SAS For Dummies 1st Edition by Stephen McDaniel (PDF)

Description

Created in partnership with SAS, this book explores SAS, a business intelligence software that can be used in any business setting or enterprise for data delivery, reporting, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and moreSAS employee and technologist Stephen McDaniel combines real-world expertise and a friendly writing style to introduce readers to SAS basicsCovers crucial topics such as getting various types of data into the software, producing reports, working with the data, basic SAS programming, macros, and working with SAS and databases

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Use SAS on the Web, in Excel or PowerPoint, and from your desktopThe fun and easy way to manage and analyze dataNeed to get up and running with SAS? This plain-English guide offers information on all the SAS basics, including getting data into the software, generating reports, creating graphs, and sharing results. Step-by-step instructions and screenshots show you how to work with analytics, databases, reports, and queries.Gather and present dataUse the powerful analytics of SASAccess SAS from Microsoft Office and the WebMaster SAS Enterprise GuideWork with SAS and databases About the Author Stephen McDaniel works at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, CA, and is the Senior Manager of User Empowerment–Business Intelligence and Analytics. He is a strategic advisor and mentor for the business units in Yahoo! Search Marketing, helping business users to harness the potential of their data assets for planning and decision-making. As a member of Strategic Data Systems, he works closely with the data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic teams on behalf of the business units to provide user-centric vision and guidance to their efforts. You can reach him at www.stephenmcdaniel.us. Previously, Stephen was the senior manager in charge of the SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office development teams at SAS. Stephen has been a SAS user for more than 17 years and has experience at over 50 companies as a statistician, statistical programmer, product manager, and manager of data warehousing and business intelligence. Chris Hemedinger is a senior software manager in the Business Intelligence Clients division at SAS. Chris began his career at SAS in 1993 as a technical writer, creating such hits as SAS Companion for the OS/2 Environment (remember OS/2?) and SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment. In 1997, he became involved in a prototype project to make SAS easier to use for non-programmers, and that project evolved into the hugely popular SAS Enterprise Guide, a product that Chris has worked with ever since.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I purchased this book based on the title and the description provided by Amazon, although I have no clue where they got it. However, while I was looking for a book that described SAS, the language, this book describes SAS, the Windows interface. There is nothing in this book about the actual SAS language, so if that is what you’re looking for, like I was, then steer clear of this! Somewhere on the cover or in Amazon’s description of this book, there should be a big, red, warning label making sure that you are aware that really this is SAS (Windows) for Dummies!! I guess, in my case, the dummies part was pretty descriptive! I also will never, ever, buy another “for Dummies” book. There is $30 + shipping and handling down the drain.

⭐Easy to follow. Fairly comprehensive.

⭐Bought this book for a new job that didn’t happen. You’ll probably see itllisted soon!

⭐SAS For Dummies, like all of the books in the Dummies series I’ve read, is an enjoyable to read, easy to understand introduction to a broad and complex topic. As some have mentioned, the focus of this book is not on “SAS programming.” Rather it covers getting your analysis and reporting work done using some of the newer offerings from SAS in the “business intelligence” area, including Enterprise Guide and other products. There is, however, a helpful chapter on what kinds of programming tasks can be done by more advanced users and what long-time SAS programmers may miss. (For a good book on SAS programming, I’d recommend The Little SAS Book). Also included in SAS For Dummies is good coverage of data integration, “Stored Processes” for analysis and reporting, and 2 chapters on analytics. These 2 chapters are especially helpful as an introduction to difficult concepts. Overall, this book provides a helpful overview of getting your data manipulation, analysis, and reporting tasks done with SAS, and a no-nonsense, nuts and bolts understanding of some of the newest software from SAS.

⭐This is the only book in the …for Dummies series that I have not liked. I have taken 5 or 6 advanced statistics course over the years and found this book to be helpful with very few topics. There is little real world explainations and the SAS code explanations are poor. I have loaned it out to several other graduate students and none of them have failed to return it within minutes of borrowing it. A good book is usually gone until you go get it back from them. I am just waiting to have someone buy it from me online so I can get something useful out of it.

⭐This book should be titled “SAS Enterprise Guide for Dummies”, not “SAS for Dummies”.If you are looking for a beginner’s guide to SAS Enterprise Guide, this is a good choice. However, if you are looking for a guide to classic SAS, the SAS Datastep language, Proc SQL, etc… this is not the book you want.

⭐This book is going back to the store. It is not a guide to SAS but to SAS Enterprise. Thank goodness a colleague quickly short circuited my learning curve on this book. He told me as I sat with a data set about to plunge in. We don’t even have Enterprise on our company computer.Too bad…I had high hopes.

⭐SAS for Dummies was great!!! It provided the information to jump-in and get started. But it should be called SAS Enterprise for Dummies as much of the book is dedicated to using SAS Enterprise rather than Base SAS.

Keywords

Free Download SAS For Dummies 1st Edition in PDF format
SAS For Dummies 1st Edition PDF Free Download
Download SAS For Dummies 1st Edition 2007 PDF Free
SAS For Dummies 1st Edition 2007 PDF Free Download
Download SAS For Dummies 1st Edition PDF
Free Download Ebook SAS For Dummies 1st Edition