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2021-01-15 02:40:45
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This course includes:

  • 11.5 hours on-demand video
  • 77 downloadable resources
  • 2 practice tests
  • Full lifetime access
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  • Assignments
Business Business Analytics & Intelligence SAS

The Simplest Guide™ to SAS Programming*SAS Base*SAS Advanced

Learn SAS programming for Data Analysis, Data Science, Data Visualization | SAS Certitication | SAS Base | SAS Advanced
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (682 ratings)
2,736 students
Created by Aslam Khan
Last updated 1/2021
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Perform Data Analysis with the powerful SAS programming language
  • Learn SAS in the most effective way through simple, visual and engaging lectures
  • Acquire the skills to import any type of Data into SAS and construct meaningful reports out of it
  • Analyze data with powerful SAS procedures that reveal amazing insights within your data
  • Learn to create beautiful visualizations and reports to present to all kinds of audience
  • Strengthen your foundation to appear for SAS Base and Advanced certification exams
  • Have fun by playing around with exercise data all along the course lectures
  • Apply all topics learnt and finish the "Project Heavy-weight" exercise at the end
  • Start a discussion on any course topic, ask questions and share your course accomplishments as you go along

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of working with a computer, typing and editing skills.
  • Internet connectivity to download and work in SAS University Edition
  • Since this course is highly visual in nature, this is not suitable for audio listening only

Description

A  comprehensive, simple and visual guide to Data Analysis using SAS Programming, this course is simplified into the 4 main areas : Data Preparation, Data Structuring, Data Visualization and Optimizing Code using powerful SAS Macros

  • This course is for absolute beginners as well as advanced users who wish to learn SAS Programming

  • Delivered in a highly visual style, you will experience a unique and immersive method of the lectures

  • Equips you with the cutting-edge tool used in many industries, primarily in Pharma, Finance and Insurance areas

  • Simplified to just 4 main areas, this course is an accelerated path to learning SAS programming

  • A guide to the two SAS certification exams: SAS Base and SAS Advanced

  • This course uses the SAS University Edition that is Free to download and install on a PC or Mac

  • Quiz and Practice Tests after each section are included

COURSE SECTIONS

  1. DATA PREPARATION will teach you how to import data from multiple sources, create new variables, write SAS functions, and understand what goes on behind the scenes in SAS datasets

  2. DATA STRUCTURING will make you leap into transforming data to a new level by merging and joining multiple datasets together, or turning them upside-down (sorting), and side-ways (transposing)

  3. DATA VISUALIZATION will propel you further into the world of analytics and obtaining insightful inferences from what is inside your data

  4. OPTIMIZING CODE will  take into the world of macro programming that teaches you how to write your code professionally and elegantly

At the end of the course, you will try out most concepts discussed in this course through a coding exercise that will take you through the 4 sections.

If you wish to further hone your SAS programming skills learnt in this course and apply it on a practical real-life example, I recommend you take my other course on Clinical SAS Programming. If the clinical portion doesn’t interest you, can you skip straight to the hands-on programming lectures (Section 3 onward) where you will begin working with a sample (clinical) data in an Excel sheet, which you will import into SAS, derive all necessary variables as in the mock shell specifications through various procs and functions, and finally generate a clinical study report. All this will be done using guided SAS Programming steps with detailed explanations at every step of programming.


*****ABOUT THE COURSE STYLE******

Online learning need not be like “Cat vs Laser Pointer” videos for students...

Let me ask you a question. Why do so many instructors who teach online think their students are like their pet cats? Amazed why I think of it this way. Just go look at any course videos on Udemy or Youtube, and you will see the way most instructors teach their courses is to point a colored laser dot on their course video, and demand students to follow through the entire course material. Still worse, some instructors use their dumb mouse pointers for this purpose !

Why do students who are just building excitement in learning a new topic have to put up with these uninteresting lectures. The worst way an instructor can teach a subject is to bombarded his or her students with a series of text-heavy slides with tons of bullet points. As if that was not boring enough to kill student’s enthusiasm, they use the mesmerizing laser pointer and move like crazy all over the screen.

Welcome to the new way of teaching !

We are visual creatures because most of our brain is wired for visual sensory processing. The quickest way to learn, remember and more importantly understand anything new is to not read it from a set of slides with a background narration from an instructor, but to visually see with your eyes what is being taught in the form of real-world objects, associate them to the topic being discussed, and then allow our brains to form those hard-to-forget indelible connections in our minds. If every instructor taught this way; with a little bit of practice and effort, most of you can not only comprehend the subject, but also master it in the quickest possible way. That is why you will almost never find me using bullet points in my course lectures, and never will you find me bringing up the dreadful laser pointer, EVER !

By using the latest in touch-screen technology and a lot of on-screen sketches, I make the course lectures come to life ! I do this to have an impact on YOU,  by LEADING your eyes to what you should focus on a slide, and letting your MIND follow-through, and to ultimately make you UNDERSTAND the topic. See it for yourself !


Who this course is for:

  • Individuals looking to quickly acquire data manipulation and data analytics skills, to get placed in job roles that involve a lot of data processing, or as part of data science university coursework. This course uses SAS University Edition as the software tool to work with data.
  • Stepping into the world of data science and data analytics
  • Want to "spring-board" to take on the next level in SAS Programming, or just getting motivated to play with data
  • Want to learn the elementary and advanced concepts in SAS Programming
  • Want to pass the Base SAS or Advanced SAS Certification
  • Students of Statistics who wish to learn a tool for their coursework

Course content

7 sections • 111 lectures • 11h 19m total length

  • Preview02:26

  • Preview02:45
  • Preview10:21
  • Logging-in to a SAS Session after installation
    00:42
  • SAS User Interface
    Preview06:00
  • SAS user interface/ windowing environment
    3 questions

  • Preview00:56
  • Preview08:44
  • Preview04:50
  • Preview04:48
  • Preview04:05
  • Preview06:57
  • Preview02:35
  • Referencing data in SAS
    04:18
  • Bringing data into SAS
    11:48
  • Brinding data into SAS using the Import Wizard
    03:57
  • Bringing data into SAS using the LIBNAME statement
    05:16
  • Bringing data into SAS using the FILENAME statement
    05:02
  • Preview03:19
  • Bringing data into SAS using DSD option
    07:36
  • Bringing data into SAS using column input
    04:02
  • Bringing data into SAS using column pointer @ symbol
    01:53
  • Bringing data into SAS using the line pointer # symbol
    07:10
  • Bringing data into SAS using line pointer slash symbol
    02:24
  • Bringing data into SAS using the trailing @ symbol
    03:09
  • Bringing data into SAS using the trailing double @ symbol
    02:26
  • Bringing data into SAS using Proc Import for XLS (MS Excel) Files
    06:47
  • Bringing data into SAS using Proc Import for TXT Files
    04:48
  • Get "cars" data into your SAS Session
    3 questions
  • Get "berries" data into your SAS session
    4 questions
  • Creating new variables
    04:08
  • Creating new variables - code
    08:23
  • Keeping, Dropping and Renaming Variables in a Dataset
    02:59
  • Create the BMI (Body Mass Index) new variable from Weight and Height variables
    1 question
  • If-else conditional statements - deriving BMI variable
    04:11
  • If-else conditional statements - deriving STATUS variable
    11:25
  • Filtering data
    11:17
  • Finding the most expensive cars
    1 question
  • SAS Dates
    06:48
  • SAS Functions - Upcase
    09:39
  • SAS Functions - Lowcase, Propcase, Len, Cat
    07:54
  • SAS Functions - Substr
    04:27
  • SAS Functions -Trim, Left, Strip, Compress, Compbl
    12:42
  • Preparing Data
    5 questions
  • SAS Formats - Introduction
    02:50
  • Format Statement
    05:20
  • Format Naming Conventions
    09:13
  • Format using the PUT function
    08:50
  • SAS Informats
    06:21
  • SAS Informats - code
    07:32
  • Custom formats using Proc Format
    05:28
  • Custom formats using Proc Format - code
    11:07
  • Program Data Vector (PDV)
    05:43
  • Implicit Output- Descriptor portion
    04:52
  • Implicit Output - var and data portion
    09:36
  • Explicit Output
    05:59
  • Explicit Output - code
    11:01
  • Do Loops
    04:08
  • Preparing data
    11 questions
  • Secret SAS Proc revealed !
    1 question

  • Structuring Data - Section Overview
    01:08
  • Preview05:35
  • Stacking Data using PROC APPEND
    07:48
  • Stacking Data using PROC APPEND- code
    06:43
  • Interleaving of data
    09:02
  • Sorting Data using PROC SORT
    07:04
  • Sorting Data using PROC SORT - multi-level sorting
    06:02
  • Removing duplicates -NODUP Option
    11:09
  • Removing duplicates -NODUPKEY Option
    10:35
  • Simple merging of data
    08:42
  • Merging data using Joins - Introduction
    07:41
  • Merging data using Inner Join
    08:18
  • Merging data using Inner join - code
    07:52
  • Merging data using Full Join
    07:13
  • Merging data using Left Join
    06:15
  • Merging data using Right Join
    03:41
  • Merging data using "far" joins
    06:26
  • PROC SQL - copying data
    08:55
  • Proc SQL - copying data - code
    04:19
  • PROC SQL - filtering data
    06:54
  • PROC SQL - sorting data
    08:27
  • PROC SQL - removing duplicates
    05:26
  • Transposing data - ID Statement
    03:55
  • Transposing data - ID Statement - code
    08:06
  • Transposing data - BY statement
    09:40
  • Transposing data - BY statement - code
    04:28
  • Retain Statement - Introduction
    07:23
  • Retain Statement - how to use
    06:18
  • Retain Statement - Example
    08:00
  • Structuring data
    4 questions

  • Visualizing Data - Section Overview
    00:38
  • Charts - Introduction - Vertical Bar Chart
    04:46
  • Charts - Horizontal Bar and Pie Charts
    04:46
  • Vertical bar chart - DISCRETE option
    09:36
  • Horizontal bar chart - DISCRETE option
    01:27
  • Vertical bar chart - groups and subgroups
    11:28
  • Horizontal bar chart - groups and subgroups
    03:13
  • Plots
    05:43
  • Preview06:06
  • Report Output using PROC REPORT - DISPLAY option
    07:48
  • Report Output using PROC REPORT - ORDER & GROUP option
    04:58
  • Summary statistics - PROC FREQ
    08:03
  • Summary statistics - PROC MEANS
    03:04
  • Summary statistics - PROC UNIVARIATE
    02:19
  • Output Delivery System (ODS) - Report Formats
    02:29
  • ODS with Proc Freq
    04:16
  • ODS with Proc Means
    01:48
  • ODS with Proc Univariate
    04:04
  • Visualizing Data
    3 questions

  • Optimizing Code - Section Overview
    00:24
  • Macro Variables - introduction
    10:23
  • Macro Variables - introduction - code
    03:43
  • Application of Macro variables
    01:29
  • Application of Macro variables - code
    11:05
  • Nested macro variables and ampersand resolutions
    10:56
  • More on Ampersand resolutions using a cool example
    09:04
  • SAS Macros - introduction
    10:10
  • SAS Macros - Examples
    07:11
  • Macro Functions
    03:30
  • Test on Structuring data, visualizing data and macros
    10 questions
  • Macro Functions - code
    08:41

  • Project Heavy-weight
    1 question
  • Project Airlines
    8 questions
  • And one last thing... (bonus !!!)
    01:52

Instructor

Aslam Khan
M.S., PMP, SAS Base and Adv. certified
Aslam Khan
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 985 Reviews
  • 3,584 Students
  • 4 Courses

Hi there,

My name is Aslam, and I love simplifying anything that appears to be a complex topic. I do this by using pictures (and lots of them!); pictures that are simple and illustrative to visualize the topic being explained.

Pictures help to encapsulate a seemingly humdrum and hard to remember concept by tapping into the visual areas of your brain. The more neural hooks you can build by evoking the senses, the easier it will be for you to recall the concepts and what it means. This is my whole basis of teaching this way that is to not only make my courses unique, but more importantly to engage and captivate my students into the topic under discussion.

We are visual creatures because most of our brain is wired for visual sensory processing. The quickest way to learn, remember and more importantly understand anything new is to not read it from a set of slides with a background narration from an instructor, but to visually see with your eyes what is being taught in the form of real-world objects, associate them to the topic being discussed, and then allow our brains to form those hard-to-forget indelible connections in our minds. That is why you will almost never find me using bullet points in my course lectures. By using the latest in touch-screen technology and a lot of on-screen sketches, I make the course lectures come to life ! I do this to have an impact on YOU, by LEADING your eyes to what you should focus on a slide, and letting your MIND follow-through, and to ultimately make you UNDERSTAND the topic. See it for yourself.

I work with businesses in understanding their complex problems, surfacing their business needs and offering viable technical solutions, overseeing change management, program benefits realization and organizational project management. I have also worked in the Clinical Data Management, Biostatistics and SAS Programming areas of the Life Science industry. I am a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a SAS Base and Advanced Certified Programmer, with a Master's Degree in Management Information Systems.

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