The Simplest Guide to SAS Programming- SAS Base-SAS Advanced
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
- SAS Certified Associate: Programming Fundamentals Using SAS 9.4 (Exam ID: A00-215)
- SAS Certified Professional: Advanced Programming Using SAS 9.4
- SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4 (Exam ID: A00-231)
- SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS®9
- 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 at the end of the course on your own
- 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 work in SAS Studio
- 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 following SAS certification exams:
SAS Certified Associate: Programming Fundamentals Using SAS 9.4 (Exam ID: A00-215)
SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4 (Exam ID: A00-231)
SAS Certified Professional: Advanced Programming Using SAS 9.4
SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS®9
Super easy to to start using SAS with no installation on your computer necessary. All you need is a web browser and a good internet connection. This course uses the latest SAS Studio offered through SAS OnDemand and is completely FREE !
12+ hours of knowledge-packed lectures, 117 videos, 65 Quiz questions and 2 Practice Tests, followed by 2 practical and hands-on guided exercises and projects
COURSE SECTIONS
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
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)
DATA VISUALIZATION will propel you further into the world of analytics and obtaining insightful inferences from what is inside your data
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 each section, you will try out most concepts discussed in that section through coding exercises and guided assignments. Don't worry if you make mistakes in the assignments, these are guided assignments where I hand-hold you showing all the steps to get them correctly done. At the end of the course, there are 3 practical projects that are based on concepts from all 4 sections of the course.
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.
Earn a Certificate
When you finish listening to all videos, assignments, quizzes and practice exams, you'll earn a Certificate that you can share with prospective employers and your professional network.
*****ABOUT THE COURSE STYLE******
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
Instructor
![Aslam Khan, PgMP, PMP, SAFe, SAS](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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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 Program Management Professional (PgMP), Project Management Professional (PMP) and a SAS Base and Advanced Certified Programmer, with a Master's Degree in Management Information Systems.