Introduction...1 Part I: Welcome to SAS!...7. Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information...79

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1 Contents at a Glance Introduction...1 Part I: Welcome to SAS!...7 Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World of SAS...9 Chapter 2: Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS Enterprise Guide...19 Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS...47 Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information...79 Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!...81 Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That?...99 Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Less Than a Minute Chapter 7: You Want Fries with That Graph? Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Business Intelligence Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics Chapter 9: More Analytics to Enlighten and Entertain Chapter 10: Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate Chapter 12: OLAP: Impressing Your Co-workers Chapter 13: Supercharge Microsoft Office with SAS Chapter 14: Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock and Roll Chapter 15: Setting It All Up Chapter 16: Taming the Data Beast Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and SAS Enterprise Guide...321

2 Part VI: The Part of Tens Chapter 18: Ten SAS Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators Chapter 20: Ten (or More) Web Resources for Extra Information Index...357

3 Table of Contents Introduction...1 About This Book...1 Foolish Assumptions...2 What Not to Read...2 Conventions Used in This Book...3 Icons Used in This Book...3 How This Book Is Organized...4 Part I: Welcome to SAS!...4 Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information...4 Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Business Intelligence...4 Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces...5 Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock and Roll...5 Part VI: The Part of Tens...5 Where to Go from Here...5 Part I: Welcome to SAS!...7 Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World of SAS SAS Isn t That Just for Gurus?...10 Data, Data Everywhere But Not Where I Need It!...10 Data Summaries and Reporting...12 The Secret Sauce: Analytics to Optimize the Present and Predict the Future...13 Sharing the SAS Wealth...15 What the IT Department Needs to Know...17 Checking Out Real-World Success Stories...18 Chapter 2: Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS Enterprise Guide...19 Using SAS Enterprise Guide, the Swiss Army Knife of SAS...20 Using SAS Enterprise Guide for the first time...20 Changing what you see on-screen...22 Accessing and Managing Data...24 Opening SAS data sets...25 Filtering SAS data...27 Visualizing Success with Charts...33 Creating Reports for Even the Crankiest Manager...36 Creating a summary table report...36 Enriching a summary table report with graphs...41

4 xiv SAS For Dummies Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS Where Is My Data Set Coming from and Where Is It Going?...48 Querying Your Way to Success...49 What s all this talk of joining?...50 Joining data from multiple tables...51 Creating computed columns...57 Formatting your computed columns...60 Summarizing the Data...64 Summarizing specific numeric variables...71 Building a Forecast...73 Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information...79 Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices! Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Text Files: Accessing the Data Hidden on Your PC...82 Importing an Excel workbook...84 OLE! Accessing Your Data withole DB and ODBC...88 Importing an Access database table with ODBC...89 Importing an Access database table with OLE DB...92 More ways to access data from your PC...92 Server-Based Data: Can You Super-Size That?...93 Make like a library and book Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That? Taking a Quick Look at What You Can Do with Data...99 Queries: Bringing Your Data Together and Making It Sing (Or at Least Hum) Joining table data Filtering table data Selecting specific columns of data Creating a computed column Recoding a column Sorting data Parameterizing the Query Filter A parameterized query example Editing, Sorting, Ranking, Transposing, and Other Data Contortions Editing data table values Appending tables Sorting data Creating a format...119

5 Table of Contents xv Transposing data Splitting columns Stacking columns Selecting a random sample of data Ranking variables Standardizing data Summarizing data set attributes Comparing data Deleting data sets and formats Trying out the data management tasks Reducing the volume of data Transposing the data Creating a summary report Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Less Than a Minute Discovering Your Reporting Options Plain text reports Adobe Acrobat (PDF) reports Rich Text Format (RTF) reports HTML format reports SAS Report (SRX) format reports Data Listings and Summaries for the Listless The List Data task Creating a sales report Fine-tuning your sales report formatting The Characterize Data task: What did that guy in Accounting just give me? The Summary Statistics task: Get to the point! The Summary Tables (Cross-tabs) task: Easier than crosswords! Creating a summary table Enabling formatting in wizards Chapter 7: You Want Fries with That Graph? Graphing Basics Graphs for Every Occasion Bar charts Pie charts Line plots Scatter plots Area plots Bubble plots Box plots Donut charts Contour plots...160

6 xvi SAS For Dummies Radar charts Map graphs Creating Graphs with SAS A box plot example: Finding the extreme products A line plot example: Tracking the regions Prepping your data Creating your line plot graph Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Business Intelligence Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics Analytic Concepts Useful for Everyone It s variable p-values How confident are you? What did your mother say about making assumptions? Distribution Analysis Describing Your Data Analyzing Counts and Frequencies Transforming Your Data for Further Use Basic Data Analysis via Correlation Techniques ANOVA and Regression: No PhD Required! Chapter 9: More Analytics to Enlighten and Entertain Staying Alive with Survival Analysis Quality Control: You Want Something That Works? Histograms Q-Q plots and probability plots Control charts Pareto charts Multivariate Analysis: Understanding Complex Relationships Principal component analysis Cluster analysis and discriminant analysis Forecasting: Using the Crystal Ball Data Mining: Precious Jewels in Your Data Chapter 10: Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output Output Delivery with No Extra Postage Required Getting cozy with ODS Creating a report with style Checking out graph styles: A chart-topping performance...202

7 Table of Contents xvii Power of the Palette: Creating Your Own Styles The geography of styles Sweetening your output with a custom style Mixing Style and Substance: Conveying Meaning with Style Plain Text Is Not Dead Yet Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate Pulling Out Results without Pulling Teeth Exporting results, duty-free Export as a step: Baking it into the recipe Getting content to the channel surfers Using Only the Good Bits: Assembling Reports in a Snap Selecting your mix ingredients HTML Document Builder: Stacking it up for the Web Creating reports suitable for framing Practicing feng shui in report design Harmony is just a few clicks away Canning Your Work for Others to Use in Stored Processes Almost like cloning yourself Distilling the complex down to the simple Chapter 12: OLAP: Impressing Your Co-workers Who Invited All the Cubes? OLAP Features OLAP table interaction Drilling and expanding your mind Filtering out the weak and member isolation Tables give me headaches: What about graphs and maps? It s all relative: Understanding the percentages A slice of data for further analysis More OLAP Features Bookmarking: Where was I? Using calculated measures Drilling down: Just the facts, please Conditional formatting: Isn t that special? Adding details about your values Speaking MDX with the OLAP cube...258

8 xviii SAS For Dummies Chapter 13: Supercharge Microsoft Office with SAS The Power of SAS from the Cozy World of Office SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office Options Knowing which Office applications are supported Using the Add-In to Get the Most Out of Office Integration Accessing and managing data of any size from almost anywhere Opening data with the add-in Using the add-in to move your Excel data to SAS Ad hoc analysis: Awesome! Turn, step, pivot (table)! Using SAS Tasks from the add-in Stored processes: Leaving spreadsheet hell Checking out an example of how not to use data Accessing stored processes via the add-in Refreshing results from the add-in Sharing your work with others Chapter 14: Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered Self-Service Reporting for Everyone Going beyond Basic Reporting More Details on SAS Web Report Studio Checking out some cool report examples Securing reports Printing smart Exporting data to Microsoft Excel Scheduling reports Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock and Roll Chapter 15: Setting It All Up How Complicated? It Depends The Sweetest Setup: Local-Local Distributing SAS to the Masses Drowning in tiers: Talking across boundaries Metadata: The keys to the kingdom Good News Travels Fast How about Your Data? Crash course in data plumbing Passing Niagara Falls through a garden hose SAS/ACCESS: The plumber s helper Example: Project meets data, just in time...306

9 Table of Contents xix Chapter 16: Taming the Data Beast Data Warehousing: Do I Really Need to Think about This? Fundamental Principles of Data Warehousing The Value of Well-Managed Data Marts Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and SAS Enterprise Guide Getting Organized with Projects Connecting the dots with links Avoid entropy with the ordered list The project log: Your work on record Letting SAS Tasks Do the Heavy Lifting Being Flexible with Project Parameters Off-Limits: Stuff That Won t Work X statements and SYSTASK (Tsk tsk) DDE is DOA Nowhere to show: SAS/AF and %WINDOW Ending control with ENDSAS Part VI: The Part of Tens Chapter 18: Ten SAS Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips The Keys to Success Don t Limit Yourself: Use More than One Session See What s Installed on Your Server The Switcheroo: Changing the Input Data for a Task Watch the Log Grow Copy Data Expand Your Horizons with Custom Tasks Submit a Selection Don t Wait for Data to Open Need Not Be Present to Win: Schedule Your Project Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators Determining When SASUSER Isn t Usable Managing Logins from SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer Disarming SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer Using METALIB to Synchronize Metadata with Reality Getting Better Performance from Information Maps Making Your Database Work for You with Implicit Pass-Through...347

10 xx SAS For Dummies Publishing Reports from SAS Enterprise Guide: What s Needed Catching and Killing a Runaway SAS Session Telling One SAS.EXE from Another Peering under the Covers with Process Logs Chapter 20: Ten (or More) Web Resources for Extra Information Need Some Support? What Else Does SAS Offer and How Are Others Succeeding with SAS? Help Me Out with More Info on Making Effective Charts and Graphs Where Can I Find Out More about Business Intelligence? Where Can I Discover More about Statistics and Analytics? What about More Information That Just Did Not Fit in This Book? Index...357