SAS Learning Report
August 2020

We may have just recently finished SASGF 2020, but we’re already planning for 2021. For the sake of everyone’s safety, SASGF 2021 will take place in April 2021 and will be a second-to-none, unforgettable digital experience. Stay tuned for details!

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Training and Certification News

Join us for SAS Programmer Week – free virtual event

Sept. 7 – 11 

SAS Programmers, we're celebrating you all week long leading up to Day of the Programmer. Join us for a week of free virtual training, from tutorials and videos to webinars and live demos. Whether you're new to SAS, a seasoned veteran or looking to expand your analytics skills, we have something for you. Register today!

Live Webinar - Ask the Expert: How Do I Prepare My SAS® Visual Analytics Deployment on SAS® 9 for the Flash End of Life?

10-11 a.m., Sept. 1

Prepare your SAS Visual Analytics deployment on SAS 9 for the Flash end of life on Dec. 31. We’ll cover two update paths and review case studies from customers who have already transitioned. We'll also help you plan the next steps of your transition. There will be a live Q&A with the presenters at the end of the webinar. See other upcoming Ask the Expert webinars.

Ready to transform your team? We can help

In order for organizations to stay competitive, an analytics workforce is essential. How do you identify and onboard the analytics talent you need, and get your existing team up to speed? SAS' strategic approach will help you recruit talent, develop innovative training plans, and retain your analytics talent. Take the Learning Needs Assessment to learn more.

Want to lead with analytics, but not sure how?

1-4:30 p.m., September 14 – 15

Customers tell us they know analytics and digital transformation can help their company succeed but they aren’t quite sure how. Join this important course, Leading with Analytics, via Live Web and learn how to lead with analytics.

Students: It’s a good time to build skills

Online classes and no commute might mean some extra time on your hands. Why not make the most of it and upskill your analytics knowledge? SAS offers stellar discounts for students – 95% off – on training classes, and many of our live web courses are just half-day. Take advantage of this offer and while you’re at it, prepare for a SAS Certification. Students can take our exams at home at a 50% discount.

SAS Book News

Save 40% off our September e-book of the month

SAS® Text Analytics for Business Applications: Concept Rules for Information Extraction Models, by Teresa Jade, Biljana Belmaric-Wilsey, and Michael Wallis, uses scenarios and data based on business cases across different domains and industries. This book includes many helpful tips and best practices from SAS text analytics experts to ensure fast, valuable insight from your textual data. Enter code BOM40SEP at checkout to receive your discount. Offer expires midnight ET on September 30, 2020.

New guide to using SAS Viya for data discovery available

Smart Data Discovery with SAS® Viya®: Powerful Techniques for Deeper Insights provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills to conduct a smart discovery process and empower you to ask more complex questions using your data. The book highlights key components of a smart data discovery process utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, powerful capabilities from SAS Viya, and brings it all together using real examples and applications.

Free e-book for computer vision

SAS offers different solutions to train computers to “see” by identifying and classifying objects, and several groundbreaking papers have been written to demonstrate these techniques. The papers included in this special collection demonstrate how the latest computer vision tools and techniques can be used to solve a variety of business problems.

Tips and Tricks

Splitting a data set into smaller data sets

SAS’ Leonid Batkhan shows you how to split a large data set into many by subsetting by a number of observations in order to produce smaller, better manageable data sets.

How to translate your cURL command into SAS code

You want to use an API to retrieve data and process it with SAS. How do you do it? PROC HTTP is the answer and SAS’ Bari Lawhorn shows you how, using cURL.

Certification Prep

Base Programming Specialist

Learn about the inherent strengths (and how to avoid the pitfalls) of the DATA Step Merge in this informative paper.

SAS Programming Professional

Join SAS instructor Charu Shankar for this fantastic 50-minute YouTube video for a step-by-step introduction to PROC SQL.

Prepare for the SAS Advanced Programming Professional Exam

Top subject-matter experts will present their best study tips and tricks to help you prepare for the Advanced Programming Professional certification exam. Watch now.

SAS News

What’s new in Customer Intelligence 6.6?

Curious about what's new? Check out two free hands-on tutorials recently added to the SAS video portal. 

SASGF going virtual again in 2021

The experience will take place in April 2021, so mark your calendars now and make plans to join us! Tune into the conference website for details and updates as they become available.

Free SAS® Tutorials

How to create PDF, HTML and SAS outputs with Jupyter

Looking to share your Jupyter Notebook data analysis with coworkers, your supervisor or a fellow SAS programmer? Use the “File then Export Notebook As” option and choose the format that works best for your recipient. In this 11-minute video, Hunter Glanz, a statistics and data science faculty at California Polytechnic State University, explores what you can do with Jupyter Notebook cells and markdown functionality.

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