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Shelley Sessoms
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Free webinar: AI-Embedded IoT Analytics: Getting Started

Join us May 9 at 1:00 ET and learn the basics of AI-embedded IoT analytics. Explore and see IoT data in a new light and hear how to transform and select it. Participants will also learn about the new Analytics for IoT 7.1 solution.

Ask the Expert Webinars: Got a question? Join us

New and experienced users agree, the free Ask the Expert webinars are an hour well spent. Each webinar is filled with “how-to’s” on making the most of your software with demos and a Q&A session. Can’t make the live event? All webinar assets (on-demand version, Q&A and slides) are posted to our Ask the Expert SAS Community.

Want to become a SAS Certified Professional in AI & Machine Learning?

Catherine Truxillo, Director of Analytical Training, engaged with over 500 attendees during a recent Lunch and Learn webinar. Did you miss it? No worries. Catch it on-demand and view the slide presentation at your leisure. You’ll get tips on how to learn AI technologies including computer vision, natural language processing, forecasting, and optimization.

Learn New Skills – Improve Your Resume

For just $95, students can build analytic skills in programming, AI and machine learning. Our Student Series will jump-start your journey. Get all the info on how to qualify for the Programming or Machine Learning series.

Academic Students: Save 95% on SAS training

Student series not a good fit for you? You’ve got plenty of other options to boost your resume, build skills, and land your dream job. Choose a topic and save 95% on classroom and live web training when you enter promo code A95. View offer details.

Get Started with SAS® Visual Analytics for SAS® Viya®

Start with the basics and learn data preparation, data discovery, and report creation in SAS Visual Analytics. The new e-learning course includes 15 hours of Virtual Lab time to practice what you learn.

Become a SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer

Our SAS Academy for Clinical Programming, in partnership with Epoch Research Institute, offers comprehensive training, clinical research theory, hands-on learning, and globally recognized credentials. Get started today.

May Book of the Month

Looking for tips and tricks from recently-retired SAS employee Sanjay Matange? Look no further than SAS® ODS Graphics Designer by Example: A Visual Guide to Creating Graphs Interactively. And get it at a 40% discount April 23-May 31, 2019, using code BOM40MAY.

PROC SQL: Beyond the Basics Using SAS^®, Third Edition, by Kirk Paul Lafler

A step-by-step example-driven guide that helps readers master the language of PROC SQL, this book is packed with analysis and examples illustrating an assortment of PROC SQL options, statements, and clauses. Check out a preview excerpt from the book.

SAS^® Text Analytics for Business Applications: Concept Rules for Information Extraction Models, by Teresa Jade, Biljana Belamaric Wilsey, and Michael Wallis

Information extraction is the task of automatically extracting structured information from unstructured or semi-structured text. This book focuses on this key element of natural language processing and provides real-world guidance on the effective application of text analytics.

Portfolio and Investment Analysis with SAS^®: Financial Modeling Techniques for Optimization, by John B. Guerard, Ziwei Wang, and Ganlin Xu

This book is designed to show readers how use SAS to choose a statistically significant stock selection model, create Mean-Variance efficient portfolios, and be aggressive in investing to maximize the Geometric Mean.

Free e-book: Text Analytics with SAS®

We have carefully selected a handful of papers from recent SAS Global Forum contributions to introduce you to the topic of text mining and analytics, and let you sample what each has to offer. Download for free today.

Zero to SAS in 60 Seconds: SAS Machine Learning on SAS Analytics Cloud

SAS Machine Learning on SAS Analytics Cloud provides on-demand programming access to machine learning algorithms in the cloud. No downloads, no install, no infrastructure, no maintenance. Learn more!

Installing SASpy Kernel on Jupyter Notebooks

The SAS Kernel SASpy allows you to program in SAS using Jupyter Notebooks. Jupyter Notebooks allow you to incorporate cells with Markdown with cells with executable code. This is very helpful for learning and studying SAS programming. Read on for an example of what you can do with SAS in Jupyter Notebooks.

Advanced Programmer

Hash Objects, PROC FCMP, and the Macro Facility all rolled into one SAS Global Forum paper from Art Carpenter. Lots of good exam prep content in 10 pages of reading. 

Statistical Business Analyst

A new Certification Prep guide has been released for the SAS Certified Statistical Business Analyst credential, providing a low-cost way to prepare for this popular SAS credential.

Still time to register for largest users conference

You have access to the largest gathering of SAS users and experts with an abundance of learning opportunities later this month in Dallas. It’s not too late to register for SAS Global Forum 2019.

New developers community has launched

The developers community provides a forum for collaboration, Q&A, and knowledge sharing. The focus is on developers using open source languages and technology. The community will create synergy between communities.sas.com, developer.sas.com, and github.com/sassoftware.

Advanced analytics tutorials

Get a free, quick glimpse of tutorials in areas such as econometrics, machine learning, optimization, SAS/OR and SAS/Stat. Videos are generally 5-15 minutes long, so no huge time investment is necessary.