Free workshops
Workshops designed to empower educators and students.
Learn something new or level up existing skills.
Whether you’re an educator looking to sharpen your skills and teach SAS or a student eager to develop
in-demand skills, our interactive workshops offer everything you need.
Benefits for All Attendees
- Free sessions throughout the year. We keep your time and budget constraints in mind by providing free sessions of varying lengths that accommodate your academic schedule.
- Training on a variety of topics. From predictive modeling to machine learning, you’ll stay on top of the latest technologies and learn today's most valuable skills.
- Instructor interaction. Our live web courses offer all the benefits of classroom training without leaving your home or office. Interact with instructors who are industry experts.
Exclusive Benefits for Educators
- Free course materials. You’ll get PowerPoint slides, course notes and data sets you can use in your own classroom. Access resources via the SAS Educator Portal.
- Curriculum assistance. We'll help you develop both graduate and undergraduate courses. Plans are intended to encompass one semester of teaching (equivalent to four credit hours; three lecture hours per week plus a weekly lab).
How to Register:
Choose your workshop and enroll
- Every workshop enrollment opens in a new tab so you can add additional workshops if needed.
- Be sure workshop selections do not overlap as there are simultaneous tracks.
Sign in with your SAS profile
- Your SAS profile must use your academic email to process your registration and access course materials in SAS Skill Builder for Students or the SAS Educator Portal.
- Priority is given to first-time registrants, so seats are not guaranteed.
- Courses fill quickly, but new workshops are added regularly.
Save the date and join us in class
- Upon checkout, look for an email that confirms processing of your registration request.
- Next, you'll get an email notifying you that you're enrolled in a course, or waitlisted.
- If you're waitlisted, a follow-up email will confirm when a seat is available, moving you from waitlisted to enrolled.
Integration and Open Source
Life is full of tough choices. Which programming language you use shouldn’t be one of them. Join us and discover how SAS and your favorite open source tools work together to drive analytics insights.
Check out the Integration and Open Source tab under our upcoming Skills-Focused Workshops.
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Integration and Open Source
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Career Focused Learner Series
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Project Based Learner Series
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Building and Leveraging Visualizations
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Data Preparation and Descriptive Stats
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Modeling and Machine Learning
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Building and Enhancing Reports
Who says you have to choose between SAS or open source? We say use them both! Join us to learn how SAS integrates with open source to accomplish your analytics needs.
| May 25 1-4:00pm EDT | Jupyter Notebooks: Bringing Beauty to Coding Interfaces Streamline your code and results using the latest coding interface, Jupyter Notebooks, within SAS Viya for Learners. No matter what language you prefer - SAS, Python, R - everyone's welcome! | Registration closed May 24 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| Jun 1 1-4:00pm EDT | SAS and Python Integration Learn how to use Python with SAS Viya via SWAT, the SAS Wrapper for Analytics Transfer. This allows you to use Python syntax combined with the distributed processing power of SAS Viya! | Registration closes May 31 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| Jun 8 1-4:00pm EDT | Using SQL in SAS Did you know you could run SQL code in SAS? Or are you a SAS Data Stepper? Learn the syntax for the SQL procedure as well as when it can improve and simplify your programs. | Registration closes Jun 7 at 12:30 pm EDT |
Immerse yourself into a world of analytics through different industries and career roles. Hear from industry experts regarding roles, experience, as well as tips for entering the specific field. Then learn to use SAS tools through the analytical lifecycle, work collaboratively with SMEs and peers either on your own data or SAS provided data. To get the most out of the experience it will be highly encouraged and recommended to dedicate some time between sessions to work on your project.
Want to get a head start with learning SAS before this event? Access free self-paced training through SAS Skill Builder for Students.
**Note: Registration for each series means attendance for all three sessions.
| May 15, May 22, Jun 5 1:00 – 4:00 PM EDT | Business Analytics Project Gain insight into the world of Business Analytics as industry experts walk you through some of their responsibilities and exciting projects before you get the chance to work on your own business analytics project with the help of peers and expert trainers. | Registration closed May 12 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| Jun 15, Jun 22, Jun 29 1:00 - 4:00 pm EDT | Data Science Project A data scientist is defined as someone who is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to help drive decision-making – but what does this look like day-to-day? Join us to hear from professionals about their experiences in industry and complete your own data science project! | Registration closes Jun 14 at 12:30 pm EDT |
Do you have data that you are excited to explore but aren't sure of the right path to take or which tools to use?
Bring your data to upload, explore, analyze, and report during this 5-week series. This is a unique opportunity to combine subject matter knowledge of your data with learned best practices for solving your research question. Don't have data? No worries, we have tons of data to choose from.
**Note: Registration for this series means attendance for all 5 sessions in this series.
Registration closes August 1 at 12:30 pm EDT.
| August 2 1-4:00 pm EDT | Getting Started with Data and SAS Join us to kickstart the project-based learning series. We will work to get the software and your data setup. If you don't have data, we'll provide you options to choose from. |
| August 9 1-4:00 pm EDT | Explore Data using Visualizations Explore how to properly handle and use big data to its fullest potential - all while using SAS tools. |
| August 16 1-4:00 pm EDT | Data Wrangling and Descriptive Statistics Learn how to utilize SAS Studio Tasks to create graphics, produce summary statistics, and perform statistical analysis – all with no programming required! |
| August 23 1-4:00 pm EDT | Fitting Machine Learning Models: The Basics Ever wanted to know which SAS Viya tool is the best to use for your particular predictive analytics problem? Join us as we compare use of SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Model Studio, SAS Studio programming, and SAS Studio tasks in fitting different machine learning models. Come learn the advantages of different SAS Viya tools in performing machine learning analyses! |
| August 30 1-4:00 pm EDT | Interactively Display Insights Have you discovered insights in your data and ready to show them off? Learn how to create a beautiful, interactive reports in Visual Analytics so your patterns jump off the screen! |
Get to know your data using visualizations.
Seeing your data can answer existing questions, create new questions, and discover new patterns or trends. Join us to see how SAS is used to create visualizations!
**Note: Register for each session for the most comprehensive study.
| September 6 1-4:00 pm EDT | Get to Know Your Data with No Coding Necessary Ever been given a dataset with little to no information and wonder “What’s the data even about?” Or maybe know the dataset but know it is riddled with inconsistencies? Join us to learn how to use SAS Viya to explore your data and discover potential improvements or paths for analysis –all in an easy to use no coding platform. | Registration closes September 5 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| September 13 1-4:00 pm EDT | Creating Maps in SAS Visual Analytics Have location data associated with your analysis? Learn how to use your spatial data to enhance reports and analysis. Create high-definition graphs using Visual Analytics in the SAS Viya platform. | Registration closes September 12 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| September 20 1-4:00 pm EDT | Creating Charts and Graphs using SAS Studio Learn how to generate custom charts and graphs without writing code. SAS Studio has graphing tasks to give you lots of options to customize graphs. Also learn how to export your graphs for use in reports. | Registration closes September 19 at 12:30 pm EDT |
Exploring data using descriptive statistics and basic graphs help identify inconsistencies in variables and their values. These discoveries can indicate a need to cleanse and manipulate the data. Join us to discover how SAS makes it easy to explore and prepare you data for further analysis!
**Note: Register for each session for the most comprehensive study.
| September 27 1-4:00 pm EDT | Descriptive Statistics Using SAS Studio Tasks Learn how to produce summary statistics and graphical displays to examine your data. Explore several point-and-click tasks in SAS Studio which can help you identify measures of center and spread, percentiles, confidence intervals and more. | Registration closes September 26 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| October 4 1-4:00 pm EDT | Data Cleaning Techniques Data cleaning is one of the first steps in any data analysis. It can be exciting because it helps you better understand your data! Join us for some programming tips and tricks on how to clean your data using SAS programming. | Registration closes October 3 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| October 11 1-4:00 pm EDT | Point-and-Click Data Manipulation Learn how to prepare your data from within SAS Visual Analytics - including creating new columns, transforming columns, changing formats, and more! | Registration closes October 10 at 12:30 pm EDT |
SAS offers many tools to develop and train models used for prediction. Join us while we explore the different tools SAS has to offer for modeling and machine learning.
**Note: Register for each session for the most comprehensive study.
| October 18 1-4:00 pm EDT | Taking Control of Decision Trees Learn how to create decision trees using SAS Visual Statistics. We will explore the options available for building decision trees, including pruning trees and interpreting the output. | Registration closes October 17 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| October 25 1-4:00 pm EDT | Regression Model Essentials Join us to build regression models using SAS! We will explore the relationships between variables to build a regression model, look for trends in data, and make future predictions. | Registration closes October 24 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| November 1 1-4:00 pm EDT | Neural Network Essentials Come learn about basics of how to fit a neural network using SAS Viya! We will introduce the theory of neural networks and compare use of Visual Analytics, Model Studio, SAS Studio programming, and SAS Studio tasks in fitting neural network models. You'll gain hands-on practice with neural networks models using several SAS Viya tools. | Registration closes October 31 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| November 8 1-4:00 pm EDT | Overview of Text Analytics using SAS Viya Learn about the tools available to analyze textual data in SAS Viya. SAS Visual Text Analytics is the complete solution for turning text into useful insights - from parsing your textual data to automated topic gen | Registration closes November 7 at 12:30 pm EDT |
Building captivating, interactive reports allow individuals to tell a story with their data. Join us to learn how to integrate enhanced features in your reports and results using SAS!
**Note: Register for each session for the most comprehensive study.
| November 15 1-4:00pm EST | Creating Interactive Reports Looking to direct someone’s attention to specific results in a SAS Visual Analytics report? Using page and object actions, a selection in one graph can illuminate insights in another! | Registration closes November 14 at 12:30 pm EST |
| November 29 1-4:00pm EST | The Ins and Outs of Filters in Visual Analytics Do you have a lot of missing data you want to filter from your report? Do you want to filter out a particular value? Do you want to use complex operators to filter? We will demonstrate the different uses of filters in SAS Visual Analytics. | Registration closes November 28 at 12:30 pm EST |
| December 6 1-4:00pm EST | Parameter Power in SAS Visual Analytics Looking to level-up your interactivity within SAS Visual Analytics? Parameters are a great way to allow user input in display rules, ranks, calculations, and filters. Join us to learn how! | Registration closes December 5 at 12:30 pm EST |
December 13 1-4:00pm EST | Controlling Output with SAS Options Learn how to add custom titles and footnotes to your SAS results. Customize your output from SAS procedures using the Output Delivery System (ODS) and export to other software tools and formats (excel, ppt, html, etc.). | Registration closes December 12 at 12:30 pm EST |
For additional remote training opportunities related to SAS Visual Analytics, please email us.
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