SAS For Dummies

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
Learn to:
Use SAS9 statistical and analytical tools
Get various types of data into thesoftware
Use Web tools to produce reports
Work with operational, financial,performance, and sales data

Spis treści:
Introduction.
Pa rt 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.

Nota biograficzna:
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.

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Use SAS to meet your data management, analysis, reporting, and forecasting needs
Thousands of businesses use hundreds of SA S 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
Learn to:
Use SAS9 statistical and analytical tools
Get various types of data into thesoftware
Use Web tools to produce reports
Work with operational, financial,performance, and sales data