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Agenda for Today’s Session
Why Data Analytics?
What is Data Analytics?
Data Science Analytics Tools
Why SAS?
What is SAS?
What SAS solves?
Components of SAS
How can we practice Base SAS?
Demo

Why Data Analytics?

Why Data Analytics?
Cost
Reduction
Improved
Services or
Products
Faster and
Better Decision
Making
Next
Generation
Products
Data
Analytics
Data Analytics help
manage resources so
as to reduce costs
Analytics enables
better work related
decisions
Meeting customer
needs through better
services
Data Analytics paves
the way for the
creation of next gen
products

Data analytics refers to qualitative and quantitative techniques and processes used to enhance productivity and business
gain. Data is extracted and categorized to identify and analyze behavioral data and patterns, and techniques vary according to
organizational requirements.

Data analytics examines large and different
types of data to uncover hidden patterns,
correlations and other insights
DATA ANALYTICS DECISIONS

Data Analytics Tools

Data Analytics Tools
There are many tools to perform Data Analytics and the popular ones are:
Open SourcePaid Tools

Why SAS?

Why SAS?
Ease of
Learning
Data Handling
Capacities
Graphical
Capabilities
Updating of
Tool
Job
Scenario

Why SAS?
Ease of
Learning
Data Handling
Capacities
Graphical
Capabilities
Updating of
Tool
Job
Scenario
SAS is easy to learn and provides easy option (PROC SQL) for
people who already know SQL. R on the other hand has a very
steep learning curve as it is a low level programming language.

Why SAS?
Ease of
Learning
Data Handling
Capacities
Graphical
Capabilities
Updating of
Tool
Job
Scenario
SAS is on par with all leading tools including R & Python when it
comes to handling huge amount of data and options for parallel
computations.

Why SAS?
Ease of
Learning
Data Handling
Capacities
Graphical
Capabilities
Updating of
Tool
Job
Scenario
SAS provides functional graphical capabilities and with a little bit of
learning, it is possible to customize on these plots.

Why SAS?
Ease of
Learning
Data Handling
Capacities
Graphical
Capabilities
Updating of
Tool
Job
Scenario
SAS releases updates in controlled environment, hence they are well
tested. R & Python on the other hand, have open contribution and
there are chances of errors in latest developments.

Why SAS?
Ease of
Learning
Data Handling
Capacities
Graphical
Capabilities
Updating of
Tool
Job
Scenario
Globally, SAS is the market leader in available corporate jobs. In India,
SAS controls about 70% of the data analytics market share compared
to 15% for R.

What is SAS?

What is SAS?
▪ SAS (Statistical Analytics System) is a software suite for advanced analytics,
multivariate analyses, business intelligence, data management and predictive
analytics.
▪ It is developed by SAS Institute.
▪ SAS provides a graphical point-and-click user interface for non-technical users
and more advanced options through the SAS language.

What SAS Solves?

What SAS Solves?
SAS is used for the following things :
Advanced Analytics
Multi-Variate Analysis
Business Intelligence
Data Management
Predictive Analysis

What SAS Solves?
Advanced Analytics
Data Management
Predictive Analysis
Advanced analytics is a broad
category of inquiry that can be used
to help drive changes and
improvements in business practices.

What SAS Solves?
Advanced Analytics
Data Management
Predictive Analysis
In analysis when you have multiple
variables, that you have to consider,
the kind of analysis is called Multi
Variate Analysis.

What SAS Solves?
Advanced Analytics
Data Management
Predictive Analysis
The term Business Intelligence (BI)
refers to technologies, applications
and practices for the collection,
integration, analysis, and presentation
of business information.

What SAS Solves?
Advanced Analytics
Data Management
Predictive Analysis
Data management is the
development and execution of
architectures, policies, practices and
procedures in order to manage the
information lifecycle needs of an
enterprise in an effective manner.

What SAS Solves?
Advanced Analytics
Data Management
Predictive Analysis
Predictive analytics is the branch of
the advanced analytics which is used
to make predictions about unknown
future events.

SAS Components

SAS Components
There are close to 200 components in SAS some of them include:
•Base SAS – Basic procedures and data management
•SAS/STAT – Statistical analysis
•SAS/GRAPH – Graphics and presentation
•SAS/OR – Operations research
•SAS/ETS – Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
•SAS/IML – Interactive matrix language
•SAS/AF – Applications facility
•SAS/QC – Quality control
•SAS/INSIGHT – Data mining
•SAS/PH – Clinical trial analysis
•Enterprise Miner – data mining
•Enterprise Guide - GUI based code editor & project manager
•SAS EBI - Suite of Business Intelligence Applications
•SAS Grid Manager - Manager of SAS grid computing environment

SAS Components
Don’t worry we will be covering only Base SAS, which is our topic of interest.
•Base SAS – Basic procedures and data management
•SAS/STAT – Statistical analysis
•SAS/GRAPH – Graphics and presentation
•SAS/OR – Operations research
•SAS/ETS – Econometrics and Time Series Analysis
•SAS/IML – Interactive matrix language
•SAS/AF – Applications facility
•SAS/QC – Quality control
•SAS/INSIGHT – Data mining
•SAS/PH – Clinical trial analysis
•Enterprise Miner – data mining
•Enterprise Guide - GUI based code editor & project manager
•SAS EBI - Suite of Business Intelligence Applications
•SAS Grid Manager - Manager of SAS grid computing environment

How will you learn Base SAS?

How will you learn SAS?
Unless you do hands-on, you cannot learn anything. Having said that, there are two ways to practice SAS:
SAS University
WPS Express
Base SAS

How to install SAS University?

https://www.sas.com/en_ in/software/university-edition.htmlGo to this link:
Step 1:

Step 2: Click on the download link.

Step 3: Go to Step3 and click on Download

Step 4: Install Virtual Box and then click on Import Appliance

Step 5: Browse to your VM app and then click on Next.
*Note: Keep in mind while
installing which
architecture your
processor belongs to, and
set that particular version
32 bit/ 64 bit.
After this just follow the
onscreen steps and you are
set!

Copy this link
Step 6: Run your VM in Virtual Box

Step 7: Copy the link in your browser and voila! You are done! Enjoy SAS Studio!

How to install WPS?

How to install WPS?
https://www.worldprogramming.com/try-or-buy/wps/editions/expressLink for Installation:

How to install WPS?
Step 2: After Step 1, you will reach this page, fill in all your details:

How to install WPS?
Step 3: After Step 2, you will reach this page, click on Request WPS Express:

How to install WPS?
Step 4: once the license is approved you will see this page:

How to install WPS?
Step 5: Once the license is approved you will see this page:
Download and install
the version which suits
your system config.

SAS Code Structure

SAS Code Structure
SAS code is divided into two main parts:
data proc
SAS Code
Let’s see the sample code for this

SAS Code Structure
data block
proc block
Usually you will need
only these two blocks
in your program.
It tells SAS to run the code

SAS Code Structure – Data Block
• Compute
• Check for errors
• Subsetting
• Supersetting
• Merging
• Updating
It is used to do the following operations on the
dataset:
Data Block

SAS Code Structure – Procedure Block
• Summarize
• Sort
• List
• Produce descriptive statistics
• Generate reports and graphs
It is used to do the following operations on the
dataset:
Procedure Block

SAS Demo

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