SAS For Dummies

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.

Introduction. Part I: Welcome to SAS! Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World of SAS. Chapter 2: Your Connection to SAS: Using SAS Enterprise Guide. Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS. Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information. Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices! Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That? 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. 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.