Extending SAS Enterprise Miner with User-Written Nodes

Duration: 1.0 day

This outline is provisional and subject to change.

This course teaches you how to extend the functionality of SAS Enterprise Miner in SAS 9.

Learn how to

• develop custom nodes that incorporate other SAS procedures
• customize exploratory methods and use the results to modify metadata
• construct a model node that derives model coefficients using training data; constructs score code; and scores validation, test, and score data using score code
• create assessment data for predictive models.

Who should attend: Experienced data miners and predictive modelers

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have

• experience using SAS Enterprise Miner. You can gain this knowledge from the Applied Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner course.
• SAS programming skills at the intermediate or advanced level. You can acquire these skills from the SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques course.
• knowledge of SAS macro programming. You can gain this knowledge from the SAS Macro Language 1: Essentials course.

Knowledge of XML and JAVA is a plus but is not essential.

Course Contents

Introduction to SAS Enterprise Miner
The Enterprise Miner SAS Code Node
XML for Enterprise Miner
Developing Enterprise Miner User-Written Nodes
A User-Written Predictive Modeling Node (Self-Study)

Software Addressed

This course addresses the following software product(s): SAS Enterprise Miner.

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