SAS For Dummies
- 4h 30m
- Chris Hemedinger, Stephen McDaniel
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2007
Use SAS on the Web, in Excel or PowerPoint, and from your desktop
The fun and easy way to manage and analyze data
Need to get up and running with SAS? This plain-English guide offers information on all the SAS basics, including getting data into the software, generating reports, creating graphs, and sharing results. Step-by-step instructions and screenshots show you how to work with analytics, databases, reports, and queries.
- Gather and present data
- Use the powerful analytics of SAS
- Access SAS from Microsoft Office and the Web
- Master SAS Enterprise Guide
- Work with SAS and databases
About the Authors
Stephen McDaniel works at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA, and is the Senior Manager of User Empowerment–Business Intelligence and Analytics. He is a strategic advisor and mentor for the business units in Yahoo! Search Marketing, helping business users to harness the potential of their data assets for planning and decision-making. As a member of Strategic Data Systems, he works closely with the data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic teams on behalf of the business units to provide user-centric vision and guidance to their efforts. Previously, Stephen was the senior manager in charge of the SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office development teams at SAS. Stephen has been a SAS user for more than 17 years and has experience at over 50 companies as a statistician, statistical programmer, product manager, and manager of data warehousing and business intelligence.
Chris Hemedinger is a senior software manager in the Business Intelligence Clients division at SAS. Chris began his career at SAS in 1993 as a technical writer, creating such hits as SAS Companion for the OS/2 Environment (remember OS/2?) and SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment. In 1997, he became involved in a prototype project to make SAS easier to use for non-programmers, and that project evolved into the hugely popular SAS Enterprise Guide, a product that Chris has worked with ever since.
In this Book
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SAS For Dummies
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Introduction
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Touring the Wonderful World of SAS
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Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS Enterprise Guide
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Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS
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Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!
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Managing Data: I Can Do That?
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Show Me a Report in Less Than a Minute
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You Want Fries with That Graph?
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A Painless Introduction to Analytics
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More Analytics to Enlighten and Entertain
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Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output
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Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate
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OLAP: Impressing Your Co-workers
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Supercharge Microsoft Office with SAS
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Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered
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Setting It All Up
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Taming the Data Beast
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The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and SAS Enterprise Guide
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Ten SAS Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips
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Ten Tips for Administrators
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Ten (or More) Web Resources for Extra Information
