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Point. Click. Report. Access, analyze and summarize institutional data from your desktop using SAS Enterprise Guide
This webinar demonstrates the menu driven tasks in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2, the point-and-click interface to SAS, to perform common institutional research tasks: querying, reporting, and analyzing data. SAS Enterprise Guide provides a graphical interface that helps you exploit the power of SAS and publish dynamic results in a Microsoft Windows client application. While you can write, submit, and generate SAS programming code using SAS Enterprise Guide, this webinar does not cover the SAS programming language.March 26, 2010 - View recording.
Working Smarter, not harder
Using the Excel XP tagset is a quick and clean method for creating Excel spreadsheets with multiple tabs, various numbers of tables per tab, and formatting specific to individual sheets or cells. When an At-A-Glance summary page is needed in addition to these detailed views, it would be convenient to be able to simply copy and format some of the tables from various tabs into an appropriately-sized summary page. When a task such as this is repeated on a frequent basis and the created sheet has a relatively-fixed format, it makes sense to include this summary sheet creation into the SAS program. In this webinar, we will show how to make use of the EXCELXP tagset and its many options to create formatted tables in Excel. We will then show how to use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) to assemble a summary sheet for an At-A-Glance look at the detailed tables.Dec 14, 2009 - View recording.
SAS Teams with AIR Connections Program
To help institutional researchers learn more about how SAS can help them better understand, analyze, and report on their institution's data, SAS and the Association for Institutional Research teamed up to present a 2008-2009 webinar series as part of AIR's Connections Program.Student Retention Analysis Using SAS: Data Analysis
This webinar begins where the Data Preparation and Exploration leaves off. With the data ready to analyze, the webinar begins with a review of statistical hypothesis testing. Two sample t-tests and chi-square tests for association are used to explore possible relationships between the various pieces of information and student retention. Download the course notes (.pdf).Nov 4, 2008 - View recording.
An Analysis of Institutional Research Data Using SAS
To help institutional researchers learn more about how SAS can help them better understand, analyze, and report on their institution's data, SAS and the Association for Institutional Research teamed up to present a five-session lecture series in 2007-2008 entitled: An Analysis of Institutional Research Data Using SAS.Data Mining for Donor Modeling
There are a number of questions that arise when examining university donors, such as who is most likely to donate to my institution, how much are they likely to donate, how can I move a donor from one level of giving to a higher level, who is likely to become a major donor, who is likely to be retained as a donor. This seminar will introduce you to some of the issues and special considerations when trying to build predictive models for donations. It will include an introduction to SAS Enterprise Miner with a donor example.Nov 9, 2007 - View recording.
Data Mining for Enrollment Management in Higher Education
Freshmen recruitment, enrollment, and retention are important issues in higher education. Researchers from across the country have used data mining techniques to develop models to predict who will enroll and why students fail to enroll for their second year. Predictive models using admissions data give enrollment management officials unique profiles of prospective students which help to estimate enrollment numbers and establish targeted recruitment initiatives. Persistence is perhaps the biggest piece of the enrollment management puzzle. University records data is used to gauge a student's intent to persist through the identification of at-risk populations using predictive modeling. In an environment with increased competition to recruit, retain, and graduate the best and brightest students, data mining is an imperative tool in higher education. In this presentation, the data mining experiences of two universities will be discussed, as well as a comparison and contrast of the private and public university perspective.Oct 15, 2007 - View recording.
Oct 24, 2007 - View recording.
Data Mining Overview
Data mining can be defined as advanced methods for exploring and modeling relationships in large amounts of data. Data mining is being used by universities around the world in a number of ways. In particular, University Institutional researchers are using data mining for topics such as enrollment management, retention and graduation analysis, donation prediction, and faculty retention. This presentation will give you an insight into the history of data mining and an overview of the data mining process. The emphasis will be on data mining for predictive modeling in Institutional Research.Aug 24, 2007 - View recording.
Descriptive Statistics and Graphs Using SAS Enterprise Guide
Colleges and universities are collecting more data on their institutions for accreditation and assessment purposes. It can seem like a daunting task to begin to make sense of the data. However, thanks to software advances, there are statistical and reporting techniques that can be used to begin to quickly make sense of data. The purpose of this workshop is to teach participants the first phase of any such data analysis: descriptive statistics and graphs with particular attention paid to those that are pertinent to institutional researchers. SAS Enterprise Guide software will be used to illustrate the concepts taught.Jun 15, 2007 - View recording.
Jun 22, 2007 - View recording.
Overview of SAS in an Institutional Research Office
Have you ever wondered what SAS is today? This seminar will introduce (or reintroduce) you to SAS software - which may not still be the SAS you remember from your college days. The focus will be on the aspects of SAS that are most likely to benefit you as an Institutional Researcher. We will also discuss the functional areas in institutional research and how SAS can be used to perform tasks in these areas. Finally, this presentation will discuss how Baylor University utilizes SAS in its institutional research.Apr 9, 2007 - View recording.
May 14, 2007 - View recording.
