The Virtual SAS Global Forum 2020 team has turned a 3-day live event into a deep collection of digital content and experiences.

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Dear Reader,

Over the last few months, the Virtual SAS Global Forum 2020 team has turned a 3-day live event into a deep collection of digital content and experiences. If you haven’t consumed all of this SAS goodness, here are reminders on ways to jump in.

  • Experience the event on your own time, in your own way. Just register and grab your seat (space is unlimited) in the virtual Auditorium.

  • Hear key announcements about SAS® Viya® 4 and a strategic cloud partnership from SAS executives.

  • Gather insights from Optimist and Bestselling Author of The Infinite Game Simon Sinek.

  • Learn how Cleveland Clinic partnered with SAS to create joint models for COVID-19 to help hospitals optimize the use of medical resources like ventilators and hospital beds.

  • After these keynotes, “stroll” through the virtual Quad – open 24/7 – to see booths centered on Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, the Cloud, Internet of Things and Solutions. View super demos, featured video sessions and get resources to pack into your virtual briefcase.

  • Don’t forget to stop by the Lounge to learn how to connect through the SAS Support Communities, SAS Analytics Explorers, and more.

On a final note, SAS continues to use analytics to help customers fight the COVID-19 outbreak. Because, well, knowledge is power. Find three ways to explore COVID data on your own and make a difference: 

  1. SAS® Viya® Data Discovery and Analytical Modeling Environment

  2. SAS® Viya® Scientific Literature Search and Text Analysis

  3. SAS® Viya® Epidemiological Scenario Analysis

Thanks for reading,

Anna Brown 
Editor, SAS Tech Report
Follow me @abrown7

 

SAS Global Forum Virtual Highlights

 
What is SAS® Viya®?

What is SAS® Viya®?

This tutorial provides an overview of SAS® Viya® architecture, how it can be used for faster processing of huge amounts of data and the most complex analytics. Using forest modeling as an example, multiple visual interfaces (SAS Studio tasks, SAS Model Studio and SAS Visual Statistics) and programming methods (traditional SAS procedure programming, CASL and Python with the SAS SWAT) will be explained and demonstrated. 

Ari Zitin, SAS

Using SAS® Macro Variable Lists to Create Dynamic Data-Driven Programs

Using SAS® Macro Variable Lists to Create Dynamic Data-Driven Programs

In this hands-on workshop, you learn how to create and use macro variable lists to build data-driven programming logic. Eliminate data dependencies by letting the macro facility write your SAS code for you! 

Joshua Horstman, Nested Loop Consulting

Three Steps to Learn Python in SAS® Viya®

Three Steps to Learn Python in SAS® Viya®

This workshop is taught in SAS® Viya® using the SAS Scripting Wrapper for Analytics Transfer (SWAT) libraries. The SWAT package is similar to the API of the Pandas package. You learn to connect to SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS), load data, work with CAS tables using the Jupyter Notebook, and use CASTable objects such as a DataFrame to explore data and gather summary statistics on that data. See related Python Integration with SAS Viya tutorial. 

Charu Shankar, SAS

PROC SQL Programming Techniques for SAS® Users and Programmers

PROC SQL Programming Techniques for SAS® Users and Programmers

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a universal language used in data science, data analytics, statistics, data management and other disciplines to access, transform, manipulate and output data stored in SAS data sets, relational databases and tables. Based on the PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS®, Third Edition book, this SAS tutorial presents core concepts and techniques on how to use PROC SQL as a programming and database language. 

Kirk Paul Lafler, Software Intelligence Corporation

Git Integration in SAS® Studio and SAS® Enterprise Guide®

Git Integration in SAS® Studio and SAS® Enterprise Guide®

Source control is critical for managing your code, and the front runner in the source control world is Git. Learn how you can use the recently enhanced Git interfaces in SAS® Studio and SAS® Enterprise Guide® to collaborate on and track changes to your SAS® code. 

Danny Zimmerman, SAS

Opening the Black Box of Model Interpretability in SAS® Viya®

Opening the Black Box of Model Interpretability in SAS® Viya®

Machine learning techniques like neural networks produce useful predictions but fail to produce explanations for those predictions. In this workshop, you explore some model interpretability tools like partial dependence (PD) plots, individual conditional expectation (ICE) plots, local interpretable model-agnostic explanation (LIME) plots and natural-language generation (NLG) capabilities. These tools help data scientists explain the output and decisions from AI and advanced analytics to a wide variety of users. 

Aurora Peddycord-Liu, SAS

 

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