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Formats available	Standard duration
Live Web Classroom:	2 half-day session(s)	System Requirements
e-Learning:	10 hours/1 year license	System Requirements

SAS Enterprise Guide 8 was released in June 2019. A complete redesign was implemented to include a modern and flexible user interface with tab-based organization of content and flexible window management. Additionally new functionalities like 'programming without a project' and many others can be found. We will show you how to take the most out of the new version.

After this session you will have a different attitude towards SAS formats. Formats not only make output more readable, they can also perform many other functions. Have you ever used formats for sorting, data cleansing or grouping? Do you know about the power of combining PROC FCMP and custom formats? Let us celebrate an unsung hero.

This session will give an overview of SASPy, and how you can connect to your SAS installation, a walk-through of the core functionality, and a look at some of the more advanced features. The goal is that you end up with a much better understanding of how to get started with SASPy using Jupyter Notebooks as the interface.

Learn step-by-step techniques to quickly and easily create attractive multi-sheet Excel workbooks using the SAS Output Delivery System (ODS), Report Writing Interface (RWI) and the ODS destination for Excel.

The recent worldwide epidemic has seen the growth in using maps to display important data. This tutorial demonstrates how to create compelling and informative Maps with the latest version of SAS 9.4 , integrating results with internet map services such as OpenStreetMap and Esri.

Interactive dashboard design goes beyond the simple presentation of data. It allows business users to dynamically explore and find answers to their questions. This session looks at some creative techniques of using prompts and parameters, from basic filtering to other use cases like benchmarking, time related comparisons and flexible filtering.

Great dashboard design requires the developer to consider both form and function. In this session we will introduce basic dashboard design theory and demonstrate how this can be easily implemented in SAS Visual Analytics.

The intuitive nature of SAS Visual Analytics allows user to quickly create simple, interactive dashboards to share with their businesses. But what if you want to go further? In this session we will walk you through some examples of integrating advanced analytics into your reporting.

Good data preparation is fundamental to report development, but how much do you need to do before you create the CAS table, and how much can you do in SAS Visual Analytics? In this session we will introduce a range of functionality available to your report designers and where data preparation in CAS is really the answer.

The demand for geographic analysis is ever increasing. In this session we will explore some of the simple and advanced techniques you can use to incorporate geographic data into your analytics.