Setting Up Your Project

Create a New Project

In Enterprise Miner, you store your work in projects. A project can contain multiple process flow diagrams and information that pertains to them. It is a good idea to create a separate project for each major data mining problem that you want to investigate. This task creates a new project that you will use for this example.

To create a new project, click New Project in the Welcome to Enterprise Miner window.
The Create New Project window opens. In the Name box, type a name for the project, such as Getting Started Charitable Giving Example.
In the Host box, select a logical workspace server from the drop-down list. The main SAS workspace server is named SASMain by default. Contact your system administrator if you are unsure of your site's configuration.
In the Path box, type the path to the location on the server where you want to store the data that is associated with the example project. Your project path depends on whether you are running Enterprise Miner as a complete client on your local machine or as a client/server application.

If you are running Enterprise Miner as a complete client, your local machine acts as its own server. Your Enterprise Miner projects are stored on your local machine, in a location that you specify, such as C:\EMProjects.

If you are running Enterprise Miner as a client/server application, all projects are stored on the Enterprise Miner server. Ask your system administrator to configure the library location and access permission to the data source for this example.

If the Path box is empty, you must enter a valid path. If you see a default path in the Path box, you can accept the default path, or you may be able to specify your own project path. If you see a default path in the Path box and the path field is dimmed and unavailable for editing, you must use the default path that has been defined by the system administrator. This example uses C:\EMProjects\.
On the Start-Up Code tab, you can enter SAS code that you want SAS Enterprise Miner to run each time you open the project. Enter the following statement.

Similarly, you can use the Exit Code tab to enter SAS code that you want Enterprise Miner to run each time you exit the project.
Click OK. The new project will be created and it opens automatically.

Note: Example results might differ from your results. Enterprise Miner nodes and their statistical methods might incrementally change between releases. Your process flow diagram results might differ slightly from the results that are shown in this example. However, the overall scope of the analysis will be the same. [cautionend]

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