input)

Writing to an External file

♦ Write data values from SAS data set to an external file

Data transformations (Data step processing)

♦ Create multiple output datasets from single SAS dataset

♦ Writing observations to one or more SAS datasets

♦ Controlling which observations and variables to be written to output data

Creating subset of observations using

♦ Where condition

♦ Conditional processing using: IF statements

Processing Data Iteratively

♦ Iterative DO loop processing with END statement

♦ DO WHILE & DO UNTIL Statement

♦ SAS Array statement

Summarizing data

♦ Creating and Accumulating total variable (Retain)

♦ Using Assignment statement

♦ Accumulating totals for a group of data (BY group)

Manipulating Data

♦ Sorting SAS data sets

♦ Manipulating SAS data values

♦ Presentation of user defined values /data/currency values using FORMAT procedure

♦ SAS functions to manipulate char and num data

♦ Convert data type form char-to num and num-to-char

♦ SAS variables lists/ SAS variables lists range

♦ Debugging SAS program

♦ Accessing observations by creating index

Restructuring a SAS data set

♦ Rotating with the data step

♦ Using the transpose procedure

Combining SAS data sets

♦ Concatenation

♦ Interleaving

♦ One to one reading

♦ One to one merging (with non-matching)

♦ Match merging (Merging types with IN=option)

SAS Access & SAS Connect

♦ Validating and cleaning data

♦ Detect and correct syntax errors

♦ Examining data errors

Analysis & Presentation

SAS/REPORTS SAS/GRAPH

SAS/STATS SAS/ODS

Producing detailed /Summary Reports

♦ Freq Report

♦ Means Report

♦ Tabulate Report

♦ Proc report

♦ Summary report

♦ Univariate report

♦ Contents report

♦ Print report

♦ Compare proc

♦ Copy proc

♦ Datasets proc

♦ Proc append

♦ Proc delete

Generating Statistical Reports using

♦ Regression proc

♦ Uni/Multivariate proc

♦ Anova proc

Generating Graphical reports using

♦ Producing Bar and Pie charts (GCHART Proc)

♦ Producing plots (GPLOT Proc)

♦ Presenting Output Report result in:

♦ PDF

♦ Text files

♦ Excel

♦ HTML Files

SAS/SQL Programming

♦ Introduction and overview to SQL procedure

♦ Proc SQL and Data step comparisons

Basics Queries

♦ Proc SQL syntax overview

♦ Specifying columns/creating new columns

♦ Specifying rows/subsetting on rows

♦ Ordering or sorting data

♦ Formatting output results

♦ Presenting detailed data

♦ Presenting summarized data

Sub Queries

♦ Non correlated sub queries

♦ Correlated sub queries

SQL Joins (Combining SAS data sets using SQL Joins)

♦ Introduction to SQL joins

♦ Types of joins with examples

♦ Simple to complex joins

♦ Choosing between data step merges and SQL joins

SET Operators

♦ Introduction to set operations

♦ Except/Intersect/Union/Outer union operator

Additional SQL Procedures features

♦ Creating views with SQL procedure

♦ Dictionary tables and views

♦ Interfacing Proc SQL with the macro programming language

♦ Creating and maintaining indexes

♦ SQL Pass-Through facility

SAS Macro Language

♦ Introduction to macro facility

♦ Generate SAS code using macros

♦ Macro compilation

♦ Creating macro variables

♦ Scope or macro variables

♦ Global/Local Macro variables

♦ User defined /Automatic Macro variables

♦ Macro variables references

♦ Combing macro variables references with text

♦ Macro functions

♦ Quoting (Masking)

♦ Creating macro variables in Data step (Call SYMPUT Routine)

♦ Obtaining variable value during macro execution (SYMGET function)

♦ Creating macro variables during PROC SQL execution (INTO Clause)

♦ Creating a delimited list of values

♦ Macro parameters

♦ Strong Macro using Autocall Features

♦ Permanently storing and using stored compiled macro program

♦ SAS Macro debugging options to track problems

Basics Statistics

♦ Standard deviation

♦ Correlation Coefficients

♦ Outliers

♦ Linear regressions

♦ Clustering

♦ Chi Square.

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