SAS for Dummies

ISBN-13: 9780470539682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str.

Chris Hemedinger

Opis

The fun and easy way to learn to use this leading business intelligence tool Written by an author team who is directly involved with SAS, this easy-to-follow guide is fully updated for the latest release of SAS and covers just what you need to put this popular software to work in your business. SAS allows any business or enterprise to improve data delivery, analysis, reporting, movement across a company, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more. SAS For Dummies, 2^nd Edition gives you the necessary background on what SAS can do for you and explains how to use the Enterprise Guide.

• SAS provides statistical and data analysis tools to help you deal with all kinds of data: operational, financial, performance, and more
• Places special emphasis on Enterprise Guide and other analytical tools, covering all commonly used features
• Covers all commonly used features and shows you the practical applications you can put to work in your business
• Explores how to get various types of data into the software and how to work with databases
• Covers producing reports and Web reporting tools, analytics, macros, and working with your data

In the easy-to-follow, no-nonsense For Dummies format, SAS For Dummies gives you the knowledge and the confidence to get SAS working for your organization.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Spis treści

Introduction.

Part I: Welcome to SAS!

Chapter 1:Touring the Wonderful World of SAS.

Chapter 2: Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS Enterprise Guide.

Chapter 3: Six–Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS.

Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information.

Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!

Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That?

Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Less Than a Minute.

Chapter 7: Graphs: More Value with SAS.

Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Business Intelligence.

Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics.

Chapter 9: More Analytics to Enlighten and Entertain.

Chapter 10: Data Mining: Making the Leap from Guesses to Smart Choices.

Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces.

Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate.

Chapter 12: Use OLAP and Impress Your Coworkers.

Chapter 13: Supercharge Microsoft Offi ce with SAS.

Chapter 14: Web Reporting Fever: SAS Has That Covered.

Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock and Roll.

Chapter 15: Setting Up SAS.

Chapter 16: SAS Programming for the Faint of Heart.

Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and SAS Enterprise Guide.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 18: Ten SAS Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips.

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators.

Chapter 20: Ten (or More) Web Resources for Extra Information.

Index.

O autorze

Stephen McDaniel is Principal and cofounder of Freakalytics LLC, which provides training and consulting for data presentation, visual data exploration, and dashboard development. Chris Hemedinger works in SAS R&D on the team that builds SAS Enterprise Guide, a popular user interface for SAS customers.

Blurb

Learn to:

• Use SAS^®9 statistical and analytical tools
• Get various types of data into the software
• Use Web tools to produce reports
• Work with operational, financial, performance, and sales data

Use SAS^® to meet your data management, analysis, reporting, and forecasting needs

Thousands of businesses use hundreds of SAS products to manage and deliver their data more effectively and create reports that mean something. Are you ready to join them? This book helps you use and understand basic SAS software, including SAS^® Enterprise Guide^®, SAS^® Add–In for Microsoft^® Office, and SAS^® Web Report Studio.

• Swiss army knife learn how SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® facilitates both access to and protection of corporate data
• They can do it themselves see how your analysts can create their own reports with SAS tools
• Data can′t hide use infomaps and administered libraries to find data hiding in your PC
• It′s mine make your data mining more effective with SAS^® Enterprise Miner
• Show me the report find out how to create reports in plain text, PDF, RTF, HTML, and SAS Report formats
• Intelligent BI explore the concepts of statistics and analytics as they relate to quality business intelligence
• It′s everywhere learn to use SAS from your desktop, on the Web, in Excel, and even in PowerPoint
• A peek at programming discover how to tweak SAS to fit your needs perfectly

Open the book and find:

• How SAS^® turns data into useful information
• A dozen types of graphs you can create
• Why the IT department loves SAS^®
• Installation and setup advice
• Where to find real–world SAS^® success stories
• How to create SAS^® content to share with others
• Online SAS^® resources