Anybody can learn SAS and get trained. However, having a basic knowledge of SQL can help.
San Francisco has the strongest IT sector in the entire USA which has launched top applications in the market. Companies of this city come out with innovative ideas and creative solutions with the help of extensive research which is possible only through tools like SAS. SAS has dominated the Business Analytics market over the years and this is the reason behind its widespread application. Hence, there is a huge career opportunity for aspirants who wish to become SAS professionals.
SAS is known to be one of the most powerful Business Analytics software stacks that lets the businesses extract deep insights from the complex web of data. The companies of San Francisco have found this technology of great use, and hence professionals having sound knowledge about this tool are hired by top MNCs with attractive paychecks in this city.
Intellipaat’s SAS training course provides in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience through interactive classrooms, lab sessions and project works. The course content is in line with the SAS Certified Base Programmer exam that gives you credibility. Hence, if you wish to succeed in the Business Analytics domain, the Intellipaat SAS training course would be the definite way to success.
Installation and introduction to SAS, how to get started with SAS, understanding different SAS windows, how to work with data sets, various SAS windows like output, search, editor, log and explorer and understanding the SAS functions, which are various library types and programming files
How to import and export raw data files, how to read and subset the data sets, different statements like SET, MERGE and WHERE
Hands-on Exercise: How to import the Excel file in the workspace and how to read data and export the workspace to save data
Different SAS operators like logical, comparison and arithmetic, deploying different SAS functions like Character, Numeric, Is Null, Contains, Like and Input/Output, along with the conditional statements like If/Else, Do While, Do Until and so on
Hands-on Exercise: Performing operations using the SAS functions and logical and arithmetic operations
Understanding about input buffer, PDV (backend) and learning what is Missover
Defining and using KEEP and DROP statements, apply these statements and formats and labels in SAS
Hands-on Exercise: Use KEEP and DROP statements
Understanding the delimiter, dataline rules, DLM, delimiter DSD, raw data files and execution and list input for standard data
Hands-on Exercise: Use delimiter rules on raw data files
Various SAS standard procedures built-in for popular programs: PROC SORT, PROC FREQ, PROC SUMMARY, PROC RANK, PROC EXPORT, PROC DATASET, PROC TRANSPOSE, PROC CORR, etc.
Hands-on Exercise: Use SORT, FREQ, SUMMARY, EXPORT and other procedures
Reading standard and non-standard numeric inputs with formatted inputs, column pointer controls, controlling while a record loads, line pointer control/absolute line pointer control, single trailing, multiple IN and OUT statements, dataline statement and rules, list input method and comparing single trailing and double trailing
Hands-on Exercise: Read standard and non-standard numeric inputs with formatted inputs, control while a record loads, control a line pointer and write multiple IN and OUT statements
SAS Format statements: standard and user-written, associating a format with a variable, working with SAS Format, deploying it on PROC data sets and comparing ATTRIB and Format statements
Hands-on Exercise: Format a variable, deploy format rule on PROC data set and use ATTRIB statement
Understanding PROC GCHART, various graphs, bar charts: pie, bar and 3D and plotting variables with PROC GPLOT
Hands-on Exercise: Plot graphs using PROC GPLOT and display charts using PROC GCHART
SAS advanced data discovery and visualization, point-and-click analytics capabilities and powerful reporting tools
Character functions, numeric functions and converting variable type
Hands-on Exercise: Use functions in data transformation
Introduction to ODS, data optimization and how to generate files (rtf, pdf, html and doc) using SAS
Hands-on Exercise: Optimize data and generate rtf, pdf, html and doc files
Macro Syntax, macro variables, positional parameters in a macro and macro step
Hands-on Exercise: Write a macro and use positional parameters
SQL statements in SAS, SELECT, CASE, JOIN and UNION and sorting data
Hands-on Exercise: Create SQL query to select and add a condition and use a CASE in select query
Base SAS web-based interface and ready-to-use programs, advanced data manipulation, storage and retrieval and descriptive statistics
Hands-on Exercise: Use web UI to do statistical operations
Report enhancement, global statements, user-defined formats, PROC SORT, ODS destinations, ODS listing, PROC FREQ, PROC Means, PROC UNIVARIATE, PROC REPORT and PROC PRINT
Hands-on Exercise: Use PROC SORT to sort the results, list ODS, find mean using PROC Means and print using PROC PRINT
Project 1: Categorization of Patients Based on the Count of Drugs for Their Therapy
Domain: Healthcare
Objective: This project aims to find out descriptive statistics and subset for specific clinical data problems. It will give them brief insight about Base SAS procedures and data steps.
Problem Statement:
Count the number of patients,
Output should be four datasets
Project 2: Build Revenue Projections Reports
Domain: Sales
Objective: This project will give you hands-on experience in working with the SAS data analytics and business intelligence tool. You will be working on the data entered in a business enterprise setup and will aggregate, retrieve and manage that data. You will learn to create insightful reports and graphs and come up with statistical and mathematical analysis to scientifically predict the revenue projection for a particular future time frame. Upon the completion of the project, you will be well-versed in the practical aspects of data analytics, predictive modeling and data mining.
Project 3: Impact of Pre-paid Plans on the Preferences of Investors
Domain: Finance Market
Objective: The project aims to find the most impacting factors in preferences of pre-paid model; it also identifies which all are the variables highly correlated with impacting factors.
Problem Statement:
Project 4:K-Means Cluster Analysis on Iris Dataset
Domain: Analytics
Objective: K-Means cluster analysis on Iris dataset to predict about the class of a flower using its petal’s dimensions
Requirements:
This SAS course is designed for clearing the SAS Certified Base Programmer exam. The entire course content is in line with the certification program and helps you clear the certification exam with ease and get the best jobs in top MNCs.
As part of this training, you will be working on real-time projects and assignments that have immense implications in the real-world industry scenarios, thus helping you fast-track your career effortlessly.
At the end of this training program, there will be a quiz that perfectly reflects the type of questions asked in the certification exam and helps you score better marks.
Intellipaat Course Completion Certificate will be awarded upon the completion of the project work (after the expert review) and upon scoring at least 60% marks in the quiz. Intellipaat certification is well recognized in top MNCs like Ericsson, Cisco, Cognizant, Sony, Mu Sigma, Saint-Gobain, Standard Chartered, TCS, Genpact, Hexaware, etc.
Our Alumni works at top 3000+ companies
I completed SAS training from Intellipaat that was completely in line with the Base SAS certification. They have excellent materials and presentations. I am totally satisfied with the decision of purchasing a course from Intellipaat. I learned completely about SAS, and I can directly apply it to my work. The whole lectures, topics, section-wise content arrangement and overall content are quite good. The Base SAS Certification Training session was designed to make professionals understand overall SAS concepts thoroughly.
As a beginner, I found the SAS training curriculum and explanation well defined. The new and complex technologies have been made to simple and easy to learn.
It is really a nice training course. Thanks to Intellipaat!
Thanks for providing this awesome SAS certification training course Clear explanations, good examples, good coverage.
No, this course is not officially accredited by SAS.
