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.
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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
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Integration and Open Source
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Project Based Learner Series
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.
| February 16 1-4:00 pm EST | 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 Feb 15 at 12:30 pm EST |
| February 23 1-4:00 pm EST | 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 Feb 22 at 12:30 pm EST |
| March 2 1-4:00 pm EST | 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 Mar 1 at 12:30 pm EST |
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.
| March 9 1-4:00 pm EST | 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 Mar 8 at 12:30 pm EST |
| March 16 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 Mar 15 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| March 23 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 Mar 22 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.
| March 30 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 on Mar 29 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| April 6 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 on Apr 5 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| April 13 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 on Apr 12 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| April 20 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 on Apr 19 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.
| April 27 1-4:00pm EDT | 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 Apr 26 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| May 4 1-4:00pm EDT | 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 May 3 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| May 11 1-4:00pm EDT | 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 May 10 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| May 18 1-4:00pm EDT | 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 May 17 at 12:30 pm EDT |
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 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 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 |
| 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 |
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.
This course is full. Next edition will be available soon.
| January 12 1-4:00 pm EST | 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. |
| January 19 1-4:00 pm EST | Explore Data using Visualizations Explore how to properly handle and use big data to its fullest potential - all while using SAS tools. |
| January 26 1-4:00 pm EST | 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! |
| February 2 1-4:00 pm EST | 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! |
| February 9 1-4:00 pm EST | 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! |
Live Web Workshops
Your SAS profile must use your academic email to process your registration and access course materials. View Live Web system requirements.
Not a professor or student in an academic institution? Visit the Free SAS Online Training page.
| March 20-24 1-4:00pm EDT | SAS® SQL 1: Essentials This course teaches you how to process SAS data using Structured Query Language (SQL). **Programming 1 is a prerequisite for registration** This course can help prepare you for the following certification exam(s): SAS Advanced Programming for SAS 9. Learn how to
| Use the code SQ1M6 Registration closes Mar 17 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| April 3-6 1-4:30pm EDT | SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning on SAS® Viya®: Interactive Machine Learning This course provides a theoretical foundation and hands-on experience with SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning through the SAS Visual Analytics interface. The course covers visualization, a variety of machine learning techniques, model assessment, and model deployment in an interactive way.
| Use the code VDMO3G Registration closes Mar 31 at 12:30 pm EDT |
| April 17, 19, 24, 26 1-5:00pm EDT | Longitudinal Data Analysis using Discrete and Continuous Responses This course is for scientists and analysts who want to analyze observational data collected over time. It is not for SAS users who have collected data in a complicated experimental design. They should take the Mixed Models Analyses Using SAS® course instead. Learn how to
Who should attendEpidemiologists, social scientists, physical scientists, and business analysts | Use the code LONG42 Registration closes Apr 14 at 12:30 pm EDT |
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