Big Data Professional

SAS^® Certified Big Data Professional Using SAS^®9

For individuals who want to validate their ability to use open source and SAS^® Data Management tools to prepare big data for statistical analysis

Successful candidates should be able to:

• Recognize and overcome big data challenges.
• Implement critical SAS programming techniques.
• Access, transform and manipulate data.
• Improve data quality for reporting and analytics.
• Apply fundamental statistical techniques.
• Work with SAS, Hadoop and Hive.
• Explore and visualize data.

Candidates who earn this credential together with the SAS Certified Advanced Analytics Professional will be accredited as a SAS Certified Data Scientist.