This intensive training course provides accelerated learning for those students who will build reports, analyses, and dashboards for consumption by business users and other information consumers in their organization.
This course combines the courses: SAS Enterprise Guide and Visual Analytics Fast Track
Learn how to
- access and manipulate local and remote data of various types using SAS Enterprise Guide
- create queries that filter and summarize data, compute new columns, and join multiple tables
- create frequency and tabular reports
- create interactive graphs
- automate output results.
- interact with the environment via the SAS Visual Analytics Hub
- access and prepare data for exploration, analysis, and reporting
- explore data using the SAS Visual Analytics Explorer
- create reports with the SAS Visual Analytics Designer
- use the SAS Visual Data Builder and understand the capabilities of the SAS Visual Analytics Administrator
- view reports using the SAS Visual Analytics Viewer and SAS Mobile BI.
Who should attend
Business analysts
Formats available | Duration | | |
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5.00 days | | |
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No SAS experience or programming experience is required, although you should have some computer experience.
Getting Started
- introducing SAS Enterprise Guide
- course scenarios
Working with Data in a Project
- understanding SAS data structure
- accessing SAS and DBMS data
- importing data files
Getting Started with Tasks
- introduction to tasks and wizards
- creating a frequency report
- generating HTML, PDF, and RTF output
- creating a listing report
- filtering data in a task
- creating a graph
Creating Simple Queries
- introduction to querying data
- filtering and sorting data
- creating new columns with an expression
- grouping and summarizing data in a query
- joining tables
Creating Summarized Output
- generating summary statistics
- creating a summary report with the Summary Tables task
Using Prompts in Tasks and Queries
- prompting in projects
- creating and using prompts in tasks
- creating and using prompts in queries
Customizing and Organizing Project Results
- combining results
- updating results
Getting Started with SAS Visual Analytics
- exploring SAS Visual Analytics concepts
- using the SAS Visual Analytics Hub
- discussing the course environment and scenario
Administering the Environment and Managing Data
- exploring SAS Visual Data Builder
- exploring the SAS Visual Analytics Adminstrator
Using the SAS Visual Analytics Explorer
- examining the Visual Analytics Explorer
- selecting data and defining data item properties
- creating visualizations
- enhancing visualizations with advanced analytics
- interacting with visualizations and explorations
Designing Reports with SAS Visual Analytics
- examining the SAS Visual Analytics Designer interface
- creating a simple report
- working with graphs
- working with filters and report sections
- establishing interactions
- working with gauges
- working with tables
- working with other objects
Viewing SAS Visual Analytics Reports
- viewing reports on the Web
- viewing reports on a mobile device
Case Study: Creating Analyses and Reports with SAS Visual Analytics
Learning More
- SAS resources
- beyond this course
